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Columnists Americans through the combined strategies of community organizing, advocacy,
education and social services, leadership development, and forging productive
relationships with other communities."
 
It reportedly has worked on projects with the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and
Refugee Rights, which supports open boarders and education for illegal aliens.
 
The AAAN in 2005 sent a letter to New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson in which it called
a billboard opposing a North Carolina-New Mexico joint initiative to deny driver's
licenses to illegal aliens a "bigoted attack on Arabs and Muslims."
 
Speakers at AAAN dinners and events routinely have taken an anti-Israel line.
 
The group co-sponsored a Palestinian art exhibit, titled, "The Subject of Palestine," that
featured works related to what some Palestinians call the "Nakba" or "catastrophe" of
Israel's founding in 1948.

According to the widely discredited Nakba narrative, Jews in 1948 forcibly expelled
hundreds of thousands - some Palestinians claim over one million - Arabs from their
homes and then took over the territory.

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Historically, about 600,000 Arabs fled Israel after surrounding Arab countries warned
they would destroy the Jewish state in 1948. Some Arabs also were driven out by
Jewish forces while they were trying to push back invading Arab armies. At the same
time, over 800,000 Jews were expelled or left Arab countries under threat after Israel
was founded.

The theme of AAAN's Nakba art exhibit, held at DePaul University in 2005, was "the
compelling and continuing tragedy of Palestinian life ... under [Israeli] occupation ...
home demolition ... statelessness ... bereavement ... martyrdom, and ... the heroic
struggle for life, for safety, and for freedom."
 
Another AAAN initiative, titled, "Al Nakba 1948 as experienced by Chicago
Palestinians," seeks documents related to the "catastrophe" of Israel's founding.  
 
A post on the AAAN site asked users: "Do you have photos, letters or other memories
you could share about Al-Nakba-1948?"
 
That posting was recently removed.  The AAAN website currently states the entire site 
is under construction.
 
Pro-PLO advocate held Obama fundraiser, describes Obama as 'sympathetic'
 
AAAN co-founder Rashid Khalidi was reportedly a director of the official PLO press
agency WAFA in Beirut from 1976 to 1982, while the PLO committed scores of anti-
Western attacks and was labeled by the U.S. as a terror group. Khalidi's wife, AAAN
President Mona Khalidi, was reportedly WAFA's English translator during that period.
 
Rashid Khalidi at times has denied working directly for the PLO but Palestinian
diplomatic sources in Ramallah told WND he indeed worked on behalf of WAFA.
Khalidi also advised the Palestinian delegation to the Madrid Conference in 1991.
 
During documented speeches and public events, Khalidi has called Israel an "apartheid
system in creation" and a destructive "racist" state.  
 
He has multiple times expressed support for Palestinian terror, calling suicide
bombings response to "Israeli aggression." He dedicated his 1986 book, "Under Siege,"
to "those who gave their lives ... in defense of the cause of Palestine and independence
of Lebanon." Critics assailed the book as excusing Palestinian terrorism.
 
While the Woods Fund's contribution to Khalidi's AAAN might be perceived as a one-
time run in with Obama, the presidential hopeful and Khalidi evidence a deeper
relationship.
 
According to a professor at the University of Chicago who said he has known Obama
for 12 years, the Democratic presidential hopeful first befriended Khalidi when the two
worked together at the university. The professor spoke on condition of anonymity.
Khalidi lectured at the University of Chicago until 2003 while Obama taught law there
from 1993 until his election to the Senate in 2004.
 
Khalidi in 2000 held what was described as a successful fundraiser for Obama's failed
bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, a fact not denied by Khalidi.
 
Speaking in a joint interview with WND and the John Batchelor Show of New York's
WABC Radio and Los Angeles' KFI Radio, Khalidi was asked about his 2000 fundraiser
for Obama.
 
"I was just doing my duties as a Chicago resident to help my local politician," Khalidi
stated.
 
Khalidi said he supports Obama for president "because he is the only candidate who has
expressed sympathy for the Palestinian cause."
 
Khalidi also lauded Obama for "saying he supports talks with Iran. If the U.S. can talk
with the Soviet Union during the Cold War, there is no reason it can't talk with the
Iranians."
 
Asked about Obama's role funding the AAAN, Khalidi claimed he had "never heard of
the Woods Fund until it popped up on a bunch of blogs a few months ago."   
 
He terminated the call when petitioned further about his links with Obama.  
 
Contacted by phone, Mona Khalidi refused to answer WND's questions about the
AAAN's involvement with Obama.
 
Obama's campaign headquarters did not reply to a list of WND questions sent by e-mail
to the senator's press office.
 
Obama, American terrorist in same circles
 
Obama served on the board with Ayers, who was a Weathermen leader and has written
about his involvement with the group's bombings of the New York City Police
headquarters in 1970, the Capitol in 1971 and the Pentagon in 1972.
 
"I don't regret setting bombs. I feel we didn't do enough," Ayers told the New York
Times in an interview released on Sept. 11, 2001
 
"Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon," Ayers wrote in his
memoirs, titled "Fugitive Days." He continued with a disclaimer that he didn't personally
set the bombs, but his group set the explosives and planned the attack.
 
A $200 campaign contribution is listed on April 2, 2001 by the "Friends of Barack
Obama" campaign fund. The two taught appeared speaking together at several public
events, including a 1997 University of Chicago panel entitled, "Should a child ever be
called a 'super predator?'" and another panel for the University of Illinois in April 2002,
entitled, "Intellectuals: Who Needs Them?"
 
The charges against Ayers were dropped in 1974 because of prosecutorial misconduct,
including illegal surveillance.
 
Ayers is married to another notorious Weathermen terrorist, Bernardine Dohrn, who
has also served on panels with Obama. Dohrn was once on the FBI's Top 10 Most
Wanted List and was described by J. Edgar Hoover as the "most dangerous woman in
America." Ayers and Dohrn raised the son of Weathermen terrorist Kathy Boudin, who
was serving a sentence for participating in a 1981 murder and robbery that left 4 people
dead.
 
Obama advisor wants talks with terrorists
 
The revelations about Obama's relationship with Khalidi follows a recent WND article
quoting Israeli security officials who expressed "concern" about Robert Malley, an
adviser to Obama who has advocated negotiations with Hamas and providing
international assistance to the terrorist group.
 
Malley, a principal Obama foreign policy adviser, has penned numerous opinion
articles, many of them co-written with a former adviser to the late Palestinian Authority
President Yasser Arafat, petitioning for dialogue with Hamas and blasting Israel for
numerous policies he says harm the Palestinian cause.

Malley also previously penned a well-circulated New York Review of Books piece
largely blaming Israel for the collapse of the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations at Camp
David in 2000 when Arafat turned down a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza and
eastern sections of Jerusalem and instead returned to the Middle East to launch an
intifada, or terrorist campaign, against the Jewish state.

Malley's contentions have been strongly refuted by key participants at Camp David,
including President Bill Clinton, then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and primary
U.S. envoy to the Middle East Dennis Ross, all of whom squarely blamed Arafat's
refusal to make peace for the talks' failure.

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