Palestinian football player defeats the ‘lies and smears’

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  1. Sherri Munnerlyn

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    Palestinian football player defeats the ‘lies and smears’

    "A right-wing smear campaign targeting a National Football League player rose and crashed this week. At the center of it is Oday Aboushi, a Palestinian-American Muslim draft pick for the New York Jets, who appears for now to have come out of the smearing proudly.

    "It is upsetting to see people try and tarnish my reputation without even knowing me," Aboushi said yesterday in a statement issued by the team. "But I appreciate all the support I have been getting from people of all backgrounds across the city and country."

    The smear began at Frontpage Magazine, a website started by rightwing Islamophobe David Horowitz. On Tuesday it published a story painting the lineman as a Muslim extremist and anti-Semite and headlined, "NY Jets Player Speaks at Extreme Anti-Israel Conference." The story sought to support its claims by linking to an Aboushi tweet, in which he praised Islamic Relief USA for helping Palestinian refugees, and another tweet in which he shared a photo of an 88-year-old Palestinian woman standing outside of her house in Jerusalem after being evicted to make room for Orthodox Jews.

    Writer Joe Kaufman, who has advocated using a nuclear bomb on Middle Eastern countries, alleged that the UK-based Islamic Relief is "a charity that the Israeli government has labeled a front for Hamas and that has been cited for both receiving and giving huge sums of money to al-Qaeda related groups." While it's true the Israeli government accused the British group Islamic Relief of being associated with Hamas--hardly a conclusive or persuasive claim--Islamic Relief USA is not the same as the British organization. It's an "affiliate" of the British group, and there is no proof of any Al Qaeda links. Islamic Relief USA has worked with the U.S. government and boasts of corporate sponsors like JP Morgan Chase--not the usual relationships for a terror group.

    No matter. The lie was on its way, and bounced from FrontPage to Yahoo Sports. As Greg Howard at Deadspin explained:

    Adam Waksman... part of Yahoo's contributor network.... penned an article in which he came to the same conclusion as the FrontPage buffoons—that Aboushi "is a potential disaster that needs to be dealt with before it becomes anything real." The link doesn't work, because the article was taken down.

    As Dave Zirin of The Nation points out, Aboushi was never quoted in the Yahoo piece. He was hardly even mentioned. Waksman used Aboushi as a stand-in for all potential Palestinians in the NFL. Waksman just rolled with FrontPage, because he didn't know enough, or didn't care enough, and was too lazy to report for himself. He didn't pick up the phone and give Aboushi a call. In his mind, there is no doubt: Aboushi is a Muslim, and is therefore is taking taking part in "anti-Semitic activism." In his mind, Aboushi is a Muslim, and already a criminal.

    Once the inaccuracies in Kaufman's piece were pointed out, Waksman took the piece down, or Yahoo Sports did.

    But the ball kept rolling. JD Mael, said to be a new media coordinator for Major League Baseball, also got into it. On his twitter feed, he compared Aboushi to an accused murderer who formerly played for the New England Patriots--


    "The @nyjets are a disgrace of an organization. The Patriots have Aaron Hernandez, the Jets have Oday Aboushi."

    Mael subsequently deleted and apologized for the tweet. By now the smear was beginning to hurt those who were promoting it. Even the Daily News headlined its story: "NY Jets' Oday Aboushi unfairly compared to alleged murderer Aaron Hernandez by MLB.com employee on Twitter."


    Ali Abunimah reported:

    When challenged by other Twitter users for this outrageous comparison, Mael promptly deactivated his entire Twitter account.

    Reached by telephone at MLB.com’s corporate offices by The Electronic Intifada, Mael said, “I’m sorry I can’t help you right now,” and immediately hung up phone."...

    The smearers are surely on the defensive. The latest example of how the smear campaign has fallen flat on its face is that the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has now condemned the attacks against Aboushi..

    "There’s a lot of exaggeration and hyperbole in all the talk about Jets lineman Oday Aboushi. Absolutely nothing in the public record suggests that Aboushi is anything other than a young American athlete who takes pride in his Palestinian heritage," said ADL leader Abe Foxman in a statement. "Being pro-Palestinian does not mean you’re an anti-Semite or an extremist. The record simply does not show that Aboushi has crossed that line.""

    http://mondoweiss.net/2013/07/palestinian-football-player-defeats-the-lies-and-smears.html

    This is a perfect example of how the Zionist lobby works to smear someone in the US, who is critical of Israel. All the man did was speak out for Palestine and for Palestinian rights at a conference and he encounters this character assassination. But it was worse then that, on the right wing hate site FrontPage, they were calling on readers to contact the New York Jets and demand Oday Abousi be fired and the article even provided a link readers could use to make these demands.. And the allegations were filled with lies, alleging and implying that dozens of US Muslim organizations were all linked together as terrorist organizations, and there was no substance to any of the claims. Noone in the article even addressed what Oday said at the conference in his talk.

    Here is a link to the Front Page article that began this smear campaign against Oday Aboushi.

    http://frontpagemag.com/2013/joe-kaufman/ny-jets-player-speaks-at-extreme-anti-israel-conference/

    Fortunately, what we see in this case is that this bogus and hate filled attack and demonization of Oday Aboushi simply on the basis of his heritage and his religion and his ancestry and speaking out for justice for Palestine has been fully disclosed for the filth it is

    Oday Aboushi is a Palestinian American who has accomplished much in his life to be proud of and he remains proud of his Palestinian heritage and speaks out proudly in support of Palestine.
     

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    And I hope he has a great career and helps people learn, people are people no matter where they are, or where they are from.
     
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    MOANINGS !!
    We heard enough of those who seak good life in Europe or the American dream, while crying and speaking against the west.
    If ustazz Aboishi is so proud, he should join Gaza's football team and relocate back to his former address.
     
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    Would you have said the same about a Jew , under similar circumstances ?

    Hmm , I guess not . Go look in a mirror.

    tata....
     
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    One wonders if a journalist will have the guts to ask him if he will condemn Hamas by name which so many supposedly "moderate Muslims" absolutely refuse to do.
     
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    Yes. I would .
    tata..
     
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    sorry , that sounds pathetic + not very convincing , . measured against most of your previous posts .


    tatty - byeeee::blankstare:
     
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    good for him! it's always nice to see someone fight back. now, are pro-footballs still made with pigskin?
     
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    Does it matter whether its made of pigskin ? . he's not expected to eat the ball is he ?

    see

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oday_Aboushi


    cheers.
     
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    Why should they ? Do you condemn the Marines to journos ?
     
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    if some muslims get offended by other people eating ham sammichs and smelling bacon, it's reasonable that some would be offended by handling a ball made from an oinker. it's not outside the realm of possiblity.

    true story-there's a shoppig mall not to far from here that i take my son to because he likes the kiddie play area in the food court. this mall is also frequented by a large number of visable minorities, some so fresh off the plane that their female family members are wearing burkas. one fellow was telling his kids to get off the giant hotdog thingy that the kids climb on along with other food themed attractions...i told him "relax-it's an all-beef hot dog". he looks at me and thinks for a sec then waves his kids back to playing. then i offered him one of my pork rinds and he took it. :laughing:

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    Handling the ball is illegal.
     
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    Frustrated comment..
     
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    Yeah and if he was a politician, community or religious leader you might think to ask him. He is a footballer, ask him a question about football.........cause you know, that what he knows
     
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    I've heard of some Jews reacting in a similar manner - I've even heard of vegans who would share the table with anyone else who eat meat , - who'll find some people - of whatever persuasion , are WEIRD - so what ?

    As long as it doesn't encroach on me - WTF ?

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    Come to think of it, some Russian jewish players wear gloves. Maybe they have to take the throw-ins.

    I ain't never seen no football with ears though.
     
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    as hard as this may be for you to accept, this isn't about you. :nana:
     
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    he could come in contact with it.
     
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    Do you know, we all breath the same air that pigs breath ? I hadn't thought about that until this thread.
     
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    every drop of water on the planet has been urine at one time. somethings are best not to think about.

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    could you edit that word salad into a comment?
     
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    A quick check abt your idiotic pigskin nonsense produced this :

    "
    Lots of folks enjoy tossing around the ol' football (aka pigskin) in the frontyard. But are these oblong projectiles really made from the skin of pigs, or is that just an unfortunate expression? We threw out a Hail Mary and prayed for an easy answer.

    Clearly somebody up there likes us, because we found a great response at AZCentral.com. The column explains that, despite the nickname, footballs are made of leather, not pigskin. A visit to Wilson.com (maker of official NFL footballs) confirms this.

    So, why then are footballs referred to as "pigskins" and not something equally unpleasant like "dead cows"? The aforementioned column from AZCentral.com explains that early soccer (or maybe rugby) balls were made from inflated pig bladders. Apparently, the name stuck, and everyone from pee-wee players to blustery broadcasters now calls footballs pigskins.


    http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070816094059AAMHf68



    .... Good byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee


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    you going somewhere? somehow i doubt it.
     
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    Well, I was wondering where French beer came in the sequence.
     

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