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SF Weekly Article On Lee Kaplan: Disturbing the Peace
The local conversation between pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian activists is getting less civil every day. And Lee Kaplan's tactics aren't helping.
Lee Kaplan barges through the crowd to the front of the barricade on Montgomery Street. Although it's quitting time on a Thursday, no suited bankers stroll down this block. Across the way, a few hundred pro-Palestinian activists and sympathizers clot the sidewalk in front of a neoclassical building, directing their ire at the Israeli consulate on the second floor. Kaplan hoists a 15-foot-tall flagpole flying both the Israeli and American flags, and takes hold of a bullhorn. "You want to see the next generation of garbage in the Middle East, look over on the other side of the street!"
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...Kaplan formed Dafka, a student group dedicated to counteracting the Palestinian sympathizers on the Cal campus. Kaplan poured his energy into Dafka for several fractious years, until his work came to the attention of the conservative pundit David Horowitz. The two men quickly realized they could work together: Horowitz was starting Students for Academic Freedom, a national network of student groups that would agitate for "ideological balance" on college campuses, and he needed organizers. Kaplan signed on, and was soon writing articles about his experiences on university grounds for Horowitz's online publication, FrontPage Magazine.
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http://www.sfweekly.com/Issues/2006-08-09/news/feature_2.html
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...Kaplan formed Dafka, a student group dedicated to counteracting the Palestinian sympathizers on the Cal campus. Kaplan poured his energy into Dafka for several fractious years, until his work came to the attention of the conservative pundit David Horowitz. The two men quickly realized they could work together: Horowitz was starting Students for Academic Freedom, a national network of student groups that would agitate for "ideological balance" on college campuses, and he needed organizers. Kaplan signed on, and was soon writing articles about his experiences on university grounds for Horowitz's online publication, FrontPage Magazine.
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http://www.sfweekly.com/Issues/2006-08-09/news/feature_2.html
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Lee Kaplan, Dafka Exposed -- Updated Edition
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/01/31/17184091.php
The article in question was "retracted" on Jan 31st but somehow never disappears from Indymedia. Will Wallace is a fictitious person and the email address is dead. In addition, nobody from DAFKA ever made a death threat against Alison Weir, the link to Bay Guardian confirms this. Indybay's unending posting tof the canard reveals the use of the lie by the radical left in trying to smear opopponents. DAFKA was not at any time in Hayward. Nor does DAFKA advocate violence, despite an attempt to smear the organization. Those "peace groups" referred to
advocate "legitimate resistance" (violence) repeatedly in their communications. Now, the question is if this comment about the falseness of this post will be delted by Indybay editors.