Salah is a member of the notorious Bridgeview Mosque. His attorneys are requesting that DePaul Assistant Political Science Professor Norman G. Finkelstein testify on his behalf. The trial's judge has yet to rule if Finkelstein will be allowed to do that.
From the Daily Southtown:
Finkelstein said it's impossible to study events in the Middle East over the past four decades without also analyzing the relationship between Israel and the United States. He described a powerful and complex "system" of U.S.-based Israeli interests working to influence American foreign policy.
"I'm not prepared to simplify matters by trying to conjure a conspiracy theory," Finkelstein said of the Israelis. "They have a lobby, and it's very effective, and it's been working very well since 1967."
When pushed for proof that Israeli interests greatly influence American policy, he pointed to past instances in United Nations debates when Israel and the United States have been lone allies on controversial issues.
"The record is: The whole world on one side, and the U.S. and Israel on the other side," Finkelstein said. "How do you explain that?"
Later in the article, "Abnormal Norman" refers to author and Harvard Professor Alan M. Dershowitz as "a fraudster."
Salah's financial dealings with Hamas in the Middle East caught the attention of the Israeli government, which sentenced him to a five-year prison term in 1993. Once released, Salah moved to the Chicago area.
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Hat tip to Richard Baehr of the American Thinker for this story.
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