Reply #32: A bit more than maps - a "Fellow" of the Carter Center has resigned over this. [View All]

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/12/06/america/NA_GEN_US_Jimmy_Carter_Criticism.php

Carter Center fellow resigns, criticizes former US President Carter's new book
The Associated Press Published: December 6, 2006

ATLANTA: A Carter Center fellow and longtime adviser to former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has resigned after sharply criticizing Carter's new book on Palestine, and a Jewish human rights group said it obtained thousands of signatures from supporters also protesting the book.

Kenneth Stein, director of the Institute for the Study of Modern Israel at Emory University, resigned as a Carter Center fellow for Middle East Affairs after reading Carter's 21st book, titled "Palestine: Peace, Not Apartheid," which was released last week.

<snip>The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported Wednesday on its Web site that Stein said he was "sad but not sorry" about his resignation.

The newspaper said Stein sent a letter full of blunt criticism of the book to Carter, Emory University President Jim Wagner and John Hardman, executive director of the center.

The newspaper printed an excerpt of the letter saying the book "is not based on unvarnished analysis; it is replete with factual errors, copied materials not cited, superficialities, glaring omissions, and simply invented segments ... Aside from the one-sided nature of the book, meant to provoke, there are recollections cited from meetings where I was the third person in the room, and my notes of those meetings show little similarity to points claimed in the book."<snip>


ALSO 6000 have joined and signed onto a statement "President Carter there is no Israeli Apartheid policy and you know it. I join with the Simon Wiesenthal Center..."


ALTHOUGH A SPECIFIC PROBLEM IS MAP THEFT

ROSS: The maps that are in his book, it certainly appears as if they were taken from my book. Those maps are maps that I created. They didn't exist. The fact is, when we did the Clinton ideas, when we did Camp David, we presented ideas, percentages, criteria. After the fact, I created maps based on that, and he's used maps that look they've been drawn from my book without attribution.