(This is an excerpt from the author’s “Zionism in Boston,” the full article may be found at the New England Committee to Defend Palestine website )

The David Project has a web site which lists a Boston post office box, and names one Charles Jacobs as its president. The site says that "by promoting a fair and honest understanding of the Arab-Israeli conflict, the David Project leads the ideological effort against the forces intent on defaming, weakening and destroying the Jewish State."

Examples of "fair and honest" reporting of the Arab side of the "Arab-Israeli conflict" are non-existent on this web site. In its "Campus support" section, the David Project declares that it "serves as a resource for pro-Israel campus activism."

The David Project's first major action was blocking an endowment for a chair in Islamic Studies at the Harvard Divinity School. The Project's "Director of Campus Strategy," Rachel Fish, based this 2003 smear campaign on the fact that the money for the endowment was to come from the President of the United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahyan, whose Zayed Center, according to the Project,  "promoted anti-American, anti-Israel, and anti-Semitic writings and lectures."

After successfully blocking the Harvard endowment, the David Project went on in late 2004 to produce the movie "Columbia Unbecoming" which targets Professor Joseph Massad of Columbia University's Department of Middle East studies for allegedly intimidating pro-Israel students.

The David Project's newest cause is to block the continued construction of a mosque being built by the Islamic Society of Boston in Roxbury. The mosque is 85 percent completed. The David Project opposes the mosque because of "Saudi Arabia funding hatred of infidels, Christians, [and] Jews, in American mosques," and says that "various individuals who have been affiliated and directly involved with the Islamic Society of Boston have defended acts of terrorism, and have publicly engaged in the worst sort of anti-Semitic and other hate speech."

Given the history of US genocide in Iraq over the past 15 years, and the fact that the dominant religion in the US is Christianity, one could make a good case that Christians are heavily involved in terrorism. Yet it would be unthinkable to oppose the construction of an Episcopal Church in Boston.

Would a Catholic church be opposed because certain priests had been found to be pedophiles? Would a synagogue be opposed because of support among rabbis for a foreign state founded on genocide against the Palestinian people? But somehow people find it legitimate to say that a mosque might be connected to "terrorists" and therefore should not be built.

In the past year, the David Project joined forces in the anti-mosque effort with, among others, former CNN reporter Steve Emerson, who made the ridiculous 1994 "documentary" Terrorists Among Us: Jihad In America.

The Islamic Society of Boston has filed a libel suit against Emerson, the David Project, the Boston Herald, Fox News, Dennis Hale, and others for mounting an intentional smear campaign for the purpose of preventing the mosque from being completed.

Hale, a Boston College professor, is president of the Judeo-Christian Alliance, an initiative of the David Project. From the umbrella of the David Project, he heads a front group called "Citizens for Peace and Tolerance."