PalestineFacts
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PalestineFacts.org is an internet site which purports to give "comprehensive source of historically accurate information about the geographic, military and political background to the on-going struggle between the State of Israel and the Arab Palestinians". There has never been a mention on the website of who funds or edits the web-site. Contact information for the web-site is given as "Mogen David Services" in California[1]
Though undisclosed on its website, Palestinefacts was in fact started as a project of the Jewish Internet Association [2] in 2002. JIA (Jewish Internet Association) described itself a non-profit 501(c)(3) California Public Benefit Corporation "dedicated to the educational purpose of providing truthful, positive information to combat anti-Semitism and anti-Israel activity on the Internet".[3] Sep 25, 2002
Among the project JIA has supported is the website called Hasbara.com [4]
The President of JIA was Chuck Chriss. He is a frequent contributor to New York Jewish Times, with articles strongly supporting Israel, e.g. defending Israeli settlements "Nothing Settled About Settlements" 12-7-2002 [5], [6], [7]
By 2004 JIA had merged/changed names to Middle East Facts[8], [9]
