Bearing False Witness: Jimmy Carter's Palestine Peace Not Apartheid

by Andrea Levin, Dexter Van Zile, Rachel Ehrenfeld

This volume reviews many of the material errors made in Jimmy Carter's book and often repeated in interviews. It includes articles by a number of analysts with expertise in commenting on Carter s policies, statements and perspectives. Kenneth Stein, Dennis Ross, Michael Oren, Alan Dershowitz, Melvin Konner and Rachel Ehrenfeld each offer important insight about the former president's lamentable distortions.
The book is an opportunity to restate essential facts and to underscore the need for reform of publishing houses, such as Simon and Schuster, that violate basic standards of accuracy, while promoting and profiting from such non-fiction books.

Falsehoods and More Falsehoods Andrea Levin, Gilead Ini, Alex Safian Ph.D., Tamar Sternthal
Don't Play With Maps Dennis Ross
Letter of Resignation from Carter Center Professor Kenneth Stein
My Problem with Jimmy Carter's Book Professor Kenneth Stein
Letter Declining Participation in Carter Advisory Group Melvin Konner, M.D., Ph.D.
What's Jimmy Carter Afraid Of? Eleven Emory University Professors
Why Won't Carter Debate His Book? Professor Alan Dershowitz
A Religious Problem: Jimmy Carter s Book: An Israeli View Michael B. Oren
Carter's Faith: Habitat for Hostility Dexter Van Zile
Carter's Arab Financiers Rachel Ehrenfeld
Ex-President For Sale Professor Alan Dershowitz
Simon and Schuster Backs Carter's Falsehoods Andrea Levin

Genres: Israel, Politics

100 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2007

Reviews

[Judie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I’ve been aware for decades that President Jimmy Carter displayed a preference for the Arab countries and against Israel.
In 2006, he published PALESTINE: PEACE NOT APARTHEID. It was strongly criticized.
The following year, CAMERA (The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America) published BEARING FALSE WITNESS, an analysis of “the false, incendiary, and often ludicrous charges” against Israel.
BEARING FALSE WITNESS reveals factual errors in Carter’s book. It exposes reasons for the resignations of fourteen long-time staff members of the Carter Center in Atlanta after his book was published, Carter’s refusal to debate the charges against him, how his religious beliefs influenced his negative opinion of Israel, his support from Arab countries and individuals for both of the Center and financial interaction even before he became President.
It also points out that publishers are very willing to produce and sell books without verification.
Carter praised Arafat for raising money to help refugees even though Arafat used it for to support terrorism and enrich both himself and his inner circle.
In his book Carter inserted entries for 1939 and 1947 but neglect to mention the Holocaust as one of the important events that led to the existing state of affairs. He claimed that Israel did not follow through on agreements even though they were not formally finalized. He misinterpreted maps produced during the Clinton administration.
He disagreed with individuals who were present at incidents which Carter then distorted.
He was very upset that Israel and the Jews today did not act like they did in Biblical times.
He resented that he did not receive support from Jews from his election in 1976 and blamed them for his loss in 1980.
He had financial arrangements with Arab countries, banks, and leaders before he became President.
Jimmy Carter died in January 2025. Tragically, his lies have became prevalent in much of the world today.

[Judy]

A review of Carter's book which mentions the many resignations from the Carter Center including its first director Professor Kenneth Stein. This book published by CAMERA has a detailed refutation of factual errors in the book. "As to why the ex-president harbors such extreme animus, many have noted his bias is consistent with longstanding and close friendships with Arab rulers, some of whom lavishly fund the Carter Center. (While Carter is relentless in scrutinizing and faulting Israel for its alleged infractions, his Center is virtually silent about the grave abuse of human rights in Arab states.) Likewise, commentators have considered the religious dimension of his own brand of Christianity and his apparent conflating of a particularly harsh and anti-Jewish interpretation of the Hebrew Bible with a jaundiced perspective on modern Israel." p. 3