Tuesday October 24-Thursday 26th Boston Friday 27 October and Saturday 28th Sommerville[sic] and Andover MA Saturday October 28 Seekonk, MA

"Wheels of Justice," a bus tour which has traveled across the country with a mission to "educate North Americans on the occupation of Palestine and Iraq" since July 2003, has presented a biased, anti-Israel view of the Middle East during hundreds of visits to churches, high schools, libraries and college and university campuses. The tour continues to make appearances around the country while promoting its distinctly one-sided interpretation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Funded primarily by donations and merchandise sales, the tour is sponsored by the International Solidarity Movement, Al-Awda, Voices in the Wilderness and the Middle East Children's Alliance. According to its Web site, the tour was created to "build upon and reassert the massive domestic opposition to war against Iraq and occupation of the Palestinians" by offering "first-hand experience irrespective of partisan politics and sound bite sloganeering." The sponsors and organizers of "Wheels of Justice" are unapologetic in their criticism of Israel and support for the plight of the Palestinians. No attempts are made to present a balanced view of the conflict. The toll on Israelis and bloodshed by Palestinian terrorists is often minimized...

...A flier with information about the tour's school programming, posted on the Voices in the Wilderness Web site, reads: "At high schools, we often speak to assemblies, show slides/videos or PowerPoint, and visit classrooms…either going to the classroom or having classes visit us in a reserved room is the norm, but we are flexible."

Among the various speakers listed on the tour's Web site is ISM activist Brian Avery. During the fourth National Student Conference of the Palestine Solidarity Movement at Duke University in October 2004, Avery criticized the U.S. media for a "campaign of misinformation by Zionist-leaning news editors."...

Mazin Qumsiyeh, a Yale University associate professor and founder of the anti-Israel group Al-Awda, joined Wheels of Justice as a speaker in April 2004. Qumsiyeh has made no attempt to hide his strongly anti-Israel views. As a participant in the Duke University conference, Qumsiyeh called Zionism "a disease." Qumsiyeh also asked audience members, "If apartheid was a problem in South Africa, why do we consider it a solution in Palestine and Israel?"

Alison Weir took part in the tour in 2004. Weir is the founder of If Americans Knew, a Berkley-based anti-Israel organization. She often writes for the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, an anti-Israel publication that frequently serves as an apologist for Muslim American groups advocating anti-Semitism and support for terrorism. She also writes for CounterPunch, an anti-Zionist radical left newsletter...

... After many students had already left for the summer, Qumsiyeh sent an email to all Yale Coalition Peace (YCP) members, an anti-war group, in which he linked Jewish support of Israel with support for the then current war in Iraq.

In the email, Qumsiyeh wrote that "the U.S. occupation of Iraq illegal and immoral (sic)" and that the YCP should "continue to challenge the hegemony of the U.S. on the Arab world." Although such opinions are certainly acceptable and even welcomed at a university that encourages the exchange of ideas, Qumsiyeh closed his email with a chilling statement: "I include here the list of members of Yale Students 'for Democracy,' the pro war cabal . . . I think you will find the list informative. Note that there is significant overlap of this list with the 'Yale Friends of Israel' listserve."

Qumsiyeh then listed the Yale email addresses of 64 students, which contained students' full names, whom he claimed belonged to Yale College Students for Democracy (YCSD), a group that supported the war in Iraq.

However, the people he listed belonged not to YCSD, but to the Yale Friends of Israel (YFI) itself...