Professor Juan Cole has received a letter from Colonel Yigal Carmon, late of Israeli military intelligence, now an official at the Middle East Media Research Organization threatening him and the University of Michigan with a lawsuit over criticism of MEMRI made on Informed Comment and reprinted at anti-war.com.
His response seems to be "bring it on". Hurray for him.
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Date: 2004-11-24 05:07 am (UTC)"I think he would find that in democratic countries, in any case, a dispute over an organization's level of funding would be laughed out of court as a basis for a libel action. In fact, I am giggling as I write this."