By Jamie Glazov
Today’s guest for Frontpage Interview is Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld, Director of the American Center for Democracy.
A Ph.D. in criminology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Ehrenfed focuses on the Saudi penetration of and influence on the U.S. economy, and on the economic warfare against the U.S. and the West. She has published hundreds of articles and three books on these issues. Her last book Funding Evil; How Terrorism is Financed – and How to Stop It, also identified the funders of terrorism. The expose was not to the liking of Saudi billionaire Khalid bin Mahfouz, who sued Ehrenfeld for libel in London. Ehrenfeld is only one of more than 40 writers and publishers who were sued or threatened with a suit in London by Mahfouz. Ehrenfeld alone challenged him and countersued him in the U.S.
Ehrenfeld’s insistence the British libel laws cannot be enforced in the NY state led to new legislation in several states in the U.S. and to the Free Speech Protection Act 2009, now pending before Congress. Her actions shed light on the insidious efforts particularly in the United Kingdom, where plaintiff- friendly libel laws and judges made London into the Mecca of Libel Tourism and the hub from which to undermine American writers’ and publishers’ free speech rights
Today’s guest for Frontpage Interview is Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld, Director of the American Center for Democracy.
A Ph.D. in criminology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Ehrenfed focuses on the Saudi penetration of and influence on the U.S. economy, and on the economic warfare against the U.S. and the West. She has published hundreds of articles and three books on these issues. Her last book Funding Evil; How Terrorism is Financed – and How to Stop It, also identified the funders of terrorism. The expose was not to the liking of Saudi billionaire Khalid bin Mahfouz, who sued Ehrenfeld for libel in London. Ehrenfeld is only one of more than 40 writers and publishers who were sued or threatened with a suit in London by Mahfouz. Ehrenfeld alone challenged him and countersued him in the U.S.
Ehrenfeld’s insistence the British libel laws cannot be enforced in the NY state led to new legislation in several states in the U.S. and to the Free Speech Protection Act 2009, now pending before Congress. Her actions shed light on the insidious efforts particularly in the United Kingdom, where plaintiff- friendly libel laws and judges made London into the Mecca of Libel Tourism and the hub from which to undermine American writers’ and publishers’ free speech rights
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