“What’s in a name?”  Shakespeare’s Juliet famously asks.  “That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet …”  A related observation can be made about the word-changing antics of Israel’s leading think tank, the Reut Institute, in their policy report, “The Deligitimization Challenge:  Creating a Political Firewall”.   “Sabotage” (of global human rights groups) by any other name still smells bad.   Recently, Ali Abunimah spotted the covert revision on the Reut website:  Israel’s leading think tank the Reut Institute recently recommended that Israel’s government and intelligence agencies “sabotage” and “attack” peace and justice groups around the world that have been critical of Israel, as EI [Electronic Intifada] reported in February Reut was obviously embarassed by the wide exposure its underhand, and possibly illegal recommendations generated, so it has cleaned up its website. … Read entire article »