The
GOP Right, the Belgrade Lobby,
and the Neo-Confederacy:
Multiple Connections
Yossef
Bodansky has been a major
influence with the Serbian
Unity Congress
(SUC), which has long advocated the
expulsion of Kosovars and supported
the Karadzic regime during its worst
genocidal policies. Bodansky has
spoken at their meetings. He has
portrayed all Muslims as a terrorist
threat and has supported the
Belgrade regime's policy in Bosnia
and in Kosovo with complete
zealousness, and attacked Bosnians
and Kosovars with the kind of
stereotypes emanating directly from
Tanjug. By
Michael Sells,
June 14, 1999
Rep. Saxton's
advisers: Yossef Bodansky
The
guiding principle for Yossef Bodansky
seems to be hostility to Islam and
Muslims everywhere, who are seen to
be part of a unified international
conspiracy and a threat to everyone
else, and he seems to feel that Serb
nationalists share that outlook.
Bodansky was the featured speaker at
a Serbian Unity Congress fund raiser
in Detroit in 1996. Within his
framework, Mr. Bodansky has written
extensively on the former
Yugoslavia, interpreting Bosnia as
an attempt for Muslims to expand
into Europe ("Iran's springboard
into Europe"), and has hyped a "mujahedin"
threat. Mr. Bodansky has also
published regularly as a
Contributing Editor in the
London-based Defence & Foreign
Affairs, which routinely carries
material that is often
indistinguishable from that
distributed by official sources in
Belgrade. Mr. Bodansky's views are
often alarmist--and have proved
wrong. In 1996, he was predicting
that China was on the brink of
invading Taiwan. By Norman Cigar,
April 23, 1999
"Serbia's War Lobby: Diaspora Groups
and Western Elites"
The journal Defense and Foreign
Affairs Strategic Policy, which
was published in London and New
Delhi, repeatedly included articles
that apologized for the Serbian
leadership's role in the Balkan
conflict. Its most prominent writer
was one of its editors,
Yossef Bodansky, an Israeli who
is also director of the House
Republican Task Force on Terrorism.
Bodansky is an enigmatic figure
whose article reflect a strong
anti-Islamic bias in their
discussion of the Balkans. Article
by Brad K. Blitz in
This Time We Knew: Western Responses
to Genocide in Bosnia,
edited by T. Cushman and S.
Mestrovic (New York: New York
University Press, 1996)
Republican Task Force Faces Backlash on
Bosnia Report
A report published last September by the Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, part of the taxpayer-funded House Republican Research Committee, has ignited a storm of controversy over the actions and scholarship of its authors, protests from Muslims, and the resignations of four of the task force's congressional members. The report, written by Task Force Chief of Staff Vaughn S. Forrest and Director
Yossef Bodansky, was entitled "Iran's European Springboard?"
Washington
Report on Middle East Affairs,
July/August 1993