A group of hard-line United States neo-conservatives and former Israeli diplomats, among others, are behind the mass distribution, ahead of the November US presidential election, of a controversial DVD that critics have denounced as Islamophobic.
The group, the Endowment for Middle East Truth (EMET), is working with another organization called the Clarion Fund, which produced the 60-minute video and is itself tied closely to an Israeli organization called Aish Hatorah.
The Fund is currently distributing some 28 million copies of the DVD through newspaper inserts in key electoral swing states states like Michigan, Ohio, and Florida that, according to recent polling, could go either way in Novembers presidential election.
According to Delaware incorporation papers, the Clarion Fund is based at the same New York address as Aish Hatorah, a self-described apolitical group dedicated to educating Jews about their heritage.
The Clarion Funds street address as listed on the groups website and a DVD mailer for the film is apparently not a physical address, but rather a virtual address that goes to a post office box in New York City.
Critics allege that the movie Obsession is hate propaganda which paints Muslims as violent extremists and, among other things, explicitly compares the threat posed by radical Islam to that of Nazi Germany in the 1930s.
