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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (412536)	6/7/2003 8:45:13 PM
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More Zionist Thought Police: Commentary: Chevron-Texaco Refuses Comment on Controversial Letter, by John Berlau, Insight on the News, June 3, 2003 "A high-ranking employee at Chevron-Texaco made pejorative references about Jews in a strong antiwar letter sent to Insight, and the company refuses to say whether the letter writer's views represent those of Chevron-Texaco. Amy Wheeler, a technical editor who works in government and public affairs at Chevron-Texaco's corporate headquarters in San Ramon, Calif., blasted rock star Gene Simmons as a 'Jewish kibbutzer' in an e-mail sent to Insight over the company Web server, ChevronTexaco.com. The May 2 letter, the full text of which is reproduced below, criticized as 'slante'" a story Insight ran about the fates of entertainers who were for and against the war with Iraq [see 'Antiwar Singers Out of Tune With Public']. Simmons, cofounder of the heavy-metal band KISS, was a supporter of the war. He noted how his mother had been liberated from a Nazi concentration camp by American forces in World War II, and argued that once again the United States had saved people from oppression. But to Chevron-Texaco's Wheeler, the war simply meant that 'the U.S. can devastate a virtually defenseless enemy.' Wheeler concluded the letter with the phrase, 'Mazel tov," apparently a sarcastic use of the Hebrew expression for "Congratulations.' Cliff May, president of the Washington-based Foundation for the Defense of Democracies (FDD), was shocked by the sentiments expressed in the e-mail. 'This seems to me to be fairly obviously anti-Semitic and fairly obviously anti-American,' May tells Insight. 'It defends Saddam Hussein by characterizing him as a 'virtually defenseless enemy.' It bears a remarkable resemblance to the hate mail we have received here.' May says Chevron-Texaco should take action to dissociate itself from the viewpoints expressed in the letter by an editorial employee from its offices. But company spokeswoman Bonnie Chaikind refused to criticize the e-mail in response to Insight's queries. "We will not comment on whether this e-mail is acceptable under our policy," Chaikind replied. Stephen Schwartz, a senior policy analyst at May's FDD and author of the book The Two Faces of Islam, said he is not surprised that a top official at Chevron-Texaco would hold these views because, he alleges, the company has been at the forefront of defending Wahhabism, the extremist Islamic movement that is dominant in Saudi Arabia."