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 ===External Resources===
 *Khody Akhavi, [http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/03/27/112 Film on "Radical Islam" Tied to Pro-Israel Groups], CommonDreams, 27 March 2007.
-*Amy Goodman, Isabel Macdonald, Ibrahim Hooper,  [http://www.democracynow.org/2008/10/17/smearcasting_how_islamophobes_spread_fear_bigotry Smearcasting: How Islamophobes Spread Fear, Bigotry and Misinformation], Democracy Now, 17 October 2008.
+*Amy Goodman, Isabel Macdonald, Ibrahim Hooper,  [http://www.democracynow.org/2008/10/17/smearcasting_how_islamophobes_spread_fear_bigotry Smearcasting: How Islamophobes spread fear, bigotry and misinformation], Democracy Now, 17 October 2008.
 *Official website of the film: [http://www.obsessionthemovie.com www.obsessionthemovie.com]
-*[http://www.jewsonfirst.org/obsession/ Rebutting Obsession], Jews On First, accessed 9 January 2008.</ref>
+*[http://www.jewsonfirst.org/obsession/ Rebutting Obsession], Jews On First, accessed 9 January 2008.
 ===Notes===

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 [[Image:Obsession.jpg|right|thumb|1000px|A promotional image for Obsession]]
-'''Obsession''' is an anti-islamic film featuring interviews with a selection of 'counter-terror' activists, including controversial figures such as [[Daniel Pipes]], [[Steven Emerson]] and UK operative [[Glen Jenvey]]. The film was reissued by [[The Clarion Fund]], a front for the ultra-Zionist [[Aish HaTorah]] in 2008 to co-incide with the presidential elections to exploit the right-wing hysteria about Barack Obama's alleged Muslim roots.
+'''Obsession''' is an anti-islamic film featuring interviews with a selection of 'counter-terror' activists, including controversial figures such as [[Daniel Pipes]], [[Steven Emerson]] and UK operative [[Glen Jenvey]]. The film was reissued by [[The Clarion Fund]], a front for the ultra-Zionist [[Aish HaTorah]] in 2008 to coincide with the presidential elections to exploit the right-wing hysteria about US president Barack Obama's alleged Muslim roots.
 ==Zionist provenance==
-An Interpress Service investigation revealed that:
+An ''Interpress Service'' investigation revealed that:
 :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]]. <ref>Ali Gharib and Eli Clifton, [http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article9853.shtml Neo-cons, ex-Israeli diplomats push Islamophobic video], ''The Electronic Intifada'', 24 September 2008 </ref>
-Other zionist groups including [[Honest Reporting]]<ref>Khody Akhavi, [http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/03/27/112 Film on "Radical Islam" Tied to Pro-Israel Groups], CommonDreams, 27 March 2007.</ref> supporting [[John McCain]] in his campaign for president in 2008 were involved in mass distribution reportedly of 28 million copies of the film in swing states.<ref>Amy Goodman, Isabel Macdonald, Ibrahim Hooper,  [http://www.democracynow.org/2008/10/17/smearcasting_how_islamophobes_spread_fear_bigotry Smearcasting: How Islamophobes Spread Fear, Bigotry and Misinformation], Democracy Now, 17 October 2008.</ref>
+Other zionist groups including [[Honest Reporting]]<ref>Khody Akhavi, [http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/03/27/112 Film on "Radical Islam" Tied to Pro-Israel Groups], CommonDreams, 27 March 2007.</ref> supporting [[John McCain]] in his campaign for president in 2008 were involved in mass distribution reportedly of 28 million copies of the film in swing states.<ref>Amy Goodman, Isabel Macdonald, Ibrahim Hooper,  [http://www.democracynow.org/2008/10/17/smearcasting_how_islamophobes_spread_fear_bigotry Smearcasting: How Islamophobes Spread Fear, Bigotry and Misinformation], ''Democracy Now'', 17 October 2008.</ref>
 ==Islamophobia?==

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 [[Image:Obsession.jpg|right|thumb|1000px|A promotional image for Obsession]]
-Obsession is an anti-islamic film featuring interviews with a selection of 'counter-terror' activists, including controversial figures such as [[Daniel Pipes]], [[Steven Emerson]] and UK operative [[Glen Jenvey]]. The film was reissued by [[The Clarion Fund]], a front for the ultra-Zionist [[Aish HaTorah]] in 2008 to co-incide with the presidential elections to exploit the right-wing hysteria about Barack Obama's alleged Muslim roots.
+'''Obsession''' is an anti-islamic film featuring interviews with a selection of 'counter-terror' activists, including controversial figures such as [[Daniel Pipes]], [[Steven Emerson]] and UK operative [[Glen Jenvey]]. The film was reissued by [[The Clarion Fund]], a front for the ultra-Zionist [[Aish HaTorah]] in 2008 to co-incide with the presidential elections to exploit the right-wing hysteria about Barack Obama's alleged Muslim roots.
 ==Zionist provenance==
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 ''New York Times'' spokesperson Diane McNulty told Inter Press Services that the paper had  distributed about 145,000 copies of the DVD in American editions of the paper, and that it had been classified as opinion advertising.<ref>Ali Gharib, [http://ipsnorthamerica.net/news.php?idnews=1700 'Anti-Islam Film Targets 'Swing State' Voters'], Inter Press Services, 19 September 2008</ref>
-==Featured Speakers and "experts"==
+==Featured speakers and "experts"==
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 ==Principals==
 *[[Wayne Kopping]] &ndash; Director and co-writer<ref name="as">Adam Shatz, [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n19/print/shtz01_.html Short Cuts], London Review of Books, 9 October 2008.</ref>
-*Rabbi [[Raphael Shore]] &ndash; Producer and co-writer<ref name="as"/>
+*[[Raphael Shore|Rabbi Raphael Shore]] &ndash; Producer and co-writer<ref name="as"/>
 '''Crew:'''
 *[[Danor Glazer]]

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 *[[HonestReporting]]
 *[[Aish HaTorah]]
 ==Contact, Resources, Notes==

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 ==Principals==
-*[[Wayne Kopping]] &ndash; Director<ref name="as">Adam Shatz, [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n19/print/shtz01_.html Short Cuts], London Review of Books, 9 October 2008.</ref>
+*[[Wayne Kopping]] &ndash; Director and co-writer<ref name="as">Adam Shatz, [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v30/n19/print/shtz01_.html Short Cuts], London Review of Books, 9 October 2008.</ref>
-*Rabbi [[Raphael Shore]] &ndash; Producer <ref name="as"/>
+*Rabbi [[Raphael Shore]] &ndash; Producer and co-writer<ref name="as"/>
 ==Connections==