Rachel Ehrenfeld

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Rachel Ehrenfeld is an author who writes on terrorism and corruption-related topics. She has lectured on these issues in many countries, and has advised banking communities, law enforcement agencies, and governments, including the U.S. Defense Department's Threat Reduction Agency. She serves as director of the American Center for Democracy. As of 2009, she works on financial issues related to the war on terror.

Contents 1 Career 2 Litigation 3 Books 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Career

Ehrenfeld has worked as a research scholar at New York University School of Law, as a visiting scholar at the Columbia University Institute of War and Peace Studies, and as a fellow at Johns Hopkins SAIS. Her Ph.D., in criminology, is from the Hebrew University School of Law.

Ehrenfeld's articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times, National Review, the Eurobserver, The Jerusalem Post, the New York Sun, and the Los Angeles Times. She has appeared as a commentator on television and radio news programs, including The O'Reilly Factor, Fox News, CNN, ABC, NBC, and MSNBC. She is also a contributor to the Terror Finance Blog.

Ehrenfeld has testified before the European Parliament that the Palestinian Authority uses aid money to fund its terror activities. She has also provided evidence to the British Parliament alleging corruption of the Palestinian Authority, and has testified before the U.S. Congress on terrorism related issues.

[edit] Litigation

Ehrenfeld became involved in an international legal controversy when she lost a libel case brought before Mr Justice David Eady in the English High Court of Justice by Saudi businessman Khalid bin Mahfouz concerning her book Funding Evil. She pre-emptively counter-sued bin Mahfouz to obtain a declaration that the judgment would not be enforced in the United States and that her book was not defamatory under United States defamation law, but her lawsuit was dismissed by the New York courts on the grounds of a lack of personal jurisdiction over bin Mahfouz.

In response to this and similar incidents, the New York state legislature passed, and on May-01-2008 Gov. Paterson signed, a law which "offers New Yorkers greater protection against libel judgments in countries whose laws are inconsistent with the freedom of speech granted by the United States Constitution." ^[1].

[edit] Books

• Funding Evil; How Terrorism is Financed and How to Stop It, Bonus Books, 2003, 2005)
• Evil Money, Encounters Along the Money Trail (HarperCollins in 1992, SPI, 1994)
• Narco-Terrorism; How Governments around the World used the Drug Trade to Finance and Further Terrorist Activities (Basic Books, 1990 & 1992)

[edit] References

1. ^ Governor Paterson Signs Legislation Protecting New Yorkers Against Infringement Of First Amendment Rights By Foreign Libel Judgments

[edit] External links

• Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld Profile at the International Analyst Network.
• Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld Intelligence Summit biography.
• The Terror Finance Blog Frequent posts by Dr. Ehrenfeld on terror finance issues.
• Frontpagemag Author archive.
• Funding Interview Interview with Jamie Glazov.
• IRA+PLO=Terror
• NYS Governor Paterson's press release for the protective legislation