…In the late 1960s, the OAS worked hard to unite visiting Arab international students studying in the US with Arab-American counterparts interested in connecting to developments in the region, primarily in Palestine. Formed in 1952 as the nonprofit Organization of Arab Students of United States and Canada, by the late 1960s OAS was hosting its eighteenth annual national conference with a reported 200 participants. OAS was not at all shy about criticizing US media coverage of the region or issuing direct challenges to the propaganda of the Israel lobby.
The ADL agents talk of alleged OAS links to armed Palestinian group Fatah, seemingly skeptical of one OAS spokesperson’s claim that �there was no real relationship between them, that the OAS was merely letting them sell their literature there.� The name of the spokesperson has been redacted by the FBI, along with most other names in the file. More
New Israel Lobby Archive release: FBI and the ADL – 1940-2003 and
ADL investigated and sued for privacy right violations