Carter Center

Carter Center

Carter Center is a nonprofit organization that works for peace. The organization is based in Atlanta, GA and managed by Jimmy Carter. Its official home on the web is http://www.cartercenter.org

14 Carter Center board members resign over palestine book

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ATLANTA — Fourteen members of an advisory board at the Carter Center resigned today, concluding they could “no longer in good conscience continue to serve” following publication of former President Jimmy Carter’s controversial book, “Palestine Peace Not Apartheid.”

“It seems that you have turned to a world of advocacy, including even malicious advocacy,” the board members wrote in a letter, a copy of which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. “We can no longer endorse your strident and uncompromising position. This is not the Carter Center or Jimmy Carter we came to respect and support. Therefore it is with …

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