He had read an article in Newsweek magazine that some of his clients were being tracked, and by extension, himself. He had also been tipped off by an employee at his Detroit bank that the government had been monitoring his financial transactions. These discoveries prompted him to sue, stating that this needed to be exposed and be public information. This was the first time that the NSA was compelled by the justice system to reveal subjects of its electronic surveillance.
It was revealed that surveillance of Jabara dated back to and had continued through Equally troubling to many Arab American activists was the suspected collaboration of Israeli intelligence forces and American Zionist groups with the U. Israeli and US national security is at play here, but not in a traditional sense. This supports the claim that it was the political threat to the occupation and settlement program that was of concern. Even before this operation Arabs were under a microscope inside the US, at the behest of Zionist organization and Israeli intelligence.
The CIA, in and , investigated connections between groups abroad and Arab students in the United States; however, no connection was ever found. The almost 10 years of surveilling Arabs yielded nothing, and yet this spirit of intimidation, blackmail, suppression and punishment of Arabs and Arab Americans continued years after the end of Operation Boulder in , and indeed, has been resisted to this very day.
From Operation Boulder, the attempt to deport the LA 8, the prosecution of the Holy Land 5, and more recently since the onset of BDS, targeting students advocating for Palestinian liberation, such as those in Students for Justice in Palestine, a pattern emerges: politically-motivated, selective prosecution which has the effect if not the intent of intimidating entire communities is alive and well with no intention of stopping on its own.
This topic must also be viewed from a frame of human rights, and the denial of these rights, guaranteed to Palestinians in numerous United Nations resolutions, and the Geneva Convention. This includes the Palestinian Right of Return. When broken down, we see that the rationale for the surveillance is actually quite simple — much of the activism from Arabs here in the US on Palestine targeted the Israeli occupation of territories, the settlements in those lands, as well as the horrible human rights violations.
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