• Electronic Intifada is part of a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization 
• Internal Revenue Service on what 501(c)(3)s can and cannot do, without endangering their tax-exempt status
• Where to complain about misconduct by 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organizations
• The Middle East Cultural and Charitable Society doesn't tell the IRS about Electronic Intifada
• Electronic Intifada uses inflammatory and possibly libelous language re: the accidental death of American peace activist Rachel Corrie
• Attempts to influence legislation (re: 2003 Form 990 tax return, when filed)
• NEW (March 2005): The Middle East Cultural and Charitable Society's 2003 Form 990 may be inaccurate.
• Update (February 2006)
  

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Advocacy of a position. Advocacy of a particular position or viewpoint may be educational if there is a sufficiently full and fair exposition of pertinent facts to permit an individual or the public to form an independent opinion or conclusion. The mere presentation of unsupported opinion is not educational.

Method not educational.

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The presentation of viewpoints unsupported by facts is a significant part of the organization's communications.

The facts that purport to support the viewpoint are distorted.

The organization's presentations make substantial use of inflammatory and disparaging terms and express conclusions more on the basis of emotion than of objective evaluations.

The approach used is not aimed at developing an understanding on the part of the audience because it does not consider their background or training.

Exceptional circumstances, however, may exist where an organization's advocacy may be educational even if one or more of the factors listed above are present.

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Electronic Intifada makes inflammatory and probably libelous accusations regarding the accidental death of American peace activist Rachel Corrie (emphasis is mine) http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article1248.shtml

 Photo story: Israeli bulldozer driver murders American peace activist
Nigel Parry and Arjan El Fassed, The Electronic Intifada, 16 March 2003

 "On 16 March 2003 in Rafah, occupied Gaza, 23-year-old American peace activist Rachel Corrie from Olympia, Washington, was murdered by an Israeli bulldozer driver. Rachel was in Gaza opposing the bulldozing of a Palestinian home as a volunteer with the International Solidarity Movement."

I am not an attorney but I believe the accusation of "murder" is libelous as well as inflammatory because it is directed at the bulldozer driver, an identifiable individual. Israeli authorities ruled Ms. Corrie's death, in which her own reckless actions played a major role, as accidental. Electronic Intifada and the International Solidarity Movement themselves admit that Ms. Corrie placed herself in front of the bulldozer; they blame the driver (who may well have been unable to see her) for not stopping. The statement that the driver "murdered her" is certainly not "educational."

 http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article1259.shtml

Of broken bodies and unbreakable laws
Laurie King-Irani, The Electronic Intifada, 19 March 2003

 Last weekend, though, the murder of a civilian by the IDF in the Occupied Gaza Strip dominated international news headlines, evoking sorrow and outrage throughout the world. The victim in this case was a bright, eloquent, and courageous 23-year-old American activist, Rachel Corrie, a student at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington who had been serving as an International Solidarity Movement (ISM) observer in Gaza since January.

…Rachel's murder last Sunday was not the first time she experienced IDF hostility. Despite constant dangers and recurring nightmares of menacing tanks and bulldozers, which she chillingly conveyed in e-mail letters to her mother, Rachel never got cold feet or ran away.

 http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article1293.shtml

Rachel
Ghassan Andoni, The Electronic Intifada, 25 March 2003

This is the first time in which I could sit behind the computer and write about the tragic murder of Rachel.

However, this was online at Electronic Intifada in 2003 (the page has since been taken down).

Electronic Intifada's 2004 tax return reports a $46K expenditure for Electronic Intifada. However, the organization still reports that it has made no effort to influence legislation.