<P> The International Relations Center features a report on the foundation on its "Right Web" website, a program of the left of center think tank Institute for Policy Studies which, according to its mission statement, seeks to "check the militaristic drift of the country". The report states that "although the FDD is an ardent critic of terrorism, it has not criticized actions taken by Israel against Palestinians that arguably fall into this category". It terms the FDD a "prominent member of the web of neoconservative - aligned think tanks", including the American Enterprise Institute and the Hudson Institute . </P> <P> The political blog ThinkProgress has criticized FDD for "alarmist rhetoric and fear mongering", for example in April 2002 when they aired a 30 - second television ad campaign called "Suicide Strategy" that was described by critics as "conflating" Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat with the likes of Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein . As FDD explained it: "a militant Islamic terrorist who' martyrs' himself by hijacking a plane and flying it into the World Trade Center"--i.e., the September 11 attacks--"is no different from a militant Islamic terrorist who' martyrs' himself by strapping explosives to his body and walking into a hotel"--i.e., Palestinian suicide attacks . </P> <P> In 2011, ThinkProgress, a progressive advocacy organization, published FDD's Form 990 documents that revealed where FDD funding came from, from 2001 to 2004 . Donors included: </P> <Ul> <Li> Roland Arnall: $1,802,000 </Li> <Li> Edgar M. and Charles Bronfman: $1,050,000 </Li> <Li> Michael Steinhardt: $850,000 </Li> <Li> Abramson Family Foundation (of Leonard Abramson): $822,523 </Li> <Li> Bernard Marcus: $600,000 </Li> <Li> Lewis Ranieri: $350,000 </Li> </Ul>

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