Saudis in particular seem intent on quashing criticism and to have a gigantic “public relations” machine.

Not only does their money machine (our petrodollars at work) target books and publications deemed negative to them, but Saudi Arabia also works into the American university system (or so I’ve read), funding “chairs” whose professors will (of course) be presenting Islam in a favorable light.

It’s hard for any American university to turn down such large bequests. (maybe “bequest” is the right word, since something seems to have died in the US university system, like “balance” in opinions)

Full page newspaper ads in (for example) the NYTimes is another device.

Any book (like R. Ehrenfeld’s) linking Islamic charities & funding to either a Saudi PR agenda OR to the agenda of jihad necessarily has elements of truth.

I wouldn’t know why British judges would yield to the Saudi complaints, except, of course, again money.

Coupled with “the Brits” tendency to (absurd) political correctness in these kinds of areas.