Comments on: Rabbi Brant Rosen: Jews’ dismissal of BDS represents a refusal to recognize who the ‘weaker, dispossessed, disempowered’ party is

By: William in Maryland

William in Maryland — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

Problems with Mondoweiss web layout:
For some reason tonight, on two different browsers, on the main Mondoweiss page, the right-hand column ("Donate" button and below) is encroaching on the text of main posts, cutting off the right-hand part of the text, so it cannot be read. Way, way down the main page, this is not a problem, because the column listing archives, etc. stops at some point.

BTW, why not talk about the new graphic, etc?

By: Sand

Sand — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

Oh I thought he was on a donation drive -- so I donated 25 bucks...

;-)

By: Rowan

Rowan — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

yes, william, but this is just typepad being cranky, it will clear soon, I'm sure

By: dance

dance — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

Happened to me, too, but when I click on the actual articles, it fixes up, difficult for browsing, though. Hope it fixes up. BDS is a humanitarian issue, or the reasons for it coming into being.

By: Phil Weiss

Phil Weiss — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

hope you are right, it's screwing up on my machine too. hope it's typepad…

By: Madrid

Madrid — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

Phil,

I have to begin as always when you are reading posts that you are doing an incredible job on this site.

Just to comment on the topic at hand (the problems with the layout): I noticed that your site was down for about 5 or 10 minutes earlier today. When it came back up, the layout was messed up like it is now.

By: dance

dance — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

Phil, it's okay now. On another issue, you are often talking about the progressive Jewish movement (not up with the terminology, sorry) combining with other movements who are looking for justice in the I/P travesty. The American human rights groups who recently wrote an open letter urging Obama's administration to attend the Durban conference surely qualify. I think it would be a good story to run, but it is your blog.
This is the link from Ha'aretz, and opinion from Ha'aretz. Sorry to be off topic.

By: Doppler

Doppler — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

Great posts tonight. The Rabbi is very insightful. The examination of Polish history provides a learned and informed perspective. This blog is a unique resource.

By: Citizen

Citizen — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

Well the layout's fine from here. Regarding dismissal of BDS, the good Rabbi is on target. Those who refuse to recognize who is the dispossessed, disempowered in the I-P conflict–what would it take to get them to acknowledge they are the oppressor, not those who resist? In the HBO documentary I just watched, To Die In Jerusalem, the mother of an Israeli high school girl, beautiful and smart, who is killed by a suicide bomber while grocery shopping eventually, meets the mother of a Palestinian high school girl, equally beautiful and smart, who was the suicide bomber–she also died in the bombing. The Israeli mother never gets it, that while she is free to come and go, etc.,
the occupation is a very different daily reality of the home-dispossessed Pals–the two families live four miles apart, but it's like night and day–the Israeli mother ventures into the Pal Camp but is so afraid to physically be in the occupied area where Pal cops are in control that she flees without meeting
the Pal mother. In the the end they confront each other face to face–via satellite TV.

By: Ana Sanchez

Ana Sanchez — Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000

Sounds like a powerful documentary but I wonder why HBO didn't do the mirror image: the mother of a Palestinian teenage boy, bright, hard-working, his whole life ahead of him, meeting the mother of the Israeli boy who was inducted into the IDF straight from high school,and who participated in the shelling of Palestinian homes, thereby killing the Palestinian boy. There must be a lot more of these around.