Seham writes:
So far this is turning into the year that American Jews made hajj to Palestine, whether to break the siege on Gaza or to participate in and document the resistance to Israel's land grab in the West Bank. I must admit that it's been exhilarating to watch. It's much different from when Arabs and non-Jews go to observe and then report because those groups are quickly dismissed as anti-Semitic or they're just ignored. But, you can't really accuse Jews of being anti-Semitic because it's too messy to explain to Americans and it does sound more sensational when Jews attack Israel's policies because Arabs are expected to bitch about Israel. So finally, for the first time in my life, a real discussion about what Israel is doing is taking place, and it turns out that everything we heard about the power of the lobby to control what is told to Americans about Palestine is not true because the lobby doesn't control the Internet.
I know that I often complain about the media in the U.S. preferring to hear from Jews rather than Palestinians when it comes to... Palestinians. But I want to be clear that I am not dismissive of the role that Jews have taken in fighting for justice in Palestine. And I do not minimize their sacrifices: in the case of Ezra Nawi, potentially his freedom is at stake, and with Norman Finkelstein, his career. And it definitely seems that a well-greased and orchestrated campaign is taking place against Max Blumenthal--oh and he gets mail.
I mean, I wonder who wrote to Huffpo and asked them to kindly remove all his content when it's about Israel. Must have been someone very high-up on the Zionist ladder.
Highlights from this year's hajj:
- Summer Abu Zeyad
- Watching Max squeeze between buildings at the Balata camp
- Naomi Klein in Bilin
I would like to remind everyone that many more non Arab gentiles have made a pilgrimage to Palestine and have written and speaken out about their experiences than Jews have, it's just that unless they are killed we do not hear about them. Doctors Swee Chai Ang and Mads Gilbert to name just two. It wasn't until it became fashionable that Jews in large number (large in relation to what they were) started the trek.
yeah but this post is about jews.
Probably a Vatican/Hezbollah trick to round up Jews and get them on the trains. Luckily the IDF will be able to protect them from the Pope and his pointy hat. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1101158.html
"But, you can't really accuse Jews of being anti-Semitic because it's too messy to explain to Americans and it does sound more sensational when Jews attack Israel's policies because Arabs are expected to bitch about Israel." I suppose this is true, however, there is also the fact of the vilification of the Palestinian people deeply and almost daily on the MSM. Couple this with the years of orientalism from "official" sources used by the state to exploit the region(s) and it destroys anything said by the victims as untrustworthy, etc. This has been used for the entire skewing of history in the euro/American slant, not only in the ME, but throughout the world.
RE: "…in the case of Ezra Nawi, potentially his freedom is at stake…" ***FROM JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE: “Tell Israel not to jail Ezra Nawi” "Join Naomi Klein, Neve Gordon, Noam Chomsky and thousands of others and tell Israel not to jail Ezra Nawi, one of Israel’s most courageous human rights activists. His crime? He tried to stop a military bulldozer from destroying the homes of Palestinian Bedouins in the South Hebron region. Nawi, a Jewish Israeli of Iraqi descent, is a threat to the settlers and the Israeli government because he has brought international attention to efforts to illegally remove Palestinians from the Hebron region. He will be sentenced in July." ***WATCH the video of Ezra Nawi trying to stop the home demolition and SEND A LETTER to the Israeli Consulate – http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/06/10-7 MORE INFO ON EZRA NAWI – http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/06/10-7
Aliyah into Israel should be encouraged
It's always about Jews.
I would rather do aliyah in an asshole – SECOND THOUGHTS ABOUT THE "PROMISED LAND" http://notinhisname.blogdrive.com/archive/cm-10_c...
Vulgar. It seems many people support mass emigration of Arabs into Israel but when it comes to Jews, they don't have the same sentiments.
Wrong. It's about undeserved privilege. Jewdihood is co-inky-dental.
yeah it is about Jews. i'm in Phil's camp: Jews have so much power in the US; if it isn't the Jews to take up the cause against Israel/US policy, then who? the times they are a changin', and along with Seham i am exhilarated, and moved by the courageous Jews with conscience who are building the momentum for this change – along with all the non-Jews of course.
Ezra Nawi is a convicted felon. He should serve his time just like any other violent felon. His being a homosexual has no bearing on the case.
I would imagine that to hear the truth that 98% of Americans have no power at all when it comes to our foreign policy in the Middle East in any way affecting Israel is humiliating. It sure supports what Goering, Goebbels, and Hitler said about essentially Christian white democracies. I would imagine the Armenians would agree now, as they did before Hitler came to power. Japan awoke a slumbering giant. Israel will too, eventually. Hope does spring eternal in the goy heart. What needs to be done?
The momentum was already there, the Jews simply have jumped on board (some in hopes of steering the ship). But hey, better late than never.
Jewish or Buddhist, I'm all in favor of those who recognize the inequities of I-P. Having said that, ground roots Jewish support for Palestinian rights translates into nothing. The powers that be will ignore it, just like they have ignored ground roots opposition to the war in Iraq, or ground roots support for national health.
We should really be asking why the US Treasury has not added the IDF to the list of designated terrorist organizations since the Gaza Rampage: ACLU Misses Zionist Islamophobic Conspiracy. Jews pretending to support Palestinians but refusing to take part in a movement to force the USA to declare the IDF a terrorist organization are simply trying to protect the State of Israel and Jewish privilege.
Silencing the anti-semites is a good start.
Ask all, you'd like, the answer is likely to humiliate you.
Hip-Hop was of no broad account until Jewish music promoters took it on as part of their portfolio. Same for rock & roll. Or no? Fashion, whether political ideas or clothing or dance, always originates in the grass roots, but it takes influence and capital to exploit it from being anti-social to social acceptance, then groupie addiction. The exceptions prove the rule, or no?
You mean like in peasant anti-Czarist Russia, before the Bolsheviks took over, and the Jews took over leadership of the Bolsheviks? Or maybe Fascist Italy, before Hitler forced Mussolini to kick his fully on board jews to the curb?
You mean silencing all those moral and ethical American Gentiles who are so uppity as to object to Israeli policy and practice they pay for? I admit, your type has done this very effectively so far–but the times, they are a-changin'. BTW, your moniker is revealing–good choice!
True, but like a Jew forced to lick an SS-Man's boot, our anti-zionist time will come.
It seems to me once Rock & Roll and Hip-Hop was socially accepted, it lost it's power and became just another money making tool. Could that be happening with the Palestinian movement? Books published, conflict tourism…?
Why yesss. Interesting case of Margherita Grassini, one of Benito's mistresses. Wiki credits her with "playing a significant role in the the rise of Fascism", yet none of the disgust of fascism is thrown her way. "In 1938, Sarfatti left Italy for Argentina. After the war, in 1947, Sarfatti returned to her home country and once again became an influential force in Italian art." Clara Petacci was shot. I wonder if Grassini received any holocaust money being a survivor and all? Another bit of revisionism: Indeed, once the Holocaust was under way he and his fascists refused to deport Jews to the Nazi death camps thus saving thousands of Jewish lives — far more than Oskar Schindler.’ http://www.lewrockwell.com/spectator/spec90.html