We’ve run a few posts responding to the banning of Mondoweiss from the popular website Daily Kos. Weiss response. And mine. Well yesterday I lifted another comment straight out of the ‘diary’ where the announcement of the banning occurred. I urge everyone to open the link and view the hostile response to this comment. I’m posting it here because I agree with cyclonbabe, I think the Israel/Palestine issue threatens to split the progressive movement right up the middle. The Mondo ban is a polarizing move and I believe America’s support for Zionism continues to rip and tear at the foundation of our democracy.
MW is one of the Best sites on the web
by cyclonbabe
It is one of the few that has not given in to the angry posse of defenders of the indefensible, MW provides a living record of the slow, painful take over of the West Bank, the strangulation of Gaza, the colonialist-settlement xenophobic movement that’s taking over Israel, aided and abetted by the israel-right-or-wrong crowd in the US and elsewhere. true to the historical task that good jewish people took upon themselves throughout history, MW is bearing witness to a slowly advancing horror show, one in which the jewish people of this country are deeply complicit.
By banning [parts of] MW the zionist hasbara does not want people to see, by taking sides with the ones who justify – or prefer to hide – the horrible things Israel is doing, the enormity of the human rights violations committed by – and supported by jewish people – MB – and DK have now taken sides. And in so doing open up the yawning gap that has been splitting up the progressive movement for a long time.
I expect that whatever McCarthyte policies take over in in Israel – which they are – as we all see – they will seed off-shoots in this country, as they are in canada and Australia, and we, who care about liberal values and human rights, will have to stand and watch as reactionary forces rip what they helped sow..
We, who resist the march of oppression and slide into the deepest darkness of the soul – the Conradian disintegration of morals and conscience now unfolding – should be prepared for what’s to come.
Unfortunately, the I/P issue has split the progressive movement already – and it is one of the reasons we can never have any real influence in this country. Just watch some of our “heroes” in congress and see them dangle, helpless, before the march of the know-nothing right. They – and us – and Obama – will all continue to be be cowed, because we are split right in the middle, because honesty and openness have been banished from our midst..
When a progressive like MB seeks to tar – and bar – a truly progressive exercise in progressive discourse like MW, then we should know that the center – our center, the Bernie Sanders center – cannot hold. Our energies, our donations, our discourse will be sapped. And there, in the breech – the crazy shall walk among among us. Look to washington politics if you really want to see what rabid, israel-firstism has wrought. m
(I’d like to add that I appreciate the opportunity to post these recent threads. Sometimes we miss opportunities to speak directly to progressives from the other side of this divide and I think I can speak for many supporters of this site in claiming this banning has provided an avenue for important discourse. I’m planning on making the most of it! signed, annie)
