The Russell Tribunal on Palestine is coming to New York in two weeks and here is a great video they’ve put up of the wonderful Wallace Shawn explaining why he cares.
And here’s the press release from the Russell Tribunal:
“As an American taxpayer and sometimes voter, I’m very directly responsible for the crimes that have been committed against the Palestinian people,” says one of America’s most famous faces, character actor and playwright Wallace Shawn in this 2.5-minute video clip endorsing the upcoming Russell Tribunal on Palestine, coming to New York City October 6–7, 2012.
Shawn, who is Jewish and is a member of the Advisory Board of Jewish Voice for Peace, recorded this 2.5-minute video clip endorsing the need for a full investigation into the crimes against the Palestinian people by Israel financed by US tax dollars.
Shawn invites everyone to join him in hearing the world’s most prominent public intellectual Noam Chomsky, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker, and civil rights leader Angela Davis who will be offering and weighing testimony at the Russell Tribunal on Palestine (RToP), an international people’s tribunal that was created to expose human rights abuses and stir people to action in opposition to Israel’s violations of international law. In addition, Russell Means and Dennis Banks, dubbed by the LA Times, “the two most famous Indians since Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse,” will join Israeli historian Ilan Pappé, former Palestine Liberation Organization legal advisor Diana Buttu, and a who’s who of international human rights figures at RToP in New York City, Oct. 6-7, 2012.
RToP was launched in 2009 following Israel’s bloody assault on Gaza, which killed more than 1400 Palestinians, and has since worked to bring together legal experts, scholars, activists, and other people of note to help shed light on the reality of Israel’s 45-year-old occupation of Palestinian land. RToP also shines a light on the active role that third parties—foreign governments and corporations—play in perpetuating human rights violations in Israel-Palestine.
Walker, Davis, Means, and Banks are among the Russell Tribunal participants to issue an “urgent call to others who share our commitment to racial justice, equality, and freedom.” They invite people to attend the hearings in New York City on October 6 and 7, writing, “Each and every one of us—particularly those of us and our fellow jury members who grew up in the Jim Crow South, in apartheid South Africa, and on Indian reservations in the United States—is shocked by what Israel is doing to the Palestinians.”
Previous sessions of the tribunal have been held in Barcelona, London, and Cape Town. These hearings have addressed, respectively, European Union support for Israel, the complicity of corporations in the occupation of Palestine, and the question of whether Israel is guilty of the crime of apartheid. The fourth and final session will be held in New York City this October 6-7, and will examine the role of the United Nations and the United States in perpetuating Israel’s impunity in depriving the Palestinian people of their right to self-determination.
great stuff…wish I could be there for the RToP
i’ve always like shawn, or at least the parts i’ve seen. ‘my dinner with andre’, and ‘scenes from the class struggle in beverly hills’ are two great movies. and a conscience too.
“Never get involved in a land war in Asia but only slightly less well-known is never go in against a Sicilian when death in on the line – hahaha – hahaha …..”
Interesting to observe the style of Jewish Shawn in contrast to Jewish Bill Kristol’s. Is there a connection with the content of each? What is it? Anything more than ivy league education makes you an articulate, cool-speaking sociopath?
I guess not, looking at wiki on Shawn.
Anybody can explain?
Wish I could be there, too — I’ll be traveling. :(
But I have to admit, every time I see Wallace Shawn, for just one second I think, “Wait, wasn’t he killed by the man in the black mask?” I guess some movies stick with you a little too much…
he’s so cool link to youtube.com
Zionist apartheid entity Israel should be of special concern to all Americans because it’s our government that’s backing the Zionist entity. Jewish Americans have an additional concern/motivation in that Israel claims not only to represent Israeli Jews but Jews worldwide, which means that any Jew who supports or condones (or, perhaps, just remains silent) Israel in the face of its crimes against humanity, when the day of reckoning arrives, risks being held complicit in said crimes. That’s why “Not In My Name.” Aside, that is, from one’s responsibility to support justice for Palestine because it’s the right thing to do!
I came across this via the Russell Tribunal link
Is there a court for Gaza?
link to youtube.com
Malign Jewish influence and the abuse of power- but for how long can they continue with it?
It’s pleasing when the nice guy you like as an actor turns out to be an exceptional human being as well.
Presumably this will require fund raisers to help this project along. What are the odds than any members of the Ochs, Sulzberger, or Newhouse families will be hosting any of these? New York is their home territory after all.
I’ll bet that this is the first time Wallace Shawn has seen a camera in ten years.
BTW, outside of Mondoweiss and a very small precinct in Manhattan, know one knows who the hell Wallace Shawn even is!
get real pz
PZ
One of the great things about the internet is that it has allowed me to gain regular exposure to the modus operandi of your side. I have learnt more about Zionism on line over 10 years than I ever did living in Erez Israel.
It is incredible to watch a video of a random bot such as Livni or Dan Senor and know what they are going to say before they say it.
Furthermore, I am very familiar with the dissing . “Nobody knows who Wallace Shawn is” comes straight from the academy of schoolyard bitching .
If you have a valid point, why don’t you make it ?`
Great comeback by Yitzhak Laor to a similar remark about Judith Butler:
link to haaretz.com
Easy. Mondoweiss creates news.
Mondoweiss periodically interviews a fellow traveler like Wallace Shawn, who is neither influential nor representative of anyone BUT Wallace Shawn, and publishes the interview as if it were real news.
Similarly, Mondoweiss publishes an article ascribed to an an hoc comittee of Iraqi Jews, when in fact, the article was written by an individual named Almog Behar who represents no one BUT Almog Behar.
Thus, Mondoweiss creates instant and unsubstantial agitprop.
Israel creates news, PZ
Pogroms carried out by Jews in Jerusalem are news
War mongering by Bibi is news
Jewish opposition to Israel is news
proudzionut666: So because he says something which is completely dead on the money you feel the need to character assassinate?
Paraphrasing Charles Freeman:” The tactics of the Israel Lobby [Zionist shills/ propagandists notwithstanding] plumb the depths of dishonor and indecency and include character assassination, selective misquotations, the wilful distortion of the record, the fabrication of falsehoods, and an utter disregard for the truth!”
It was a technique which the Zionists were to employ throughout their struggle. The technique of promoting damaging personal attacks on those who stood in their way rather than trying to counter their arguments.”
“Such non conformists were subtly made aware that their jobs might be at risk, their books unpublishable, their preferment out of the question, their public reputations vulnerable if they did not renounce the heresy of anti Zionism ”
Publish it not, Mayhew and Adams, 1975
Thanks for that seafoid
BTW, outside of Mondoweiss and a very small precinct in Manhattan, know one knows who the hell Wallace Shawn even is!
here he comes to save the day! so why is it then, dumb *ss, that you and your ilk find it necessary to rush about like little children putting out non-existent fires? no one even knows who shawn is? so why do you care what he has to say then? this website is obscure and ineffectual? so piss off and go do something productive. but of course, the truth is your brittle ego can’t bear the slightest criticism, even if uttered in a closet, as you imply. your whole world spins off its axis if universal, unconditional love and admiration aren’t the emotions of the day. pathetic.
So easily disproved:
link to en.wikipedia.org
…I can only assume pz777 is seeking to change to subject or inject white noise.
He’s been doing quite well with voice work, so your limitations regarding what acting entails do not apply.
Even then, your premise is bogus – see: link to en.wikipedia.org