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Chris Hayes’s extended comments begin at 1:20 of the video. A “who’s who” list of New York politicians is trying to shut down the conversation. Hayes mentions Omar Barghouti and Judith Butler. “I understand why there’s an outcry” from those who find BDS odious — he says, covering his bases. But Hayes is clear about the academic-freedom principle and about the highly “selective” concern for balance in this instance and not others. What if the University of Alabama tried to disinvite a gay speaker? Hayes says that some of those politicians “browbeating” the college have been on his show. Good liberals. Yes: Progressive Except Palestine, PEP.
Bravo Chris Hayes!! The thing that the US Zionists, the fundamentalist evangelicans, the neocons, and the Zionist Lobby do not realize is that the war for the freedom of the State of Palestine is fought globally. They are only fighting in the US (and Canada and Australia). Let them stay distracted by that while we win the global war for our freedom. At the end of the day, the way Arabs (both Christians and Moslems), non-Arab Moslems, and all Palestine supporters around the world no longer believe the center of power and importance is in the US.
Chris Hayes Sunday program is a must watch. He brought up the John Hopkins/Lancet report on Iraqi deaths that came out in 2006. That report stated that at that time they had calculated that 650,000 Iraqi people had been killed as a direct consequence of the US invasion. We know the Bush administration and MSM outlets quickly swept that report under the rug. So impressed that Hayes swept it out from under that rug. Hoping he at some point does a segment on just how many Iraqi people have been killed, injured, displaced by our invasion of that country. As a kid I used to be overwhelmed by the fact that people had not responded very quickly to how many Jews (and then of course Poles, Gypsies who are never mentioned in our MSM) were being killed by the Hitler killing machine. I used to wonder why is that people just stood by. And yet Americans have just stood by and most do not even know or care about how many Iraqi people were killed during that horrific and unnecessary war. Hope Hayes at some point does a program on that fact. Move forward…I know..what a bull shit line.
Great that Hayes focused on the censorship and so much more on his Sunday program.
Annie over at Huffington Post they have all of the Super Bowl commercials up and you can vote on them. Might be great for folks to go over there and click the thumbs down on that commercial.
Good for Chris. I hope we see more challenging of the zionist political activities re the “fundamentals’ of the US..
I was doing some research on my belief that we must overcome or disregard the Zionist ploy of casting political opposition to their or their ‘Jewish presented agenda as anti semitic. And came across this:
Political antisemitism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism#Racial_antisemitism
William Brustein defines political antisemitism as hostility toward Jews based on the belief that Jews seek national and/or world power.” Yisrael Gutman characterizes political antisemitism as tending to “lay responsibility on the Jews for defeats and political economic crises” while seeking to “exploit opposition and resistance to Jewish influence as elements in political party platforms.”
We all see the zionist use this. It puts any opposition to ‘any’ Jewish ‘related’ activities by ‘any’ Jews, into a double bind. It basically promotes that no political opposition is tolerable or allowable because some anti Semites will use it for anti semitic purposes.
Political criticism of zionist/ Israel/ must be separated from anti semitism or what we have is a “national political party’ that can’t be opposed or questioned.
The only way I know to do that is every time they start the anti semitism dodge for people like Hayes to just bluntly say….’Your group is operating as a political party and we’re questioning your political activities, the Israel Lobby and political agenda, we’re not discussing the Jews or the larger Jewish community”. And just keep doing it that way, make it a brick wall. Period.
This was just great. And Hayes was so well informed. The Dersh — shocking ! — appearing on a panel without any balancing voice (to balance against his own views)! shocking!
What fun. Will any of the NYC pols change after this? (And while we’re waiting, * * *).
RE: [Chris] Hayes is clear about the academic-freedom principle and about the highly “selective” concern for balance in this instance and not others. What if the University of Alabama tried to disinvite a gay speaker? ~ Weiss
PERHAPS CHRIS HAYS IS THE ANSWER TO BERNARD AVISHAI’S QUESTION: “The New McCarthyism of Jewish Organizations: Where Is Our Murrow?”, by Bernard Avishai, bernardavishai.blogspot.com, 12/26/12
ENTIRE ARTICLE – http://bernardavishai.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-new-mccarthyism-of-jewish.html