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Andrew Pollack

member, Al-Awda NY

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  • PA astroturf effort to build campus momentum for statehood falls flat
    • Andrew Pollack September 27, 2011 at 6:52 pm

      Ah, that explains a lot.
      Good investigate work, Allison. I helped organize the September 15th rally at the UN for Palestine rights (not for a bantustan "state"), and me and other organizers kept wondering where these SFSs and similar bogus projects were coming from.
      Now we know -- and from a well-written article to boot!
      Andy Pollack

  • Paranoid speculation, dept
    • Andrew Pollack May 24, 2011 at 10:38 am with 1 replies

      Yeah, he sure was a lucky man who made the grade.
      And he, like the rest of the traitors, didn't notice that the lights had changed.
      Nor did the four thousand holes in Washington, DC.
      But that's OK, because it's the Return marches that turn me on.

  • Blockade of 'Mavi Marmara' continues, stateside
    • Andrew Pollack June 15, 2010 at 1:42 pm with 2 replies

      Here's the press release issued in response to the attacks by the organizers of the event:
      AL-AWDA NY , THE PALESTINE RIGHT TO RETURN COALITION
      info@al-awdany.org 718-228-8636
      Don't Let Enemies of Freedom Suppress the Truth About
      Israel's Attack on a Humanitarian Aid Ship!
      All Out to the House of the Lord Church 415 Atlantic Ave. Thursday June 17, 7 pm
      MAVI MARMARA SURVIVORS HAVE A RIGHT TO BE HEARD!
      Two weeks ago Israeli naval commandos stormed a Turkish ship loaded with humanitarian aid for the people of Gaza. They murdered 9 unarmed passengers. The oldest, Ibrahim Bilgen, was 61. the youngest, Furkan Dogan, a U.S. citizen born in Troy , N.Y., was just 19.

      On Thursday, June 17, two eyewitnesses to this horror, U.S. filmmaker Iara Lee and British political organizer Kevin Ovenden, and Ahmet Unsal, a former Member of Turkey’s Parliament, have been invited to tell their views and stories at a public forum at Brooklyn's historic House of the Lord Church. The meeting is cosponsored by dozens of organizations.

      They come with nothing but words. But words of truth strike fear into the hearts of certain hate-filled New York politicians who have voted time and again to turn U.S. taxpayers' dollars into missiles and bombs for Israel's war machine.

      On June 14, City Council speaker Christine Quinn, Reps. Jerry Nadler, Anthony Weiner, Carolyn Mahoney, Charles Rangel and Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer gathered in Times Square at the behest of the so-called "Jewish Community Relations Council." They shamelessly demanded that the State Department investigate the invited speakers for "ties to terrorism." They want to prevent or delay their entry the United States. This is a clear attempt to not only deny the passengers' right to speak but to deny the people of the United States the right to hear their words.

      The group of politicians who issued this call have supported every act of terror by the Israeli state against the native people of Palestine and its neighbors. They cheered the 2008-9 terror bombing and invasion of Gaza that slaughtered 1,400 people, including hundreds of children. They applauded Israel's 2006 mass murder of 900 Lebanese civilians. They hail the cruel blockade that denies food, medicine, electricity and sanitation to the people of Gaza and they dare to support the killing and kidnapping of Turkish, U.S., British and Irish citizens who tried to break that blockade.

      These political hacks now attack our very right to learn and discuss the issues involved. They seek to pin the label of “terrorist” on any who oppose the vicious and immoral blockade of Gaza and the endless stream of U.S. guns and dollars to Israel's brutal war machine. And they want to hide the truth about what happened that bloody night on the Mavi Marmara.

      We call upon all people who believe in justice and freedom to resist this attack on our rights. Let your elected representative know that you have the right to hear what the courageous survivors of the Mavi Marmara have to say. And let's pack the House of the Lord Church Thursday night. Let's answer this vile attempt at intimidation with a powerful mass meeting.

      Sponsors include Muslim American Society, International Action Center, National Lawyers Guild-NYC, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, American Muslims For Palestine, International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, NYC Labor Against the War, Arab Muslim American Federation, Labor For Palestine, FIST, Columbia Students for Justice in Palestine, Action for a Progressive Pakistan, ANSWER Coalition, Anakbayan, Bayan USA, Creative Nonviolent Resistance against Injustice, Gabriela USA, International League of Peoples Struggle--NY/LOC, Middle East Crisis Response, El Beireh Society, The Indypendent, Socialist Action, International Socialist Organization, Westchester Peoples Action Coalition, American-Iranian Friendship Committee

      LET THE TRUTH BE HEARD! Please Forward Widely

  • Gaza flotilla lesson: nonviolent discipline is the best moral and strategic choice
    • Andrew Pollack June 11, 2010 at 4:11 pm

      This insistence on the right of "supporters" of Palestine to dictate that they be nonviolent is disturbing. And historically myopic.
      The heroes of the Mavi Marmara are the John Browns of today: their actions may have been tactically ill-advised given the relationship of forces, but they did the right thing when confronted with murderers enforcing dispossession.
      As for appealing to public opinion, and what leads to victory: give me the Union soldiers singing out Brown's praises as they marched, to the traitorous Northern Democrats who said "we have to appeal to the slaveholders' better nature."
      When the third Intifada comes, inshallah it will use EVERY tactic that can draw in masses of Palestinians, and not just the ones approved by latter-day Gandhis.

  • Adviser without portfolio, Walt tells Obama how to get back his Cairo form
    • Andrew Pollack June 8, 2010 at 10:53 am with 9 replies

      An interesting suggestion, which works mostly as irony. But it opens the door to the real demand which needs to be made: if the US shut off the money taps, the pirate Navy would have no fuel for its buccaneer boats. In fact it couldn't afford the boats.
      On a related note, every time I hear one of these supposedly progressive offers by the UN or Europe or whomever to inspect the ships bound for Gaza on behalf of Israel (i.e. a "neutral" inspection), I want to ask, why don't we start our own inspection movement to make sure no weapons are on board ships bound for Israel?

  • Englander short story in 'New Yorker' says Holocaust legacy gives Israel a pass to do anything
    • Andrew Pollack May 16, 2010 at 4:56 pm

      What a dreadful story. This should be widely publicized to show the moral depths to which pro-Zionists sink. Moral depths, I should add, equalled by any white American justifying similar barbarities against Blacks. Latin@s, Vietnamese, Iraqis and on and on.
      By the way, someone who knows a little something (which I don't) about class tensions between Poles and Jews might want to comment on that aspect of the story.

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