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and where is your Nobel Peace Prize?
Robert Wright in the Atlantic all over this:
link to theatlantic.com
Outstanding investigative reporting!
Brilliant film indeed! I hope the Presbyterians too use the film.
The alternative would be to give the byline to a MW editor.
Wow. Did Norman Finkelstein give Mondoweiss permission to use his byline on this piece? I hope so. I have utmost regard for both.
Speaking of Ron Paul, there is a surprising story in Business Insider:
Can I have my primary vote back?
Noonan writing in 2002:
I don't see much discretion, prudence, or nuance there.
c/flotilla/flytilla/
Does anyone know which airlines besides Jet2.com cancel flotilla tickets without refund? Let's create a boycott list.
great link, Emily!
From The Montreal Gazette Apr 21, 1964:
For Facebook users, please show support for Herr Grass: link to facebook.com
No problem Joe--I shared one of your photos from Gaza on G+. I think I have over 400 photographers following me on G+, even though I'm not a photographer myself, just because I share a lot of photography there.
Joe--Great photo work! Please post this album on Google+ too as you did 'Gaza Joins the March to Jerusalem'. Google+ is a great forum for photography.
I think Adler is better suited to writing for the New Republic than the Nation. I don't want to have to cancel my subscription to the Nation.
Thanks to MW commenter ParkSlopeSingleGuy, we know that the Norman Finkelstein who spoke out there against the boycott was an impostor.
Good point. The second movement of Henryk Górecki's immensely popular Symphony No. 3, Op. 36, also known as the Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, features the soprano singing a text written by a child on the wall of a Gestapo cell during World War II. The symphony has been much appropriated by the Holocaust Industry--to use Finkelstein's term. Palestinian children and their mothers should certainly be able relate to it today.
On a side note, I loved reading Edward Said's classical musical articles in the Nation.
Professor Trelawney can indeed read the tea leaves. And she will be on the right side of history.
Thank you ParkSlopeSingleGuy for clearing that up. My suspicions were correct. And shame on the Gothamist for misleading reporting.
BTW, for twitter users, I can't recommend enough following Joseph Dana: https://twitter.com/#!/ibnezra
I hope Goldberg, Foxman, Dershowitz, etc. view this. These are their rhetorical children. These are whom they have enabled.
Thanks Annie. Readers of MW enjoy intelligent and articulate comment threads. And thankfully the comments here on MW are usually intelligent and articulate. Careful moderation is important to weed out those that may be better suited to Huffington Post or You Tube. Often the NYT comments on Israel/Palestine are particularly brilliant, but only if one reads the "READER PICKS" and not "NYT PICKS".
Beautiful post indeed. It's difficult to imagine any pain in life more severe than the loss of a child.
Then instead of Israeli Apartheid Week, we will have Israeli Bantustan Week. No difference.
Although cisgender myself, I am the father of one who is not. As a Palestinian-American she faces many more obstacles and hostility in life from her gender identification than from her ethnicity. She just wants to live a typical life as a girl. No bikini shots on NY streets. Just a typical life- college, grad school, marriage, etc.
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Two brave student campus protests videos were posted on MW today. One, at UNM a vocal protest and speech disruption, in the tradition of the the UCI students so wrongfully convicted. The other at MSU in the Michigan tradition of silent walkouts, in implicit acknowledgment of the injustice of the same UCI convictions.
It's important that we can rationally debate the relative merits and effectiveness of these two opposite approaches.
Kudos. I love the scarlet tape. We saw it before on the video post on MW of the silent walkout at Wayne State University by MSA students from WSU and UM-Dearborn. The SAFE and MSA organizations at UM-Ann Arbor, MSU, WSU, and UM-Dearborn are doing a great job with their silent walkouts. Keep it going!
Thanks for the update, Radhika. Glad you and Huwaida are back in North America. On MW we tried to follow these events as they were relayed on twitter, but you have filled in much of the missing information. Kudos to your courage.
Kudos to Rev Brian Ellison, and also to JVP, for lighting the way! And kudos especially to IPMN for sharing candles in these rough winds.
I'm not so sure that Finkelstein has no credence as a grass roots organizer. He sure can sure pack the auditoriums on college campuses.
Like good cop & bad cop, the 1SS and 2SS may be incompatible, yet we should not necessarily see their respective proponents as being adversarial. A war can be fought on two fronts.
Norman is a great asset--he truly is concerned with the plight of the Palestinians. I think Beinart's focus is solely on liberal American Jewry, who rightly worry of their gangster cousin far away bringing dishonor on the family.
Interestingly, at lunch break today I read from Finkelstein's This Time We Went Too Far:
He wrote that in support and without irony.
Peter Beinart tweeted today
It's important that we can distinguish between Finkelstein and Beinart.
Recommended: their interview with Ellen Goodman this morning.
The latest:
There was mention that they would be interviewed Monday AM on Democracy Now.
Maath Musleh tweets info from Huwaida Arraf's spouse
Twitter is an excellent source for breaking stories--We were able to follow these events as they occurred on #WitnessBahrain. Now following #ProtectAlaqsa and #SaveAlaqsa.
The events just before the brutal arrest were captured on video here.
Radhika has posted Off the Coast of Gaza on MW. Huwaida was arrested in Freedom Riders and was roughed up by the IDF in the the flotilla to Gaza that included the Mavi Marmara.
Yes. Silence in the U.S. media outlets. Even in their hometowns of Detroit MI and Orange County CA.
It looks like all rumor at this point.
Sometimes it can be difficult to tell fact from rumor on Twitter
Follow live on #ProtectAlAqsa and #SaveAlAqsa
Politics aside, no one's wit equals that of Angry Arab As'ad AbuKhalil.
This week the Israel/Palestine Mission Network (IPMN) of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has been the target of a smear campaign by the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA). The IPMN response links the attack by the JCPA to its support of BDS
I am not affiliated with IPMN, but as a Presbyterian I support them.
It's important for BDS supporters to know that Motorola split two years ago into separate companies. The spinoff cell phone maker Motorola Mobility is not the problem. Rather, the parent government contractor Motorola Solutions is. From Wikipedia
A similar situation exists with AB Volvo, which years ago sold its car division to another OEM. In both cases the high profile consumer brands (Motorola phones and Volvo cars) have no organizational connection--except historical--to the companies that are supporting Palestinian oppression.
Once I was asked "Where is the Palestinian Gandhi?" I ambiguously replied, "His name is Barghouti." But you have a better question, seafoid: "Where is the Israeli De Klerk?"
What a contrast there between the manners of the Phil-supporters and the Phil-non supporters. And particularly with the one who addressed you, American.
Excellent Philip! Your comment is much more persuasive than my own comment, which is immediately above yours.
Note: I'm not in any way criticizing MW's need to moderate comments or the timeliness of the moderating. Indeed, I think MW needs to moderate comments, and the timeliness depends on volunteer moderators. I thank them.
But it was recorded, fortunately.
It's after 8 pm and my comment pointing to the live stream is still "awaiting moderation". The keynote address is over now.
The 7 pm EST live stream of Ali Abunimah’s keynote address for PennBDS is here.
And congrats, Phil, for your ADL ranking and honor! Their values (see Norman Finkelstein for that) are unfortunately recently upside down.
Thank you, Phil, Alex and Annie, from all of us for attending and speaking. It is an important cause.
Kudos to Archbishop Tutu, and kudos to PennBDS for securing his support. Tutu is arguably the most important and revered ally the BDS community has.
Phil--Ali Abunimah doesn't agree with you. We love you, Phil. But you tend to see the half-empty glass as approaching full.
Kathleen, you have great stories. Keep 'em coming.
Sounds like Max needs to make a video called Feeling the Hate in Columbus.
It is difficult to take seriously Schanzer's opinions in a rational debate. He is now tweeting that the BDS conference at Penn is a hate fest. Before that he was complaining about Ron Paulistinian.
Some end timers have connected the wings of Psalm 17:8-9 to Revelation 12:13-14
In There's A New World Coming (1975), Hal Lindsey writes on page 165
Yep, that is what we're up against. Lock 'em up? It's more likely that they will lock us up first.
"But [Woolsey] became so pissed he demanded that I sit down and shut up. The crowd booed." Excellent, Kathleen. It's hard to believe he was founder and president of Yale Citizens for Eugene McCarthy for President. His latest folly is Islamophobia, supporting the ban on Sharia in his home state of Oklahoma and assisting the Clarion films Third Jihad and Iranium. But nothing will ever top his role taking us into Iraq.
The EAPPI is doing good work, As is the WCC. Most churches in the U.S. may not appreciate your work in the Holy Land, but I'm sure the churches in Palestine do.
In 2005 the Pew Research Center released survey results on evangelicals' attitudes toward I/P: link to pewforum.org
Among those who have not shirked from the apartheid label are Desmond Tutu, F W DeKlerk, Jimmy Carter, and Ehud Barak. Some have couched the label in terms of the future, say if the present policies continue, but the use of the term is positive. All know that the analogy isn't perfect, but the analogy is indeed powerful.
Greenwald in his superb takedown of Goldberg writes
I disagree with those who claim that the use of the term “Israel-Firster” is anti-semitic. But I would much rather give up that term in discussion than the term "apartheid", which also inflames, but necessarily so.
My teenage Palestinian-American daughter, formerly my son, identifies both with Palestinians and with the LGBT community. It is difficult to imagine her ever wanting to live in either Tel Aviv or Hebron today. Ann Arbor or Detroit is her best option. Discrimination is discrimination. Hostility is hostility. One thing I admire about MW is its overriding commitment to liberal values and the negation of nationalistic values--whether Israeli or Palestinian--and their inherent intolerance of "others". That is why the democratic one-state solution is popular here. It requires society to accept diversity and tolerance.
Sometimes I wonder when Santorum or Gingrich shows up in town, do I want to wear in protest a Palestinian keffiyeh or rainbow scarf.
Nice article, Allison!
I have mentioned before on MW that my wife is Palestinian-American, and I am from Oklahoma Baptist stock. One of our children is actively transgendering, with our full acceptance and support. Nothing is "out" yet, but it will be interesting, and hopefully not too painful, to observe our families' understanding. I think it will hit the fan soon.
One hope I have is that Palestinian-Americans are mindful of the need for tolerance in family and society, as they fully know they are victims of the lack of it. I have less hope for my side of the family.
I pity any fool who evokes the eloquent yet searing wrath of Glenn Greenwald. But here I make exceptions.
I meant PEP Thom Hartmann, PEP Hillary Clinton, and PEP Robert Reich. Did I forget any other PEPs here? Sigh.
I was listening to PEP Thom Hartmann on my lunch hour two weeks ago when guest Sec. Reich explained that he had known Sec. Clinton "since she was 19." This link explains everything.
We may not know what Sec. Reich thinks, but Sec. Clinton certainly does. Maybe they had some pillow talk about how to stay in power.
A truly haunting photo.
Blessed are you who are poor
Blessed are you who weep.
Malak has no place where she may lay her head.
lol Dan, I see my bad link is to this page--not Salon's. You give the correct link.
well said, Dan.
Look how Salon's Robert Reich plays dumb today in the billionaire behind Newt:
I'm sure Rhodes Scholar Reich isn't that dumb. He certainly knows.
The NY Times article, of course, leaves out mention of Ethan Bronner's association with the Clarion Fund.
For those wishing to understand the mindset of Christian Zionists, former insider Frank Schaeffer, now older and wiser, elucidates as no one else can. In December on a long post mostly about Gingrich's relation to the "loony religious fringe", Schaeffer wrote
The phrase "American exceptionalism", of course, is now a Gingrich campaign slogan.
According to Buzzfeed, the Republican party is distancing itself from the RNC resolution:
The 2008 GOP platform supports a two-state solution.
SC State Rep Garry Smith, who accompanied Clemmons and Costa on the trip, says there are eight similar resolutions across the nation.
I wonder when lobby will wake up on its warship and see that a few cannons are loose.
Cindy Costa and Alan Clemmons together in Israel, where they met MKs and Netanyahu.
The CNN Belief Blog has a profile of Costa and her upbringing, religious beliefs, influence, and support for Romney.
Alan Clemmons tweets
The key passage was copied word-for-word from the Alan Clemmons resolution.
dumvitaestspesest: You're endangered of being "Left Behind" with that comment. :)
The original doctored photo was used by CUFI, John Hagee's outfit, nearly five years ago. Hal Lindsey, the father of apocalyptic Christian Zionism, wrote 35 years ago that the Temple must be rebuilt before the rapture and that destruction of the Dome of the Rock was necessary for the rebuilding of the Temple.
Unsurprisingly Kessler repeats but does not fact-check Santorum's statement that Arab nations launched an "aggressive attack" on Israel in that war. Alternate reality indeed--some myths are sacred.
The "Arabs did it" conspiracy loons have gotten a lot more media attention.
The serious risk to our economy is not inflation, but disinflation.
About that fact of the nowhere-to-be-found inflation, Krugman says "Alan Meltzer wept". (I'm not complaining--Meltzer gave me an A+ in econ class.)
And they made me read Milton Friedman too, a supposedly radical ideologue who said that the Fed didn't sufficiently pump the money supply in the 30's. But now the Fed is the Antichrist in the GOP. It shows just how far to the right the GOP candidate freak show is. All--including Paul--would denounce Milton Friedman's monetarism today. It's a dog-eat-dog world out there now. Gotta go...buying dog food.
Krugman is always correct.
To be truthful, gazacalling, I was neither praising nor criticizing Greenspan in 2000. My cowardly reaction to all I disagree has been to say nothing then bombard with criticism when I'm proved right. No courage here. Sigh.
But Paul Krugman has more courage than I have. And he has always been proved right by history.
Oh yes, they made me read Hayek in MBA school.
And in the April 2009 global warming clip he has the "foresight" to criticize Paul Krugman and complain about the "inflation ahead". So how did history work out for you, Ron? Just what has the inflation rate been the last three years, Ron? Nevermind, facts do not matter to fundamentalists.
Ron Paul is a fundamentalist. Although I know he doesn't accept the theory of evolution or global warming, religious fundamentalism is not what I'm talking about. Fundamentalists are ideologues, with their own scriptures--facts be damned. Market fundamentalists like Paul worship at the shrine of Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek and novelist Ayn Rand, who was "telling the truth" and can never be proved wrong, because no amount of evidence can convince a fundamentalist otherwise.
How about a biscuit topped with milk and honey on one side and minced gravel on the other? That should be the national food of the land.
funny!
Gourmet magazine's recent culinary tour of Jerusalem made no mention at all of Arabs, Palestinians, or Muslims (except for the reference "Christian quarter"). However they found this: Softly swirled hummus, its edges high like snowdrifts, comes crowned with olive oil, tahini, and pine nuts.
To borrow a phrase from Ralph Ellison, the Palestinian has become the "Invisible Man".
I went there in the mood for a corned beef on rye sandwich, but there was nothing like that on the menu.
Reminds me of the time I went to an Israeli restaurant in Miami while on a business trip. The waiter, not knowing that I'm from Dearborn with a Palestinian-American wife, tried to explain to me what 'shawarma' is, as he pointed to what appeared to be a broiling gyro rotisserie.
BTW, I cannot recommend highly enough the facebook page Palestine Food.
It has been reported here that Jews will be outnumbered in I/P by Palestinians by 2015, according to PA govt information. But the Filipinos and other workers get no mention. They are as invisible as the countless stateless Palestinians exiled in the Gulf States, where the U.S. rescued Kuwait (are you listening Jerome Slater?) for the minority Kuwaiti overlords.
Blingoai represents millions of stateless people whose only crime is to have parents not born into the right religion or ethnic group or nationality. Roma, Palestinians, Costa Ricans, and Mexicans are the ones who immediately come to my parochial mind. But God bless them all.
The facebook page of the Presbyterian Church (USA) group Israel Palestine Mission Network frequently links to Mondoweiss articles. Including today.
The descendants of the Sioux, Crow, Comanche, Seminoles, and Lenape that my ancestors wronged vote on the same ballots and in the same polling places as I do. They are tried by the same laws and serve as jurors in the same courts as I do. What part of "apartheid" do you not understand?
Nobel peace laureates de Klerk, Tutu, and Carter use the South Africa analogy. I don't see their heads exploding.
and water too. From Amnesty International:
F. W. de Klerk has also said that boycotts of Israel would be ineffective. Desmond Tutu, of course, disagrees.
Until we get private money out of public elections by publicly financing campaigns, we will continue to be saddled with AIPAC-inspired foreign policy and AIPAC-inspired foreign wars. Ron Paul has consistently opposed campaign finance reform. Here in 2002:
Politicians, to paraphrase Paul, don't need laws to make them behave ethically, they just need to refrain from yielding to the temptations of the lobbyists.
And that's why AIPAC should welcome Paul.
Not sure if I should be sharing this, but take a look if you must: link to youtube.com
"This is SPARTA (Israel)!"
Happy New Year, Philip Weiss and Adam Horowitz!
Juan Cole says it all: "Ironically, the more hardline Haredis do to secular Zionists what the Zionists do to Arabs."
Huwaida Arraf is the true Rosa Parks of Palestine.
Joseph Dana says about Strenger's article: This short week has been marked by misinformed, incorrect and downright stupid commentary pieces. This is one.
The key figure in the creation of Christian Zionism is Hal Lindsey, now ranting on WND.com. I read his books 35 years ago when I wasn't reading my Scofield KJV Bible. His bestseller the Late Great Planet Earth influenced countless charlatans later, including Falwell, Robertson, LaHaye, Van Impe, and Hagee. But Hal Lindsey is the chief villain.