- Pot calls kettle apartheid
- Maker of ‘Budrus’ set his sights on–
- Now, Goldstone is trying to delegitimize US sovereignty (and maybe impose Sharia law too)
- Frum’s rejectionism
- Dual loyalty is truly a problem
- UN’s Ging calls on west to break the Gaza siege
- In Jewish family, diaspora gets to be the enabler
- when will this occupation be televised?
- Goldstone after bar mitzvah: I reached out to Netanyahu
Pot calls kettle apartheid Posted: 05 May 2010 09:58 AM PDT
I understand the latest attacks on Richard Goldstone will involve his service as a judge in apartheid days. The Jerusalem Post has picked up an investigation by Yedioth, an assertion that Goldstone condemned blacks to their deaths in Apartheid South Africa. They’re desperate. Hasbara folks are on this one like a duck on a junebug.
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Maker of ‘Budrus’ set his sights on– Posted: 05 May 2010 09:55 AM PDT
I keep saying that the Israel lobby, whose power the lobby itself poo-poos, is a giant tower of Jewish history whose chronicles will fill library shelves one day when it’s no longer controversial. Dershowitz, Philip Roth and John Mearsheimer have all written about it.
The day approaches. The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan held its annual benefit Monday night. They served a buffet followed by discussions. One a panel (called “Lights, Camera, Social Action”) was on social action filmmaking moderated by Jane Eisner of the Forward. The last question was what film would you make if you had unlimited funding? In other words, your dream film if money were no object. Daniel J. Chalfen, producer of the new documentary Budrus about Palestinians fighting confiscation of their lands, said he wants to make a film about the Israel lobby and its changing dynamic within American Jewry. |
Now, Goldstone is trying to delegitimize US sovereignty (and maybe impose Sharia law too) Posted: 05 May 2010 09:27 AM PDT
Brooke Goldstein speaking at the Lawfare forum at Fordham Law School last week. She’s at the neoconservative Hudson Institute. Again I challenge the reporters, follow the money. Why is Fordham bending over for this type of craziness. Wow:
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Frum’s rejectionism Posted: 05 May 2010 09:05 AM PDT
Promoting the rightwing Israeli line in the Canadian press, David Frum makes what a dangerous-to-his-own side argument against the peace process. The problem is contained, let’s have peace without the process, let’s give them economic development on the West Bank and keep building settlements around Jerusalem. Oh and please don’t start any violence, you Palestinians.
Frum is saying that the iron wall policy favored by Jabotinsky—they don’t want us here, we must build defeat into them till they sue for peace– has now worked. There is no sense of international law here, and without some idea of fairness there won’t be peace. Frum has said before that the Jewish state is based in international law (League of Nations mandate, Balfour, Partition). But all those rulings also promised that Jerusalem is an international city and the land would be divided in half more or less. |
Dual loyalty is truly a problem Posted: 05 May 2010 08:29 AM PDT
Have you heard all the talking heads on Chris Matthews and elsewhere saying it’s time for Muslim Americans and Latinos to assimilate to the American way of life? I know, it is an issue, especially when our drones are killing Muslim civilians. Well, some affection for a foreign country is completely kosher. From Politico. Make sure you read the last paragraph.
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UN’s Ging calls on west to break the Gaza siege Posted: 05 May 2010 08:05 AM PDT
From Middle East Monitor:
From the BBC, a report on documents in an Israeli court case brought by the human-rights org Gisha that reveal Israel’s policy re the blockade:
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In Jewish family, diaspora gets to be the enabler Posted: 05 May 2010 07:11 AM PDT
At that Columbia University event the other night, Charney Bromberg began his speech with a personal statement: “I start from a different point of view… I’m not a classical Zionist, I’m a Zionist because I have family in Israel. I love them. Their well being is important to me.”
I found this important and moving. I always say that I dodged the Zionist bullet because it just wasn’t part of my family culture. My mom’s best friend emigrated there, and that made a difference, but we didn’t visit; and we surely didn’t have family there. My family are not communitarians; they’re academic, offbeat. I was never implicated in the Zionist enterprise and I’m grateful for that. A couple times I’ve asked Jewish journalists about their family connections to Israel and they haven’t answered me. I think these connections are legion–and may even have propelled some journalists to be journalists. One big editor has family living in a settlement; I learned about it at a party, he asked me not to publish his name. Lila Abu-Lughod and Ali Abunimah had family who were expelled during the Nakba. They tell you this; it obviously helps to form their views too, they’re open about it. I wish Jewish journalists would follow Bromberg’s lead and be open about their connections. And what should follow? I can’t blame Charney Bromberg for feeling solidarity with Israelis because of that connection. What I do blame the Diaspora for is again and again deferring to their Israeli connections on critical questions, for saying, who am I to tell them not to blockade Gaza, they live there, I don’t! Deferring to a psychosis of insecurity bred of the Holocaust and a Likudnik policy of endless war. People always talk about dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians. It’s an absurd process that would replace granting freedom to Palestinians. There should be open dialogue within the Jewish community. It should be between the Diaspora liberal Jews like Bromberg who put his life on the line during the civil rights movement and the Israeli Jews who call upon the American Jews to man the turrets of the Israel lobby and help them destroy Palestinian civil rights. |
when will this occupation be televised? Posted: 04 May 2010 07:23 PM PDT
When will we ever see this kind of argument in the American press? Not for a while, because the lobby is still holding the line within the discourse. Haim Saban cares more about the LA Times than Haaretz. Here is the great Amira Hass, explaining to Israeli readers that the occupation has corrupted the Israeli establishment, that it’s not just houses in East Jerusalem we’re talking about, but the bureaucracy and elites, that have been entrapped by the philosophy of Jewish expansion. (And what does this blinded nationalism remind you of?). Hass:
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Goldstone after bar mitzvah: I reached out to Netanyahu Posted: 04 May 2010 01:23 PM PDT
Judge Richard Goldstone spoke to South African Jewish leaders today, a few days after his grandson’s bar mitzvah:
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