Dear Editor,
In your obituary, commemorating the life of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Leader, Marek Edelman, you committed a very significant omission. As a member of the socialist Bund, Edelman rejected the ideology of Zionism, as well as the establishment of an exclusively Jewish state in Palestine. Like other Jewish socialists, Edelman believed that Jewish human rights [...]
Archive for the ‘Shoah’ Category
Letter to the Editors of the L.A. Times and the New York Times
Posted in Dissident Jewish Voices, Human Rights, Shoah on October 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
UCSB STANDS UP TO THE ZIONIST CAMPAIGN AGAINST FREE SPEACH AND ACADEMIC FREEDOM!
Posted in ADL, Calling out neo-liberalism, Human Rights, Human rights rhetoric in the service of empire!, Indigenous Rights, Palestine, Shoah, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Stand With Us, Zionist Campaign Against Free Speech on June 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So glad UCSB stood down the bully tactics of the Simon Wiesenthal Ctr, the ADL and Stand With Us. But the impact of this investigation can not be underestimated. The stress and trauma to Professor Robinson and the effect these campaigns have on education and public discourse is chilling. These are the new blacklists. support [...]
Counterpunch using Anti-Jewish Antipathy to Advocate an Anti-gay Anti-disability Agenda.
Posted in ADL, Calling out neo-liberalism, Calling out the liberal left!, Disability Rights, Full Inclusion, Human Rights, Human rights rhetoric in the service of empire!, Israeli Apartheid, Shoah, Simon Wiesenthal Center, U.S. empire, Zionist Campaign Against Free Speech on May 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The Counterpunch article below claims that the Hate Crime Bill of 2009 will result in criminalizing speech that is (specifically?) critical of Israel, Jews, Christianity, or that questions the Holocaust. The article follows my commentary.
1. The hate crime legislature is quiet specific. It limits hate crimes to acts of violence, and simply extends the protections [...]
Clark University Cancels Talk by Professor Norman Finkelstein
Posted in Dissident Jewish Voices, Education, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, International Solidarity, Palestine, Shoah, Zionist Campaign Against Free Speech on April 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Clark drops Holocaust scholar
Schedule conflict, controversy cited
By Matt ByrneGlobe Correspondent / April 10, 2009
Clark University canceled a campus talk scheduled for later this month by controversial Holocaust scholar Norman Finkelstein, saying his presence “would invite controversy and not dialogue or understanding,” and would conflict with a similar event scheduled around the same time. The Clark University Students [...]
Simon Wiesenthal Center:A Voice for U.S. Empire and an Attack on Labor Democracy
Posted in ADL, Anatomy of a Blacklisting, Dissident Jewish Voices, Education, Human Rights, Human rights rhetoric in the service of empire!, Indigenous Rights, International Solidarity, Israeli Apartheid, Latin America, Palestine, Shoah, Simon Wiesenthal Center, The Americas, U.S. empire, UTLA, Zionist Campaign Against Free Speech on January 5, 2007 | 3 Comments »
“Should Rosenthal and her ilk be treated as legitimate Jewish voices?”
“As Union rolls here in the United States swell with members of minority communities, anti-Israel forces waste no time forging alliances with those groups. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, self-appointed visionary of a new socialist Latin America and bosom buddy of Iran’s Ahmadinejad, blatantly tries to [...]
