when the human rights committee of united teachers los angeles agreed to host a meeting to discuss bds, we were attacked by the zionist establishment. most activists capitulated, and i was blacklisted when “jewish” organizations met with utla president duffy, demanding that he disassociate himself from my organization cafe intifada and me (a union [...]
Archive for the ‘Stand With Us’ Category
Jstreet succumbs to the lobby it claims to replace!!!!
Posted in ADL, Anatomy of a Blacklisting, Art and Activism, Building Community, Calling out neo-liberalism, Calling out the liberal left!, Dissident Jewish Voices, Human Rights, Human rights rhetoric in the service of empire!, Indigenous Rights, International Solidarity, Israeli Apartheid, Palestine, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Stand With Us, U.S. empire, UTLA, Zionist Campaign Against Free Speech on October 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Anatomy of a Blacklisting: A Thread in Two Blogs
Posted in ADL, Anatomy of a Blacklisting, Building Community, Calling out neo-liberalism, Calling out the liberal left!, Cross Referencing Emmalandia, Disability Rights, Dissident Jewish Voices, Don White, Education, Human Rights, Human rights rhetoric in the service of empire!, In Bed With Frida Kahlo, Israeli Apartheid, Palestine, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Stand With Us, U.S. empire, UTLA, Zionist Campaign Against Free Speech on June 28, 2009 | 5 Comments »
For the last three years I have been documenting a series of events within United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA), around disability rights, Palestinian rights, union democracy and blacklisting, which started as a strange power play within the Human Rights Committee apparently around disability rights, but in my estimation, may have merely been the utilization of [...]
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 [...]
Pro-Israel lobby steps up pressure at UC-Santa Barbara
Posted in ADL, Anatomy of a Blacklisting, Calling out neo-liberalism, Dissident Jewish Voices, Human Rights, Human rights rhetoric in the service of empire!, Indigenous Rights, Israeli Apartheid, Palestine, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Stand With Us, U.S. empire, Zionist Campaign Against Free Speech on May 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Please note the similarity of tactics and parties, here as with the situation within UTLA, the methodologies employed, rhetoric etc. to stifle debate, intimidate, limit academic (and union) freedom and free speech, to isolate dissident Jewish voices, and control the narrative in respect to Israeli policies, actions and history. When a concession is made in [...]
Now Who’s The Terrorist: Part IV
Posted in Anatomy of a Blacklisting, Dissident Jewish Voices, Human Rights, Israeli Apartheid, Now who's the terrorist?, Palestine, Stand With Us, UTLA, Women's Lives, Zionist Campaign Against Free Speech on December 25, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Letters to UTLA Re the BDS Meeting
After the death threats, Andy and I decided to take Duffy up on his offer to view the letters received. We went to the Communications Office and requested the file. After a short wait, while staff got permission from Duffy to let us see the documents he had publicly [...]
The Zionist Campaign Against Free Speech: Corporate Funded Privatized Espionage
Posted in ADL, Anatomy of a Blacklisting, Cafe Intifada Advisory Board, Calling out neo-liberalism, Calling out the liberal left!, Dissident Jewish Voices, Human Rights, Human rights rhetoric in the service of empire!, Palestine, Privatization, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Stand With Us, U.S. empire, UTLA, Zionist Campaign Against Free Speech on October 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Large NGO’s and the Campaign Against Human Rights Activists
What is at stake in UTLA’s capitulation to Zionist pressure to close a meeting and shut down a committee?
According to an article printed in the Jewish Journal, United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) President, AJ Duffy met for two hours with “leaders of the Jewish community” including the [...]
Jewish Journal: UTLA quashes Israel divestment push
Posted in ADL, Anatomy of a Blacklisting, Dissident Jewish Voices, Education, Human Rights, Human rights rhetoric in the service of empire!, Palestine, Stand With Us, UTLA, Zionist Campaign Against Free Speech on October 18, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
October 12, 2006
UTLA quashes Israel divestment push
BY MARC BALLON
http://www.jewishjournal.com/ community_briefs/article/utla_quashes_israel_divestment_push_20061013/
UTLA’s A. J. Duffy
Under a tidal wave of pressure from the local Jewish community, United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA) decided to deny use of its headquarters to the UTLA Human Rights Committee. The committee planned to discuss economic sanctions against Israel, including a boycott and divestment.
The move [...]
Emergency Human Rights Committee Meeting and the Chronology to a Decision
Posted in ADL, Anatomy of a Blacklisting, Calling out neo-liberalism, Calling out the liberal left!, Dissident Jewish Voices, Don White, Education, Human Rights, Human rights rhetoric in the service of empire!, Israeli Apartheid, Palestine, Privatization, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Stand With Us, U.S. empire, UTLA, Zionist Campaign Against Free Speech on October 15, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
“Not at this time. Not in this place.” AJ Duffy, regarding the discussion of Palestinian Human Rights. 10/13/06
Duffy called an emergency Human Rights Committee meeting, for October 13. Before the meeting, several activists, including Human Rights Committee member, David Rapkin, and founding Committee member and UTLA Charter member, Don White, were turned away and told [...]
WIESENTHAL CENTER URGES UTLA PRESIDENT TO ACT AGAINST EXTREMISTS’ ANTI-ISRAEL CAMPAIGN
Posted in ADL, Calling out neo-liberalism, Dissident Jewish Voices, Human Rights, Human rights rhetoric in the service of empire!, Indigenous Rights, Israeli Apartheid, Palestine, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Stand With Us, U.S. empire, UTLA, Zionist Campaign Against Free Speech on October 5, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
This press release, from the Simon Wiesenthal Center, identifies MDS/SDS, the Los Angeles Palestine Labor Solidarity Committee (a project of Cafe Intifada) and the American Friends Service Committee as extremist groups that UTLA needs to distance itself from. Under the mistaken impression that the AFSC class was schedule to be taught later this month [...]
