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We read your comment (with credit) in the calendar section of AWARE
ON THE AIR tonight. <br>
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On 4/11/11 9:37 PM, David Green wrote:
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<p>But it is about politics. It's about sanitizing the image
of a country that is built on land that was stolen and
ethnically cleansed. It's about a country that occupies,
oppresses, continues to steal land, and murders in order to
do so. It's about a country that massacres children at will.
"Israel week" cannot possibly be about anything but
politics. The politics of apartheid, racism, and worse. And
it's about a secular politics with a component of religious
fanaticism to do its dirty work in the settlements and
outposts. And its about the politics of U.S. hegemony in the
Middle East and our government's support for Israeli
oppression, and it's about the top-down politics of Jewish
institutions in this country that have to march in lockstep
in support of Israeli atrocities, including Hillel, which
has decided to exclude Jewish students who are critical of
Israel. And, not least, it's about the sort of breathtaking
cultural stupidity and insensitivity that deals in camels
and tents, as if the native Bedouin Arabs of Palestine with
their camels and tents have not been forcefully and
violently expelled from their land and their way of life by
the Zionists, ongoing. "Israel week" is about stupidity,
racism, ignorance, and worse (implicit justifications for
violence and murder). It's about the grossest form of
cultural superiority and disrespect that can be openly and
publicly displayed on this campus. What an embarrassment,
and what a travesty, including for most Jewish students. And
worse. And by the way, this "traditional" food is Arab food,
not Jewish food. It's Jewish settler-colonialist food--like
everything else in Israel, stolen from the Palestinians.</p>
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