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of Jill Stein, it is after all public knowledge, and as they say “a leopard doesn’t change its spots.” </div>
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<div class="">And, your statement: “There’s a whiff of anti-Semitism about it: let’s pick on them because they’re Jewish,” shows again, what you are. Painting anyone who appears to be a gentile, saying that which you don’t like, as an anti-semite.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="">I think that if you want to send the local BtA chapter to hell because they didn't co-sponsor this one rally, or you want to send BtA to hell because they don't work on Israel-Palestine when they explicitly set themselves up as an organization
that doesn't work on foreign policy so they could recruit Jews to work on domestic justice issues who would probably be bad on Israel-Palestine without having to deal with the potential consequences of that, you'd be practicing the same politics that you're
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<div class="">As you know, we co-sponsored the Medea talk, even though it was co-sponsored by the Prairie Green Party, which I loathe because it gives a platform to Snarl, whom I loathe because he's an abuser who has been abusive to me personally. Nonetheless
we co-sponsored the talk. We didn't pursue a policy of not co-sponsoring an event co-sponsored by an organization that gives the abuser Snarl a platform. We co-sponsored the talk anyway. </div>
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<div class="">I expect that the local BtA chapter will do good things in the future that will involve cooperation with people who have different politics. I think that's more likely if they're not subjected to thoughtless and opportunistic attacks from the
ultra-left. But in any event, there are much better targets, as I said before, organizations in this town that can be directly tied to Israeli government abuses of Palestinians. Why pick on BtA, when they have nothing to do with it? There's a whiff of anti-Semitism
about it: let's pick on them because they're Jewish, even though, by their own account, they have nothing to do with Israel. </div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 6:01 PM, Karen Aram via Peace-discuss
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<div class="">As to BTA, I have no familiarity with them other than this one experience, and the article David just posted. </div>
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<div class="">We all should be unifying, they had their chance as an organization, they chose not to do so. </div>
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<div class="">I commend you, given our differences, for working with us on the Medea project in our continuing efforts to prevent further wars.</div>
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It wasn't just that '<span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px" class="">mention of “Palestine" might come up'. A number of people in the group objected to specific things that they feared "anti-Israel" people would say and they didn't want to be associated
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<div class=""><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px" class="">Full disclosure: I'm not quite a member, but sort of a lurker on the outskirts of the local BtA chapter. I'm trying to encourage them to do good things and not do bad things, within the ambit
of what is realistic for them to do and not do. </span></div>
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<div class=""><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px" class="">I encouraged them to co-sponsor the anti-ICE demo on the basis of a specific agreement about what would and wouldn't happen in the demo rather than have a blanket policy of not participating
in a demo co-sponsored by SJP. A number of people were open to that, and I actually thought that position might win out. Then I found out that they had decided not to participate, following some conversations that I didn't see that I think involved national
BtA staff. So I don't completely know what happened with that. </span></div>
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<div class=""><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px" class="">I don't endorse the politics of many of their members. But I'm against bashing them as a group for stuff that is outside their remit as a group, as they understand it. Indeed, I've been encouraging
them to stay out of Israel politics, consistent with the national BtA line, because I know that if they got involved in Israel politics their positions would be bad. If you want to attack Jewish communal institutions that actively support Israeli government
violations of Palestinian human rights, that's a target-rich environment, there's a very long list. I don't see what the utility for Palestinians of bashing BtA is. Perhaps it serves some other objective. But picking on BtA isn't going to stop a single Palestinian
house from being knocked down. </span></div>
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<div style="word-wrap:break-word" class="">Because Bend the Arc, backed out of working with socialist/ Marxist groups on the rally opposing ICE we had at the Drury Inn, on the 23rd, we had over 300 people. They feared mention of “Palestine" might come up.
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<div class="">That may not bother you Bob, but you didn’t back out of co-sponsoring Medea’s presence here even though association with socialists took place. You looked at the “bigger picture”, rather than petti politics.</div>
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<div class="">Yes, BTA did do their own rally on the 30th, though it would have been better had we been united. </div>
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<div class="">A real solution would be to stop creating the immigrants, who should be referred to as “refugees,” because that is what they are, refugees fleeing US wars and interventions, sanctions, NAFTA and crime. </div>
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<div class="">BtA was explicitly set up to be an organization that works only on U.S. domestic justice issues, not U.S. foreign policy, including not Israel. It's foundational, it's constitutional, that's what they were set up to do and not do. There is zero
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<div class="">On the other hand, they're very good on opposing anti-Muslim prejudice and anti-refugee prejudice, which are also things that need to be done. I also understand that some of them are working to try to get the Champaign ordinance allowing landlords
to discriminate against ex-prisoners repealed, which is another thing that needs to be done. And which project, I understand, could use some help right now from people who live in Champaign. </div>
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<div class="">So, why not let them work on the things that they're good on, instead of picking on them and trying to bully them for not working on issues that they would be bad on, which there is zero possibility that they're going to do in any event? </div>
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