[Peace-discuss] Michael Lerner

[Jim Buell]

What strikes me as most interesting about this whole brouhaha is that Bob 
McChesney is listed as the second signer of one of the big petitions to get 
Lerner onto the podium (http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0211-09.htm 
- "Let Anti-War Rabbi Michael Lerner Speak"). I wonder if someone who knows 
McChesney better than I might get in touch with him to find out more about 
his views.

jb

At 06:16 PM 2/13/2003 -0500, Karen Kohn wrote:
>I am curious whether anyone knows more about Michael Lerner.  I've read 
>his magazine, Tikkun, and he strikes me as a little weird (faults 
>Palestinians for not welcoming with open arms all the Jews who came to 
>then-Palestine after the Holocaust) and touchy-feely (likes to talk about 
>how Israelis and Palestinians need to heal their emotional wounds), but 
>until this issue came up I didn't realize people had major issues with 
>him.  Sometimes he seems overly fastidious about reminding everyone that 
>Palestinians have done things wrong, too, but it seems like most Zionist 
>anti-Occupation groups do that.
>I guess I was missing more information than I realized, because to me he 
>seemed mildly annoying but basically doing something important.  What is 
>it that people don't like about him?