[Peace-discuss] Michael Lerner

[Morton K.Brussel]

My guess is that many people who signed on to the letter condemning the 
San Francisco organisers of the protest/rally did not wait to learn the 
full story, and were conned by the likes of David Corn,  Marc Cooper 
and Eric Alterman, "cruise missile liberals" on the Nation staff. 
McChesney was only one of many I was surprised to see signing on to 
that letter. I've got to believe they did it through ignorance.

The whole business is unfortunate and harmful to our anti-war efforts.

Mort Brussel

On Thursday, Feb 13, 2003, at 18:01 US/Central, Jim Buell wrote:

> 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?
>
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