[Peace-discuss] Fwd: [HumanRights] Boycott Israeli apartheid and action items

Mon Feb 6 16:49:33 CST 2006

Mazin Qumsiyeh was in our town last year. He continues to struggle  
for his (just) cause. His latest foray was to write an article which  
was published in the slick magazine, Global Agenda, of the World  
Forum, and then instantly repudiated under pressure from Zionist  
forces. In the following, there is aninteresting link about Zionism  
at http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=262541&area=/ 
insight/insight__comment_and_analysis/

Begin forwarded message:

> From: "Mazin Qumsiyeh" <qumsi001 at hotmail.com>
> Date: February 6, 2006 4:08:43 PM CST
> To: Mazin.qumsiyeh at lists.riseup.net
> Subject: [HumanRights] Boycott Israeli apartheid and action items
>
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> of this message.)
>
> According to the "Jewish Telegraphic Agency" (Feb 5), the president  
> of the World Economic Forum Klaus Schwab will shut down its  
> magazine Global Agenda after it published my article calling for a  
> boycott of Israel (see  http://www.qumsiyeh.org/ 
> theworldeconomicsforumcontroversy/ for background, stories, and  
> attacks ).  To quote JTA "An economics magazine will be shut down  
> after running an anti-Semitic article [sic]. The promise to shut  
> down Global Agenda was made in a Feb. 3 letter from the head of the  
> World Economic Forum, Professor Klaus Schwab, to the head of the  
> American Jewish Committee, David Harris. Schwab said the article,  
> which called for an international boycott of Israel, was  
> 'inflammatory and venomous.' It will be replaced in the reprinted  
> Global Agenda with an editorial by Schwab about the values of the  
> forum. He added that it will be the last issue of the magazine."  
> The "values of the forum" seem to be to host war mongers like Paul  
> Wolfowitz and Henry Kissinger and engineer globalization to serve  
> the wealthy at the expense of the poor and the environment.  You  
> can still write to them:
> The World Economic Forum: contact at weforum.org,  
> public.affairs at weforum.org
> cc: Will Goodhart, Managing Editor wgoodhart at globalagendamagazine.com
> cc: Margaret Doyle, Editor editor at globalagendamagazine.com
>
> It is ludicrous for such groups as the American Jewish Committee,  
> JTA and other non-Semitic arms of Israeli colonialism to hurl the  
> term "anti-Semitic" at any Semite who challenges occupation,  
> oppression, and apartheid or calls for adopting non-violent methods  
> (boycotts and divestments) to challenge oppressive systems. It  
> indicates levels of desperation in trying to muffle the increasing  
> chorus of truth telling.   Coincidentally, Ronnie Kasrils, who was  
> born into the Jewish faith and is South African minister of  
> Intelligence wrote an article about this titled "Myths of Zionism  
> (Mail & Guardian Online). In it he states that "The danger of  
> labelling as 'anti-Semitic' anyone critical of Israel and Zionism  
> is that the term degenerates into a hollow cliché, and will be  
> ignored when the real alarm is sounded."  Here is the article:
> http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=262541&area=/insight/ 
> insight__comment_and_analysis/
>
> Another article titled "Worlds apart" assesses the comparison of  
> South African and Israeli systems of apartheid.  The Guardian  
> newspaper published this with this forward: "Israelis have always  
> been horrified at the idea of parallels between their country, a  
> democracy risen from the ashes of genocide, and the racist system  
> that ruled the old South Africa. Yet even within Israel itself,  
> accusations persist that the web of controls affecting every aspect  
> of Palestinian life bears a disturbing resemblance to apartheid.  
> After four years reporting from Jerusalem and more than a decade  
> from Johannesburg before that, the Guardian's award-winning Middle  
> East correspondent Chris McGreal is exceptionally well placed to  
> assess this explosive comparison. Here we publish the first part of  
> his two-day special report"  Text at http://www.guardian.co.uk/ 
> israel/Story/0,,1703245,00.html
>
> Free speech is used to insult a religion of 1.3 billion people  
> (Islam) while insisting that no one can question a political  
> movement that has hijacked the media discourse, has ethnically  
> cleansed and stole the land of the Palestinian people (political  
> Zionism, not a religious movement), and continues to engage in  
> gross violations of basic human rights to this day (see latest  
> report from the Palestinian Human Rights group Al-Haq for October- 
> December by going to http://asp.alhaq.org/zalhaq/site/eDocs/txtDocs/ 
> MDU%20reports/MDU-0101-2006.pdf ).   And any questioning of the  
> fabricated history of this fascist movement is not allowed.  In  
> 1947, Albert Einstein and prominent Jews wrote a letter criticizing  
> the terrorist Zionist movement Herut (forerunner of Likud and then  
> run by a murderer who was to become prime minister of Israel).   
> That letter published in the New York Times (see copy at http:// 
> www.qumsiyeh.org/einsteinetalonbegin/ ) would not be allowed today  
> in the New York Times.  In fact the NYT refuses to publish any  
> letters that question political Zionism.
>
> Proposed Policy Guidelines for "the National Institutions of the  
> Jewish People," by Avraham Burg, Chairman of the Executive of the  
> Jewish Agency and the World Zionist Organisation
> http://www.aldeilis.net/aldeilis/content/view/1341/113/
>
> Michael Ruppert and From the Wilderness exposes US government  
> corruption and CIA profitteering from drugs and much more http:// 
> www.fromthewilderness.com
>
> Action 1: Support Request for War Crimes Report on the Attack on  
> the USS Liberty
> Contact Congress and the Pentagon Now!
> http://capwiz.com/adc/issues/alert/?alertid=8410556
>
> Action 2: There are many opportunities for you to organize speakers  
> in your area at Churches, schools etc (many can suggest local or  
> national speakers to you).  In the continental US, you can also  
> invite the wheels of Justice bus tour with its speakers (http:// 
> justicewheels.org)
>
> Action 3: Organize in your city by getting a group together and do  
> something or join existing groups (google search can help you  
> locate these).  In Washington DC, protest government spying and the  
> shadow government: AIPAC's Policy Conference is scheduled to be  
> held on March 5-7 '06 at the Washington, DC Conference Center.  
> Around the nation, organize for the third anniversary of the war on  
> Iraq (March 18-19 events).  In CT, we are planning a huge rally and  
> march and expecting thousands to attend (see CTUnitedforPeace.org).
>
> Mazin
> http://qumsiyeh.org
> http://justicewheels.org
>
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