[Peace-discuss] Re: News notes, for the AWARE meeting 2007-06-03

[Chas. 'Mark' Bee]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu>
To: "Scott Edwards" <scottisimo at hotmail.com>
Cc: <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 3:05 PM
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Re: News notes, for the AWARE meeting 
2007-06-03


> Scott Edwards wrote:
>>
>> "the Save Darfur Coalition, an Israeli lobby front group active in the 
>> US."
>>
>> Are you kidding? I'm sure you're just joking, but I wanted to be sure. 
>> This is the type of baseless rhetoric I'd expect from the administration, 
>> so I figure you're being tongue-in-cheek. If so, hilarious! If not, you 
>> are chasing ghosts in the dark, my friend.
>
> The source of the Coalition is hardly in doubt.  The following is from the 
> Apr. 27, 2006, internet edition of The Jerusalem Post, the conservative 
> Israeli paper:
>
> "...the coalition, which has presented itself as 'an alliance of over 130 
> diverse faith-based, humanitarian, and human rights organization' was 
> actually begun exclusively as an initiative of the American Jewish 
> community. And even now, days before the rally, that coalition is heavily 
> weighted with a politically and religiously diverse collection of local 
> and national Jewish groups ... the Jewish Community Relations Council, a 
> national organization with local branches that coordinate communal 
> activity all over America, has put on a massive effort to bus people to 
> Washington ... Besides the Jewish origins and character of the rally - a 
> fact the organizers consistently played down in conversations with The 
> Jerusalem Post - the other striking aspect of the coalition is the noted 
> absence of major African-American groups like the NAACP

  OOPS!

 or the
> larger Africa lobby groups like Africa Action ... The coalition's roots go 
> back to the spring of 2004 following a genocide alert, the first ever of 
> its kind, issued by the United States Holocaust Museum. An emergency 
> meeting was coordinated by the American Jewish World Service, an 
> organization that serves as a kind of Jewish Peace Corps as well as an 
> advocacy group for a variety of humanitarian and human rights issues...
>
> "The fact that the aggressors in Darfur are Arab Muslims - though it 
> should be said that the victims are also mostly Muslim - and are supported 
> by a regime in Khartoum that is backed by the Arab League has made some 
> people question the true motives of some of the Jewish organizations 
> involved in the rally."


  That's what happens when you trust right wing editorials.  lol

Organizational Members

Executive Committee
American Jewish World Service

American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA Society)

Amnesty International USA

Citizens for Global Solutions

Darfur Peace and Development

Genocide Intervention Network

International Crisis Group

Jewish Council for Public Affairs

NAACP

National Association of Evangelicals

National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA

STAND: A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition

Union for Reform Judaism

United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum


National Groups
Affiliation of Christian Engineers

Africa Faith and Justice Network

Alliance of Baptists

American Anti-Slavery Group

AFL-CIO/Solidarity Center

American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO

American Humanist Association

American Islamic Congress

American Islamic Forum for Democracy

American Jewish Committee

Americans for Democracy in the Middle East (ADME)

Americans for Democratic Action

Anti-Defamation League

Arab American Institute

Armenian Assembly of America

Armenian Church of America

Armenian National Committee of America

B'nai B'rith International

Bread for the World

Buddhist Peace Fellowship

Central Conference of American Rabbis

Christian Solidarity International

Church Alliance for a New Sudan

Church World Service

Coalition for American Leadership Abroad (COLEAD)

Conference of Major Superiors of Men

Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations

Congress of Secular Jewish Organizations (CSJO)

Council for Secular Humanism

Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)

Cush Community Relief International

Damanga Coalition for Freedom and Democracy

Darfur Association of the USA

Darfur Community Organization

Darfur Human Rights Organization of the USA

Darfur Rehabilitation Project

Dear Sudan

The Echo Foundation

Edah

The Episcopal Church, USA

Faithful America

Foundation for the Defense of Democracies

Freedom Quest International

Foundation for Ethnic Understanding

Global Justice

Hadassah

Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society

Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life

Human Rights First

The Hunger Site

ICNA: Islamic Circle of North America

Institute for the Study of Genocide

Interfaith Council

International Justice Mission

Islamic Circle of North America

Islamic Society of North America

Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights

Jewish Healthcare International

Jewish Labor Committee

Jewish Reconstructionist Federation


Jewish World Watch


Jubilee Campaign

KESHER

Leadership Conference of Women Religious

Lutheran World Relief

MADRE

Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns

MAZON: A Jewish Response to Hunger

Metropolitan Community of Churches

Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation

Muslim Public Affairs Council

My Sister's Keeper

NA'AMAT USA

National Black Church Initiative

National Black Law Students Association

National Council of Jewish Women

National Jewish Democratic Council

National Student Campaign against Hunger and Homelessness

NETWORK: A National Catholic Social Justice Lobby

Open Doors USA

Operation Sudan

Operation USA

Passion of the Present

Pax Christi USA

Peace Action

Physicians for Human Rights

Presbyterian Church USA; Washington D.C. Office

Progressive Jewish Alliance


Project Islamic H.O.P.E

Rabbinical Assembly

Rabbis for Human Rights North America

Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association

Refugees International

Religions for Peace-USA

Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism

Res Publica

The Shalom Center

Social Action Committee of the Congress of Secular Jewish Organizations

SocialAction.com, c/o Jewish Family & Life!

Society for Humanistic Judaism

Society for Threatened Peoples

Sojourners

Stop Genocide Now

Teachers Against Prejudice

Third World Images, Inc

Tikkun

TransAfrica Forum

Ukrainian American Coordinating Council

Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America

Union for Traditional Judaism

Unitarian Universalist Association

Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC)

United Jewish Communities

United Nations Association of the USA (UNA-USA)

United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism

Vaishnava Center for Enlightenment

Ve'ahavta

Western Sudan Aid Relief in the USA

Women of Reform Judaism

Women's America ORT

Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children

Workmen's Circle/ Arbeter Ring

World Evangelical Alliance



Regional Groups

African Mutual Assistance Association of Missouri

All Saints Church in Pasadena

Board of Rabbis of Northern California

Canadian Aid for Southern Sudan

Canadian Council for Reform Judaism

Canadian Federation of Jewish Students

Canadian Jewish Congress

CASTS: Canadians Against Slavery and Torture in Sudan

Chicago Coalition to Save Darfur

Cincinnatians United to Save Darfur

Cleveland Diocesan Social Action Office & Diocese of Cleveland

Congregation Beth Or

Connecticut Coalition to Save Darfur

Dallas Peace Center

Darfur Alert (Philadelphia)

Democrats for Life of New York

District of Columbia Baptist Convention

Help Darfur Now, Inc.

IKAR

Interfaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington

Jewish Community Federation of Richmond

Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston

Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Dallas

Jewish Community Relations Council of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation

Jewish Community Relations Council of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin, 
Sonoma, Alameda and Contra Costa Counties

Jewish Federation of Central New Jersey


Jewish Federation of Greater Houston

Jewish Federation of Tulsa

Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice

Mason-Dixon Darfur Alliance

Massachusetts Coalition to Save Darfur

Medjugorje International Relief

New Vision Partners, Inc.

New York Board of Rabbis


New York Society for Ethical Culture

Pittsburgh Darfur Emergency Coalition (PDEC)

Save Darfur Coalition of South Palm Beach

Save Darfur Coalition of Western Massachusetts

STAND Canada (Students Taking Action Now: Darfur)

Sudan Human Rights Organization (SHRO) Washington, DC Chapter

Texans for Peace

Tikkun-Chicago

UJA Federation of New York

Unitarian Universalist United Nations Office (UU-UNO)

Vishwa Hindu Parishad (World Hindu Council) of America

Washington Buddhist Peace Fellowship

Washington Office of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America

Western Massachusetts Darfur Coalition

Yeshiva University