[Peace-discuss] Response to "Israel Week"

[C. G. Estabrook]

We read your comment (with credit) in the calendar section of AWARE ON THE AIR 
tonight.

On 4/11/11 9:37 PM, David Green wrote:
>
> http://www.dailyillini.com/opinions/columns/2011/04/10/israel-week-brings-opportunity-to-learn-about-country-culture-and-food#comments-title
>
> But it is about politics. It's about sanitizing the image of a country that is 
> built on land that was stolen and ethnically cleansed. It's about a country 
> that occupies, oppresses, continues to steal land, and murders in order to do 
> so. It's about a country that massacres children at will. "Israel week" cannot 
> possibly be about anything but politics. The politics of apartheid, racism, 
> and worse. And it's about a secular politics with a component of religious 
> fanaticism to do its dirty work in the settlements and outposts. And its about 
> the politics of U.S. hegemony in the Middle East and our government's support 
> for Israeli oppression, and it's about the top-down politics of Jewish 
> institutions in this country that have to march in lockstep in support of 
> Israeli atrocities, including Hillel, which has decided to exclude Jewish 
> students who are critical of Israel. And, not least, it's about the sort of 
> breathtaking cultural stupidity and insensitivity that deals in camels and 
> tents, as if the native Bedouin Arabs of Palestine with their camels and tents 
> have not been forcefully and violently expelled from their land and their way 
> of life by the Zionists, ongoing. "Israel week" is about stupidity, racism, 
> ignorance, and worse (implicit justifications for violence and murder). It's 
> about the grossest form of cultural superiority and disrespect that can be 
> openly and publicly displayed on this campus. What an embarrassment, and what 
> a travesty, including for most Jewish students. And worse. And by the way, 
> this "traditional" food is Arab food, not Jewish food. It's Jewish 
> settler-colonialist food--like everything else in Israel, stolen from the 
> Palestinians.
>
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