[Peace-discuss] Response to "Israel Week"

[David Green]

Both I and the camel appreciate that.



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From: C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu>
To: David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com>
Cc: Peace Discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
Sent: Tue, April 12, 2011 11:05:23 PM
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] Response to "Israel Week"

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

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>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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