[Peace-discuss] Response to "Israel Week"

[C. G. Estabrook]

Yeah, but would he walk a mile for you?

On 4/13/11 8:31 AM, David Green wrote:
> 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
>>
>> 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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