[Peace-discuss] J-Street

[Robert Naiman]

Lots of good people were at the J Street conference. There was a panel
at the conference on BDS. Here is the presentation made at the panel
by Rebecca Vilkomerson, Executive Director of Jewish Voice for Peace:
http://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/blog/remarks-at-j-streets-bds-panel


On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 11:31 AM, David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Granted that Weiss is erratic, and often says the right thing for the wrong
> reasons.
>
> Last evening I got most of the way through a 90 minute J-Street panel which
> included an arrogant talk by Dennis Ross, and follow-up comments by Daniel
> Levy and Bernard Avishai after Ross left (also Roger Cohen). Ross treated
> the crowd like it was AIPAC, and got tepid applause (but applause
> nonetheless) for reassuring them about the "unbreakable bond" or some such
> thing. Are such people (I mean the audience) a constituency for a just peace
> for the Palestinians?
>
> The whole thing strikes me as insider politics, which is why I find it
> repulsive. The Palestinians need a revolution, and there will be no
> revolution from the top down. There isn't a Palestinian whose views and work
> I respect who would be in that crowd, I don't think. It's all based on a
> denial--especially noticable with Avishai--of the revolt against
> neoliberalism. That has to happen on the streets, not in such conferences,
> in any of the countries involved.
>
> DG
>
> ________________________________
> From: Robert Naiman <naiman at justforeignpolicy.org>
> To: David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com>
> Cc: Peace Discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
> Sent: Fri, March 4, 2011 10:47:47 AM
> Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] J-Street
>
> Phil Weiss praises J Street:
>
> J Street is liberating Jews from Zionism. So far so good
> http://mondoweiss.net/2011/03/j-street-is-liberating-jews-from-zionism-so-far-so-good.html
>
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 9:30 AM, David Green <davegreen84 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
>> Phil Weiss, no leftist, turns against J-Street.
>>
>>
>> http://mondoweiss.net/2011/03/ignoring-the-arab-spring-j-st-lobbies-for-more-money-for-a-govt-thats-cracked-down-on-protesters.html
>>
>>
>> "So the best J Street could do in lobbying was to push for aid to the PA
>> for a force that will crack down on Palestinian demonstrators -- in the
>> midst of revolutions against such forces all over the Middle East?"
>>
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