[Peace-discuss] [OccupyCU] [Peace] News from Neptune for 14 March 2014

[ya'aQov]

Thank you for your letter, Ahmad. Your call to focus on something we can
collaborate on, and protest against atrocities done in our name, and with
our moneys
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​ is so timely and welcome!

I regret how concepts such as BDS, apartheid, Zionism, Jewish,
Israeli/Palestinian were used without a call for understanding what they
stood for.  Instead they were used as slogans ('shortcuts').  The fact that
coincided with David Green's talk to SJP a week earlier, and with his
campaign for Congress using those shortcuts was regrettable, though not a
mere coincidence.  Opposition to Israel is divided and conflicted, yet we
have to work with that, accurately acknowledge its parameters and dynamics,
and inform our constituents accordingly.

Chomsky and Finkelstein's clips were not out of context.  Chomsky's point
about the education needed so that divestment is successful pertains to our
mission together.  In the case of ASA such education took decades.
Shortcutting that to slogans won't promote the needed education and
understanding, it will fail.

Finkelstein's point about exaggerating 'growing numbers and success' as a
cult-dynamic
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s exactly what Rabbi Rosen did.  But these issues are now water under the
Allenbi Bridge, and our issues, as you so eloquently put it, are the
atrocities conducted in the name of that Bridge
​, and the US responsibility in that.​


​ Could SJP organize a debate/panel on BDS where presenters (based on
research) will address the movement's goals, tactics, moving forward? ​


​I appreciate David Gehrig's notes as a helpful tip for organizers, so
participants do not abuse time​
​ and focus of the meeting.​
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Looking forward to your welcome leadership ​
​on this,
Ya'aqov Ziso​


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