[Peace-discuss] Bend the Arc

[C G Estabrook]

...“an abuser who has been abusive to [you] personally”? An example, Bob?


> On Jul 6, 2018, at 6:18 PM, Robert Naiman via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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> I think that if you want to send the local BtA chapter to hell because they didn't co-sponsor this one rally, or you want to send BtA to hell because they don't work on Israel-Palestine when they explicitly set themselves up as an organization that doesn't work on foreign policy so they could recruit Jews to work on domestic justice issues who would probably be bad on Israel-Palestine without having to deal with the potential consequences of that, you'd be practicing the same politics that you're denouncing. 
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> As you know, we co-sponsored the Medea talk, even though it was co-sponsored by the Prairie Green Party, which I loathe because it gives a platform to Snarl, whom I loathe because he's an abuser who has been abusive to me personally. Nonetheless we co-sponsored the talk. We didn't pursue a policy of not co-sponsoring an event co-sponsored by an organization that gives the abuser Snarl a platform. We co-sponsored the talk anyway. 
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> I expect that the local BtA chapter will do good things in the future that will involve cooperation with people who have different politics. I think that's more likely if they're not subjected to thoughtless and opportunistic attacks from the ultra-left. But in any event, there are much better targets, as I said before, organizations in this town that can be directly tied to Israeli government abuses of Palestinians. Why pick on BtA, when they have nothing to do with it? There's a whiff of anti-Semitism about it: let's pick on them because they're Jewish, even though, by their own account, they have nothing to do with Israel. 
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