[Peace-discuss] Bend the Arc

[Robert Naiman]

Anyone can search the archives. I don't work for you, abuser. You are not
my boss.






Robert Naiman
Policy Director
Just Foreign Policy
www.justforeignpolicy.org
naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
(202) 448-2898 x1




On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 6:34 PM, C G Estabrook via Peace-discuss <
peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

> ...“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:
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Robert Naiman
> Policy Director
> Just Foreign Policy
> www.justforeignpolicy.org
> naiman at justforeignpolicy.org
> (202) 448-2898 x1
>
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