[Peace-discuss] It took a student to say it

Wed May 30 18:52:46 UTC 2018

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/05/30/the-culture-behind-school-shootings/

Thank you all for introducing me to CounterPunch. I agreed with much of Nick Pemberton's ideas here- it took a college student to say many of us too much in the  mainstream  have been reluctant to say and he does it in a more comprehensive fashion.
------ Original message------From: Karen Aram via Peace-discussDate: Wed, May 30, 2018 10:29 AMTo: peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net;Cc: Subject:Re: [Peace-discuss] Support & critique of BDS

Davids letter to the NG is brilliant. Thank you

Sent on my Virgin Mobile Phone.

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From: C G Estabrook via Peace-discuss

Date: Wed, May 30, 2018 10:25 AM
To: David Green;
Cc: Peace Discuss;
Subject:Re: [Peace-discuss] Support & critique of BDS

Nice work. It’s important that it be available. (Louis Proyect has already attacked it.)

On May 30, 2018, at 10:19 AM, David Green <davidgreen50 at gmail.com> wrote:

For the record, I submitted this transcript to both Counterpunch and Mondoweiss prior to sending it to ZNet yesterday, which put it right up.

Given the current events in Gaza, perhaps the timing of entering these comments (from earlier this year) into the discussion was problematic; nevertheless, I feel it's important that they be considered.

In addition, here is my letter to the N-G which was put up this morning:

Settler-colonialism still taking place

Just as the settler-colonialist movement in the U.S. extended at least 114 years beyond independence (Wounded Knee), the movement that has promoted 136 years of Jewish/Zionist settlement
 in Palestine continues to struggle with indigenous Arabs, 70 years after Israel’s independence.

Israel continues to deploy well-established means of settler-colonialism: expulsion (i.e., ethnic cleansing, including Bedouins within Israel proper, ongoing), occupation, confinement,
 imprisonment, deprivation and killing.

Zionism, like other settler-colonialist movements, justifies its actions in terms of historical and religious destiny, civilizational and technological (European) progress, seemingly
 contradictory persecution by incorrigible European cultures (anti-Protestantism, anti-Semitism) and cultural superiority over the indigenous (barbaric, economically undeveloped)
 population.

Familiar racist stereotypes of Palestinians, in reference to their indigeneity and ascribed (if updated) characteristics as Arabs and Muslims — backward, stubborn, resistant, irrational,
 fanatical, hateful, cunning, violent, terrorist — have developed accordingly and continue to flourish, even in the liberal Jewish-American (and local academic, Steven Salaita) context. These stereotypes were wellarticulated, with all avuncular seriousness
 and sincerity as well as predictable bombast, by Alan Dershowitz in his recent comments on campus.

For good measure, Dershowitz described Malcolm X, in unqualified terms, as a “criminal and bigot,” thus reassuring the audience

that, history aside, a statue of any slaveowner is tantamount to a school named after an uppity black radical.

This background is consistent with Gaza’s past 70 years, in relation to ethnic cleansing, refugees, occupation, dedevelopment, blockade, siege and (since 2005) regular, unprovoked
 massacres by Israeli forces. These historical precedents should be considered prologue as current events unfold. DAVID GREEN Champaign

On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 7:45 AM, C G Estabrook via Peace-discuss
<peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

A cogent statement from a prophet without honor in his own country and elsewhere:

https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/bds-one-state-two-states-tactics-goals-and-resistance/

—CGE

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