- 1850 - Wikipedia
Edward
Swaine writes Objections to the Doctrines of Israel's
Future Restoration to Palestine, national pre-eminence, etc.
- 1874
Wikipedia The American Israelite is a Jewish weekly
newspaper published in Cincinnati,
Ohio. Founded in 1854 as The Israelite and assuming its
present name in 1874, it is the longest-running
English-language Jewish newspaper still published in the
United States.
The paper's founder, Rabbi Isaac
Mayer Wise, and publisher, Edward Bloch and his Bloch
Publishing Company, were both very influential figures
in American Jewish life. During the 19th century, The
American Israelite became the leading organ for Reform
Judaism in America. During the early 20th century, it
helped geographically dispersed American Jews, especially in
the West and the South of the country, keep in touch with
Jewish affairs and their religious identity.
- 1897 - Wikipedia
General
Jewish Labour Bund is founded in the Russian
empire was a secular Jewish socialist party
in theRussian
Empire, active between 1897 and 1920.
Remnants of the party remain active in the diaspora as
well as in Israel.
A member of the Bund is called a Bundist (Bundistn in the
plural)
- 1897
Mievr
Hovevei Zion "Lovers of Zion" - the international social
movement aims to return the Jews to Palestine (Eretz Yisrael)
to create there agricultural settlements. This movement
gained the widest popularity in Russia and Romania, where
Jews were discriminated. In the Russian Empire the
ideologues of Hovevei Zion were Peretz Smolenskin, Abram Ber
Gottlober, Moshe-Leib Lilienblum, Ahad Ha'am, and others. In
1890, the members of various clubs of Hovevei Zion in Odessa
created the "the Aid Community for Jewish farmers and
craftsmen in Syria and Palestine" (so-called "Odessa
Committee"), which became Russia's only legal organization
of Palestinophils. Moshe Montefiore and Baron Edmond de
Rothschild supported the activity of Hovevei Tzion. Thanks
to their help, the Russian palestinophils founded the
settlements Rehovot and Hadera in Palestine.
- 1902 - Wikipedia
The
American Israelite calls Zionism a "pernicious
agitation", and is used by a number of editorial
contributors such as Rabbi David
Philipson, Rabbi Moses
Mielziner and Jewish history scholar Gotthard
Deutsch to oppose Zionism, arguing that Judaism was a
religion exclusively, and thus stateless
- 1903 - Wikipedia
British
Uganda Programme offered to the World
Zionist Organization
- 1905 - Wikipedia
Jewish
Territorialist Organization splits off from the World
Zionist Organization, in order to obtain "a large tract
of territory (preferably within the British Empire) wherein
to found a Jewish Home of Refuge" outside of Palestine
- 1905 - Wikipedia
Folksgrupe founded
in the Russian
empire
- 1908-09 -
Wikipedia Palestinian anti-zionism begins
to take shape
- 1915 -
Wikipedia Philosopher Hermann
Cohen publishes Deutschtum
und Judentum, an Anti-Zionist work which encouraged
German Jews to assimilate
- 1917 - Wikipedia
Edwin
Samuel Montagu submits his Memorandum on the
Anti-Semitism of the British Government in response to
ongoing discussions around theBalfour
Declaration, in which he states "Zionism has always
seemed to me to be a mischievous political creed, untenable
by any patriotic citizen of the United Kingdom" and outlines
his four principles of anti-zionism
- 1917 - Wikipedia
David
Lindo Alexander, president of the Board
of Deputies of British Jews and Claude
Montefiore, president of the Anglo-Jewish
Associationobjecting to published statements of the
Zionist leaders that "Jewish settlements in Palestine shall
be recognized as possessing a national character " and the
intention "to invest the Jewish settlers in Palestine with
certain special rights in excess of those enjoyed by the
rest of the population"
-
[edit]After
the Balfour Declaration
- 1919 -
Wikipedia Congressman Julius
Kahn presents an anti-zionist petition to Woodrow
Wilson ahead of the Paris Peace Conference, including
the statement "…we protest against the political segregation
of the Jews and the re-establishment in Palestine of a
distinctively Jewish State as utterly opposed to the
principles of democracy which it is the avowed purpose of
the World’s Peace Conference to establish. Whether the Jews
be regarded as a “race” or as a “religion,” it is contrary
to the democratic principles for which the world war was
waged to found a nation on either or both of these bases."
The petition included signatures from over 300 prominent
American Jews, including Henry
Morgenthau, Sr. and Simon
W. Rosendale[4]
- 1919 - The US-Government sponsored King–Crane
Commission advocated the creation of a Greater
Syria, to include Palestine, stating "nor can the
erection of such a Jewish State be accomplished without the
gravest trespass upon the civil and religious rights of
existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine"
- 1919 - Reichsbund
jüdischer Frontsoldaten founded in Germany
- 1922 June PalestineRemembered British
colonial secretary Winston Churchill issues White Paper
excluding Transjordan from scope of Balfour
Declaration. Ignoring political criteria, White Paper
authorizes Jewish immigration according to "economic
absorptive capacity" of the country. 24 July League of
Nations Council approves Mandate for Palestine. August
Fifth Palestinian National Congress, meeting in Nablus,
agrees to economic boycott of Zionists (see 1901 entry on
JNF). October First British census of Palestine shows
population of 757,182 -78% Muslim Arab, 11% Jewish, 9.6%
Christian Arab. It is often claimed that Palestine was empty
until Zionist Jews made the Palestinian desert bloom, click
here to read our response to this argument.
- 1924 - Wikipedia
Jacob
Israël de Haan assassinated by Haganah for
his anti-Zionist political activities
- 1933: IAmTheWitness On
January 30, Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany. He
drives Jews, many of which were Communist out of
Governmental positions within Germany. As a result of this,
in July, the Jews hold a World Conference in Amsterdam
during which they demand that Hitler re-instate every Jew
back to his former position. ... Hitler refuses and as
a result of this, Samuel Untermyer, the Ashkenazi Jew who
blackmailed President Wilson, and is now the head of the
American delegation and the president of the whole
conference, returns to the United States, and makes a speech
on radio which was transcribed in the From the New York
Times, Monday, August 7, 1933. In the speech he made the
following statements, "...the Jews are the aristocrats of
the world...Our campaign is...the economic boycott against
all German goods, shipping and services...What we are
proposing...is to prosecute a purely defensive economic
boycott that will undermine the Hitler regime and bring the
German people to their senses by destroying their export
trade on which their very existence depends... ...Each of
you, Jew and Gentile alike...must refuse to deal with any
merchant or shopkeeper who sells any German-made goods or
who patronizes German ships or shipping." ... As two
thirds of Germany's food supply had to be imported, and
could only be imported with the proceeds of what they
exported, if Germany could not export, two thirds of
Germany's population would starve, as there would be not
enough food for more than one third of the population. As a
result of this boycott, Jews throughout America, would
protest outside and damage any stores in which they found
any products with, "Made in Germany," printed on them,
causing stores to have to dump these products or risk
bankruptcy. ... Once the effects of this boycott began
to be felt in Germany, the Germans, who had demonstrated no
violence towards the Jews up to this point, simply began
boycotting Jewish stores in the same way the Jews had done
to stores selling German products in America. ...
Rothschild financed IBM, supply machines to the Nazis which
produce punch cards to help organize and manage the initial
identification and social expulsion of Jews, the
confiscation of their property and their extermination.
... On November 16, President Roosevelt recognizes the
Zionist regime of Stalin in Russia without consultation with
Congress even as 8,000 Ukrainians march in protest in New
York. ... Also this year, President Roosevelt, born of
a Jewish mother, therefore satisfying Ashkenazi rules of
being Jewish, orders the all-seeing eye to be placed upon
all new dollar bills along with the motto, "Novus Ordo
Seclorum." This is latin for, "A New Order of the Ages."
- 1935 - Wikipedia
Louis
Fles writes Godsdienst, openbare school en Zionisme
Levie Jacob "Louis" Fles (1872–1940) was a Dutch businessman,
activist and author. He was a member of the organizing
committee of the 1928
Summer Olympics. Louis Fles is best known for writing
and broadcasting against Zionism and
organized religion. Fles was a strong supporter of Jewish assimilation
and had a complex relationship with the Dutch
Social Democratic Workers' Party. He was a strong
criticizer of Nazism,
for example in his work from 1933 Hitler,
hervormer of misdadiger? (Dutch: Hitler, reformer or
criminal?) and committed suicide at the conquest of the
Netherlands by Nazi
Germany. and ....
BWSA Polak was a
symbol of the ambivalent attitude of the SDAP towards both
religion and Zionism. Why suddenly declared Polak religion
and socialism compatible? Why did Polak, who in 1933 had
strongly opposed the decision of Abel Herzberg as the Jews
would have no country, part of the Palestine Construction
Fund, and suffered his socialist-Zionists as Sam
de Wolff in his party? Polak felt indeed
addressed. In The Peoplewrote not a Zionist to be. Bottle
was orthodox Jewish upbringing and it was the straitjacket
of the Jewish religion, which he as a young man in revolt
had come. Although he later freethinker against any religion
resisted, he founded his poisonous arrows on Judaism. He
left no sacred cow standing: Shabbat celebration, dietary
laws, circumcision and chuppah (wedding). All these customs
were based on dubious statements in the outdated and the
Jewish clergy abused Jewish laws and led to a questionable
Jewish isolation. Levi was Louis Bottle Bottle become: a
principal proponent of assimilation. The "mixed" marriage,
he saw as a sovereign remedy against a detested parochialism
and anti-Semitism. A similar reasoning followed Bottle in
his campaign against Zionism. Already in 1914 he had in the Algemeen
Handelsblad Zionism alleged that the commitment to all Jews
in the country together, was artificial. This was because
people who primarily Hollander, German or Englishman
had. Judaism was a religion, and as such reprehensible, and
nationalism was that much. In his later anti-Zionist
brochures Bottle pointed out that the historic right at odds
with the self-determination, a sore point for social
democrats and socialist-Zionists. The core of his argument
was his argument that the Zionists, like the Jewish
orthodoxy, greatly contributed to the image of the jew as
'stranger', with all the dangers. However, the bottle was
prisoner of his own limited analysis of Judaism as a
religion and anti-Semitism as a form of religious
- 1936 - Wikipedia
Victor
Alter of the General
Jewish Labour Bund in Poland labels Ze'ev
Jabotinsky antisemitic, writing "No, it is not we who
are creating a sense of alienation between the Jewish masses
and Poland; this is being attempted by those who have
supported Jewish reaction wherever and whenever it occurs,
who wish to turn the Jewish masses into a collective of
fanatics who are alien to the ideology and struggles of
Polish workers"
 - 1938 - Wikipedia
Mahatma
Gandhi writes "The Jews In Palestine", in which he
states: "Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense
that England belongs to the English or France to the French.
It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs....
The Palestine of the Biblical conception is not a
geographical tract. It is in their hearts....Let the Jews
who claim to be the chosen race prove their title by
choosing the way of non-violence for vindicating their
position on earth. Every country is their home, including
Palestine, not by aggression but by loving service"
After the Biltmore Program
- 1942 - Wikipedia
American
Council for Judaism founded ....
The ACJ was founded in June 1942 by a group of Reform rabbis who
opposed the direction of their movement, including, but not
limited to, the issue ofZionism as
redefined by the Biltmore
Program in May 1942. After the Reform movement declared
itself officially neutral on Zionism in 1937, the split was
prompted by the passage of a resolution endorsing the
raising of a "Jewish army" in Palestine to
fight alongside the Allies
of World War II. The leading rabbis included Louis
Wolsey, Morris
Lazaron, Abraham
Cronbach, David
Philipson, and Henry
Cohen but their most vocal representative soon became Elmer
Berger, who became the Council's Executive Director. The
presidency of the ACJ was accepted by the well-known
philanthropist Lessing
J. Rosenwald, who took the lead in urging the creation
of a unitary democratic state in the British
Mandate of Palestine in American policy making circles.
Though up against overwhelming support for the creation of a
Jewish state in Congress,
the Council had many friends who supported its position in
the State
Department such as Sumner
Welles and Dean
Acheson. In the final year before the
founding of the State of Israel in 1948, the Council
became very close to Judah
Magnes, the leading Israeli advocate for a binational
state, who had returned to America for fear of his life in
Palestine.
- 1943 - Orthodox Hungarian rabbi, Yissachar
Shlomo Teichtal, originally opposed to Secular Zionism,
publishes Eim HaBanim Semeicha in Budapest under Nazi
persecution which strongly advocates, on a religious basis,
the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine. He
concluded that "Anti-Zionism was the root of evil befalling
the Jewish people."Rabbi Yisachar Shlomo Teichtal (1885-1945)
was one of the few European rabbis to break ranks with Ashkenazi Orthodox
Judaism to support an active effort to settle the land
of Israel.
He was murdered on a transport train during the closing days
ofWorld
War II. His original view had been that of the majority
in the Orthodox Jewish world at the time, which discouraged
an active movement for a return of Jews to Israel. The
prevalent view at that time was that God would bring about a
return without the need of human mechanizations. The
Holocaust caused him to re-think this approach, and he
therefore came to the conclusion that the reason that the
Jewish people had not been redeemed, was because they had
not returned to their homeland, the land of Israel, to
resettle and rebuild it to its former glory.
- 1944 -
Wikipedia Philosopher Hannah
Arendt publishes Zionism
Reconsidered, writing "Only folly could dictate a policy
which trusts a distant imperial power for protection, while
alienating the goodwill of neighbours... If the Jewish
commonwealth is obtained in the near future… it will be due
to the political assistance of American Jews... But if the
Jewish commonwealth is proclaimed against the will of the
Arabs and without the support of the Mediterranean peoples,
not only financial help but political support will be
necessary for a long time to come. And that may turn out to
be very troublesome indeed for Jews in this country, who
after all have no power to direct the political destinies of
the Near East." ... Arendt's first major
book was The
Origins of Totalitarianism (1951), which traced the
roots of Stalinist Communism and Nazism in
both anti-Semitism andimperialism.
The book was opposed by the Left on the grounds that it
presented the two movements as equally tyrannical. She
further contends that Jewry was not the operative factor in
the Holocaust but merely a convenient proxy. Totalitarianism
in Germany was in the end about megalomania and consistency,
not eradicating Jews.
- 1945 - Wikipedia
Elmer
Berger publishes The Jewish Dilemma, which argued that
Zionism was a surrender to the racial myths about the Jews
and that assimilationism was still the best path for the
Jews in the modern world ... was a Jewish Reform rabbi widely
known for his anti-Zionism.
He was the executive director of the American
Council for Judaism from its founding in 1942 until
1955. After this time, he served as a consultant until he
was forced to resign in 1968, at which time he
founded American Jewish Alternatives to Zionism.
... From the beginning, Elmer Berger was squarely in
the camp of those Reform rabbis who opposed the Columbus
Platform[4] of
1937 which moderated the movement's original anti-Zionism
and rejection of traditional ritual. It was Berger's mentor,
Louis Wolsey, who would in June 1942 issue a call to convene
theAmerican
Council for Judaism, and who hired Berger as its first
executive director. In the organization's struggle against
the Zionist program adopted at the
Biltmore Conference in May 1942, Berger increasingly
became the movement's public face, particularly with the
publication of his book The Jewish Dilemmain 1945, which
argued that Zionism was
a surrender to the racial myths about the Jews and that assimilationism was
still the best path for the Jews in the modern world.
- 1946 -
Wikipedia The Jewish
Anti-Zionist League founded in Egypt
... was a political organisation in Egypt.
The organization had branches in Alexandria and Cairo.
The League conducted militant agitations in the Jewish
neighbourhoods of Cairo. The League was formed in the summer
of 1946 by Jewish members
of the underground communist Iskra movement. The
founding Secretary of the Jewish Anti-Zionist League was
Ezra Harari. Other members of the founding committee of the
League were Marcel Israel, Edward Mataloun, Hanzin Kasfelt
and Edward Levy. Immediately after the founding of the
organization, the members of the founding committee were
arrested.
After
the founding of the State of Israel
- 1947
JewishRefugees This blog has
already drawn attention to the little-known fact that
Jews own substantial property in what is now Syria. Now more
evidence comes from Guy Bechor in this GPlanet article inHebrew: (via Elder
of Ziyon) Bechor writes that some 100,000 hectares were Jewish-owned in
the Houran region, (as Michael Fischbach explains in his
book Jewish property claims against Arab countries)
landholdings almost equivalent to the total area of the
Golan Heights, annexed to Israel since 1967. In the late
19th century a member of Hovevei Zion, Adam Rosenberg, a US
lawyer, encouraged the purchase of cheap land in the Houran.
Another leading purchaser was Baron Edmond de Rothschild. In
spite of an Ottoman ban on immigrants and initial refusal to
register the purchases, Jewish settlements were established
on the land. But the settlements were attacked and in 1896
all settlers were expelled. The Golan and Houran became part
of the French mandate of Syria 'for reasons unclear',
according to Bechor. Between 1944 and 1948 Syria confiscated
the land - registered in the name of PICA, the Palestine
Jewish Colonisation Association - without compensation.
Title to the land was transferred in the 1950s from PICA to
the Jewish National Fund.
- 1951-2
Voltairenet In
1951-52
the Cuban dictatorship has organized an airlift for Jewish
immigrants in Israel ...
 The
Cuban newspaper Juventud Rebelde showed that, in the years
1951-1952, an airlift was organized by Cuban society
Intercontinental Aérea de Cuba SA businessman Narciso V. Roselló
Otero to transport 150,000 Jewish immigrants to Israel
(115,000 from Iraq and 25,000 in Iran). These revelations
can reconstruct an operation far partially known. To
colonize Palestine, the Zionist movement meant not only move
the European survivors of Nazi persecution, but also the
Jewish populations in the Middle East. force for Iraqi Jews
to emigrate, the Zionist movement is in three parts: An
agreement was reached with Iraqi Prime Minister pro-British
Nuri al-Said for Iraqi Jews to Israel take a ticket of no
return. Parliament adopted the law of denaturalization,
March 9, 1950: Iraqi Jews who left the country were writing
waive their nationality and could not return. March 19,
1950 January 30, 1951, a campaign of bombings struck meeting
places of the Jewish community. They were falsely attributed
to the Golden Square officers (who had supported Germany
against the British during the Second World War). They were
actually organized by the Israeli services under the
direction of Mordechai Ben Porat (as was established in 1956
by the magazine Israeli Uri Avnery,Haolam Hazeh ). Immediately,
an airlift from Cuba by the dictatorship of General
Fulgencio Batista allowed the evacuation of 115,000 Jews,
distraught by the turn of events. The planes left Baghdad
and were calling in Nicosia (Cyprus). However, at the end of
the operation of airplanes with a capacity greater relièrent
directly Iraq to Israel to accelerate the transfer.
Mordechai Ben Porat terrorist, a friend of David Ben-Gurion,
was four times and once deputy minister without
portfolio. In 2001, he received the Israel Prize for all his
actions and for pushing the Iraqi Jews to emigrate in
particular. Narciso V. Roselló Otero emigrated from Cuba to
the United States after the attack on his residence by
revolutionary Fidel Castro. They seized the weapons they
used to take Havana and overthrow General Batista.
- 1961 -
Wikipedia Rabbi Joel
Teitelbaum, leader of the Satmar
Hasidim, publishes Vayoel
Moshe, a robust castigation of Zionsim, in which he
blames the Holocaust on the "idolatry of Zionsim".
... is a Hebrew book written by Rabbi Joel
Teitelbaum, leader of the SatmarHasidic movement,
in 1961. It made his case that Judaism is against Zionism.
The name of the book is a statement in the bible that also
notates his name and his grandfather's name—Joel andMoshe respectively.
However, he had other reasons for this naming as well. The
source for the title is Exodus 2:21, "And Moses agreed to
stay...an alien in a foreign land." This book is considered
one of utmost importance by many Haredim, especially Satmar
Hasidim and other members of the Edah
HaChareidis in the Land of Israel as well as the Central
Rabbinical Congress in North America. Satmar Hasidism
has many institutions, buildings and neighborhoods named
after it. It is primarily a book of Halacha,
Jewish law. However, it draws on Rabbinic Jewish philosophy
as well. Although it did not originate with him, before World
War II most Hasidic rabbis, as well as some other
prominent Orthodox rabbis
opposed Zionism. While others had written about the issue in
other publications - Torah commentaries and books of Halacha
- Rabbi Teitelbaum was the first to write a book
specifically about this subject.
- 1962 - Wikipedia
Matzpen organisation
founded in Israel ... 'Compass') is
the name of a revolutionary socialist and anti-Zionist organisation,
founded in Israel in
1962 which was active until the 1980s. Its official name was
the Israeli Socialist Organisation, but it became better
known as Matzpen after its monthly publication.
... The organisation was founded by former
members of the Israeli
Communist Party - Maki who opposed that party's
unquestioned support for the international policies of the Soviet
Union. They offered a more radical analysis of and
opposition to Zionism.
An early analysis of the Arab-Israeli
conflict, written before they left the Communist Party,
by Moshe
Machover and Akiva
Orr (using a pseudonym, A. Israeli), appeared in Hebrew
in 1961 under the title of Shalom, Shalom ve'ein
Shalom (שלום, שלום, ואין שלום; Peace, peace and there is no
peace - an English translation was completed in 2009, and
the authors are looking for a publisher). Matzpen drew
together Jewish and Arab activists with various backgrounds
in left-wing organisations and affiliations. Prominent among
them was Jabra
Nicola, a Palestinian-Israeli intellectual
and activist who helped shape the theoretical orientation of
the nascent organisation. It published a magazine of the
same name in Hebrew and Arabic. The organisation grew in the
period after the 1967 Six-Day
War and Israel's
occupation of Palestinian and Arab territories.
... In a statement titled “Down with the
Occupation”, from 1 January 1969, Matzpen distinguished
itself – together with the Communist Party (Rakah) – as the
only forces conducting “a consistent struggle against the
continued occupation of the territories conquered in June
’67”.[4] Faced
with a situation in which "Israel controls the whole of the
Palestine Mandate territory as well as vast tracts of
Egyptian territory and a region in the south of Syria",
Matzpen asserted in "General Declaration by the ISO" in
March 1968, that "It is both the right and duty of every
conquered and subjugated people to resist and to struggle
for its freedom. ... In this context, Matzpen's
aim was to create a broad front of people opposed to the
occupation and in favour of a de-Zionized Israel, which
would form part of a socialist federation of the entire
Middle East. In contrast to the Communist Party and the
Zionist Left, Matzpen insisted that the 1967 occupation was
but one stage in the long history of Zionist settlement, and
reversing it would be a necessary but not sufficient
condition for overall solution to the problems of the Middle
East. For such a solution, political mobilization of Arabs,
Jews, and other national minorities in the region would be
needed. The political framework for this moblization became
known as the Arab Revolution, which combined national and
socialist tasks in the process of struggle against Zionism,
imperialism and Arab reaction. To advance these aims,
Matzpen established links with New
Left organisations in Europe and other parts of the
world, and also with progressive Palestinian organisations,
such as the Democratic
Front for the Liberation of Palestine
... The Zionist state was born in the violent
expropriation and expulsion from their country of the
Palestinian Arabs, and that process continues today. In open
alliance with Western, especially United States,
imperialism, and in scarcely hidden collusion with the most
reactionary forces in the Arab world, the Zionist state
actively sets itself against every step, no matter how
faltering, taken by the Arab masses to alleviate the
centuries’ old misery imposed on them by colonialism and
imperialism. Within the territories occupied since 1967, the
Zionist state employs a system of direct military repression
to expel Palestinian Arabs from their lands and secure
Jewish colonization of them, and to crush every expression
of Palestinian resistance. Within its own borders, the
Zionist state engages in systematic national oppression of
its minority of Arab citizens. The dark-skinned majority of
the privileged Jewish community itself increasingly feels
the sting of racist discrimination, as economic inequality
increases and social conditions deteriorate. Far from
offering a haven to the persecuted Jews of the world, the
Zionist state is leading new immigrants and old settlers
alike toward a new holocaust by mobilizing them in a
colonial enterprise and a counterrevolutionary army against
the struggle of the Arab masses for national liberation and
social emancipation – a struggle that is not only just but
will eventually be victorious. This state of affairs is,
moreover, in no sense accidental. It was the inevitable
outcome of the success of the Zionist project to establish a
Jewish state in Palestine. And to change this reality
requires not merely a change of government or a modification
of one or another specific policy, but a revolutionary
transformation of the very foundations of Israeli society."
... Despite the absence of organizational
activity, some of the original Matzpen members continue to
write and be active politically. Haim Hanegbi and Michel
Warschawski played a key role in writing the 2004 Olga
Document, which is a statement of the anti-Zionist position
and a radical critique of Israeli policies and practices,
and Warschawski published his political memoir in
English, On the Border (South End Press, 2004; original
French in 2002).
- 1967 - Wikipedia
Maxime
Rodinson publishes "Israel, fait colonial" in Jean-Paul
Sartre's journal, Les Temps Modernes
After the Six Day War ... Maxime
Rodinson (French: 26 January 1915, Marseille –
23 May 2004, Paris)
was a French Marxist historian, sociologist and orientalist.
He was the son of a Russian-Polish clothing
trader and his wife who both died in the Auschwitz
concentration camp. After studying oriental languages,
he became a professor of Ethiopian (Amharic)
at EPHE (École
Pratique des Hautes Études, France).
He was the author of a rich body of work, including the book
Muhammad,
a biography of the prophet of Islam.
Rodinson joined the French
Communist Party in 1937 for "moral reasons", but later
turned away after the party's Stalinist drift. He was
expelled from the party in 1958. He became well known in
France when he expressed sharp criticism
of Israel, particularly opposing the settlement
policies of the Jewish state. Some credit him with
coining the term "Islamic fascism" (le fascisme islamique)
in 1979, which he used to describe the Iranian
revolution. ... A few
months before publishing his famous article, Rodinson took
part in a meeting organised in the "Mutualité" in Paris for
the Palestinian struggle.
Published in June 1967 under the title "Israel, fait
colonial" (Israel, a colonial fact) in Jean-Paul
Sartre's journal, Les Temps Modernes, Rodinson's article
made him known as an advocate of the Palestinian cause. He
created the Groupe de Recherches et d'Actions pour la
Palestine with his colleague Jacques Berque. At that time,
he observed that the Palestinian struggle was mainly the
cause of anti-semitic right and Maoist fringe of the left.
He called on the Palestinians to take their case to liberal
Europeans, warning them of the danger of a religious nature
of the conflict which would tarnish the reputation of a just
cause: "in the ardor of the ideological struggle against
Zionism, those Arabs most influenced by a Muslim religious
orientation would seize upon the old religious and popular
prejudices against the Jews in general"
- 1968 - Wikipedia
Elmer
Berger founds the American
Jewish Alternatives to Zionism (AJAZ)
- 1970
Gilad Atzmon ... I grew up in Israel in the 1970’s
people of my generation are nowadays the leaders of the
Israeli army, politics, economy, academia and the arts. We
were trained to believe that ‘a good Arab is a dead one’. A
few weeks before I joined the IDF in the early 1980’s,
General Rafael Eitan, the Chief of Staff at the time
announced that the “Arabs were stoned cockroaches in a
bottle”. He got away with it, he also got away with the
murder of many thousands of Lebanese civilians in the 1st
Lebanon war. In a word, Israelis manage to get away with
murder. ... Seemingly, in Israeli
politics, Arab blood is translated into votes. It would
obviously be very reasonable to charge Livni, Barak and the
current IDF Chief of Staff Ashkenazi with first-degree
murder, crimes against humanity and the obvious breach of
the Geneva Convention. But it would be far more intelligible
to take into account that Israel is a ‘democracy’. Livni,
Barak and Ashkenazi are giving the Israeli people that which
they want: it is called Arab blood and it must come in vast
quantity. This repetitive murderous practice, conducted by
Israeli politicians reflects on the Israeli people as a
whole rather than just a few politicians and generals. We
are dealing here with a barbarian society that is
politically driven by bloodthirstiness and lethal
inclinations. There should be no mistake, there is no room
for these people amongst nations.
- 1970 - Wikipedia
Ma'avak party
founded ... Ma'avak (Hebrew: מאבק, Struggle)
was a Maoist-influenced
political organisation in Israel in
the early 1970s. Officially known as the Revolutionary
Communist Alliance (Hebrew: הברית הקומוניסטית המהפכנית, HaBrit
HaKomunistit HaMahapakhnit), the group became better known
by the name of its journal, Ma'avak. It split from Matzpen in
the autumn of 1970. Citing organisational, strategic and
programmatic disagreements, Ma'avak stressed the colonial
nature of the Israeli state. In its founding statement,
Ma'avak stated "Our principles are based on Marxism-Leninism and proletarian
internationalism". They stressed the October
revolution as "the starting point of the worldwide
socialist revolution", and the Chinese revolution as its
direct continuation, and identified with "the people of
Vietnam, Korea and Palestine, and all those people whose
heroic struggle against imperialism will not only lead them
to a revolutionary path and participation in the
international class war, but is also a direct source of
experience and lessons for revolutionaries everywhere".
Members of the group included Udi
Adiv, Ilan
Halevi and Rami Livneh. Matzpen criticized
the Zionist project in Israel as a colonizing project,
although they were careful to distinguish it from the
European colonialism of the 19th and 20th century, arguing
that the Zionists had come to Palestine to expropriate the
indigenous population rather than to exploit them
economically.
- 1972 - Wikipedia
Aki
Orr publishes The Other Israel: the Radical Case against
Zionism ... Akiva or "Aki" Orr (born
1931) is an Israeli writer
and political activist. He is an outspoken critic of Zionism and
supports a one-state
solution to the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict. Since 1968 Orr has been a leading advocate of
radical direct
democracy.
- 1973 -
Wikipedia Trial of Revolutionary
Communist alliance - Red Front members including Daud
Turki, Udi
Adiv and Dan
Vered
- 1975 - Wikipedia
United
Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379 passed, which
"determine[d] that Zionism is a form of racism and racial
discrimination" ... On May 14, 1948,
on the day in which the British Mandate over a Palestine
expired, the Jewish
People's Council gathered at the Tel Aviv Museum, and
approved a proclamation which declared the
establishment of a Jewish
state in Eretz
Israel, to be known as the State
of Israel.[2]
The 1948
Palestinian exodus, known in Arabic as the Nakba (Arabic: النكبة, an-Nakbah,
lit. "disaster", "catastrophe", or "cataclysm"), occurred
whenapproximately
711,000 to 725,000 Palestinian
Arabs left,
fled or were expelled from their homes, during the 1948
Arab-Israeli War and the Civil
War that preceded it. The
exact number of refugees is a matter of dispute. The causes
remain the subject of fundamental disagreement between Arabs
and Israelis. The Jewish
exodus from Arab and Muslim countries, denoted by some
as the Jewish
Nakba, occurred when 800,000
to 1,000,000 of Mizrahi
Jews and
Sephardic Jews had left,
fled, or were expelled from their homes in Arab countries, such
that 260,000 reached Israel between 1948–1951, and 600,000
by 1972.
- 1979 - Wikipedia
Edward
Said publishes The Question of Palestine
... was a Palestinian–American literary
theoretician, University
Professor of English and Comparative Literature at
Columbia University, and a public intellectual who was a
founding figure of the critical-theory
field of post-colonialism. He
was born a Palestinian
Arab in the Jerusalem city of Mandatory
Palestine (1920–48), and was American through his
U.S.-citizen father, Wadir Saïd. As
such, Edward Saïd was an advocate for the political and the
human rights of the Palestinian people, whom the
commentator Robert
Fisk described as their most powerful voice. ...
He proposed and contended that Orientalist scholarship was,
and remains, inextricably tied to the imperialist societies
that produced it, which makes much of the work inherently
political, servile to power, and therefore intellectually
suspect. Orientalism is based upon Saïd’s intimate knowledge
of colonial literature,
such as the fiction of Joseph
Conrad, and the post-structuralist
theories of Michel
Foucault and Jacques
Derrida, Giambattista
Vico, Antonio
Gramsci, and Theodor
Adorno; and the literary theories of R.
P. Blackmur and Raymond
Williams, and other philosophers. Hence, Orientalism,
and his other thematically related works, proved
analytically influential in the fields of the humanities,
especially in literary
theory and in literary
criticism. Moreover, Orientalism proved
especially influential upon the field of Middle
Eastern studies, wherein it transformed the academic discourse of
the field’s practitioners, ...
Drawing from his family experiences, as Palestinian
Christians in the Middle East, at the time of the
establishment of Israel (1948),
Saïd argued for the establishment of aPalestinian
state, for equal political and human
rights for the Palestinians in Israel — including the right
of return— and for increased U.S. political pressure
upon Israel to recognize, grant, and respect said rights; in
that vein, the public intellectual Edward Saïd also
criticized the political and cultural politics of the Arab
and Muslim régimes who acted against the interests of their
peoples
- 1980 - Wikipedia
Naeim
Giladi writes Ben Gurion's Scandals: How the Haganah and
the Mossad Eliminated Jews ... Iraq,
as Naeim Khalaschi, died 2010) was an
anti-Zionist Iraqi
jew, president of the World
Organization of Jews From Islamic Countries and author
of an autobiographical article and historical analysis
titled "The Jews of Iraq". The article later formed the
basis for his originally self-published book Ben-Gurion's
Scandals: How the Haganah and the Mossad Eliminated Jews.
... After serving in the Israeli Army between
1967–1970, Giladi was active in the Israeli
Black Panthers movement. ... In the
1980s, he left Israel for New
York, renouncing his Israeli citizenship. In the U.S.,
he wrote about an autobiographical account and historical
analysis of Zionist misdeeds in Iraq, Palestine, and later
Israel in an article titled "The Jews of Iraq" The article
later formed the basis for his originally self-publishedbook Ben-Gurion's
Scandal: How the Haganah and the Mossad Eliminated Jews. ...
Giladi has strong views on Zionism and its negative effects
and his article begins with the following passage: "I write
this article for the same reason I wrote my book: to tell
the American people, and especially American
Jews, that Jews from Islamic lands
did not emigrate willingly
to Israel; that, to force them to leave, Jews killed Jews;
and that, to buy time to confiscate ever more Arab lands,
Jews on numerous occasions rejected genuine peace
initiatives from their Arab neighbors. I write about what
the first prime minister of Israel called 'cruel Zionism'. I
write about it because I was part of it." ...
Giladi's position that the 1950–1951
Baghdad bombings were "perpetrated by Zionist agents in
order to cause fear amongst the Jews, and so promote their
exodus to Israel" is shared by a number of anti-Zionist
authors, including the Israeli
Black Panthers (1975), David
Hirst (1977), Wilbur
Crane Eveland (1980),Uri
Avnery (1988), Ella
Shohat (1986), Abbas Shiblak (1986), Marion Wolfsohn
(1980), and Rafael Shapiro (1984). In his article, Giladi
notes that this was also the conclusion of Wilbur Crane
Eveland, a former senior officer in the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA) who outlined that allegation
in his book "Ropes of Sand". ... Ben-Gurion's
Scandals, How the Hagannah and Mossad Eliminated Jews.
 banned
in Israel and the United States.
- 1983 - Wikipedia
Noam
Chomsky writes The
Fateful Triangle
- 1983 -
Wikipedia The USSR founds the Anti-Zionist
Committee of the Soviet Public, headed by David
Dragunsky "...By its nature, Zionism concentrates
ultra-nationalism, chauvinism and racial intolerance, excuse
for territorial occupation and annexation, military
opportunism, cult of political promiscuousness and
irresponsibility, demagogy and ideological diversion, dirty
tactics and perfidy... Absurd are attempts of Zionist
ideologists to present criticizing them, or condemning the
aggressive politics of the Israel's ruling circles, as
antisemitic... We call on all Soviet citizens: workers,
peasants, representatives of intelligentsia: take active
part in exposing Zionism, strongly rebuke its
endeavors; social scientists: activate scientific research
to criticize reactionary core of that ideology and
aggressive character of its political practice; writers,
artists, journalists: fuller expose anti-populace and
anti-humane diversionary character of propaganda and
politics of Zionism..." (highlights preserved)
...
David Abramovich Dragunsky, Colonel-General, twice the Hero
of the Soviet Union, the World
War II hero (he was the commander of the 55th Guards
Tank Brigade), well known inside the country and abroad, was
designated its chairman. The writers who specialized in the
Soviet-invented and sponsored doctrine of Zionology ("сионология")
considered any expressions of Jewishness as Zionist and
therefore subject to being stamped out.
- 1984 - Wikipedia
Uri
Davis joins Fatah
Uriel "Uri" Davis (Hebrew: אוריאל
"אורי" דייוויס Arabic: أوري
ديفيس, born 1943 in Jerusalem)
is an academic and a civil rights activist in Israel, Occupied
Palestinian Territories and the Middle
East. Davis has served as Vice-Chairman of the Israeli
League for Human and Civil Rights and as lecturer in Peace
Studies at the University
of Bradford. Davis describes himself as "a Palestinian Hebrew national
of Jewish origin, anti-Zionist,
registered as Muslim and
a citizen of an apartheid
state - the State of Israel." A member of Fatah since
1984, he was elected to the Revolutionary Council for the Palestinian party
in 2009 ... Davis wrote a series of books
and articles that classify the State of Israel as an
apartheid state, alleging that Israel's policies towards
Palestinians, including Palestinian citizens of Israel, are
comparable to South Africa's apartheid
policies: Israel: An Apartheid State (1987), Apartheid
Israel: A Critical Reading of the Draft Permanent Agreement,
known as the "Geneva Accords" (2003), and Apartheid Israel:
Possibilities for the Struggle Within (2003). In an
interview to Irish
Times in 2002 Davis said: "I am an anti-militarist and
recognise the right to use force in certain instances, in
armed resistance, which is legal in international law. It
allows armed resistance, the targeting of the opposite party
in uniform. .... Fata (Arabic: فتح Fatḥ)
(also known as Fateh, Levantine
Arabic: [ˈfateħ])
is a major Palestinian political
party and the largest faction of the Palestine
Liberation Organization (PLO), a multi-party confederation.
Fatah is generally considered to have had a strong
involvement in revolutionary struggle in the past and hasmaintained
a number of militant groups,. Fatah had been closely
identified with the leadership of its founder Yasser
Arafat, until his death in 2004. Since Arafat's
departure, factionalism within the ideologically diverse
movement has become more apparent. In the January
25, 2006 parliamentary election, the party lost its
majority in the Palestinian parliament to
Hamas,
and resigned all cabinet positions, instead of assuming the
role as the main opposition party.
Fatah's size is estimated at 6,000–8,000 fighters with
45–300 politicians. However, the Hamas legislative victory
led to a split
between the two main Palestinian political parties, with
Fatah retaining control of the Palestinian
National Authority in the West Bank. In April 2011,
officials from Hamas and Fatah announced that both parties
had reached an initial deal to unify into one government,
with plans for elections to be held in 2012
- 1984 - Wikipedia
Alternative
Information Center founded ...
The Alternative Information Center (AIC) is a joint Palestinian-Israeli non-governmental
organization (NGO) which "engages in dissemination of
information, political advocacy, grassroots activism and
critical analysis of the Palestinian and Israeli societies
as well as the Palestinian-Israeli
conflict". It was established in February 1984 by
Israeli activists from the Revolutionary
Communist League (previously Matzpen-Jerusalem)
and Palestinian leftwing activists from the West
Bank. Accuses Israel and the Jewish
National Fund of "ethnic
cleansing"
- 1989 - Wikipedia
Marc
H. Ellis writes The Future of Dissent: a Reflection on
What Shall I Do With This People? Jews and the Fractious
Politics of Judaism ... Marc H.
Ellis (born in 1952, Miami,
Florida) is an American author, liberation
theologian, and University Professor of Jewish Studies,
Professor of History and Director of the Center for Jewish
Studies at Baylor
University. ... In 1998 he was
appointed Professor of American and Jewish Studies at Baylor
University, where the next year he was named University
Professor of American and Jewish Studies. In 1999 he founded
Baylor University's Center for American and Jewish Studies.
In 2006, the Center was renamed The Center for Jewish
Studies. He is currently University Professor of Jewish
Studies and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Baylor
University. His current writings deal with contemporary Judaism,
Jewish liberation
theology, Jewish-Arab relations, and justice and peace
studies. Ellis was featured in the David
Horowitz book The
Professors: The 101 Most Dangerous Academics in America.
... Among those who have commented appreciatively on
the work of Ellis are George
McGovern, Noam
Chomsky, Edward
Said, Professor Susannah
Heschel,Elliot
Dorff and Desmund
Tutu. Among those who have criticized Ellis's work are Edward
Alexander, David
Horowitz, and Alan
Mittleman.
- 1990 - Wikipedia
Thomas
A. Kolsky writes Jews
Against Zionism ... Jews Against
Zionism: The American Council for Judaism, 1942-1948 is a
1990 book by Thomas A. Kolsky, a professor of history and political
science at Montgomery
County Community College, based on his doctoral
dissertation at The
George Washington University. In Jews Against Zionism,
Kolsky describes the history of the American
Council for Judaism, an organization of
American Reform Rabbis
specifically created to fight against both Zionism and a
Jewish state ... Lenni Brenner (born
1937) is an American Marxist Trotskyist
writer. In the 1960s, Brenner was a prominent civil rights
activist and a prominent opponent of the Vietnam
War. Brenner was born into an Orthodox
Jewish family. He became an atheist at
age 10 or 12 and a Marxist at
age 15. Brenner's involvement with the
American Civil Rights Movement began when he met James
Farmer of the Congress
of Racial Equality, later the organizer of the "freedom
rides" of the early 1960s. He also worked with Bayard
Rustin, later the organizer of Martin
Luther King's 1963 "I
Have a Dream" march on Washington. (Neither were
Marxists.) Brenner was arrested three times during civil
rights sit-ins in the San
Francisco Bay Area. He spent 39 months in jail when a
court revoked his probation formarijuana possession,
because of his activities during the Berkeley
Free Speech Movement at the University of California in
1964. He was an anti-war activist from the first days of
the Vietnam
War, speaking frequently at rallies in the Bay Area. In
1963 he organized the Committee
for Narcotic Reform in Berkeley. In 1968 he co-founded
the National
Association for Irish Justice, the American affiliate of
the Northern
Ireland Civil Rights Association. In the 1990s, he and Kwame
Ture (aka Stokely
Carmichael), the legendary "Black Power" leader of the Student
Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, co-founded the Committee
against Zionism and Racism. They also published The Anti-War
Activist. In 2003, Brenner spoke at the inaugural
meeting of Jews
Against Zionism in, with his colleagues Alice Coy, Haim
Bresheeth and Roland Rance who presented Brenner's book, "51
Documents: Zionist Collaboration with the Nazis".
- 1990 - Wikipedia
Lenni
Brenner and Stokely
Carmichael found the Committee
against Zionism and Racism ...
Lenni Brenner (born 1937) is an American Marxist Trotskyist
writer. In the 1960s, Brenner was a prominent civil rights
activist and a prominent opponent of the Vietnam
War. Brenner was born into an Orthodox
Jewish family. He became an atheist at
age 10 or 12 and a Marxist at
age 15. Brenner's involvement with theAmerican
Civil Rights Movement began when he met James
Farmer of the Congress
of Racial Equality, later the organizer of the "freedom
rides" of the early 1960s. He also worked with Bayard
Rustin, later the organizer of Martin
Luther King's 1963 "I
Have a Dream" march on Washington. (Neither were
Marxists.) Brenner was arrested three times during civil
rights sit-ins in the San
Francisco Bay Area. He spent 39 months in jail when a
court revoked his probation formarijuana possession,
because of his activities during the Berkeley
Free Speech Movement at the University of California in
1964. He was an anti-war activist from the first days of
the Vietnam
War, speaking frequently at rallies in the Bay Area. In
1963 he organized the Committee
for Narcotic Reform in Berkeley. In 1968 he co-founded
the National
Association for Irish Justice, the American affiliate of
the Northern
Ireland Civil Rights Association. In the 1990s, he and Kwame
Ture (aka Stokely
Carmichael), the legendary "Black Power" leader of the Student
Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, co-founded the Committee
against Zionism and Racism. They also published The Anti-War
Activist. In 2003, Brenner spoke at the inaugural
meeting of Jews
Against Zionism in, with his colleagues Alice Coy, Haim
Bresheeth and Roland Rance who presented Brenner's book, "51
Documents: Zionist Collaboration with the Nazis".
- 1994 to present
- 1994 - Wikipedia
Israel
Shahak writes Jewish History, Jewish Religion: the
Weight of Three Thousand Years ... Israel Shahak (Hebrew: ישראל
שחק; born Himmelstaub, April 28, 1933 – July 2, 2001) was a Polish-born Holocaust survivor
and Israeli professor
of chemistry
at the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, known especially as a
liberal political thinker, author, and civil rights
activist. Between 1970-1990, he was president of the Israeli
League for Human and Civil Rights and was an outspoken
critic of the Israeli government.
Judaism
... Shahak first became concerned about Israel’s
direction because of David
Ben-Gurion's statement during the 1956 Suez
War that Israel was fighting for "the kingdom of David
and Solomon."[9] In
the 1960s he became involved in the Israeli
League Against Religious Coercion. In 1965, he began his
political activism against “classical Judaism” and Zionism.[7] That
year he wrote a controversial letter to Haaretz alleging
he had witnessed an Orthodox Jew “refusing to let his phone
be used on the Sabbath to help a non-Jew who had collapsed
nearby,” beginning a still continuing debate on Orthodox
Jewish attitudes towards non-Jews ...
Following the 1967 Six-Day
War, Shahak disavowed his affiliation with the League
Against Religious Coercion, stating they were "fake
liberals" who used liberal principles to fight religious
influence in Israeli society, but failed to apply them to
Israeli treatment of Palestinians in the West
Bank and Gaza.Shahak
then became active with the Israeli
League for Human and Civil Rights and was elected its
president in 1970. He remained a “moving spirit” of the
organization for many years ... In 1994,
Shahak published Jewish History, Jewish Religion: The Weight
Of Three Thousand Years. In it he proposes that most
nations' histories are initially
ethnocentric. However they then evolve through a period
of critical self-analysis to incorporate other perspectives.
Jewish emancipation by the Enlightenment
was a dual liberation, from both Christian antisemitism and
a 'ghetto priesthood' with its 'imposed scriptural control'
- 1997 InformationUnderground Jerome
Hauer is also Jewish and a staunch Zionist. Hauer's mother,
Rose Muscatine Hauer, is the retired Dean of the Beth Israel
School of Nursing and the Honorary President of the New York
Chapter of Hadassah,
the Daughters of Zion movement that is one of the central
Zionist organizations involved in the creation and
maintenance of the State of Israel. In 1918, when Hadassah opened
its first hospital on Jerusalem's Rehov Ha'nevi'im, the
Street of the Prophets – a gift of the Rothschild family –
Dr. Kagan became Head of Pediatrics. Jerome Hauer was also
the guy chosen to run Mayor Rudy Guiliani's office of
emergency management( OEM) from 1996 to 2000. He is the key
individual that pushed for this office to be placed in
Silverstein's building 7. link Building 7 to Blackstone to Rothschild.
Former special agent FBI, John O'neil, who was tasked with
investigating Bin Laden coincidentally enough, was Former
special agent FBI, John O'neil, who was tasked with
investigating Bin Laden coincidentally enough, was hired as
head of security at the WTC by Jerome Hauer. Amazingly,
O'neil was killed on his FIRST day of work -- 9/11.
- 1998
WindowToPalestine Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz
... “In 1998 he was honored by the Jerusalem Fund of
Aish HaTorah with ‘The Israel 50th Anniversary Friend of
Zion Tribute Award’ for his services to the Zionist state in
‘playing a key role in promoting close alliance between the
United States and Israel.” The Jerusalem Fund of Aish
HaTorah funds Israeli arms fairs…
- 2000
Stop de Bezetting Disney Company - Gilian Technologies,
which provides Web content security solutions, announced in
early 2002 that it had received a $2 M investment from
Steamboat Ventures LLC, the venture investment arm of the
Walt Disney Company. * after receiving $1.8 M from Israel
towards construction cost of $8 M, Disney unveiled an
exhibit in October 200 showing a united Jerusalem as the
capital of Israel. The Jewish Chronicle reported on the 24
Sept, 2000: "If you go and see the show there won't be any
doubt in your mind that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel."
As noted on the friends of al-Aqsa website, “this is an
attempt by Disney to mentally condition people in accepting
the illegal Israeli claims to Jerusalem.”
- 2000 - Wikipedia
Norman
Finkelstein publishes The
Holocaust Industry Norman Gary Finkelstein (born
December 8, 1953) is an American political
scientist, activist and
author. His primary fields of research are the Israeli–Palestinian
conflict and the politics of the Holocaust,
an interest motivated by the experiences of his parents who
were Jewish Holocaust survivors. He is a graduate of Binghamton
University and received his Ph.D in
Political Science from Princeton
University. He has held faculty positions at Brooklyn
College, Rutgers
University, Hunter
College, New
York University, and, most recently, DePaul
University, where he was an assistant
professor from 2001 to 2007. In 2007, after a highly
publicized row between Finkelstein and a notable opponent
of his, Alan
Dershowitz, Finkelstein's tenure bid at DePaul was
denied. Finkelstein was placed on administrative leave for
the 2007–2008 academic year, and on September 5, 2007, he
announced his resignation after coming to a settlement with
the university on generally undisclosed terms. An official
statement from DePaul strongly defended the decision to deny
Finkelstein tenure, stated that outside influence played no
role in the decision, and praised Finkelstein "as a prolific
scholar and outstanding teacher".
The
Holocaust Industry is a 2000 book by Norman
G. Finkelstein that argues that the American
Jewish establishment exploits the memory of the Nazi Holocaust for
political and financial gain, as well as to further the
interests of Israel. According
to Finkelstein, this "Holocaust industry" has corrupted Jewish
culture and the authentic memory of the Holocaust.
... Finkelstein states that his consciousness of "the
Nazi holocaust" is rooted in his parents' experiences in theWarsaw
ghetto; with the exception of his parents themselves,
"every family member on both sides was exterminated by the
Nazis". Nonetheless,
during his childhood, no one ever asked any questions about
what his mother and father had suffered. He suggests, "This
was not a respectful silence. It was indifference." It
was only after the establishment of "the Holocaust
industry", he suggests, that outpourings of anguish over the
plight of the Jews in World
War II began. This ideology in turn served to endow
Israel with a status as "'victim' state" despite its
"horrendous" human rights record ...
- 2001
Stop de Bezetting Coca-Cola USA sponsors the United
Jewish Federation Greater Atlanta branch, which gives to the
Jewish community in Israel, aiding, among other things
“refugee resettlement” there. * On October 11th 2001,
Coca-Cola World Headquarters hosted the American-Israel
Chamber of Commerce Eagle Star Awards Gala in which “Israeli
Company of the Year”, “Israeli Technology of the Year”, etc
awards were given out by Israel’s Economic Minister to North
America. The Coca-Cola Company was also the Platinum sponsor
of the whole event. * together with "Friends of Israel" and
National Hillel sponsored a lecture by pro-zionist
correspondent Linda Gradstein (of National Public Radio) at
the University of Minnesota * honored by Israel Economic
Mission at Israel Trade Award Dinner for continuous support
of Israel, as in 1968 in response to Arab boycott, it opened
a factory in Israel, event though this brought “serious
financial damages to Coca-Cola,” to the tune of “millions of
dollars” (quotes taken from company’s official Hebrew
website
- 2001
Stop de Bezetting Coca-Cola – bought 43% of Neviot Water
in 2001 for c. $20 million, a company which has 40% of the
Israeli bottled water market * in January 2002 Coca-Cola
reported it was beginning negotiations to acquire Golan
Wineries, located in the Golan Heights * in Dec. 2000 bought
33.3%of StoreAlliance, Israeli computer technology supplier,
for $5 million through its Israeli subsidiary * until July
2000 Coca-Cola owned Mayanot Eden which is a water-company
based in the Golan * announced in July 2002 that, in return
for millions of dollars in tax breaks from the Israeli
government, it will build a new plant in Kiryat Gat. The new
plant will employ 700 Israelis. * sponsors Israel’s national
basketball team, “where it invests great amounts of money
annually,” also sponsors Israeli national marathons, tennis
competitions, and so on; sponsors yearly public Arad Jazz
concert at the Red Sea (quote from company’s official Hebrew
website)
- 2001 LittleTboca David
Axelrod is Obama’s Senior Advisor and Campaign manager and
has been hanging out with Obama since 2001. Axelrod is one
of the highest level Rothschild Zionist agents/controllers
of the Obama administration. Axelrod was commissioned in
1992 by Klutznick to make Barack Obama “our first black
president,” Philip M. Klutznick of Chicago, the former
president of B’nai B’rith International the global voice of
the Jewish community, is an international Jewish
organization … and the World Jewish Congress. George Soros
is a Rothschild Zionist agent, not only donates to Obama but
is one of Obama’s puppeteers. Obama’s advisors and czars who
are connected to Rothschild Zionism include Cass Sunstein.
Cass appointed two Rothschild Zionists (Carol Browner & Todd
Stem) to take charge of the climate change and global
warming. Ken Feinberg was appointed by Obama to be the
special pay master for the companies bailed out by our
stimulus money and yes, Ken is connected to the Rothschild
Zionists. Economic Czar – Larry Summers, Pay Czar – Kenneth
Feinberg, Guatanomo/Military Jails Czar -Daniel Fried, Car
Czar – Steven Rattner, Border Czar and there’s so much more.
So when you wake up tomorrow and wonder why Obama acts and
sounds like a crazy man – you know who the real puppeteers
are and you’d better believe that David Axelrod is
destroying our Nation under the watchful eye of the
Rothschild Zionists.
- 2001 -
Wikipedia Israel and the United States pull
out of the World
Conference against Racism 2001, also known as Durban I
... The 2001 World
Conference against Racism (WCAR), also known as Durban
I, was held at the Durban
International Convention Centre in Durban,
South Africa, under UN auspices,
from 31 August to 8 September 2001. The conference dealt
with several controversial issues, including compensation
for slavery and the actions of Israel. The language of the
final Declaration and Programme of Action produced by the
conference was strongly disputed in these areas, both in the
preparatory meetings in the months that preceded the
conference and during the conference itself. Two
delegations, the United States and Israel, withdrew from the
conference over objections to a draft document equating Zionism with
racism. The final Declaration and Programme of Action did
not contain the text that the U.S. and Israel had objected
to, that text having been voted out by delegates in the days
after the U.S. and Israel withdrew. ...
The NGO Forum ended in discord. Mary Robinson lost the
support of the United States in her office of High
Commissioner, and many of the potential political
aftereffects of the conference were annulled by the September
11, 2001 attacks. The attacks took place just three days
after the conference ended, entirely eclipsing it in the
news, and significantly affecting international relations
and politics. The conference was followed by the 2009 Durban
II conference in Geneva, which was boycotted by ten
western countries. A commemorative Durban
III conference scheduled to take place in 2011 in New
York has also drawn significant criticism and will be
boycotted by the UK, US, Canada and Israel.
- 2002 May
Mona Baker In May 2002, following the sharp rise in the
level of atrocities committed against the Palestinian
population in the West Bank and Gaza, I decided to join the
call to boycott Israeli academic institutions. The boycott
was conceived along the same lines as the sanctions which
ultimately led to the collapse of the apartheid regime in
South Africa. The call was initiated by Professor Steven
Rose (Physics, Open University) and Professor Hilary Rose
(Bradford University). The most extensive overview of the
boycott to date was published in The Guardian in December
2002, under the title It’s
water on stone. I first wrote
to Miriam Shlesinger (Bar Ilan University, Israel) on 23
May explaining my decision and asking her to resign from the
Editorial Board of The
Translator. She refused. I also wrote
to Gideon Toury (Tel Aviv University, Israel) on 8 June
along the same lines, asking him to resign from the panel of
Consulting Editors of Translation
Studies Abstracts. He too refused. I removed them both
from the boards of the respective journals.
- 2002
Haaretz Hadassah is calling for an end to all
boycotts, including Jewish-led boycotts against Israel's
critics. Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of
America, passed a resolution at its national convention in
Buena Vista, Florida, last week saying it "strongly condemns
all forms of organized boycott." The resolution follows
months during which Jewish groups have led boycotts against,
among others, American newspapers and broadcasters for
perceived anti-Israel bias and France for its perceived
tolerance of anti-Semitism. But boycott calls against Israel
and its institutions are also mushrooming. "It is exactly
because Israel has been the target of boycotts, that
Hadassah opposes boycotts - even by well-intended parties -
as a strategy that only results in harm," said Hadassah's
national president, Bonnie Lipton, in a press release.
- 2002
CorporateWatch Among other things, Raytheon makes Bunker
Buster bombs, Tomahawk and Patriot missiles. A number of
their missiles can be loaded with cluster bombs, which are
banned under international law but have, nonetheless, been
used by the US and Israeli armies. Raytheon is one of
Israel's main suppliers of weapons used in the recent
attacks on Gaza. Through its US and Israeli military
relations, the company is said to advocate the expansionist
notion of 'Greater Israel', which, of course, means more war
business and more profits (see here).
In September last year, the US Defense Security Cooperation
Agency, which oversees major arms sales, approved the sale
of three kits made by Raytheon to upgrade Israel's Patriot
missile system in a deal valued at up to $164 million (see here).
- 2002
Stop de Bezetting Cadbury Schweppes – announced on
Dec. 17, 2002 plans to invest $4.5 m in Israeli
confectionary maker and distributor Carmit after a year’s
trial association with Carmit whereby the latter distributed
Cadbury’s goods in Israel. The money, Cadbury specified,
will paid in the first three months of 2003 and will be used
for the advertising to promote its products in Israel.
Carmit will become Carmit-Cadbury
- 2003
RicharSilverstein I’ve been writing Tikun
Olam, one of the earliest liberal Jewish blogs, since
February, 2003. It focuses on Israeli-Palestinian peace and
includes commentary on U.S. politics and human rights. Technorati
ranks this blog 21st of all world politics blogs and a
member of the Top 100 in that category. I also created the Israel
Palestine Forum, a discussion forum for progressives
about the I-P conflict. Israel
Palestine Blogs aggregates 50 peace blogs writing about
the conflict. I wrote a chapter for the Independent Jewish
Voices essay collection, A
Time to Speak Out. I’m a regular contributor toTruthout and
contributed to Haaretz, Christian Science Monitor, Jewish
Forward, Los Angeles Times, Comment
Is Free and Al Jazeera English. My work has also been in
the Seattle Times, American Conservative Magazine,Beliefnet and Tikkun
Magazine. I’ve done several segments for Al Jazeera
TV’s Listening Post and Israel’s Channel 10 Tzinor Layla
news program. The NY Times featured my reporting about the
Shamai Leibowitz FBI tapes on its front page.
- 2003
Inminds.co.uk Jews Against Zionism Zionism Against Jews
Panel Roland Rance (chair) Alice Coy Haim Bresheeth Lenni
Brenner Inaugural Meeting 18 June 2003 Recently "Jews
Against Zionism" group held its inaugural meeting. With
three knowledgeable speakers, all of Jewish origin speaking
against Zionism, followed by an open discussion made a
stimulating evening. The panel consisted of Roland Rance(chair),
Alice Coy, Prof. Haim Bresheeth and Lenni Brenner. We were
privileged to be able to attend and here we present in full
the speeches and discussion. There is something here for
everyone to learn from - especially for those who blindly
follow Zionism and for those who blindly paint all Jews with
the Zionist brush. In their own words Jews Against Zionism
describe themselves as: Jews Against Zionism is an
organisation of Jews and others opposed to the Zionist
movement and ideology, and to its impact on both
Palestinians and Jews. We believe that the conflict in
Palestine cannot be resolved without a return of Palestinian
refugees and dismantlement of the Zionist structure of the
state of Israel; and that this is impossible in the context
of “two states“ and a re-partition of Palestine. We advocate
the only approach which can lead to peace with justice in
the region; we call fro a unitary, secular and democratic
Palestine, the return of Palestinian refugees, and full and
equal rights for Palestinians, Israeli Jews, and all other
people living in the whole of Palestine.
- 2005 - Wikipedia
Michael
Neumann writes The Case Against Israel
Michael Neumann (born 1946) is a professor of philosophy at Trent
University in Ontario, Canada. He is the author of What's
Left? Radical Politics and the Radical Psyche (1988), The
Rule of Law: Politicizing Ethics (2002) and The Case Against
Israel (2005), and has published papers on utilitarianism and
rationality. ... Neumann is "the son
of German Jewish refugees", one of them the eminent
political sociologist of Nazism, Franz
Leopold Neumann. He has written that "Like my parents, I
have always been an atheist." He is a US citizen
and resident of Canada. Neumann graduated summa cum
laude with a B.A. in English and History from Columbia
University in 1968, and in 1975 was awarded his Ph.D. in
philosophy by the University of Toronto. ...
Neumann is the author of What's Left? Radical Politics and
the Radical Psyche (1988) and The Rule of Law: Politicizing
Ethics (2002). He is a frequent contributor to the CounterPunch newsletter
edited by Alexander
Cockburn and Jeffrey
St. Clair, and contributed to their 2003 edited
collection The
Politics of Anti-Semitism. In 2005 he published The Case
Against Israel, a response to Alan
Dershowitz's The
Case for Israel. ... On April 21,
2009, Neumann gave an interview in which he stated that
Israel is an “illegitimate state” but also stated that
Israel should not be destroyed. He quoted from his book The
Case Against Israel in which he wrote that “The cure of
destruction is worse than the disease of illegitimate
existence. In practise, wiping out a powerful state like
Israel or the U.S. would cause even more suffering than
letting it survive
- 2005
CorporateWatch over 100 Palestinian organisations
and unions called for a campaign of boycott, divestment and
sanctions against Israel "until it complies with
international law and universal principles of human rights"
(see the call
here). The boycott campaign had been gathering momentum
all over the world, with dedicated campaigns and groups
researching, lobbying their governments and the public, and
taking direct action. Following the recent massacres in
Gaza, the calls for boycotting Israeli goods have become
even more powerful and mainstream, as people started to
realise that Israeli and international companies investing
in Israel not only contribute to an immoral and often
illegal economy, but also help perpetuate a brutal and
bloody occupation.
- 2005 - Wikipedia
Boycott,
Divestment and Sanctions Boycott, Divestment and
Sanctions (BDS) is a campaign started on 9 July 2005 by 171
Palestinian non-governmental organizations in support of
the Palestinian
cause for boycott, divestment and international
sanctions against Israel.
... The final declaration of the NGO Forum, World
Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia
and Related Intolerance in Durban, South Africa in 2001,
called for "mandatory and comprehensive sanctions and
embargoes, the full cessation of all links (diplomatic,
economic, social, aid, military cooperation and training)
between all states and Israel". Mary
Robinson, UN Human Rights chief said that there was
"horrible anti-Semitism present" at the NGO Forum
... Criticism ... Although BDS
has tried to finesse the question of whether the movement is
seeking a one-state
solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, many of
its leaders have gone on the record as seeking this,
including Omar Barghouti, a founder of the BDS
movement. Furthermore, many have gone as far as to call for
the complete destruction of the Jewish state, including
Professor As'ad
AbuKhalil, who wrote in Al-Akhbar that he agrees that
"the real aim of BDS is to bring down the state of
Israel" and that "Israel will have to submit to the will of
the Palestinians."
- 2005
Islam-Online
While the US managed to secure a Saudi pledge to ease
boycott of Israel in swap for a helping the kingdom join the
World Trade Organization (WTO), the main Jewish lobby in
America said the move did not live up to its expectations.
Riyadh has promised, as part of a bilateral agreement signed
with Washington on Friday, September 9, not to enforce
aspects of the Arab League boycott of Israel that apply to
US firms doing business with Israel, US Trade Representative
Rob Portman said in a statement posted on his Web site. The
kingdom has also pledged to abide by WTO rules in its trade
with all 148 members of the WTO, including Israel, he added.
"As a result of negotiations on its accession to the WTO, we
will see greater openness, further development of the rule
of law, and political and economic reform in Saudi Arabia".
The agreement, signed without public fanfare in Washington,
paves the way for Saudi Arabia to join the WTO by the end of
2005. The United States was the last WTO member to reach a
bilateral market access deal with Riyadh.
- 2005 Sept
WMR September 23, 2005 -- Anti-war Democrats are up in
arms over the fact that top Democrats will not be addressing
the huge anti-war demonstration planned for Washington on
September 24 -- the first demonstration that plans to
surround the White House -- although at a distance -- since
the Vietnam War protests. Past anti-war figures like DNC
Chairman Howard Dean and potential presidential candidate
Sen. Russ Feingold of Wisconsin (who also infuriated
Democrats by voting in the Senate Judiciary Committee for
the nomination of John Roberts as Chief Justice) are
boycotting the demonstration as is Sen. Hillary Rodham
Clinton, Sen. John Kerry, and Sen. Joseph Biden, all likely
presidential candidates in 2008. Anti-war Democrats are
vowing to have their revenge against these candidates in the
2008 primaries. At this time only Representatives Cynthia
McKinney and John Conyers are scheduled to address the
protesters. They also addressed past anti-war rallies in the
nation's capital. Rep. Lynn Woolsey of California also plans
to address the rally.
- 2005
StopdeBezetting Estée Lauder – CEO Ronald Lauder bought
80% of Jerusalem Capital Studios in Dec. 1996 for $15.6 M *
bought Ron Shmueli’s Catering CO. for $5 M * Ronald Lauder
Group’s RSL bought 51% of Delta Three in Dec. 1997 * opened
the Shalem Center in 1993 * President of the company, Ron
Lauder, is also president of the Jewish National Fund which
collects monies to usurp Palestinian land and territorial
claims. * He has set up the Ron S Lauder Fund which runs a
summer camp for Eastern European Jewish children to
encourage their interest in Zionism. * His foundation the
Ronald Lauder Organization financially supports "America's
Voices in Israel" - a recently established US-based
organization that brings American talk radio hosts to Israel
to broadcast their shows back to the US. * In Jan. 2001, he
announced at rally in Jerusalem that Palestinians should not
have the right of return. * Most recently, Lauder has
participated on the board of the Israel Emergency Solidarity
Fund which raises monies supplementing governmental benefits
to give to families of Israeli Jews killed by Palestinian
resistance.
- 2005
CorporateWatch BAE is known to have supplied Israel with
'Head-Up Displays' (HUD) for F16 fighter aircraft, which
have been used by the Israeli army to turn Lebanese and
Palestinian villages and towns into rubble. The first of
Israel's new order arrived in 2005 and the first 25 F16s
were fitted with BAE's HUDs. The remaining 77 were to be
fitted with Elbit HUDs. BAE also supply Israel with part of
the 'navigation suite' and elements of the 'self-protection
suite' (including a BAE Systems/Rokar flare) for all
Israel's F16 jets.
- 2006 comment "The consensus among
Israeli peaceniks is that both Israeli Prime Minister Ehud
Olmert and his Labor Party Defense Minister Amir Peretz feel
the political need to show that they are 'strong' and hence
the invasion and attack on Lebanon is their only politically
possible strategy. For the sake of their egos and their
future political viability, they 'must' proceed with the
wild escalation of the struggle against the Lebanese people,
most of whom had exercised their democratic rights by
rejecting Hezbollah’s electoral appeals, voting in a
government that had only a small minority of Hezbollah
within it." Message from Rabbi Michael Lerner of Tikkun,
July 17, 2006.
- 2006 - Wikipedia
Yakov
M. Rabkin ... is a professor of history at the Université
de Montréal, author and public intellectual. His book A
Threat from Within: A Century of Jewish Opposition to
Zionism was nominated for best French to English translation
for "an important and timely work" at the 2006 Governor
General's Awards. It has also been listed as one of the
three best books of the year by Japan’s leading daily Asahi
Shimbun in 2010. This book is currently available in twelve
languages. ... His other published
works include studies of relations between science and
technology, research on cultural aspects of
science, including studies of Jews in the scientific
profession,Science Between the Superpowers (Priority Press),
a study of programs for the exchange of U.S and Soviet Union
scientists,as well as works on the fate of Soviet
science and scientists after the dismemberment of the USSR
and, more generally, on science and political freedoms
... Rabkin largely rejects the concept of a two-state
solution for the Israel/Palestine conflict, and has
expressed strong support for a bi-national
state.
- 2006 May
WW4Report
Congresswoman boycotts AIPAC Submitted by David Bloom on
Sat, 05/20/2006 - 18:58
Palestine
Theater From the JTA,
May 20: Congresswoman cuts off AIPAC A congresswoman says
AIPAC is unwelcome in her office until it apologizes for an
activist who called her a terrorist supporter. Rep. Betty
McCollum (D-Minn.) said the supporter of the American Israel
Public Affairs Committee told her chief of staff that
"McCollum's support for terrorists will not be tolerated."
McCollum is one of two members of the U.S. House of
Representatives' International Relations Committee who voted
against a bill, which AIPAC strongly endorses, that would
cut off the Palestinian Authority. AIPAC says the bill is
necessary to isolate Hamas, the terrorist group in control
of P.A. government. McCollum and some others in Congress say
the bill goes too far, cutting off the Palestinian Authority
no matter who is governing it, and severely restricting
humanitarian aid. "For an AIPAC representative to say that I
would ever vote to support Middle East terrorists over the
interests of my country will never be tolerated by me or the
families I serve," McCollum wrote in a letter to Howard Kohr,
AIPAC's executive director, that was republished in the New
York Review of Books. AIPAC has yet to reply to McCollum's
demand for an apology.
- 2006
Facebook Any boycott of Israel should include a trade
boycott, including a boycott of diamond corporations such as
De Beers that trades with Israel. The diamond and jewelry
industry makes up a significant part of Israel's GDP
annually. It therefore contributes to the Israeli fiscuss
and arms spend and ultimately to the military oppression of
the Palestinian people. Apartheid's defeat came about in
part because the cultural and academic boycott was expanded
into a trade boycott. Any diamonds processed in Israel are
blood diamonds. Southern African countries like South AFrica
and Botswana should as a matter of principle end all ties
with Apartheid Israel.
- 2006 - Wikipedia
Mondoweiss
Mondoweiss (2006-Present) is a news
website that is co-edited by journalists Philip
Weiss and Adam
Horowitz.[1] According
to the editors describe Mondoweiss as "a news website
devoted to covering American foreign policy in the Middle
East, chiefly from a progressive Jewish perspective." They
also state that they "maintain this blog because of 9/11,
Iraq, Gaza, the Nakba, the struggling people of Israel and
Palestine, and our Jewish background
- 2006 Sept Dissident
Voice "Israeli-US Strategy: Lebanon and Iran ... Even as
the bricks were still smoldering from 9/11, Israeli
ideological point men, Senator Lieberman and Undersecretary
for Defense Wolfowitz urged Washington to attack Iran by
launching either simultaneous or sequential wars. In pursuit
of Israel’s regional priorities, its representatives in the
US Government, in the Pentagon (Wolfowitz, Feith and Shulsky),
in the National Security Council (Abrams), in the Vice
President’s Office (Libby) and in the President’s Office
(Speech writer Frum) falsified intelligence, designed the
propaganda (War Against Terror, Axis of Evil) and planned
the War against Iraq, and with the Lobby secured near
unanimous Congressional acquiescence. They then successfully
secured a US boycott of Syria and support for Israel’s
expropriation, annexation and settlement of Palestinian land
in the West Bank and the destruction of Gaza. Even as the US
invasion failed to secure control of Iraq, Israel’s
representatives in the US Government did destroy Iraqi
society and state, and its capacity to support the
Palestinian resistance, increasing Israel’s regional power
(at a very high cost to the United States)." These
indictments just a predictable course of events in the
fascist neo-con plans for the Middle East." There
are very few images of Harold Rhode on the internet.
- 2006 - Wikipedia
Ilan
Pappé writes The
Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Ilan Pappé (Hebrew: אילן
פפה; born 1954) is an Israeli historian and socialist
activist. He is currently a professor with the College of
Social Sciences and International Studies at the University
of Exeter in the United Kingdom, director of the
university's European Centre for Palestine Studies, and
co-director of the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political
Studies. Pappé was born in Haifa, Israel.
Prior to coming to the UK, he was a senior lecturer in
political science at the
University of Haifa (1984–2007) and chair of the Emil
Touma Institute for Palestinian and Israeli Studies in Haifa
(2000–2008). He is the author of The
Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine (2006), The Modern Middle
East (2005), A History of Modern Palestine: One Land, Two
Peoples (2003), and Britain and the Arab-Israeli
Conflict (1988).He was formerly a leading member of Hadash, and
was a candidate on the party list in the 1996 and 1999 Knesset
elections. Pappé is one of Israel's New
Historians who, since the release of pertinent British
and Israeli government documents in the early 1980s, have
been rewriting
the history of Israel's creation in 1948, and the
corresponding
expulsion or flight (1948 Palestinian exodus) of
700,000 Palestinians in
the same year. He has written that the expulsions were not
decided on an ad hoc basis, as other historians have argued,
but constituted the ethnic
cleansing of Palestine,
in accordance with Plan
Dalet, drawn up in 1947 by Israel's future leaders. He
blames the creation of Israel for the lack of peace in the
Middle East, arguing that Zionism is more dangerous than
Islamic militancy, and has called for an international boycott
of Israeli academics. ... In
1999, Pappé ran in the Knesset
elections as seventh on the Communist
Party-led Hadash list. After
years of political activism, Pappé supports economic
and political boycotts of Israel, including an academic
boycott. He believes boycotts are justified because
"the Israeli
occupation is a dynamic process and it becomes worse
with each passing day. The AUT can choose to stand by and do
nothing, or to be part of a historical movement similar to
the anti-apartheid campaign against the white supremacist
regime in South Africa. By choosing the latter, it can move
us forward along the only remaining viable and non-violent
road to saving both Palestinians and Israelis from an
impending catastrophe." If it is possible Israel's conduct
in 1948 would be brought onto the stage of international
tribunals; this may deliver a message even to the peace camp
in Israel that reconciliation entails recognition of war
crimes and collective atrocities. This cannot be done from
within, as any reference in the Israeli press to expulsion,
massacre or destruction in 1948 is usually denied and
attributed to self hate and service to the enemy in times of
war. This reaction encompasses academia, the media and
educational system, as well as political circles.
 The
Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine is a book about
the 1948
Palestinian exodus authored by Ilan
Pappé and published in 2006 by Oneworld
Publications. Ilan Pappé is one of the New
Historians. He seeks through his book to prove that a
planned ethnic
cleansing of
Palestinian Arabs occurred during the 1948
Palestine War, or as he puts it in the preface of this
book: In other words, I want to make the case for the
paradigm of ethnic cleansing and use it to replace the
paradigm of war as the basis for the scholarly research of,
and public debate about, 1948. He considers that this
objective was implemented by the Zionist
movement leaders, mainly David
Ben-Gurion and the other ten members of his "consultancy
group" as referred to by Pappé, and that the forced move of
Palestanians to the Arab
World was an objective of the Zionist
movement, and a must for the desired character of the Jewish
State. The book says that this planned ethnic cleansing
was put into effect through systematic destruction of about
500 Arab villages, as well as several terrorist attacks
executed mainly by members of the
Haganah and
the Irgun.
- Google Sites “Proposal of the National
Military Organization (Irgun Zvai Leumi) Concerning
the Solution of the Jewish Question in Europe and
the Participation of the NMO in the War on the side
of Germany” was found in the German Embassy in
Turkey. They told the Nazis that “The evacuation of
the Jewish masses from Europe is a precondition for
solving the Jewish question; but this can only be
made possible and complete through the settlement
of these masses in the home of the Jewish people,
Palestine, and through the establishment of a
Jewish state in its historic boundaries.... The
NMO, which is well-acquainted with the goodwill of
the German Reich government and its authorities
towards Zionist activity inside Germany and towards
Zionist emigration plans, is of the opinion that: 1.
Common interests could exist between the
establishment of a new order in Europe in
conformity with the German concept, and the true
national aspirations of the Jewish people as they
are embodied by the NMO. 2. Cooperation between the
new Germany and a renewed folkish-national Hebraium
would be possible and, 3. The establishment of the
historic Jewish state on a national and
totalitarian basis, bound by a treaty with the
German Reich, would be in the interest of a
maintained and strengthened future German position
of power in the Near East. Proceeding from these
considerations, the NMO in Palestine, under the
condition the above-mentioned national aspirations
of the Israeli freedom movement are recognized on
the side of the German Reich, offers to actively
lake part in the war on Germany’s side. This offer
by the NMO... would be connected to the military
training and organizing of Jewish manpower in
Europe, under the leadership and command of the
NMO. These military units would take part in the
fight to conquer Palestine, should such a front be
decided upon.
- 2007
Corporate Watch In 2007, the UK government blocked
almost one-third of British military exports to Israel,
citing "possible threats to regional stability" and fears
that "the equipment might facilitate human rights
violations." Despite Israel's continuous war crimes against
the Palestinian people, however, the UK has no arms embargo
on Israel and licences for the export of military 'goods'
continue to be granted in accordance with the criteria set
down in the Consolidated EU and National Arms Export
Licensing Criteria
- 2007 Jun
Haaretz
- 2008 - Wikipedia
Shlomo
Sand publishes The
Invention of the Jewish People ...
Shlomo Sand (pronounced Zand; Hebrew: שלמה
זנד) (born 10 September 1946 in Linz, Austria) is professor
of history at Tel Aviv University and author of the
controversial book The
Invention of the Jewish People (Verso
Books, 2009). His main areas of interest are
nationalism, film as history, and French intellectual
history ... He eventually left the
Union of Israeli Communist Youth (Banki) and
joined the more radical, and anti-Zionist, Matzpen in
1968. Sand resigned from Matzpen in 1970 due to his
disillusionment with the organisation ...
Sand’s best-known book in English is The
Invention of the Jewish People, originally published in
Hebrew (Resling, 2008) as Matai
ve’eich humtsa ha‘am hayehudi? (When and How Was the
Jewish People Invented?) and subsequently translated into
English the following year (Verso, 2009). Reviewing the book
for Haaretz, Ofri Ilani wrote that Sand's work is an attempt
"to prove that the Jewish people never existed as a
‘nation-race’ with a common origin, but rather is a colorful
mix of groups that at various stages in history adopted the
Jewish religion. He argues that for a number of Zionist ideologues,
the mythical perception of the Jews as an ancient people led
to truly racist thinking
... In an afterword to the paperback issue
of The Invention of the Jewish People in June 2010 Sand
wrote "As of today, no study based on anonymous DNA samples
has succeeded in identifying a genetic marker specific to
Jews, and it is not likely that any study ever will. It is a
bitter irony to see the descendants of Holocaust survivors
set out to find a biological Jewish identity: Hitler would
certainly have been very pleased! And it is all the more
repulsive that this kind of research should be conducted in
a state that has waged for years a declared policy of 'Judaization
of the country' in which even today a Jew is not allowed to
marry a non-Jew."
- 2008 Banki
Maki The Democratic Camp, including
political parties, public organizations and grassroots
movements, is organizing to fight back against the
governmental attack on Israeli democracy, orchestrated by
Foreign Minister Lieberman
- 2008 Bibliotecaplaydes
Zionist Jew Timothy Geithner was confirmed as Secretary of
Treasury by Obama on November 22 2008… another banner day
for the global Zionist Rothschild elite. Geithner, who was
born to a Jewish family in Brooklyn NY, has been serving the
Rothschilds as the President of the Federal Reserve Bank of
New York since 2003. and Wikipedia
His father was the director of the Asia program at the Ford
Foundation in New York in the 1990s. During the early
1980s, Geithner's father Peter oversaw the Ford Foundation's
microfinance programs in Indonesia being developed by Ann
Dunham Soetoro, President Barack Obama's mother, and they
met in person at least once. and InvestorsHub Proof
Tim Geithner works for Rothschild globalists and wants
America to fail. ... And third, Geithner completely
overlooks what has brought significant parts of Europe to
its economic knees. He should spend more time with the
authorities in Iceland or Ireland or Switzerland, countries
where “financial globalization” allowed banks to become big
relative to the economy.
- 2008 - Wikipedia
International
Jewish Anti-Zionist Network founded ...
(IJAN) is a network of anti-Zionist Jews pledged
to "Oppose Zionism and the State of Israel
... The IJAN views Zionism as a racist movement,
and Israel as an apartheid state.[1] The
charter of the organization states "[w]e are an
international network of Jews who are uncompromisingly
committed to struggles for human emancipation, of which the
liberation of the Palestinian people and land is an
indispensable part. Our commitment is to the dismantling of
Israeli apartheid, the return of Palestinian refugees, and
the ending of the Israeli colonization of historic
Palestine." It also calls for the unconditional freeing of
all Palestinian
prisoners in Israel. The group also opposes the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,capitalism,
and Islamophobia.
Prominent members of IJAN include feminist activist Selma
James and holocaust survivor Hajo
Meyer. It comprises groups in the USA, Canada, India,
Argentina, and several European countries ...
Sara Kershnar and others founded the International
Jewish Anti-Zionist Network in 2008 ...
In 2011 IJAN was one of a number of organizations that
organized a 13-city speaking tour of the USA, which
according to the Jerusalem Post "compares Israel’s relations
with the Palestinians to the Nazis’ treatment of Jews during
the Holocaust
- 2009 Jan
CorporateWatch On the second big Gaza solidarity march
in London on 10th January, angry protesters smashed the
front of a Starbucks store on Kensington High St, near the
Israeli embassy, while other activists occupied the Ahava
beauty shop in central London. Other actions in protest at
the Israeli massacre in Gaza this month have included
occupying the offices of the British Israel Communications
and Research Centre (BICOM) in central London,
'decommissioning' the ITT/EDO arms factory in Brighton and
university occupations across the country calling for
divestment. So, who are these companies and why are they
being targeted by protesters and campaigners?
- 2009
DissidentVoice Boycott and Disinvest in Israel, in
Solidarity and Self-Defense by Glen Ford / February 18th,
2009 African Americans must take a leadership role in the
movement to boycott and disinvest in Israel, both for
reasons of elemental justice and to defend our own people
from the raging right-wing, corporate assault, of which the
pro-Israel lobby is an integral component. If solidarity
with Palestinians who suffer the aggressions of a regime as
fundamentally racist as apartheid South Africa is not a
compelling enough reason — and it surely is — then
self-defense against Zionist subversion of domestic Black
politics should move us to action. There can be no prospect
of global peace or domestic progress while Israel runs amok
in the Mid-East and its operatives wreak havoc in the
African American political arena.
- 2009
CorporateWatch Boeing has had a long business history
with the Israeli military. Its recently deliveries to Israel
include: IAI-developed arrow missiles, Boeing AGM-114D
Longbow Hellfire missiles, 18 AH-64D Apache Longbow fighter
helicopters, 63 Boeing F15 Eagle fighter planes, 102 Boeing
F16 Eagle fighter planes, 42 BOEING AH-64 Apache fighter
helicopters, F-16 Peace Marble II & III Aircraft, 4 Boeing
777s, and Arrow II interceptors. In September last year, the
US government approved the sale of 1,000 GBU-9 small
diameter bombs made by Boeing to Israel, in a deal valued at
up to $77 million
- 2010 Dec
DavidIcke They Dare Not Speak Its Name ...
But to understand the financial crisis, 9/11 and so much
more, it must be spoken constantly. As we begin a new year,
amid ever-gathering global tyranny, this information is
vital for everyone to know. ... It is widely known as
Zionism or, as I call it, more accurately, I suggest
...Rothschild Zionism. I add the 'Rothschild' to constantly
emphasise the true creators of Zionism and its controllers
to this day (see Human
Race Get Off Your Knees). Jewish people organise
protests and call for boycotts of Israel in response to the
Rothschild Zionist agenda for the Palestinians and yet how
many people know that who glean their 'information' from the
mainstream media?
- 2010 -
Wikipedia Former BBC and ITN journalist Alan
Hart publishes Zionism: The Real Enemy of the Jews
... is an author, former Middle East Chief
Correspondent for Independent
Television News, and former BBC Panorama presenter
specialising in the
Middle
East. He has authored the three-part series Zionism: The
Real Enemy of the Jews ... Hart
began his career as a reporter in Central Africa, on the Nyasaland
Times, and served as a war correspondent in Vietnam. He
tells of having been the first Western correspondent to
reach the banks of the Suez Canal with the Israeli army in
1967. He also tells of having been friendly with both Golda
Meir and
Yasser
Arafat at roughly the same time and having been on
friendly terms with such leaders as Saudi Arabia's King
Faisal, Jordan's King
Hussein, and both Egyptian Presidents Nasser and Sadat.
- 2010
Jerusalem Post For some time now, a number of
pundits have been advancing the following argument: Faced
with the seemingly intractable Israeli-Palestinian conflict
and stuck with consecutive governments unwilling to reach an
equitable agreement with the Palestinian leadership, highly
educated and moderate-minded Israelis have been leaving
Israel in droves. This trend has been boosted in recent
years, it is claimed, by the added factor of Iran’s menacing
push to achieve nuclear capability. Those remaining in
Israel are increasingly ethno-nationalists such as religious
Zionists, Russians, traditional-minded Sephardim and
Ethiopians. Stephen Walt, the Robert and Renée Belfer
professor of international relations at Harvard University,
argued in April of last year on Foreign Policy’s website,
for instance, that [Prime Minister Binyamin] Netanyahu
“ought to be... concerned by signs that the Zionist ideal is
losing its hold within Israel itself.” For proof of this
claim, Walt noted that “there are reportedly between 700,000
and one million Israeli citizens now living abroad, and
emigration has outpaced immigration since 2007.” According
to Walt, the conflict with the Palestinians in eminently
solvable, but “because Netanyahu has long opposed the
creation of a viable Palestinian state and instead wants to
extend Israel’s control of the West Bank, he has to lay out
a set of demands that will endlessly delay the process and
make it hard for Obama to put meaningful pressure on him.”
- 2010
Haaretz within Israel, Jews constitute 75.5 percent of
the population, but that the proportion in 1998 was 79.2
percent, and 81.7 percent in 1988. In other words, the
percentage of Jews in the Israeli population is constantly
declining, in spite of the influx of about 1 million
immigrants over the past two decades. According to the
forecasts, in 2015 the percentage of Jews will decline to
73.5 percent, and will drop to 70.6 percent by 2025. Only in
2030 will there be, for the first time, a miniscule increase
in the proportion of Jews, bringing us to 72 percent.
- 2010
WindowToPalistine It started out as an Internet parody
of Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz thanking customers for
supporting Starbucks and Israel. The spoof read, in part: “I
want to thank you for making Starbucks the $6.4 billion
global company it is today… Every latte you drink at
Starbucks is a contribution to the close alliance between
the United States and Israel, in fact it is — as I was
assured when being honored with the “Israel 50th Anniversary
Friend of Zion Tribute Award” — key to Israel’s long-term PR
success. Your daily frappucino helps pay for student
projects in North America and Israel, presenting them with
the badly needed Israeli perspective of the Intifada.”
- 2011
JudeoFascism From crypto-Zionist left-Bolshevism
and right-Neoconservatism in the Diaspora, through naked
Jewish national socialism in Israel, Judeo supremacist
(Zionist) movements have murdered and terrorized millions in
pursuit of a messianic, "Chosen Race" agenda. They will
continue to kill until the Judeofascists and their agents,
allies and accomplices are identified, exposed and
isolated.--Chris Moore, editor I learned
last night from an Israeli online journal that two days
before the Utoeya Island massacre, the leader of the ruling
Norwegian Labour Party’s youth wing, the Workers Youth
League (AUF), Eskil Pedersen, gave an interview to Dagbladet,
Norway's second largest tabloid newspaper, in which he
unveiled what he thinks of Israel. In the course of the
interview, Pedersen stated that he “believes the time has
come for more drastic measures against Israel, and [that he]
wants the foreign minister to impose an economic boycott
against the country”. Pederson went on to say, “The peace
process goes nowhere, and though the whole world expect
Israel to comply, they do not. We in Labour Youth will have
a unilateral economic embargo of Israel from the Norwegian
side.”
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Friends of Palestine
Adalah-NY: The
Coalition for Justice in the Middle East
Al- Nakba
Awareness Project
Alliance for Global
Justice
Americans &
Palestinians for Peace (AMPAL)
American Jews for a
Just Peace
American Jews for a Just Peace – Boston
American-Arab
Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) – DC
American
Muslims for Palestine
American
Muslim Voice Foundation
Americans United for
Palestinian Human Rights
Arab American Forum
Arab Americans of Central Ohio
Arizona Alliance for Peace and Justice (AAPJ)
Artists Against Apartheid
BAKA: Students United for Middle Eastern Justice at
Rutgers University
Bay Area Women in Black
Birthright
Unplugged
Brooklyn for Peace
Build Bridges Not Walls
California Israel Divestment Campaign
Carolina
Peace
Central New York Working for a Just Peace in
Palestine and Israel
Chicago Faith Coalition on Middle East Policy
(CFCMEP)
Christians for Palestinian Rights, Maine
Christian Peacemaker Teams – Palestine
Citizens for Justice
in the Middle East
Citizens for Palestinian Self-Determination
Coalition for Palestinian Rights
Coalition of Community Organizations (COCO)
Coalition to
Stop $30 Billion to Israel
CODEPINK Women
For Peace
Committee for a Just
Peace in Israel and Palestine
Committee for Palestinian Rights
Committee for Peace
in Israel and Palestine
Corvallis Palestine Action Group
Council for the
National Interest
Cultures of Resistance Network
Ella’s Daughter’s and Arab-Jewish Partnership
End the Occupation- Northern Illinois
Dorothy Day Catholic Worker Movement
Faculty for Israeli-Palestinian Peace
Fast Times in Palestine
Fellowship of
Reconciliation
Free Palestine Movement
Friends of Palestine
Friends of
Sabeel -North America
Friends of Sabeel -NorCal
Front Range Coalition for Mideast Justice & Peace
Global
Exchange
Hilton Head for Peace
If
Americans Knew
Institute for Research:
Middle Eastern Policy, Inc
InterDenominational Advocates for Peace
Interfaith Community for Palestinian Rights
Interfaith Community for Palestinian Rights, Austin,
TX
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Interfaith
Peace-Builders
International
Solidarity Movement
International Solidarity Movement, Bard College
International
Solidarity Movement, Northern California
International Jewish
Anti-Zionist Network
Israeli Committee
Against House Demolitions USA (ICHAD-USA)
Israeli
Occupation Archive
It is Apartheid
Jews Say
No
Jewish
Voice for Peace
Jewish Voice for Peace, Bay Area
Jewish Voice
for Peace, Boston
Jewish Voice for Peace, Chicago
Jewish Voice for Peace, Portland, OR
Jewish Voice for Peace, DC Metro Chapter
Justice First Foundation
JustPeace
Kalamazoo
Nonviolent Opponents of War (KNOW)
LA Jews for
Peace
MADRE
MAS (Muslim American Society) Freedom
Methodist Federation for Social Action
Middle East
Children’s Alliance
Middle
East Fellowship
Section
MidEast: JustPeace
Middle East Peace Now
Middle East Policy Advisory
Committee (MEPAC)
Minnesota Break the Bonds
Muslim Student Union –
University of California, Irvine
National Lawyers Guild, Free
Palestine Committee
Network of Spiritual
Progressives
New Orleans Palestinian
Solidarity
Nonviolence International
Northfielders for Justice in Palestine/Israel
North Shore Coalition for
Peace and Justice
Olympia BDS
Palestine-Israel Action Group- Quakers, Ann Arbor,
MI
Peace Action
Peace Action New York State
Peace Action of San Mateo
County
Peace Action Montgomery (MD)
Philly BDS
Princeton Middle East Society
Progressive Democrats of
America
Proposition One Committee
Radio Free Maine
Rachel Corrie Foundation
Radio Against Apartheid
Radio Free Maine
Run For Palestine
Sabeel DC Metro
Sacramento Area Peace Action
Saje Press
Sba Farms Collective
Seattle Mideast Awareness
Campaign
Socialist Party USA -Baltimore branch
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South Florida Boycott, Divest
and Sanction
Squadron13.com
Students Confronting Apartheid by Israel at Stanford
University
Students for Peace and Justice in Palestine-
University of Virginia
St. Louis
Palestine Solidarity Committee
Stop AIPAC
Students for a Free Palestine
at Oberlin
Students for Justice in Palestine Groups:
SJP- American University
SJP- Benedictine University
SJP- Brown University
SJP- Florida International University
SJP- George Washington University
SJP- Georgetown University
SJP- New York University
SJP- Northeastern University
SJP- Pennsylvania State University
SJP- San Diego State University
SJP- Saint Xavier University
SJP- UC Berkeley
SJP- UCSD
SJP- University of Maryland
The Campaign for Peace and Democracy
The Coalition Against Israeli
Apartheid
The Coalition for Peace with
Justice
The Committee for Peace in
Israel and Palestine – CoPiP
The Front Range Coalition for Mideast Justice &
Peace
The Madison-Rafah Sister City
Project in Madison, Wisconsin
The North Texas Boycott,
Divest and Sanction of Israel Campaign
The Peace Education Center of
Greater Lansing
The Tree of Life Educational
Fund
The US Peace Council
Unelected.org
Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle
East
United for Peace and Justice
United National Antiwar Committee
US Boat to Gaza
US Campaign for the Academic
and Cultural Boycott of Israel
US Campaign to End the Israeli
Occupation
US Palestinian Community
Network (USPCN)
The US Peace Council
Vermonters for a Just Peace In
Palestine/Israel
Veterans for Peace
Voices for Creative
Nonviolence
Washington Interfaith Peace
Alliance
Washington Peace Center
We Are Wide Awake
WESPAC Foundation
Women in Black, Augusta Chapter
Women in Black, Westchester, NY
Women’s International League
for Peace and Freedom- US |
- 2011 - Gilad
Atzmon publishes The
Wandering Who? Gilad Atzmon (Hebrew: גלעד
עצמון; born June 9, 1963) is an Israeli-born
British jazz saxophonist,
novelist, political activist and writer.Atzmon's
album Exile was BBC jazz album of the year in 2003. Playing
over 100 dates a year, he has been called "surely the
hardest-gigging man in British jazz." His albums, of which
he has recorded thirteen to date, often explore the music of
the Middle East and political themes. He has described
himself as a "devoted political artist." A profile in The
Guardian in 2009 which described Atzmon as "one of
London's finest saxophonists" stated: "It is Atzmon's blunt
anti-Zionism rather than his music that has given him an
international profile, particularly in the Arab world, where
his essays are widely read." His criticisms of Zionism, Jewish
identity, and Judaism,
as well as his controversial views on The
Holocaust and Jewish
history have led to allegations of antisemitism and
racism from
both Zionists and anti-Zionists.
... Activism: Gilad Atzmon's service as a paramedic in
the Israeli
Defense Forces during the 1982
Lebanon War caused him to conclude that "I was part of a
colonial state, the result of plundering and ethnic
cleansing." He told an interviewer that it was there he
first learned about Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, legislation
to prevent their return, and the wiping out of
Palestinian villages. “We were indoctrinated into a denial
of the Palestinian Cause. We were not aware of it.” Atzmon
supports the Palestinian
right of return and the one-state
solution in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
...
The
Wandering Who? In 2011, Zero
Books published Atzmon's book The Wandering Who? A Study
of Jewish Identity Politics whose publisher states the book
"examines Jewish identity politics and Jewish contemporary
ideology using both popular culture and scholarly texts."[65] Five
academics, a journalist and an author were quoted in blurbs in
the front of the book. John
Mearsheimer of the University
of Chicago wrote that "Gilad Atzmon has written a
fascinating and provocative book on Jewish identity in the
modern world" and that the book "should be widely read by
Jews and non-Jews alike." Richard
Falk wrote it was "absorbing and moving" book that
everyone who "care[s] about real peace" should "not only
read, but reflect upon and discuss widely
- 2011
Stop de Bezetting We have always been and will always be
against the occupation We have always been and will always
be against normalization in all its aspects We have always
been and will always be against the illegal Zionist state We
have always been and will always be resistance resistance
resistance...
- 2011
Facebook TEVA pharmaceuticals, boycott Boycotting TEVA
is done in 3 easy steps: 1) If you have a prescription at a
pharmacy and the manufacturer (MFG) of your medication is
TEVA, call the pharmacy and kindly ask it what other brands
they carry in your generic medication (there are so many).
Teva manufactures 71 billion tablets a year in 77 production
facilities around the world. Over 1.5 million Teva
prescriptions are written each day in the US alone, 1,052
prescriptions per minute.
- 2012 July
TheYeshivaWorld According to a Kikar Shabbat report, the
Vishnitzer Rebbe from Monsey Shlita may boycott the main
Siyum HaShas because “Zionist rabbis” are expected to
address the tzibur. This apparently may also lead to other
prominent rabbonim and admorim shlita to boycott the event.
Until this announcement, residents of Eretz Yisroel were
envious of Jews in North America which was holding one major
siyum for all as opposed to in Eretz Yisrael there are
siyumim for Ashkenazim, Sephardim, litvish and dati leumi.
The rebbe’s announcement however changes all of this.
Invited to address that forum is Tel Aviv Chief Rabbi
Yisrael Meir Lau Shlita as well as Rosh Yeshivas HaMekubalim
Ahavas Shalom HaRav HaGaon Yaakov Hillel Shlita.
The Vishnitzer Rebbe Monsey, told organizers earlier in
the week he cannot attend since the “Zionist rabbis” will be
attending in an official capacity.
- 2012 June
EndTheOccupation The last two months have seen a
lot of activity around our two corporate boycott and
divestment campaigns, from over two-dozen events during our
March month of action, to protests at the Motorola
shareholders' meeting last week. Just one day before
Motorola's shareholders' meeting, the AIPAC
American-Israel Public Affairs Committee's (AIPAC) Executive
Director made an impassioned speech about the efficacy of
boycott and divestment campaigns. Now, join us as we gear
up for
Caterpillar's shareholder's meeting on June 10th.
- 2012 Oct
Center for
Economic Justice The World Bank Bonds Boycott is an
international grassroots campaign that is building moral,
political, and financial pressure on the World Bank. The
World Bank raises most of its funds by issuing bonds.
Ordinary people, through their pension funds, labor unions,
churches, municipalities, and universities are exerting
pressure for change on the World Bank by refusing to buy its
bonds. The campaign links social movements in the global
South which are challenging harmful World Bank policies with
activists and networks in the North which are using the
boycott to reclaim democracy at home. The campaign demands
an end to the World Bank's harmful "structural adjustment"
policies; 100% debt cancellation; and an end to
environmentally destructive projects, especially for oil,
gas, mining, and dams. ... OCTOBER 8, 2012
-- The International Brotherhood of Teamsters signed onto
the World Bank Bonds Boycott on October 3, at a meeting of
its International Executive Board. The International
Brotherhood of Teamsters, with 1.4 million members, is one
of the largest labor unions in the world. The Teamsters join
six other international unions that have adopted the
boycott, including the American Postal Workers Union (APWU),
the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), the
American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), the
International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), the
Communication Workers of America, and the United Electrical,
Radio and Machine Workers (UE). In addition to these
international unions, the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO, 7 central
labor councils, and several UAW, AFSCME and Steelworker
locals have adopted the boycott.
- 2012 Oct
AIPAC The United States on Oct. 25 rejected a
U.N. report calling
for the boycott of companies with commercial activities with
Israelis living in the West Bank. The report to the U.N.
General Assembly (UNGA) was issued by Richard Falk, the U.N.
special rapporteur for the Palestinian territories. In the
report, Falk recommends that U.N. member states and their
citizens “boycott, divest and sanction” thirteen companies,
including HP, Caterpillar and Volvo. In an official
statement, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice described
the calls from Falk as “irresponsible and unacceptable.”
Rather than providing the UNGA with ways to advance peace
between Palestinians and Israelis, Ambassador Rice expressed
disappointment that Falk’s report instead “poison[ed] the
environment for peace.”
- 2012 Nov
Pakistan Observer Nov 2, 2012 22 groups urge EU to
boycott Israeli settlers products ... Ankara— a boycott
would undercut their economic reason for staying there. The
Palestinians want to establish a state in the occupied
West Bank, East Jerusalem and besieged Gaza and say
settlements steal their own territory. About 311,000 Israeli
settlers and 2.5 million Palestinians live in the occupied
West Bank. see BigCampaign Boycott
Israeli goods
- 2012 Nov
SetYouFreeNews The leader of Britain's Conservative
party, David Cameron, called himself a "Zionist" Tuesday as
he slammed a British initiative for an academic boycott
against Israel. Cameron, responding to questions at the
annual luncheon of Conservative Friends of Israel, said the
academic boycott was completely uncalled for, and that
attacks against Israel often slid into anti-Semitism. "If by
Zionist you mean that the Jews have the right to a homeland
in Israel and the right to a country then I am a Zionist,"
the Tory leader said, adding that support for Israel is "in
the DNA" of members of his party. He also justified
construction of the separation fence, but expressed concern
that it might torpedo a two-state solution.
- 2012 Nov
MonaBaker Personal
Statement: To fully understand the reasons for the growing
campaign of boycott of Israeli institutions, as well as my
own position, it helps to know something about the history
of the conflict. You might like to consult some sources by
renowned Israeli scholars, for example Ilan Pappe's The
Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians (Routledge, 2006), and
Jewish activists, for example The
Origin of the Palestine-Israel Conflict, by Jews for
Justice in the Middle East. See also the website of Uri
Davis, renowned Israeli activist and author of numerous
books on Israel. To understand the nature of the
horror to which the current boycott campaign is responding,
please look at some of thephotographs recently
taken by a chest doctor in Palestine (British doctors are
currently campaigning to have the Israeli Medical
Association expelled from the World Medical Association).
Scroll down the page and ask yourself if any decent human
being can possibly justify these atrocities or would wish to
campaign against anyone trying to do something about them
through non-violent means, even if they do not fully agree
with some aspects of the boycott. You might also wish to
read this
report by Brian Johnston, a member of a group from
Pittsburgh who visited Palestine in August 2007. To
understand the rationale for the boycott campaign, and
access a set of links to various initiatives, click here.
To understand my own rationale concerning the distinction
between institutions and individuals, click here.
If you are particularly interested in minorities such as
Deaf children, click here for
an example of what they are suffering in this context.
- CorporateWatch
- 2012 Dec
Haaretz According to a new survey, more than a third of
Israelis would leave the country if they could, citing
economic opportunities as the main reason. Who are the
wannabe leavers, and what can be done to induce them to
stay?
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