American Jews come out in support of Israeli Apartheid Week as Israeli establishment divided on response
Excellent article by Donna Neve, a Jewish American supporter of Israeli Apartheid Week writing in Haaretz today (see below). The Israeli establishment seems increasingly split over how to respond as another Haaretz article shows:
...Recently I experienced deja vu when I saw the exact strategy I had been taught so many years ago being used by the Israeli government and the American Jewish establishment as part of a relentless hasbara campaign to denounce and discredit Justice Richard Goldstone and the Goldstone Report.Part of Israel's Apartheid Wall is pictured above.
On this past International Holocaust Day, as part of this campaign, the Israeli government shamefully used this day to further its attack on Justice Goldstone and the report.
The attack has been particularly virulent, perhaps because this evidence-based report, whose lead author is internationally respected and known as a supporter of Israel, revealed the immorality of the IDF's actions with powerful legal authority.
The IDF is not a "defense" force. It is an illegal occupying army that is brutalizing the Palestinian people. Why am I marching with 22 organizations to protest the Friends of the IDF dinner and the war criminal it is honoring? Quite simply: How could I not?
Donna Nevel, a community psychologist and long-time organizer for Israeli-Palestinian peace and justice, is a member of Jews Say No!, one of the organizations co-sponsoring the protest on March 9th.
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The doofuses behind Israel Apartheid Week failed to notice that their event falls right at the start of Buycott Israel Month (www.buycottmonth.com).
ReplyDeleteAlso, given that the Apartheidists behind Israel Apartheid Week are so enamored with Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS), they may find this little story of unintended consequences enlightening: http://www.divestthis.com/2010/03/running-numbers.html