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---- Original Message ----- From: Sheldon Ranz To: Thomas F Barton Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 10:10 PM Subject: Re: [Marxism] progressive academics and bds You refer to me, a BDS advocate, as a "Zionist scoundrel" because I dare to differ with you in my advocacy of two-state solution that is consistent with, say, Counterpunch's Uri Avnery. And by claiming that Zionism is anti-Semitic, you are referring to me as an anti-Semite simply because I don't share your anti-Zionism. ******************************************************************************************************************************************************** COMMENT RE ORIGINAL MESSAGE: Zionism is a racist political tendency, combining the most vicious expansionist nationalism with force of arms. There have always been, and are to this day, political tendencies among Jews all over the world that have fought Zionism implacably, and still fight Zionism for the evil it is: nothing but a reactionary, odious, bloodthirsty politics that says a bunch of people can walk into Palestine, slaughter the people living there, reduce the survivors to objects of scorn and abuse, and stuff them in huge open air concentration camps, where they may be killed more conveniently. Zionism, like fascism, or any other form of expansionist militarized nationalism, has nothing whatever progressive or redeeming about it. It is no more possible to defend the politics of Zionism that to defend the slaveholders in the United States who formed a regime founded on similar principles of structured inequality: The Confederate States Of America. As finally occurred in South Africa, where a regime founded on similar murderous racist tyranny eventually was destroyed by mass resistance, it may be hoped that one day, the area comprised now by every inch of Israel, including every inch of the occupied territories, will form one political entity, with one person, one vote, and where all, regardless of their background, have equal rights, including the right of the Palestinians to return to their homes. In order for that to happen, the Zionist regime must be destroyed, and Zionism cease to be embodied in a government that proclaims that those who are not Zionists are inferiors, just as for change to come to South Africa, the racist regime that ruled there had to be destroyed. Nothing less will end the bloodshed, just as nothing less could end the bloodshed in South Africa generated by a regime openly proclaiming that the Master Race should rule, and all other bow down before it. "A JEW TO ZIONIST FIGHTERS, 1988" DO YOU REALLY WANT TO BE THE NEW GESTAPO? THE NEW WEHRMACHT? THE NEW SA AND SS? Have you heard of Erich Fried who is often referred to as the greatest modern Jewish poet? He was born in Vienna in 1921 and escaped to England, with his mother, after his father was tortured to death by the Gestapo, in 1938. Because of his experiences with racism and Fascism he became involved in the Palestinian cause. He was a leader in the fight against both Fascism and Zionism. ************************************************************** A JEW TO ZIONIST FIGHTERS, 1988 BY ERICH FRIED What do you actually want? Do you really want to outdo those who trod you down a generation ago into your own blood and into your own excrement Do you want to pass on the old torture to others now in all its bloody and dirty detail with all the brutal delight of torturers as suffered by your fathers? Do you really want to be the new Gestapo the new Wehrmacht the new SA and SS and turn the Palestinians into the new Jews? Well then I too want, having fifty years ago myself been tormented for being a Jewboy by your tormentors, to be a new Jew with these new Jews you are making of the Palestinians And I want to help lead them as a free people into their own land of Palestine from whence you have driven them or in which you plague them you apprentices of the Swastika you fools and changelings of history whose Star of David on your flags turns ever quicker into that damned symbol with its four feet that you just do not want to see but whose path you are following today ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
