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BTW if this is still about all the Alison Weir drama, check out the petition Louis posted on his blog a few days ago: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1oyHWpfZtMvDez5XThztcbRMbgzQqMnCibkVk4Rjh3Hw/viewform Some of the new signers include Iyad Burnat, the head of the Bi'lin Popular Committee. His brother is also the guy who got the Oscar for 5 Broken Cameras. - Amith On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 2:39 AM, A.R. G <amithrgu...@gmail.com> wrote: > Jeff, do you know who any of these people actually are? You wrote off some > of the most courageous people I know as members of the extreme right, as > far as I am concerned your opinion on this matter is groundless. > > - Amith > > On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 2:16 AM, Jeff via Marxism < > marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > >> ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** >> #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. >> #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. >> #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. >> ***************************************************************** >> >> At 20:10 30-07-15 -0400, Louis Proyect via Marxism wrote: >> >that reach millions of people. We should be happy that there are a >> >number of prominent people including Mearsheimer and Walt who have the >> >guts to denounce the Zionist project even if it is from a "narrow" >> >perspective. The Palestinians benefit from their support much more than >> >they do from tiny Marxist groups that have great politics but zero >> >influence. >> >> Whenever someone speaks the truth, the oppressed benefit. When a >> government >> official gets pissed off and gets themselves in trouble telling the truth, >> of course that's good. It's even better for them to tell the truth when >> they are put on trial. >> >> But my point was that the Palestinians in particular benefit much more >> from >> the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation and Jewish Voice for Peace >> because those groups are on the left MEANING that their motivation is >> solidarity with the Palestinians, and not antisemitism (or more benignly >> "promoting our national interests"). That means they are doing it for the >> right reason and with the right message, even where we might find >> disagreements. And these groups DO have considerable influence, as does >> Noam Chomsky who also is a leftist thus pro-Palestinian. His message is >> preferable to that of pro-Arab James Abourezk who is himself far >> preferable >> to the right-wing trash who are amazingly being lauded simply because they >> hate Israel and have "influence." >> >> - Jeff >> >> >> _________________________________________________________ >> Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm >> Set your options at: >> http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/amithrgupta%40gmail.com >> > > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
