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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/13/opinion/andrew-cuomos-anti-free-speech-move-on-bds.html?_r=0 The author, Daniel Sieradski, is this guy, who describes himself as a Zionist and has a long history of organizing against BDS, undermining support for the Gaza flotillas, undermining mass demonstrations in defense of Palestinians in Gaza, etc: https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/abraham-greenhouse/palestinians-express-solidarity-nyc-occupy-camp-raid-activist-tweet The article Sieradski writes is somewhat telling about NYT, but definitely telling about liberal Zionism. In the same breath that Sieradski defends the 1st Amendment rights of BDS activists, he condemns boycotts of "Israel as a whole". He frames "both sides" of the debate as being Eugene Kontorovich, a Zionist right-wing professor, and JVP -- a Jewish liberal group that has endorsed BDS for all of about 1.5 years. Palestinians -- and for that matter, virtually anyone outside of the liberal Jewish community -- are non-existent except as objects to be talked about in Sieradski's article. Indeed, he finishes with an anecdote about his time living in the Israeli settler colony and his many relatives that live there as well. This is the embodiment of the privileging of Jewish voices. The discussion is about Jews having the right to take different stances on whether or not Palestinians should have rights (or what those rights should be). Indeed, any criticism of such rhetoric is met with defensiveness and hostility by people like Sieradski (see the tweet above). To the extent that Sieradski supports boycotts he supports them in so far as they will strengthen Israel -- the way that they are criticized by Omar Barghouti here: http://mondoweiss.net/2015/10/israel-itself-appropriating/ Astonishingly, other people in the movement, such as Rahim Kurwa, who was in the National Students for Justice in Palestine (an ad hoc organization that put itself in charge of national student conference organizing and has a penchant for red-baiting and hemorrhaging its own cyclical membership due to its internal corruption) threatened to leak private organizing deliberations involving me to him after he attacked me for criticism of JVP: https://twitter.com/PalestineToday/status/704409747710062592 This is the state of some chunks of the movement. - Amith <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=oa-2322-a> Virus-free. www.avast.com <https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail&utm_term=oa-2322-a> <#DDB4FAA8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> _________________________________________________________ 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
