With reference to;
So far, 35 out of 50 US states have passed resolutions supporting the
IHRC guidelines by their legislatures [2].
IHRC antisemitism includes
"Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination,
e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor."
The threat to free speech here operates by taking advantage of the lack of any
affirmation for the recognition of the Jewish People and as such the Right to
Self-determination, as required by International Law. The sad tale rehashed by
Shlomo Sand of the Koestler work of fiction, is put into place as opposed to
any serious analysis of the National-Identity of the Jewish People as opposed
to the Nationalism of Zionism. The reasons for doing so and subsequently for
the lack of any argument that would counteract the effect of such a definition
as above, is due to the suppression of the Jewish Bundist perspective on the
Jewish People-Nation as a result of the Marxist classical Antisemitism and
Zionist manipulation of historical account.
Dr abrahim Weizfeld Phd
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Hi Michael
> On Aug 22, 2024, at 6:19 AM, RKOB via groups.io <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> Dear Mark,
>
> probably my English is not good enough but I am not sure if I ask your
> question correctly. Do you ask me why I think Rashad Khalidi has written
> this? (Of course, I do not know.) Or did you mean something else?
>
> Best wishes!
My question was a rhetorical question, and it's unclear for an international
list. But first, let me express solidarity with your legal plight, and I hope
there is some recourse remaining in the legal system and that it continues to
pull people together.
Government agencies and private employers US have begun persecuting people for
their speech, notably their opinions on Israel. In my state of Oregon, more
than eight-thousand letters of support were submitted to the state legislature
urging that they adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Center (IHRC)
definition of "antisemitism" [1]. This resolution is "non-legally binding" but
is nonetheless being brought to state legislatures that pass and rescind laws.
So far, 35 out of 50 US states have passed resolutions supporting the IHRC
guidelines by their legislatures [2].
IHRC antisemitism includes
"Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by
claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor."
That would make investigating Israeli as an apartheid state, for example, an
antisemitic act. So too, maybe, for Shlomo Sand's historical finding that the
notion of "the Jewish people" is an invention; someone might conclude, for this
reason, that the right of self determination is irrelevant. Moreover, it might
be deemed "antisemitic" to hold that there was never a mass exile or any
justification for the European Ashkenazim to "return home," or that Israel
citizens should not lay claim to the land but fairly share it instead with the
indigenous populations.
I can imagine this "non-legally binding" resolution being a step along the path
of legal repression. Repression including revoking citizenship or residency
has been done in the US past for syndicalists, socialists, anarchists and
communists. Authoritarian forces in the US might use Israel as a bludgeon
against groups who want to change US foreign policy away from forever wars.
The reasons may differ and the legal repression is worse than the US when
someone gets sentenced for six month in prison for their speech,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aDKwrivTzM (closed caption and transcript
roughly translated into English).
Regarding my rhetorical question from
https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/31706, Theses on World Perspectives: In
the Midst of a Cycle of Wars and Revolutions, I think Khaladi makes two
important points: First, the idea that Hamas could start a regional war is an
idea based on false assumptions about the regional powers; second, a regional
war would only further devastate the people in Gaza and play into the Israeli
goal of ethnic cleansing both Gaza and the West Bank.
My two cents.
thanks, Mark
[1]
https://www.ajc.org/sites/default/files/pdf/2020-04/IHRA%20Working%20Definition%20of%20Antisemitism%20Booklet%20Web%20-%203.20.pdf
[2]
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/states-adopt-ihra-definition-of-anti-semitism
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