Gar,
Yours was a nicely toned piece, well argued.
Gene
On May 10, 2012, at 10:17 AM, Gar Lipow wrote:
> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 12:50 AM, Joseph Catron <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Kudos to our own Gar on a nice introduction:
>>
>> "As former President Jimmy Carter and South African anti-apartheid leader
>> Archbishop Desmond Tutu point out, Israel currently is an apartheid state.
>> In Gaza, bombing of water and sewage and an Israeli blockade preventing
>> rebuilding ensure that less than 10 percent of available water is safe to
>> drink, leading to hepatitis, kidney disease and cancer. In the West Bank,
>> Palestinian homes are bulldozed while illegal settler homes are
>> subsidized.In Israel itself, many homes are subject to racially restrictive
>> covenants that exclude Palestinians, like the similar covenants that once
>> excluded African Americans in the United States. Beatings, window-breakings
>> and other types of violence against Palestinians are often tolerated. These
>> war crimes and other human rights abuses are well-documented by such groups
>> as Amnesty International and Jewish Voices for Peace.
>>
>> "In response to a universal call from Palestinian civil society, the
>> international community seeks boycott of Israeli goods, divestment from
>> Israeli businesses, and sanctions against the government of Israel until
>> Palestinian rights are respected. BDS is the same tactic that helped bring
>> down apartheid in South Africa ..."
>>
>>
>> Read more here:
>> http://www.theolympian.com/2012/05/10/2099183/local-action-in-protest-of-israeli.html
>
> Thanks for the kind words Joseph. I wish I could have gone into more
> detail, but a combination of limited space and the fact that I had to
> use much of that limited space to respond to smears prevented that. It
> is an interesting dilemma that leftists often have to face. When we
> are given space in the corporate press, one reason may be that an
> attack on us overstepped the norms even of that corporate media. So on
> the one hand, maybe the thing to do is ignore the whatever false
> charges were made against us and concentrate on the issue being
> distracted from. On the other hand, ignoring that kind of thing
> reinforces it and leads people to believe it true. I at least led with
> the issue of Palestinian rights. But I'm not at all sure that I got
> the balance right. For future reference I'm curious how others would
> have handled the same opportunity, given the 600 word limit, the
> one-time nature of the opportunity, and the nature of the piece being
> responded to. Discussion of how to handle such opportunities might be
> useful to many on this list.
>
> My piece:
> http://www.theolympian.com/2012/05/10/2099183/local-action-in-protest-of-israeli.html
>
> The smear piece it was responding to.
> http://www.theolympian.com/2012/05/02/2089483/local-actions-target-israel-but.html
>
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