Saturday, June 14, 2008
Adam Holland has an excellent post up which he has cross-posted at Daily Kos concerning efforts in Seattle to get a referendum on the ballot to divest from companies doing business with Israel and helping the War in Iraq (oh for the enforcement of sedition laws): Seattle's deceptive anti-Israel referendum
Holland does an excellent job of exposing the fundamentally deceptive nature of the petition, as well as exposing the true goals of many of the effort's backers. The illuminating comment thread shows Kos participants rather sharply divided between those who think Israel is an apartheid state, just an expansionist power...oh, and some who support Holland's point of view.
This will be an issue to watch. Start with the post above and take some time to read it and make a mental note of the groups involved:
...Liat Weingart, one of the groups leaders (Jewish Voice for Peace), recently lobbied the United Methodists to divest their pension funds from Israel. In the course of her speech to the United Methodist General Conference, she said "(i)f you haven’t been accused of anti-Semitism yet, you haven’t been doing the work of Justice." The audience reportedly "gasped and laughed".
The number of self-hating Jews out there never fails to amaze me.......
BHG