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Saturday, September 2, 2006

Our friend Jon Haber, one of the principle folks behind the fight against divestment in the City of Somerville, has a lengthy and excellent piece in the Jerusalem Post that touches all the bases on the subject...from the purpose, to the attempts to get divestment passed in municipalities, the churches, British academia and on to where things stand. Too long to excerpt:The vampire's kiss

Let me just give you the conclusion, but I recommend reading all that leads up to it:

...To see the degenerating effects of divestment at its fullest, one need only look at the Green Party in the US, now so heavily infiltrated by Islamist radicals that its main raison d'etre seems to be battling over "190," the party's own impotent divestment resolution. Once again, this resolution was made national party policy at the eleventh hour by radical members, with little input from party members and in contravention to party rules (including requirements to consult with other national Green parties, such as the one in Israel). With members leaving the party in droves over the issue, and Green candidates struggling with the 190 albatross in mainstream political races, a party once able to play spoiler in a national election may fully self-immolate long before it can even reach America's graveyard of failed third parties.

It may be that the Lebanon crisis will breathe new life into the struggling divestment movement. But at the time of this writing, even the most vocal institutional critics of Israel (such as the mainline Protestant churches) show no immediate interest in revisiting the campaign, no interest, that is, in inviting the vampire back across the threshold.


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Great article, Jon, I enjoyed seeing it in this weekend's Jerusalem Post!

Eric Danis

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