Friday, April 6, 2007
Today on the moderated email list of the Muslim American Society, an "analysis" of the Sudan situation from Joachim Martillo which is "an elaboration" of his testimony before Massachusetts legislators considering divesting the pension fund from the Sudan (Mia Farrow was in town):
...The type of grass roots-like political activity in which I saw the organized Jewish community engage at the hearing suggests that AIPAC and similar specifically Zionist political lobby organizations represent only part of the web of control that Jewish or Zionist groups exert or attempt to exert over public discourse about the Middle East, about human rights, about Arabs and about Islam.
I tried to tailor my statement to the Passover season just as Rabbi Or N. Rose (Hebrew College, Newton, Massachusetts) did in his speech before the Committee...
A taste should suffice:
...A large segment of the organized Jewish community is panicked at an open public discussion of the crimes of the State of Israel and at the growing size and potential political strength of the American Muslim community.
Darfur divestment is a red herring that Israel advocacy organizations have cooked up as a distraction. Militant Zionists have used this sort of tactic for decades. In the 30s the most extreme Americans Zionists invariably opposed discrimination against African Americans in order to obscure the key racist principle of Zionism...
I feel dirty just having read this.......
ISRAEL divestment is a red herring that ISLAMOFASCIST advocacy organizations have cooked up as a distraction to hatred of Christians, Hindus, and equality for women. Militant ISLAMOFASCISTS have used this sort of tactic for decades. In the 30s the most extreme ISLAMOFASCISTS sided with nazi Germany with which it SHARED the key racist principles of FASCISM...
There. I fixed it.