----- Original Message ----- From: "Justin Schwartz" <jkschw at hotmail.com>
>Mostly I work with Not In My Name, a Jewish group here in Chicago that tries
>desperately to reach out to the mainstream Jewish community and make inroads
>on unthinking Zionism, see the Palestinians as human beings. It's hard and
>thankless work--except for the Palestinians,w ho are incredibly supportive
>and grateful. Sound too purist for you, Nathan? jks
Not at all-- and I actually recognize that a lot of people on the list are far more pluralistic in their political practice than their rhetoric on this list indicates (just as I am far more of a leftwing crazy in political practice than my pro-Democratic hack positions on this list indicate).
But there is a rhetoric of excommunication, that looks for reasons why people who agree on 95% of the issues are "waffling" or are not really a leftist.
-- Nathan Newman