> If Adam Shapiro or Lenni Brenner or Norman Finkelstein were asked to talk
at
> the rally, or Noam Chomsky, god forbid!, I think Lerner would still feel
> upset that his brand of Zionism was denied a platform, and he would
contend
> that such speakers were "anti-Israel"...I don't imagine a scenario aside
> from letting Lerner speak that would satisfy him. Nor would it satisfy the
> mainstream media. Next it would be Todd Gitlin who was denied first
> admendment rights. Then it would be Leo Casey....and countless others who
> spend most of their energy criticising the movement.
It's not a question of legality, but of tactics. To deny a very prominent anti-war lefty like Lerner the chance to speak at an anti-war rally is lunacy. Perhaps ANSWER cares more about controlling the anti-war movement than it does about building the broadest anti-war movement possible?
-- Luke