1) Relieved to hear Doug and Liza's position. I was disillusioned seeing my Nation compatriots signed on to a statement that was, as they note, largely about clubbing ANSWER, not about Lerner (except in Lerner's eyes).
2) I will bet my signed Willie Nelson poster that if the self-absorbed Rabbi Lerner ever called a march as successful as the ones organized by ANSWER, he wouldn't invite -- i.e., he would "ban" -- radical Palestinians who question Israel's right to exist, who endorse armed resistance against Israel's occuption, or various other positions Lerner finds unpalatable. (Read how he first invited, and then "banned" a writer from submitting a piece on the Palestinian right to return in his magazine Tikkun http://www.al-awda.org/ror_tikkun_debate.htm).
3) Yes, let's get back to fighting the war. Biggest march ever in Raleigh, NC, planned for this weekend. ANSWER nowhere in sight :)
Chris Kromm Director, Institute for Southern Studies
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