[lbo-talk] real world labels include 'zionism' and 'zionist'

joanna bujes jbujes at covad.net
Tue Dec 28 23:29:57 PST 2004


Yes, I actually heard Michael L. in person argue that the Zionists moving into Palestine were like blacks moving into a white neighborhood.

No. Not by a long shot. Not historically, not metaphornically, not in any damned way.

Joanna

Samuel Waite wrote:


>I'm inclined to agree, but I'm curious: how, then,
>would you respond to someone like Michael Lerner, who
>equates Zionism with affirmative action for Jews?
>
>--- Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote:
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>>Jon wrote:
>>
>>
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>>>But since I have the opportunity, I can ask. By
>>>
>>>
>>"zio-liberals," do
>>
>>
>>>you mean people who are not committed to
>>>
>>>
>>eliminating Israel?
>>
>>Whether there is one state or two states in historic
>>Palestine or
>>whether there is a state called Israel in it is not
>>the most
>>important question. After all, what's in a name?
>>
>>The question is whether people are committed to
>>upholding equal
>>rights between Arabs and Jews (as well as other more
>>recent
>>immigrants) in historic Palestine.
>>
>>Zionism as it is practiced by the state of Israel
>>rests on the
>>negation of equal rights.
>>--
>>Yoshie
>>
>>* Critical Montages: <http://montages.blogspot.com/>
>>* Greens for Nader: <http://greensfornader.net/>
>>* Bring Them Home Now!
>><http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/>
>>* OSU-GESO: <http://www.osu-geso.org/>
>>* Calendars of Events in Columbus:
>><http://sif.org.ohio-state.edu/calendar.html>,
>><http://www.freepress.org/calendar.php>, &
>><http://www.cpanews.org/>
>>* Student International Forum:
>><http://sif.org.ohio-state.edu/>
>>* Committee for Justice in Palestine:
>><http://www.osudivest.org/>
>>* Al-Awda-Ohio:
>><http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Al-Awda-Ohio>
>>* Solidarity: <http://www.solidarity-us.org/>
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