[lbo-talk] Palestine Think Tank: Jeff Blankfort - Chomsky and Palestine: Asset or Liability?

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Jul 21 21:33:06 PDT 2010


On Jul 21, 2010, at 11:36 PM, dredmond at efn.org wrote:


> Agitate who? A Congress bought off with $3 billion of campaign donations?
> A mainstream mass media dripping with Murdochian xenophobia and unashamed
> drone-bomber imperialism?
>
> I don't always agree with Carrol, but he's absolutely right about a couple
> of things: (1) the Dems are a pool of toxic waste left over from the Cold
> War, and (2) the Left has zero influence over the US Federal government
> right now. This isn't a counsel of despair, but simple pragmatism. We have
> to go local, and support whatever local and state campaigns, community
> groups, unions, etc. we can.

So the few thousand people who support the BDS movement in the U.S. are going to do through private action what they can't do through public action?

Doug



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