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On 1 May 2012, at 12:35, Bristol-PSC@... wrote:

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> Re: GREAT work co-op team From: Josh Richards
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> Posted by: "Josh Richards" joshstyx@...   joshstyx
> Mon Apr 30, 2012 6:51 pm
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> massive congrats!
> hats off to all involved
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> Subject: [Bristol-PSC] GREAT work co-op team
> To: "Bristol PSC " <Bristol-PSC@...>
> Date: Sunday, 29 April, 2012, 23:52
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>  Well done to all the people from Bristol PSC that have been taking the BDS
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> Mon Apr 30, 2012 10:01 am
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> TAKE ACTION: 
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publishing of an ad in a widely distributed, national newspaper.  
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at public@... to condemn the Times for providing David Horowitz with a
platform for his dangerous slander.  Here is sample text for that letter:
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> Dear Arthur Brisbane, Public Editor:
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> I am writing to express my grave concern about the NY Times publishing the
David Horowitz Freedom Center's ad on the editorial page.  Its slanderous
character assassination and call to initiate a witch hunt have no place in your
newspaper.  Giving an organization that is committed to fanning the flames of
anti-Arab and anti-Muslim racism a platform is irresponsible.  
>  
> I hope that in response to making room in your paper for someone who actively
undermines the 1st Amendment and academic freedom at every turn, you will make
room for responses that adequately address and minimize the damage done to the
reputation of those professors.  
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> Sincerely,
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> Subject: [New post] NEW YORK TIMES HAS A PROBLEM FITTING IN THE FACTS TO PRINT
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> New post on Desertpeace
> NEW YORK TIMES HAS A PROBLEM FITTING IN THE FACTS TO PRINTby desertpeace
>  Last Thursday I posted Ali Abunimah's essay....
> *
> New York Times ad accuses BDS movement, college professors of inciting murder
of Jewish children
> *
> *
> The post can be seen HERE
> *
> Now, have a look at the following... (NOT FOR THE WEAK AT HEART)
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> Kindly look at all of these Palestinian children.
>
> And just so they don't feel left out, here are some Jewish kids.
>
> *
> So, tell us all again, New YorK
> Times, just who is inciting the murder of whose children?
> (Above courtesy of What Really Happened)
> *
> Yesterday I posted a letter to the Editor of  the New York Times disputing
the ad which appeared in their pages...
> *
> HOWMUCH FREEDOM OF THE PRESS IS THERE AT THE NEW YORK TIMES?
> *
> As far as I can tell, the letter has not been published by the Times, but the
photos presented above definitely show whose children are being slaughtered by
whom.
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On 25 Apr 2012, at 12:17, Bristol-PSC@... wrote:

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> Wed Apr 25, 2012 9:20 am
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>
> http://www.gregfelton.com/media/2012_04_21.htm 
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> Activists who talk like zionists continue to betray Palestine
> gregfelton.com
> (April 21, 2012)
> For some time now, I have been trying to get in touch with Ali Abuminah to ask
him to explain his denunciation of Gilad Atzmon. I am used to Palestinian
activists, Arab or non-Arab, attacking each other over this or that political or
doctrinal difference, but this attack is worse than most.
>
> Abuminah has been in the forefront of the anti-Zionist movement for years, and
over that time has built a considerable reputation. His website,
electronicintifada.net, is still an outstanding source for non-zionist (read:
uncensored) news about the Occupation. Consequently, his denunciation of Atzmon
was guaranteed to be influential and reach a large audience, thereby maximizing
the potential damage to Atzmonâ•˙s reputation and scholarship.
> The effect of the attack, though, has been suitably ironic. Rather than harm
Atzmonâ•˙s reputation, Abuminah has elevated it beyond anything Atzmon could
have done by himself. Outpourings of support have come from prominent activists
like Kim Petersen, Alison Weir,Kevin Barrett, Mark Glenn, and Prof. Norton
Mezvinsky. If Abuminah wanted to limit the reach of Atzmonâ•˙s arguments,
he should have kept quiet and just let the hasbarats do what they do best.
>
> What puzzles me is the manner of the attack less than the attack itself. For
instance, why did Abuminah denounce Atzmon so maliciously, and did he seriously
think he could escape condemnation? I wanted to put these and other questions to
this champion of Palestine, but in the absence of co-operation I have had to
come up with my own answers.
>
> VILIFYING GILAD ATZMON
> 1. Smear and Run
>
> I can understand that Abuminah might dissent from Atzmon in whole or in part,
but to denigrate him categorically and mount a campaign to disavow him is
evidence of personal animus, not scholarly disagreement. For example, after
making passing reference to Atzmonâ•˙s new book, The Wandering Who,
Abuminah gets personal:
>
> With this letter, we call for the disavowal of Atzmon by fellow Palestinian
organizers, as well as Palestine solidarity activists, and allies of the
Palestinian people, and note the dangers of supporting Atzmonâ•˙s political
work and writings and providing any platforms for their dissemination. We do so
as Palestinian organizers and activists, working across continents, campaigns,
and ideological positions.
>
> The implication here is that Gilad Atzmon is not a Palestinian solidarity
activist or an ally of the Palestinian people. In fact, Abuminah deems him to
be an enemy of Palestine and tries toexcommunicate Atzmon from the community
of Palestinian activists. How is this constructive?! Whether or not Abuminah
wants to admit it, Atzmon and he are on the same side, but such dogmatic
hostility suggests strongly that the motive for the attack goes deeper than a
squabble over activist orthodoxy.
>
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> The next paragraph outlines Abuminahâ•˙s ╲case╡ against Atzmon
followed by Atzmonâ•˙s comments (italics):
>
> 1. Atzmonâ•˙s politics rest on one main overriding assertion that serves
as springboard for vicious attacks on anyone who disagrees with his obsession
with ╲Jewishness╡.
>
> ╲It is a complete misrepresentation of my thoughts. Also was Freud
obsessed with unconsciousness? Was Einstein obsessed with relativity?╡
>
> Abuminah provides no evidence to substantiate either the claim of vicious
attacks or obsession. Could one argue that Abuminah is obsessed with Palestine?
>
> 2. He claims that all Jewish politics is ╲tribal,â•ˇâ•œ
>
> No I refer only to third category Jewish politics; hence, I do not talk
about all Jewish politics.
> In The Wandering Who, which Abuminah has not read, Atzmon divides
╲Jews╡ into three categories:
> â•¢ Those who follow Judaism;
> â•¢ Those who regard themselves as human beings that happen to be Jewish;
and
> â•¢ Those who put their ╲Jewishness╡ above all other traits.
> The idea of political tribalism clearly does not apply to the first two
categories, so Abuminahâ•˙s charge against Atzmon is without merit.
>
> 3 â•œand essentially, Zionist. Zionism, to Atzmon, is not a
settler-colonial project,╜
> It is a settler project but not colonial for there is no Jewish mother state.
>
> but a trans-historical ╲Jewish╡ one, part and parcel of defining
oneâ•˙s self [sic] as a Jew. Therefore, he claims, one cannot self-describe
as a Jew and also do work in solidarity with Palestine, because to identify as a
Jew is to be a Zionist.
>
> This is complete nonsense!
>
> In fact, the positions Abuminah attributes to Atzmon do not appear anywhere in
the pages ofThe Wandering Who. Moreover, they are obviously ridiculous, given
Atzmonâ•˙s careful distinction among Jews. Even a cursory read of
Atzmonâ•˙s book could have prevented Abuminah from conflating
╲Jew╡ with ╲Jewishness╡, but that implies that Abuminah
was interested in depicting Atzmon fairly, but the end of the paragraph proves
otherwise:
>
> We could not disagree more. Indeed, we believe Atzmonâ•˙s argument is
itself Zionist because it agrees with the ideology of Zionism and Israel that
the only way to be a Jew is to be a Zionist.
>
> 3. Jewish sensitivities come first
>
> Abuminah, like a lot of Palestinian activists, subscribes to the cult of
Jewish victimhood, thereby allowing zionists to define the boundaries of
acceptable discourse. One would expect a Palestinian activist like Abuminah to
be less concerned with upsetting Jews than with exposing the role that Judaism
and Jewish chauvinism play in the persecution of Palestinians. This
is precisely what Atzmon does in The Wandering Who, but instead of embracing
Atzmonâ•˙s candour and honesty, Abuminah sets himself up as ╲Judge,
Jewry and Executioner╡ against Atzmon:
>
> We reaffirm that there is no room in this historic and foundational analysis
of our struggle for any attacks on our Jewish allies, Jews, or Judaism; nor
denying the Holocaust; nor allying in any way shape or form with any conspiracy
theories, far-right, orientalist, and racist arguments, associations and
entities. Challenging Zionism, including the illegitimate power of institutions
that support the oppression of Palestinians, and the illegitimate use of Jewish
identities to protect and legitimize oppression, must never become an attack on
Jewish identities, nor the demeaning and denial of Jewish histories in all their
diversity.
>
> Because Israel claims to be a Jewish state, and admits that it persecutes
Palestinians as a matter of national policy, it is expected, even necessary, for
all things Jewish to come in for criticism. This is especially true of the
Holocaust®, the founding myth of the zionist entity.
>
> For example, the number ╲six million╡ in connection with mass
violence against Jews predates the Holocaust® by a quarter century. On Oct. 31,
1919, the American Hebrew published ╲The Crucifixion of Jews Must
Stop,╡ a blithering screed by former New York Governor Martin H Glynn that
began: ╲From across the sea, six million men and women call to us for
help, and eight hundred thousand little children cry for bread.╡ The
number ╲six million╡ is repeated four times! Further instances of
this number appear in the New York Times (July 20, 1921, p.2; Feb. 17, 1945,
p.8; Jan. 9, 1938 p. 12; and Jan. 8, 1945, p.17).
>
> Does Abuminah believe that anyone who denies the absolute, dogmatic facticity
of ╲six million╡ is a Holocaust® denier? If he does, that
makes him a zionist, not Atzmon.
>
> Finally, of the 10 paragraphs, only three actually mention Atzmon by name. The
majority of the atttack is devoted to Marxist-sounding slogans, boasts of the
morality of the Palestinian cause, and congratulatory backslapping for
anti-Atzmon activists. This imbalance leads me to conclude that the attack
wasnâ•˙t really about Atzmon at all; rather, it seems that Abuminah wanted
to boost his own image at Atzmonâ•˙s expense. This view explains why he put
no effort into being accurate.
>
> Why Abuminah would jeopardize his reputation so recklessly is unclear, but in
the absence of a definitive response from him, I have to conclude that he felt
personally and politically threatened.
> Unlike Abuminah, Atzmon does not buy into the cult of Jewish victimhood or
allow ╲Jewish sensitivities╡ to limit the boundaries of acceptable
political discourse. Abuminah accepts Jews, Jewish history and Jewish culture as
given and treats themwith kid gloves, but in Atzmonâ•˙s hands they are shorn
of all moral privilege and subjected to searing, honest criticism. The
Wandering Who is an unsparing psychological analysis of the Jewish mind and the
sociopathic zionist state. It is essentially a rebuke to the inhibitory
╲reasonableness╡ that makes official Palestinian positions more like
collaboration than liberation.
>
> Abuminah went berserk on Atzmon because he saw in him the kind of honesty
that, as a representative of Palestinian officialdom, he is unable or unwilling
to articulate.
>
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> To all users of this e-mail group,
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> Bristol PSC has had lots of discussion about Gilad Atzmon over the past few
months. It has been very difficult and one member has resigned.
> We want to put this behind us so I am asking you not to post stuff about Gilad
on the PSC email group.� There are differences of opinion.
> The job of the PSC is to campaign for justice in Palestine.� I believe
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The Watershed's Spring 'Festival Of Ideas' programme
has a few  presentations that may be of interest to  PSC members:

1)Pg  7. (of the brochure) May 15th - John McCarthy (previous lebanon hostage)
'You can't hide the sun' - a journey through palestine.

2)Pg.13 (of the brochure) May 19th - Bidisha & Selma Dabbagh ''Palestine Now''

European Zionists started their invasion/occupation of Palestine in 1917.



From:
Subject: Illegal Settlements Bonanza as Zionists plan the end of Palestine

While the Israeli settlement drive since then has swallowed much of the West
Bank and East Jerusalem, populating them with over half a million
Israelis, the
international community's response was as moot in 1967 as it is now in 2012.
Responding to the latest sanctioning of illegal outposts, UN Secretary General
Ban Ki-Moon declared that he was "deeply troubled" by the news. Meanwhile,
Russia was 'deeply concerned' and so was the EU's Catherine Ashton. As for the
US, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland insisted that the Israeli
measure is not "helpful to the process." What process?

While Israel has now showed all of its cards, and the international community
declared its complacency or impotence, the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah
continues to plan some kind of UN censure of the settlements. Even if a
watered-down version of some UN draft managed to survive the US veto, what are
the chances of Israel heeding the call of international community?

There is no doubt that Israel is plotting its version of the endgame in
Palestine, which sees Palestinians continuing to subsist in physical
fragmentation and permanent occupation





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Israel Plots an Endgame
http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/05/03/israels-plots-an-endgame/


by Ramzy Baroud

May 03, 2012

Israel's colonization policies are entering an alarming new phase,
comparable in
historic magnitude to the original plans to colonize Gaza, the West Bank and
East Jerusalem following the war of 1967.

On April 24, an Israeli ministerial committee approved three
settlement outposts
- Bruchin and Rechelim in the northern part of the West Bank, and
Sansana in the
south. Although all settlement activities in the occupied West Bank and East
Jerusalem are considered illegal by international law, Israeli law
differentiates between sanctioned settlements and 'illegal' ones. This
distinction has actually proved to be no more than a disingenuous attempt at
conflating international law, which is applicable to occupied lands,
and Israeli
law, which is in no way relevant.

Since 1967, Israel placed occupied Palestinian land, privately owned or
otherwise, into various categories. One of these categories is
'state-owned', as
in obtained by virtue of military occupation. For many years, the
'state-owned'
occupied land was allotted to various purposes. Since 1990, however,
the Israeli
government refrained from establishing settlements, at lease formally. Now,
according to the Israeli anti-settlement group, Peace Now, "instead
of going to
peace the government is announcing the establishment of three new
settlements.this announcement is against the Israeli interest of
achieving peace
and a two states solution"

Although the group argues that the four-man committee did not have
the authority
to make such a decision, it actually matters little. Every physical
space in the
occupied territories - whether privately owned or 'state owned', 'legally'
obtained or 'illegally' obtained - is free game. The extremist Jewish
settlers,
whose tentacles are reaching far and wide, chasing out Palestinians at every
corner, haven't received such empowering news since the heyday of
Israeli Prime
Minister Ariel Sharon.

The move regarding settlements is not an isolated one. The Israeli
government is
now challenging the very decisions made by the Israeli Supreme Court,
which has
been used as a legitimization platform for many illegal settlements that drove
Palestinians from their land.

On April 27, the Israeli government reportedly asked the high court
to delay the
demolition of an 'unauthorized' West Bank outpost in the Beit El settlement
which was scheduled to take place on May 1st. The land, even by Israeli legal
standards, is considered private Palestinian land, and the Israeli government
had committed to the court to take down the illegal outposts - again, per
Israeli definition - on the specified date.

Now the rightwing Netanyahu government is having another change of
heart. In its
request to the court, the government argued: "The evacuation of the buildings
could carry social, political and operational ramifications for
construction in
Beit El and other settlements." Such an argument, if applied in the larger
context of the occupied territories, could easily justify why no
outposts should
be taken down. It could eradicate, once and for all, such politically
inconvenient terms such as 'legal' and 'illegal'.

"Previous Israeli governments have pledged to demolish the
unauthorized settler
outposts in the West Bank, but only a handful have been removed," according to
CNN online. In fact, that 'handful' are likely to be rebuilt, amongst
many more
new outposts, now that the new legal precedence is underway.

Michael Sfard, an attorney with Yesh Din, which reportedly advocates
Palestinian
rights, described the request as "an announcement of war by the Israeli
government against the rule of law." More specifically, "they said
clearly that
they have reached a decision not to evacuate illegal construction on private
Palestinian property."

Some analysts suggested that Netanyahu was bowing down to the more rightwing
elements in his cabinet - as if the man had, till now, been a peacemaker. The
bottom line is that Israel has decided embark on a new and dangerous
phase, one
that violates not only international law, but Israel's own self-tailored laws
that were designed to colonize the occupied territories. It appears that even
those precarious 'laws' are no longer capable of meeting the colonial appetite
of Israeli settlers and the ruling class.

Israeli settlements have been contextualized through Israeli legal
and political
references, as opposed to references commonly accepted in
international law. The
emphasis on differences between Israeli governments, political parties and
religious/ultra-nationalist settlement movements is distracting and
misleading;
colonizing the rest of historic Palestine has been and remains a national
Israeli project.

An article in the rightwing Israeli Jerusalem Post agrees. "Support for
settlement is not simply a program of right-of-center Likud. Its history has
firm roots in Labor party activity during the periods of its governments, and
activities by predecessors of the Labor party going back before the
creation of
the Israeli state" (April 27).

The only variable that might be worth examining is the purpose of the
settlement, not the settlement itself. Following the war of 1967, the
Allon plan
sought to annex more than 30 percent of the West Bank and all of Gaza for
security purposes. It stipulated the establishment of a "security corridor"
along the Jordan River, as well outside the "Green Line", a one-sided Israeli
demarcation of its borders with the West Bank. Then, there was no
Likud party to
demonize, for that was the Labor party's vision for the newly occupied
territories.

While the Israeli settlement drive since then has swallowed much of the West
Bank and East Jerusalem, populating them with over half a million
Israelis, the
international community's response was as moot in 1967 as it is now in 2012.
Responding to the latest sanctioning of illegal outposts, UN Secretary General
Ban Ki-Moon declared that he was "deeply troubled" by the news. Meanwhile,
Russia was 'deeply concerned' and so was the EU's Catherine Ashton. As for the
US, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland insisted that the Israeli
measure is not "helpful to the process." What process?

While Israel has now showed all of its cards, and the international community
declared its complacency or impotence, the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah
continues to plan some kind of UN censure of the settlements. Even if a
watered-down version of some UN draft managed to survive the US veto, what are
the chances of Israel heeding the call of international community?

There is no doubt that Israel is plotting its version of the endgame in
Palestine, which sees Palestinians continuing to subsist in physical
fragmentation and permanent occupation. Unless a popular Palestinian uprising
takes hold, no one is likely to challenge what is actually an Israeli
declaration of war against the Palestinian people.

Ramzy Baroud is an internationally syndicated columnist and editor of
PalestineChronicle.com. He is the author of "
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0745325475/counterpunchmaga>
The Second
Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People's Struggle" and his most recent
book is " <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0745328814/counterpunchmaga>
My Father Was a Freedom Fighter: Gaza's Untold Story" (Pluto Press, London).

This analysis can be found on the Web at
http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/05/03/israels-plots-an-endgame/

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