organizing a nationwide speaking and organizing tour with
high-profile South African and Palestinian leaders in
November 2008.
They are pleased to announce that Diana Buttu
and Eddie Makue will be the headlined speakers
for their tour. Diana Buttu is a former PLO legal
advisor and attorney, and Eddie Makue is the
General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches in Johannesburg.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu endorsed
the US Campaign against Anti-Apartheid -
see short video clip at: http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=JrgGW5Q-f7s
the US Campaign against Anti-Apartheid -
see short video clip at: http://www.youtube.com/
watch?v=JrgGW5Q-f7s
While visiting Youtube, I recommend watching another
short video at:
short video at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe_
LehIMV7o&feature=related
Joel Kovel, author of Overcoming Zionism, said, "What
we don't have is any kind of real debate on this subject in
our country at this time ... basically these Zionist
repression groups have had pretty much a free hand
... that's why I wrote the book. I mean, I wanted to --
I disregarded all the taboos, that you're not supposed
to talk about Israel in any depth in this country."
[The distributor dropped his book after receiving threatening
emails from a Zionist pressure group.] "They panicked this
summer when they dropped my book. I mean, they were
pressured by this Zionist watchdog team."
[But the Committee for Open Discussion of Zionism was
able to convince them to continue distributing it.] "We
have a committee forming, Committee for Open Discussion
of Zionism, codz.org. And we're planning a conference and
all. But the committee leapt into action, and we were amazed
at just how eloquent and, you know, basically fed up a lot of
people were with being intimidated by these kinds of tactics.
They just want to suppress an open discussion of this subject.
... I grew up in a very conventional Jewish home, except for the
fact that there was a lot of division on this subject, so I think
from an early age I learned to take a certain distance from it
and to think critically about it."
"The Jewish people have been, you know, very largely
deprived of a real opportunity to look at what's going
on in the state of Israel."
"The notion of Zionism, as that there is this kind of destiny
of the Jewish people to have their own state, is just the
wrong idea. And it's an idea that requires signing onto
imperialism. It means signing onto ethnic cleansing.
It means -- despite everything that has been said about it,
it means basically becoming a racist situation, where
you're oppressing an indigenous population and depriving
them of their right to existence ... I join hands with those
people who feel that the time has come to basically think
of Israel in the same category as South Africa, as a state
that just has gone wrong and needs replacement ...
the comparison was interesting, because Tutu and other
leaders of the freedom struggle in South Africa who visited
Palestine have always been asked, well, how does it compare?
And he says, well, it's not the same thing, Israel is actually
worse. He actually said, Israel is a worse place than Apartheid South Africa was."
LehIMV7o&feature=related
Joel Kovel, author of Overcoming Zionism, said, "What
we don't have is any kind of real debate on this subject in
our country at this time ... basically these Zionist
repression groups have had pretty much a free hand
... that's why I wrote the book. I mean, I wanted to --
I disregarded all the taboos, that you're not supposed
to talk about Israel in any depth in this country."
[The distributor dropped his book after receiving threatening
emails from a Zionist pressure group.] "They panicked this
summer when they dropped my book. I mean, they were
pressured by this Zionist watchdog team."
[But the Committee for Open Discussion of Zionism was
able to convince them to continue distributing it.] "We
have a committee forming, Committee for Open Discussion
of Zionism, codz.org. And we're planning a conference and
all. But the committee leapt into action, and we were amazed
at just how eloquent and, you know, basically fed up a lot of
people were with being intimidated by these kinds of tactics.
They just want to suppress an open discussion of this subject.
... I grew up in a very conventional Jewish home, except for the
fact that there was a lot of division on this subject, so I think
from an early age I learned to take a certain distance from it
and to think critically about it."
"The Jewish people have been, you know, very largely
deprived of a real opportunity to look at what's going
on in the state of Israel."
"The notion of Zionism, as that there is this kind of destiny
of the Jewish people to have their own state, is just the
wrong idea. And it's an idea that requires signing onto
imperialism. It means signing onto ethnic cleansing.
It means -- despite everything that has been said about it,
it means basically becoming a racist situation, where
you're oppressing an indigenous population and depriving
them of their right to existence ... I join hands with those
people who feel that the time has come to basically think
of Israel in the same category as South Africa, as a state
that just has gone wrong and needs replacement ...
the comparison was interesting, because Tutu and other
leaders of the freedom struggle in South Africa who visited
Palestine have always been asked, well, how does it compare?
And he says, well, it's not the same thing, Israel is actually
worse. He actually said, Israel is a worse place than Apartheid South Africa was."
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