Please Contact Muzzlewatch & the Committee for the Open Discussion of Zionism

Both Muzzlewatch and the
Committee for the Open Discussion of Zionism
(CODZ) are efforts of national, if not international,
scope ostensibly aimed at exposing and countering Zionist
efforts to squelch criticism of Israel and Zionism.
Muzzlewatch is a project of the Oakland, CA-based Jewish
Voice for Peace and New York City-based CODZ was
founded by Joel Kovel, Howard Zinn, and others in
response to a Zionist-inspired attempt to stop US
distribution of Kovel's book, Overcoming Zionism.

Yet, more than two months after Catherine Wilkerson, MD,
was fired for criticizing Israel and Zionism and for resisting
a political gag clause in a proposed employment contract
neither Muzzlewatch nor CODZ has had a word to say about it.
This despite repeated requests and the fact that her criminal
trial and acquittal on trumped-up charges stemming from a
protest at an earlier Zionist event was covered in both the
mainstream and alternative media. The controversy over
Dr. Wilkerson's subsequent firing was also covered in the
mainstream media and the American Civil Liberties Union
of Michigan has now weighed-in, comparing the gag clause
to McCarthy-era tactics and linking it to the "controversial
speech of ... Catherine Wilkerson, about Israel and Palestine."
The Committee to Defend Catherine Wilkerson is asking
supporters of free speech, Palestinian human rights, and
Dr. Wilkerson to write to both Muzzlewatch and CODZ to
ask them to alert their readers and supporters to the
Zionist attack on Dr. Wilkerson and the campaign to
have her rehired, including our online petition.
Send your e-mails to board@jewishvoiceforpeace.org
and info@codz.org . You can also write to CODZ at:
CODZ, Church Street Station, PO Box 374,
New York, New York 10008-0374.

Resources
Ann Arbor News "Doctor claims her activism got her fired"
2/14/08 click here ACLU Letter, 4/17/08, click here (PDF)
Ann Arbor News "
ACLU opines in doctor's free-speech battle" 4/25/08 click here