New York Jews Rock!

E | 28.02.2002 20:35

Unity, Peace, Love, punk Jews

It's a frightening time, my friends. As a new breed of anti-Semitism sweeps certain parts of the world, and in lieu of Daniel Peal's tragic death, we must band together as humans and hold off this language of hate that has haunted my people for thousands of years, paving the way for the Death camps. Once again people are loosing their individualism, succumbing to "groupthink" and acting in fascistic ways biased on racial hatred. I now feel more connected to how my relatives must have felt during WWII as the stories of terror and death began to waft over seas. Being proud of being Jewish means loving others of different ethnic and religious origins. For me it also means being highly critical of the Israeli’s government's actions, as well as against the terrorist forces. As New York Jews and radicals, we must stand with all people as the advocators of peace that we have always been.

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cheers darlin

28.02.2002 21:43

one love

peace for all

01.03.2002 12:47

Link to Gush Shalom, Israeli peace group:

internationalist
Homepage: http://www.gush-shalom.org

Love, peace and stuff

01.03.2002 15:55

Messages like this always encourage me. its good to see antiwar/globalisation movement is not dominated by anti-Semitic fuckwits and conspiracy theorist fruitcakes as often seems to be the case when you look at some Indymedia newswires (particularly on Global Indymedia).

Hope for a just, viable peace in israle lies not with a bunch of neo-fascist suicide bombers, but in the Israeli peace movement. We should focus our efforts in promoting solidarity with these groups not scaring them off by spouting a load of racist rhetoric about "Zionazis" and all that shit.

Peace, love and stuff.

Disillusioned kid

Frightening for who?

01.03.2002 23:52

As the Palestinians are being slaughtered - right now - in the refugee camps of Jenin and Balata by troops, tanks and helicopter gunships (courtesy of Uncle Sam) I expect they feel "more connected" to their thousands of relatives murdered in the Sabra and Shatila camps in 1982, also at the hands of Ariel Sharon. Unfortuneately tales of the terror and death endured by the Palestinians at the hands of nuclear armed Israel so rarely make it across the water.

Instead, we keep hearing about the "new anti-semitism". Do you have in mind Latuf's cartoon series? That completely bogus claim has led to closure of IMC Switzerland. Whether or not charges are made, it serves as useful propaganda for those who seek to continue the subjugation of the Palestinian people.

I agree it's a frightening time, for the people of Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Colombia, the Phillipines, the occupied territories, Israel proper etc, etc. But I fail to see the connection with an emerging anti-semitism for which no evidence is given.

Auntie Beeb

About Anti-Semitism...

02.03.2002 00:37

Just what IS anti-Semitism, anyway? Does it only mean hatred of Jews(a religious group, not a race)?
No, it does not. Palestinians and Arabs are Semitic people, as well as Jews of Middle Eastern descent, who make up only a minority of Israel's population. Most Jewish people, in Israel and elsewhere, are Euro-Caucasian descendents of Europeans who converted to Judaism centuries ago. Persecution of Palestinians and Arabs is just as anti-Semitic as persecuting Jews of Middle Eastern descent-which means that with its incessant attacks against Palestinians, Israel is a patently ANTI-SEMITIC state!

Anti-Fascist