[Dialogue] {Spam?} Peace activist's appearance cancelled

[Jim Rippey]

OK, one more try to see what gets labeled spam.

 

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Colleagues:  More Jews are speaking out about AIPAC's influence on the
United States' Middle East war policies.

 

Below are excerpts of two articles circulated by the International Clearing
House digest of alternative news.  The email addresses for the full articles
are included with each.

 

Jim Rippey, Bellevue, NE

 

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Dissenting at your own risk


By Cecilie Surasky

Cecilie Surasky is communications director for the Oakland-based Jewish
Voice for Peace.

10/04/07 " <http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/> ICH " --- - Last
year, I agreed to speak to a Jewish youth group about my organization,
Jewish Voice for Peace, and our opposition to Israel's occupation. My talk
was to follow one from a member of the American Israel Public Affairs
Committee, which calls itself "America's pro-Israel Lobby." 

A week before, a shaken program leader said the AIPAC staffer had threatened
to get the entire youth program's funding canceled if I was allowed in the
door. The threat worked, and in disgust, they canceled the whole talk. 

Pundits will surely argue for years about professors Stephen Walt and John
Mearsheimer's explosive new book, The Israel Lobby, which blames poor U.S.
policy in the Middle East on a loose network of individuals and pro-Israel
advocacy groups. 

But the book, and the response to it, opens up another controversy: the
stifling of debate about unconditional U.S. support for Israeli policies. 

Why is Israel's increasingly brutal 40-year occupation of Palestinian land
regularly debated in the mainstream media abroad, including in Israel, but
not here? And why is there an almost total lack of discussion among
presidential candidates about the dollars that subsidize this occupation and
the American diplomatic support that makes it possible? ...

 

Full article is at
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18506.htm

 

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Two Knights and a Dragon, 

Avnery, is a former member of Israel's Knessett  (Congress), an Israeli
author and activist. He is the head of the Israeli peace movement, "Gush
Shalom"By: Uri Avnery 

 The small, determined Jewish groups in the US who support the Israeli peace
movements are remorselessly persecuted. Some of them fold after a few years.
Members of Israeli peace groups who are sent to America are boycotted and
slandered as "self-hating-Jews" 

Full article:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18504.htm
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