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From Israel Gavin Denounces San Franciscans as Anti-Semitic

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Some of the anti-Israel, anti-Zionist rhetoric in the San Francisco Bay Area is simple anti-Semitism, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom said in an interview with The Jerusalem Post Sunday.

Newsom, in the country for four days as part of a large San Francisco Jewish Community Federation delegation, said he expected to see some people protesting against his trip here when he gives a commencement address next week at San Francisco State University.

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While there have been some boycott and divestment motions against Israel in Berkeley, situated across the bay from San Francisco, Newsom said this issue had not gained much traction in his own city council.

Indeed, he said, the divestment issue being discussed now in San Francisco was divestment from Iran, although no decision had been made.

Newsom said he was "a little cautious" about the idea because of concern that if such a resolution was passed on Iran, there would be calls for divestment from other countries as well, such as Myanmar (formerly Burma) and China.

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Mayor Gavin Newsom's acceptance of an all-expense-paid trip to Israel this week exhibits poor moral and political judgment. The Jewish Community Federation organized the junket ostensibly to connect Bay Area and Israeli business leaders.
Not coincidentally, the mayor's trip overlaps with Israel's 60th anniversary. As such, the visit communicates a powerful message that Israel is a country to be celebrated, economically integrated and politically sustained.
This vision of Israel - like the mayor's itinerary - is dangerously lacking in perspective.
On May 15, my family will commemorate an-Nakba, Arabic for "the catastrophe," which is the dark underbelly of Israel's foundation. Sixty years ago, Jewish militants and, later, the Israeli army, forced 2 out of every 3 Palestinians - more than 700,000 people - to flee their homes. Many Palestinians who resisted expulsion or were unable to leave were massacred in cold blood, as were those who returned to harvest food from their orchards or gather personal belongings left behind. The Palestinians who fled now constitute the oldest unresolved refugee population in the world, despite their internationally recognized right to return. Meanwhile, Israel permits any Jew from anywhere in the world to immigrate and obtain citizenship.
Israel's original aim in 1948 was to ensure that historic Palestine was cleansed of its Arab population so that a Jewish majority reigned. However, this task - necessarily brutal and violent - was never fully achieved. The Palestinians who managed to survive an-Nakba now constitute nearly 20 percent of Israel's citizenry. Given its higher birthrate, this Arab minority will eventually challenge Jewish demographic predominance, and, ultimately, Jewish political power.
The Palestinians who did not receive Israeli citizenship after an-Nakba - but who nonetheless live under military occupation in the West Bank and Gaza - present a similar dilemma for Israel, which wishes to rule them without granting them equal rights as citizens. These Palestinians live alongside hundreds of thousands of illegal settlers who use Israeli-only bypass roads, hence avoiding all contact with nearby Palestinians whose lands were stolen to accommodate them. To ensure that Palestinians remained ghettoized and economically strangulated, Israel encircles their towns and cities within a suffocating wall condemned by the International Court of Justice.

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This stinking millionaire Democrat "mayor" Gavin Newsom, nephew of an equally stinking millionaire Democrat, Rep Nancy Pelosi, is anti-Semitic when he calls anti-Semitic everyone who condemns the murder and torture of Palestinians and theft of Palestinian land, not just because Arabs are Semites, but because he associates the heinous crimes perpetrated by the US puppet, Israel, with being Jewish. And it is not only this stinking little idiot, but the entire Democratic and Republican Party, every one of whose elected officials by definition are pro-Israel, which is to say, pro-murder and torture of Palestinians and theft of Palestinian land, pro-US military base to protect US oil profits called Israel, and for giving this US puppet $6 billion a year to do the dirty work of US oil imperialism. Israel is in fact a death trap for Jews. The description of the horror that Israel is for most Israelis may be found at:
"Deep unease as Israel celebrates its 60th anniversary" By Jean Shaoul, 8 May 2008
at: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/may2008/isra-m08.shtml

This same hoodlum millionaire Democrat allows his face to be put on a Lennar Corporation mailer, along with the equally despicable Democrats Senator Dianne Feinstein, Supervisors Bevan Dufty, Carmen Chu, Sophie Maxwell, Sean Elsbernd and Michela Alioto-Pier, and listed with the Republican Party as supporting the Lennar Corporation's 49er Stadium Swindle proposition known as Proposition G, which deserves your NO vote. We, the workingclass of San Francisco, need your YES vote for Propostiion F on June 3 for affordable housing the Bayview instead of a 49er Stadium Swindle and rich folks' condos. For more on the election fraud and subsequent murder of a witness and 5 children to the election fraud perpetrated by the 49er Stadium Swindle gang that is the Democrat-Republican Party, see
http://brasscheck.com/stadium/
Then and now, Peace & Freedom Party and the Green Party support Proposition F and oppose Proposition G.
When you vote on June 3, 2008, REMEMBER TO VOTE NO ON 98/YES ON 99 TO SAVE RENT CONTROL, AND ABOVE ALL REMEMBER TO VOTE. We need every single pro-rent control American citizen in California to vote on June 3, 2008 if we are to SAVE RENT CONTROL. PLEASE REGISTER TODAY. RUN to your County Registrar, register and vote immediately absentee. THE ENTIRE WORKINGCLASS IS THREATENED WITH HOMELESSNESS AS WE HAVE NO AFFORDABLE HOUSING WITHOUT RENT CONTROL. It would be better if we also had vacancy control but the Democrats in the State Legislature are too busy promoting reactionary thugs like Gavin Newsom. DO NOT DELAY, TODAY IS THE DAY TO VOTE NO ON 98/YES ON 99 AND YES ON F/NO ON G.
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