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DESCRIPTION:Jeffrey Blankfort will present his Left Curve political journal article at 
 the Left Curve journal, Issue #29, release party!:  "Damage Control: Noam 
 Chomsky & the Israel-Palestine Conflict"   Blankfort rhetorically takes on 
 Chomsky - an icon of contemporary progressives - and demonstrates the 
 shortcomings of Chomsky's analysis that, "Israel serves a strategic asset 
 for the U.S. and that the Israeli lobby, primarily AIPAC, is little more 
 than a pressure group like any other trying to affect U.S. policy in the 
 Middle East."  Noam Chomsky's contribution to a forceful critique of the 
 unsavory record of U.S. foreign policy is well known. Less well known are 
 his contradictory views on the Israel-Palestine conflict – and, lastly, 
 the probably reason why.    See Blankfort's article:   
 http://www.leftcurve.org/LC29WebPages/Chomsky.html    Jeffrey Blankfort is 
 a long-time veteran professional photojournalist from the '60's; a San 
 Francisco, Mendocino County, and Houston community FM radio journalist-host 
 (currently on KPOO.com, 89.5 FM, KZYX.org, and KPFT.org); a Bay Area 
 veteran Free Speech Movement, Civil Rights Movement, anti-Vietnam War 
 movement, and anti-Apartheid movement activist; a former editor of the 
 Middle East Labor Bulletin; a Jewish-American, anti-Zionist, 
 pro-Palestinian human rights activist; a public lecturer; and has written 
 extensively on the Israel-Palestine conflict and the domestic pro-Israel 
 lobby. (Google, "Blankfort" for more articles/coverage.)    ALSO, Left 
 Curve editor Csaba Polony and several other contributors present/read from 
 their essays, stories, or poetry in the latest issue of one of the West 
 Coast’s best – nationally and internationally edited – journals of 
 political and cultural analysis.   http://www.leftcurve.org    Release 
 party: 7:00 – 9:00pm or whenever..., until close!    Left Curve is an 
 artist-produced journal that addresses the problems of cultural forms 
 emerging from the crises of modernity that strive to be independent from 
 the control of dominant institutions and free from the shackles of 
 instrumental rationality. Their orientation is premised on the recognition 
 of the destructiveness of commodity systems to all life, and the need to 
 build a culture that could potentially create a more harmonious 
 relationship among people, and between the human and natural world. They 
 encourage open, critical, defetishized work that attempts to unravel, and 
 reveal contemporary (inner/outer) reality.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/05/03/65143.php
SUMMARY:JEFFREY BLANKFORT – Damage Control: Noam Chomsky & the Israel-Palestine Conflict
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore  261 Columbus Avenue  (just south of Columbus & 
 Broadway,  in the North Beach district)  San Francisco  
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2005/05/03/65143.php
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