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The Zionist thought police are out in full force. They are trying to make criticism of Israel a crime. Needless to say this is a great infringement on our rights as American citizens and the First Amendment: freedom of speech. If Israel and Zionists don't like what we have to say about them, then perhaps THEY should change their evil ways.
Law Professor in SF being "targeted"
This is an important and urgent action which comes from a member of
Academics For Justice in San Francisco. The situation is this: a
professor of Law ant UC Hastings School of the Law writes an article in
the San Francisco Chronicle that states what many have now become more
aware of: the push for war on Iraq being led by Zionists like Richard
Perle and company. The article generated an over-reaction from Israeli
apologists. A group outside the university have demanded a meeting with
the dean of UCHSL and they and a group The Hastings Jewish Law Students
Association are making a big deal about this and asking for removal of
funding ad other restrictions and limitations on Professor Bisharat. We
ask you to read Dr. Bisharat's op-ed (copied below) and then write to:
1) Dean Mary Kay Kane of Hastings College of the Law kanem [at] uchastings.edu
2) Letter to the editor for the San Francisco Chronicle
letters [at] sfchronicle.com (this should be 100-200 words with your contact
information)
Below Dr. Bisharat's op-ed, I copied my own letters to Dean Kane and the
SF Chronicle for your information (but please do not copy text from my
letters; write your own; as usual short, polite and factual letters are
the best).
Thank you,
Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD
http://AcademicsForJustice.org
=======
Impending War on Iraq: American Jihad
George Bisharat
Thursday, February 13, 2003
Many Americans suspect that the war our government is preparing to
launch against Iraq is about oil. That is both correct and incorrect.
True, Iraq possesses huge oil and gas reserves. Yes, the United States
and England, the two countries most adamant for war, are home to the
world's four largest energy conglomerates.
Yet oil is a constant. In a sense, everything in U.S. Middle East policy
for the last 50 years or more has been about oil. For that very reason,
however, oil cannot explain a shift in policy toward war. Some new
variable has entered the equation.
No, the real reason we are going to war is the messianic vision of a
small but influential group of strongly pro-Israeli hawks within the
Bush administration. Their goal is unilateral global domination through
absolute military superiority. U.S. global hegemony will "promote
democracy" and "spread prosperity" through free enterprise and trade.
But the hawks' almost theological obsession with Iraq still needs
explaining. The evidence in support of the "Iraqi threat" to America is
palpably thin. Whether or not Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass
destruction, for years he has been safely contained by threat of nuclear
retaliation.
The hawks recognize this evidentiary weakness, and have aggressively
pressed the CIA to cook its reports to support war. Douglas Feith,
assistant to Undersecretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, oversees an
amateur intelligence unit inside the Department of Defense that equips
Wolfowitz and Donald Rumsfeld with unconfirmed, professionally
substandard information (according to Robert Dreyfuss in the American
Prospect) to contest less gung-ho CIA reports. It has reportedly pressed
especially hard to generate evidence of an Iraq-al-Qaeda connection
(consider Colin Powell's Security Council presentation last week in this
light).
Why the determination to overthrow the Iraqi regime? One key is the
special regard of the hawks for Israel's right-wing elements. A number
of senior Bush officials, including Wolfowitz, Feith and others, have
strong affiliations with the Likud Party of Ariel Sharon (as documented
by Bill and
Kathleen Christison in the online magazine Counterpunch). Feith and
Defense Policy Board member Richard Perle, for example, helped author a
1996 study for Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu describing Hussein's
overthrow as "an important Israeli strategic objective in its own right
-- [and] a means of foiling Syria's regional ambitions." Interestingly,
the study for the
Israeli government also advocated resort to pre-emptive strike -- a
theme now taken up by President Bush.
If an Iraqi attack on the United States is far-fetched, a rejuvenated
Iraq could eventually alter the regional balance of power now favorable
to Israel. Iraq is the only Arab state to combine oil wealth, water and
a large population (more than 23 million), making it a potential
powerhouse. War on Iraq would eliminate, for the foreseeable future, any
obstacle to a disposition of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on terms
that satisfy Israel's territorial ambitions on most or all of the West Bank.
Israel is quietly exultant at the turn in U.S. policy, occasionally
hinting that Iran or Syria should be next. Israeli Deputy Interior
Minister Gideon Ezra suggested to the Christian Science Monitor in
August that a U.S. attack on Iraq will help Israel impose a new order,
without Arafat, in the
Palestinian territories: "The more aggressive the attack is, the more it
will help Israel against the Palestinians. The understanding would be
that what is good to do in Iraq, is also good for here." A U.S. strike
would "undoubtedly deal a psychological blow" to the Palestinians and
would help
Israel vis-a-vis Syria, Ezra added.
Does this mean that we are going to war for Israel, rather than the
United States? That question is incomprehensible to the hawks, who view
the two countries as two democracies, shoulder to shoulder in facing the
common threat of terrorism. Like the Israelis, the hawks would not stop
at Iraq. Instead, Iraq is just a first step in redrawing the map of the
entire Middle East. Iraq under a pro-Western leadership, with its
enormous oil reserves, would diminish the strategic value of Saudi
Arabia and negate Saudi leverage vis-a-vis the Israeli/Palestinian
conflict. A new Iraq would be a beachhead for ridding the Middle East of
autocracies -- the wellsprings of terrorism,
in the hawks' view -- installing democratic governments, and making the
region a haven for free enterprise and development.
This rosy vision of a revolutionized Middle East overlooks immense
risks. Most obviously, a return to colonialism in the Arab world is
almost certainly a formula for perpetual war -- Osama bin Laden's dream.
Many of us in the Jan. 18 anti-war demonstration in San Francisco --
including
supporters of Israel who carried the Israeli flag -- demur from this
American jihad. We have very little time left to stop it.
George Bisharat is a professor of at Hastings College of the Law in San
Francisco, where he teaches a course in law and Middle East societies.
==========
To: letters [at] sfchronicle.com
Dear Editor (for publication):
President Bush in the speech on Wednesday stated that he "borrowed .. 20
minds" from the American Enterprise Institute, a pro-Israel think tank
in DC. This included of course such people as Elliot Abrams and Richard
Perle (called "chicken hawks" by Ralph Nader). This basic admission now
vindicates what Prof. George Bisharat at the UC Hastings School of the
Law stated in your newspaper February 13th. For this, he was vilified
and is now being "targeted" by outside groups and a group called The
Hastings Jewish Law Students Association. They are attempting to get his
dean to cut off funding and punish him in other ways. What a shame.
Bisharat did not say anything that the Guardian, the NY Times, the
Washington Post, Israeli newspapers like Haaretz, and UPI among others
have already reported. UPI on Wednesday reported how the shake-up in the
National Security Council has removed people considered even-handed and
elevated Israeli apologists in the Bush administration. Even in Israeli
newspapers this is published and available information. Certainly any
search engine on the Internet would also reveal a mountain of evidence
to show what the Israeli apologists themselves articulated years ago on
teh need for conquering Iraq to advance Right wing Israeli policies.
Richard Perle him self chaired a group in 1996 that put all of this
together not for his own government (the US) but for the government of
the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Just since Bisharat's
article appeared on February 16th, over 70 Palestinians were killed and
500 injured by Israeli occupation forces (a majority of the victims were
civilians). As the saying goes, facts do not cease to exist because they
are ignored (or suppressed).
Mazin Qumsiyeh, Ph.D.
(Address, Tel Number)
=======
Background info for the San Francisco Chronicle: my letter to Dean Kane
includes links to useful background information (my letter to Prof. Kane
is not for publication).
To: Dean Mary Kay Kane of Hastings College of the Law kanem [at] uchastings.edu
Dear Dean Kane:
It has come to my attention that after the publication of in the San
Francisco Chronicle of an article by law professor George Bisharat, you
have been subjected to some pressure from outside groups as well as from
the The Hastings Jewish Law Students Association. Ofcourse, Prof.
Bisharat said nothing that is not easily verifiable from outside and
independent sources. See below for a list of webistes with some of this
information. Prof. Bisharat critique of Israeli apologists and Israeli
government is also vilified as "anti-Semitic". This is ludicrous. Below
is also a list of over 40 Websites from primarily Jewish and/or Israeli
groups that similarly criticize the apartheid and repressive Israeli
policies. I urge you to browse these sites to see that Prof. Bisharat,
if anything was rather mild and measured. Just since his article
appeared on February 13th, over 70 Palestinians were killed and 400
injured by Israeli occupation forces (a majority of the victims were
civilians). Israel also continues to demolish Palestinian homes and keep
them in Ghettos isolated from jobs, schools, and even hospitals. I am
enclosing my letter to the San Francisco Chronicle which expounds on
these issues.
Any way, I urge you to issue a clear statement in defense of Academic
free speech and resist the unwarranted calls for meetings or actions by
those who try to suppress truth and free speech.
Sincerely,
Mazin B. Qumsiyeh, Ph.D. (Assoc. Prof., Yale)
=========
Information on the connection between the push to war and Israeli
apologists:
Iraq/Palestine questions are intimately linked
http://www.palestinereport.org/sect/iraq.html
Its not just the oil (Heller piece) http://www.antiwar.com/orig/heller1.html
Brian Whittaker in the Guradian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4493638,00.html
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/wotiraq/pre-911_calls_for_war_on_Iraq.htm
Zionist Think Tanks Pushing for US Invasion of Iraq:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,777100,00.html
Washington's Zionist hawks to reshape Mid-East for Israel:
http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=1047
http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=2051
War on Iraq: Conceived in Israel:
http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=3250
Petition by Israeli academics
http://www.labournet.net/world/0209/isracad1.html
Predominanty Jewish and/or Israeli groups speaking out for justice and
human rights
Action committee for one democratic secular republic
http://www.onerepublic.org
Alliance of Middle East Scientists and Physicians
http://www.keck.ucsf.edu/~yoram/amesp.html
<http://www.keck.ucsf.edu/%7Eyoram/amesp.html>
Alternative Information Center http://www.alternativenews.org/
American Council for Judaism http://www.acjna.org
(see also http://www.acjna.org/article_view.asp?article_id=94
America-Israel Council for Israeli-Palestinian Peace
http://other_israel.tripod.com
Association for Civil Rights in Israel http://www.acri.org.il
Bat Shalom, Israeli Women for Peace http://www.batshalom.org/
Brit Tzedek v' Shalom: Jewish Alliance for Justice and Peace
http://brittzedek.org, http://www.btvshalom.org
B'Tselem http://www.btselem.org/
Bustan L'Shalom http://www.bustanlshalom.org/
Challenge (Israeli magazine) http://www.hanitzotz.com/challenge/
The Coalition of Women For a Just Peace
http://www.geocities.com/EndTheOccupation/
Coalition of Women for Peace http://www.coalitionofwomen4peace.org
Eda Haredit, A hundred thousand anti-Zionist Hasidim all at one place...
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/7891/satmar.html
Faculty For Israeli-Palestinian Peace http://www.ffipp.org
The Green Line (Kav Yarok) http://www.kavyarok.co.il/index_en.php
Gush Shalom http://www.gush-shalom.org/
House of Hope, http:// http://www.hohpeacecenter.org
Indymedia (Independent Israeli Media Center)
http://www.indymedia.org.il/imc/israel/webcast/index.php3?language=en
Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions http://www.icahd.org/eng
Israel Religious Action Center (against religious bigotry)
http://www.irac.org/
Jewish Alliance Against the Occupation http://www.opentent.org/jews.html
Jews of Belgium Appeal for a Fair Settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian
Conflict http://www.israel-palestine.be/
Jews For Justice http://www.mediareviewnet.com/JewsForJustice.htm
Jewish Friends of Palestine http://www.jewishfriendspalestine.org/
Jews for a Just Peace http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/S_Aberle/
Jews for a Just Peace (Australia) http://www.geocities.com/jews4jp/
Jews NOT Zionists http://www.jewsnotzionists.org/
Jewish-Palestinian Living Room Dialogue Group
http://www.igc.org/traubman/global.htm
Jewish-Palestinian Encounter http://www.salam-shalom.net
Jewish Peace Fellowship http://www.jewishpeacefellowship.org/index.htm
Jewish People Liberation Organization
http://msanews.mynet.net/Scholars/Weizfeld/
Jewish Unity for a Just Peace http://www.junity.org/
Jewish Voice for Peace http://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org
Jewish Voices Against the Occupation http://www.jvao.org
Jews Against Occupation http://www.jewsagainsttheoccupation.org
Jewish Unity for a Just Peace: http://www.junity.org/
A Jewish Voice for Peace http://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/
Jewish Voices Against the Occupation: http://www.jvao.org/
Jews for Peace in Palestine and Israel (JPPI) http://www.jppi.org
Matzpum, Jews to Ban Israeli Products and Tourism http://www.matzpun.com/
Middle East Crisis Committee http://www.thestruggle.com
Nahalat Shalom http://nahalatshalom.org/
Neturei Karta Homepage http://www.netureikarta.org/
New Israel Fund http://www.nif.org
New Profile (movement for civilization of Israeli Society)
http://www.newprofile.org/
Not in Our Name Coalition http://www.diak.org/not_in_our_name.htm
Not In My Name! http://www.nimn.org/
"Occupied Territory" http://www.occupied.org/
[The] Other Israel http://other_Israel.tripod.com/
Oz v'Shalom - Netivot Shalom (religious Zionist anti-Occupation)
http://www.ariga.com/ozveshalom
Oznik News Service http://oznik.com/
The Parent Circle http://www.theparentscircle.com
Rabbis for Human Rights http://www.rhr.israel.net/overview.shtml
Refusenicks http://www.refusersolidarity.net/
Search for justice and equality http://www.searchforjustice.org
Seruv --Courage to Refuse http://www.seruv.org.il/defaulteng.asp
Shvil Zahav (The Middle Way) http://www.middleway.org
Ta'Ayush (Arab Jewish Partnership) http://taayush.tripod.com/
Tikkun Magazine http://www.tikkun.org
Visions for peace with justice in Israel/Palestine http://www.vopj.org/
Yesh Gvul, The movement for IDF men refusing to serve in the Occupied
Territories. http://www.diak.org/Haayesh-gvul.htm ,
http://www.yesh-gvul.org/ (in Hebrew and English)
Individuals with excellent work
Israeli musician Gilad Atzmon, see some of his political reflections at
http://www.gilad.co.uk/inno.html
http://www.gilad.co.uk/refelections.html
http://www.gilad. co.uk/helicopter.html
Iris Bar http://iris_bar.tripod.com/
Norman Finkelstein http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/
Ran HaCohen http://www.antiwar.com/hacohen/h-col.html
David Kirshbaum http://members.aol.com/savepalestine/index.htm
Ilan Pappe http://defendpappe.freeservers.com/
Tanya Reinhart http://www.tau.ac.il/~reinhart/
<http://www.tau.ac.il/%7Ereinhart/>
Israel Shamir, an Israeli writer http://www.israelshamir.net
Eyal Weizman's excellent work at
http://www.opendemocracy.com/debates/issue.jsp?debateId=45&id=2
<http://www.opendemocracy.com/debates/issue.jsp?debateId=45&id=2>
Amira Hass and Gideon Levy and other articles in Haaretz
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/
Rabbi Jeremy Milgrom, Jerusalem, abu-maor [at] inter.net.il
Conscientious Objection to Military Service in Israel
http://www.shministim.org/english_letter.html
http://www.refusersolidarity.net/
http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/aipub/1999/SUM/51504999.htm
ttp://http://www.amnesty-usa.org/news/1999/51506799.htm
http://www.uscj.org/ctvalley/beki/conscientious.html
Israeli Reservists Refusing to Serve http://www.seruv.org.il/defaulteng.asp
On Jewish connection
http://www.endtheoccupation.org/resources/news_articles/kamal.html
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This is an important and urgent action which comes from a member of
Academics For Justice in San Francisco. The situation is this: a
professor of Law ant UC Hastings School of the Law writes an article in
the San Francisco Chronicle that states what many have now become more
aware of: the push for war on Iraq being led by Zionists like Richard
Perle and company. The article generated an over-reaction from Israeli
apologists. A group outside the university have demanded a meeting with
the dean of UCHSL and they and a group The Hastings Jewish Law Students
Association are making a big deal about this and asking for removal of
funding ad other restrictions and limitations on Professor Bisharat. We
ask you to read Dr. Bisharat's op-ed (copied below) and then write to:
1) Dean Mary Kay Kane of Hastings College of the Law kanem [at] uchastings.edu
2) Letter to the editor for the San Francisco Chronicle
letters [at] sfchronicle.com (this should be 100-200 words with your contact
information)
Below Dr. Bisharat's op-ed, I copied my own letters to Dean Kane and the
SF Chronicle for your information (but please do not copy text from my
letters; write your own; as usual short, polite and factual letters are
the best).
Thank you,
Mazin Qumsiyeh, PhD
http://AcademicsForJustice.org
=======
Impending War on Iraq: American Jihad
George Bisharat
Thursday, February 13, 2003
Many Americans suspect that the war our government is preparing to
launch against Iraq is about oil. That is both correct and incorrect.
True, Iraq possesses huge oil and gas reserves. Yes, the United States
and England, the two countries most adamant for war, are home to the
world's four largest energy conglomerates.
Yet oil is a constant. In a sense, everything in U.S. Middle East policy
for the last 50 years or more has been about oil. For that very reason,
however, oil cannot explain a shift in policy toward war. Some new
variable has entered the equation.
No, the real reason we are going to war is the messianic vision of a
small but influential group of strongly pro-Israeli hawks within the
Bush administration. Their goal is unilateral global domination through
absolute military superiority. U.S. global hegemony will "promote
democracy" and "spread prosperity" through free enterprise and trade.
But the hawks' almost theological obsession with Iraq still needs
explaining. The evidence in support of the "Iraqi threat" to America is
palpably thin. Whether or not Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass
destruction, for years he has been safely contained by threat of nuclear
retaliation.
The hawks recognize this evidentiary weakness, and have aggressively
pressed the CIA to cook its reports to support war. Douglas Feith,
assistant to Undersecretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, oversees an
amateur intelligence unit inside the Department of Defense that equips
Wolfowitz and Donald Rumsfeld with unconfirmed, professionally
substandard information (according to Robert Dreyfuss in the American
Prospect) to contest less gung-ho CIA reports. It has reportedly pressed
especially hard to generate evidence of an Iraq-al-Qaeda connection
(consider Colin Powell's Security Council presentation last week in this
light).
Why the determination to overthrow the Iraqi regime? One key is the
special regard of the hawks for Israel's right-wing elements. A number
of senior Bush officials, including Wolfowitz, Feith and others, have
strong affiliations with the Likud Party of Ariel Sharon (as documented
by Bill and
Kathleen Christison in the online magazine Counterpunch). Feith and
Defense Policy Board member Richard Perle, for example, helped author a
1996 study for Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu describing Hussein's
overthrow as "an important Israeli strategic objective in its own right
-- [and] a means of foiling Syria's regional ambitions." Interestingly,
the study for the
Israeli government also advocated resort to pre-emptive strike -- a
theme now taken up by President Bush.
If an Iraqi attack on the United States is far-fetched, a rejuvenated
Iraq could eventually alter the regional balance of power now favorable
to Israel. Iraq is the only Arab state to combine oil wealth, water and
a large population (more than 23 million), making it a potential
powerhouse. War on Iraq would eliminate, for the foreseeable future, any
obstacle to a disposition of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on terms
that satisfy Israel's territorial ambitions on most or all of the West Bank.
Israel is quietly exultant at the turn in U.S. policy, occasionally
hinting that Iran or Syria should be next. Israeli Deputy Interior
Minister Gideon Ezra suggested to the Christian Science Monitor in
August that a U.S. attack on Iraq will help Israel impose a new order,
without Arafat, in the
Palestinian territories: "The more aggressive the attack is, the more it
will help Israel against the Palestinians. The understanding would be
that what is good to do in Iraq, is also good for here." A U.S. strike
would "undoubtedly deal a psychological blow" to the Palestinians and
would help
Israel vis-a-vis Syria, Ezra added.
Does this mean that we are going to war for Israel, rather than the
United States? That question is incomprehensible to the hawks, who view
the two countries as two democracies, shoulder to shoulder in facing the
common threat of terrorism. Like the Israelis, the hawks would not stop
at Iraq. Instead, Iraq is just a first step in redrawing the map of the
entire Middle East. Iraq under a pro-Western leadership, with its
enormous oil reserves, would diminish the strategic value of Saudi
Arabia and negate Saudi leverage vis-a-vis the Israeli/Palestinian
conflict. A new Iraq would be a beachhead for ridding the Middle East of
autocracies -- the wellsprings of terrorism,
in the hawks' view -- installing democratic governments, and making the
region a haven for free enterprise and development.
This rosy vision of a revolutionized Middle East overlooks immense
risks. Most obviously, a return to colonialism in the Arab world is
almost certainly a formula for perpetual war -- Osama bin Laden's dream.
Many of us in the Jan. 18 anti-war demonstration in San Francisco --
including
supporters of Israel who carried the Israeli flag -- demur from this
American jihad. We have very little time left to stop it.
George Bisharat is a professor of at Hastings College of the Law in San
Francisco, where he teaches a course in law and Middle East societies.
==========
To: letters [at] sfchronicle.com
Dear Editor (for publication):
President Bush in the speech on Wednesday stated that he "borrowed .. 20
minds" from the American Enterprise Institute, a pro-Israel think tank
in DC. This included of course such people as Elliot Abrams and Richard
Perle (called "chicken hawks" by Ralph Nader). This basic admission now
vindicates what Prof. George Bisharat at the UC Hastings School of the
Law stated in your newspaper February 13th. For this, he was vilified
and is now being "targeted" by outside groups and a group called The
Hastings Jewish Law Students Association. They are attempting to get his
dean to cut off funding and punish him in other ways. What a shame.
Bisharat did not say anything that the Guardian, the NY Times, the
Washington Post, Israeli newspapers like Haaretz, and UPI among others
have already reported. UPI on Wednesday reported how the shake-up in the
National Security Council has removed people considered even-handed and
elevated Israeli apologists in the Bush administration. Even in Israeli
newspapers this is published and available information. Certainly any
search engine on the Internet would also reveal a mountain of evidence
to show what the Israeli apologists themselves articulated years ago on
teh need for conquering Iraq to advance Right wing Israeli policies.
Richard Perle him self chaired a group in 1996 that put all of this
together not for his own government (the US) but for the government of
the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Just since Bisharat's
article appeared on February 16th, over 70 Palestinians were killed and
500 injured by Israeli occupation forces (a majority of the victims were
civilians). As the saying goes, facts do not cease to exist because they
are ignored (or suppressed).
Mazin Qumsiyeh, Ph.D.
(Address, Tel Number)
=======
Background info for the San Francisco Chronicle: my letter to Dean Kane
includes links to useful background information (my letter to Prof. Kane
is not for publication).
To: Dean Mary Kay Kane of Hastings College of the Law kanem [at] uchastings.edu
Dear Dean Kane:
It has come to my attention that after the publication of in the San
Francisco Chronicle of an article by law professor George Bisharat, you
have been subjected to some pressure from outside groups as well as from
the The Hastings Jewish Law Students Association. Ofcourse, Prof.
Bisharat said nothing that is not easily verifiable from outside and
independent sources. See below for a list of webistes with some of this
information. Prof. Bisharat critique of Israeli apologists and Israeli
government is also vilified as "anti-Semitic". This is ludicrous. Below
is also a list of over 40 Websites from primarily Jewish and/or Israeli
groups that similarly criticize the apartheid and repressive Israeli
policies. I urge you to browse these sites to see that Prof. Bisharat,
if anything was rather mild and measured. Just since his article
appeared on February 13th, over 70 Palestinians were killed and 400
injured by Israeli occupation forces (a majority of the victims were
civilians). Israel also continues to demolish Palestinian homes and keep
them in Ghettos isolated from jobs, schools, and even hospitals. I am
enclosing my letter to the San Francisco Chronicle which expounds on
these issues.
Any way, I urge you to issue a clear statement in defense of Academic
free speech and resist the unwarranted calls for meetings or actions by
those who try to suppress truth and free speech.
Sincerely,
Mazin B. Qumsiyeh, Ph.D. (Assoc. Prof., Yale)
=========
Information on the connection between the push to war and Israeli
apologists:
Iraq/Palestine questions are intimately linked
http://www.palestinereport.org/sect/iraq.html
Its not just the oil (Heller piece) http://www.antiwar.com/orig/heller1.html
Brian Whittaker in the Guradian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Print/0,3858,4493638,00.html
http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/wotiraq/pre-911_calls_for_war_on_Iraq.htm
Zionist Think Tanks Pushing for US Invasion of Iraq:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,777100,00.html
Washington's Zionist hawks to reshape Mid-East for Israel:
http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=1047
http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=2051
War on Iraq: Conceived in Israel:
http://www.itszone.co.uk/zone0/viewtopic.php?t=3250
Petition by Israeli academics
http://www.labournet.net/world/0209/isracad1.html
Predominanty Jewish and/or Israeli groups speaking out for justice and
human rights
Action committee for one democratic secular republic
http://www.onerepublic.org
Alliance of Middle East Scientists and Physicians
http://www.keck.ucsf.edu/~yoram/amesp.html
<http://www.keck.ucsf.edu/%7Eyoram/amesp.html>
Alternative Information Center http://www.alternativenews.org/
American Council for Judaism http://www.acjna.org
(see also http://www.acjna.org/article_view.asp?article_id=94
America-Israel Council for Israeli-Palestinian Peace
http://other_israel.tripod.com
Association for Civil Rights in Israel http://www.acri.org.il
Bat Shalom, Israeli Women for Peace http://www.batshalom.org/
Brit Tzedek v' Shalom: Jewish Alliance for Justice and Peace
http://brittzedek.org, http://www.btvshalom.org
B'Tselem http://www.btselem.org/
Bustan L'Shalom http://www.bustanlshalom.org/
Challenge (Israeli magazine) http://www.hanitzotz.com/challenge/
The Coalition of Women For a Just Peace
http://www.geocities.com/EndTheOccupation/
Coalition of Women for Peace http://www.coalitionofwomen4peace.org
Eda Haredit, A hundred thousand anti-Zionist Hasidim all at one place...
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/7891/satmar.html
Faculty For Israeli-Palestinian Peace http://www.ffipp.org
The Green Line (Kav Yarok) http://www.kavyarok.co.il/index_en.php
Gush Shalom http://www.gush-shalom.org/
House of Hope, http:// http://www.hohpeacecenter.org
Indymedia (Independent Israeli Media Center)
http://www.indymedia.org.il/imc/israel/webcast/index.php3?language=en
Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions http://www.icahd.org/eng
Israel Religious Action Center (against religious bigotry)
http://www.irac.org/
Jewish Alliance Against the Occupation http://www.opentent.org/jews.html
Jews of Belgium Appeal for a Fair Settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian
Conflict http://www.israel-palestine.be/
Jews For Justice http://www.mediareviewnet.com/JewsForJustice.htm
Jewish Friends of Palestine http://www.jewishfriendspalestine.org/
Jews for a Just Peace http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/S_Aberle/
Jews for a Just Peace (Australia) http://www.geocities.com/jews4jp/
Jews NOT Zionists http://www.jewsnotzionists.org/
Jewish-Palestinian Living Room Dialogue Group
http://www.igc.org/traubman/global.htm
Jewish-Palestinian Encounter http://www.salam-shalom.net
Jewish Peace Fellowship http://www.jewishpeacefellowship.org/index.htm
Jewish People Liberation Organization
http://msanews.mynet.net/Scholars/Weizfeld/
Jewish Unity for a Just Peace http://www.junity.org/
Jewish Voice for Peace http://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org
Jewish Voices Against the Occupation http://www.jvao.org
Jews Against Occupation http://www.jewsagainsttheoccupation.org
Jewish Unity for a Just Peace: http://www.junity.org/
A Jewish Voice for Peace http://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/
Jewish Voices Against the Occupation: http://www.jvao.org/
Jews for Peace in Palestine and Israel (JPPI) http://www.jppi.org
Matzpum, Jews to Ban Israeli Products and Tourism http://www.matzpun.com/
Middle East Crisis Committee http://www.thestruggle.com
Nahalat Shalom http://nahalatshalom.org/
Neturei Karta Homepage http://www.netureikarta.org/
New Israel Fund http://www.nif.org
New Profile (movement for civilization of Israeli Society)
http://www.newprofile.org/
Not in Our Name Coalition http://www.diak.org/not_in_our_name.htm
Not In My Name! http://www.nimn.org/
"Occupied Territory" http://www.occupied.org/
[The] Other Israel http://other_Israel.tripod.com/
Oz v'Shalom - Netivot Shalom (religious Zionist anti-Occupation)
http://www.ariga.com/ozveshalom
Oznik News Service http://oznik.com/
The Parent Circle http://www.theparentscircle.com
Rabbis for Human Rights http://www.rhr.israel.net/overview.shtml
Refusenicks http://www.refusersolidarity.net/
Search for justice and equality http://www.searchforjustice.org
Seruv --Courage to Refuse http://www.seruv.org.il/defaulteng.asp
Shvil Zahav (The Middle Way) http://www.middleway.org
Ta'Ayush (Arab Jewish Partnership) http://taayush.tripod.com/
Tikkun Magazine http://www.tikkun.org
Visions for peace with justice in Israel/Palestine http://www.vopj.org/
Yesh Gvul, The movement for IDF men refusing to serve in the Occupied
Territories. http://www.diak.org/Haayesh-gvul.htm ,
http://www.yesh-gvul.org/ (in Hebrew and English)
Individuals with excellent work
Israeli musician Gilad Atzmon, see some of his political reflections at
http://www.gilad.co.uk/inno.html
http://www.gilad.co.uk/refelections.html
http://www.gilad. co.uk/helicopter.html
Iris Bar http://iris_bar.tripod.com/
Norman Finkelstein http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/
Ran HaCohen http://www.antiwar.com/hacohen/h-col.html
David Kirshbaum http://members.aol.com/savepalestine/index.htm
Ilan Pappe http://defendpappe.freeservers.com/
Tanya Reinhart http://www.tau.ac.il/~reinhart/
<http://www.tau.ac.il/%7Ereinhart/>
Israel Shamir, an Israeli writer http://www.israelshamir.net
Eyal Weizman's excellent work at
http://www.opendemocracy.com/debates/issue.jsp?debateId=45&id=2
<http://www.opendemocracy.com/debates/issue.jsp?debateId=45&id=2>
Amira Hass and Gideon Levy and other articles in Haaretz
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/
Rabbi Jeremy Milgrom, Jerusalem, abu-maor [at] inter.net.il
Conscientious Objection to Military Service in Israel
http://www.shministim.org/english_letter.html
http://www.refusersolidarity.net/
http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/aipub/1999/SUM/51504999.htm
ttp://http://www.amnesty-usa.org/news/1999/51506799.htm
http://www.uscj.org/ctvalley/beki/conscientious.html
Israeli Reservists Refusing to Serve http://www.seruv.org.il/defaulteng.asp
On Jewish connection
http://www.endtheoccupation.org/resources/news_articles/kamal.html
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