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Panel on International Resistance to Zionism

by Mich.
Panel on International Resistance to Zionism
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A remarkable international panel broke new ground in the Bay Area, Wednesday, July 30, 2008. In a packed meeting called by the anti-Zionist International Jewish Solidarity Network, Arab Jews, Palestinian and Jewish activists with backgrounds from India, Puerto Rico, Israel, Lebanon, France/Argentina, Britain, and the US, tackled burning questions facing the Middle East and the world. Speakers placed Zionism as the partner of US imperialism and addressed their weakening power, among Jews for whom it claims to speak and act. Speakers also described the brutal racism of the Israeli settler state that the anti-war and anti-racist movements must confront to support the Palestinian struggle, including the mountain of survival work women do to repel the genocidal Israeli assault. The clear and unambiguous anti-Zionism of the meeting is an exciting expression of the newly emerging network of anti-Zionist Jews demanding that we impose boycotts, divestment and sanction against Israel, as part of a broader movement for liberation.
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at the center, Liliane Kaczerginski, long-time Argentinean activist from Paris and member of Matzpen, a Jewish-Palestinian anti-Zionist organization founded in 1962 and active through the 1980s
To the right, Michel Shehadeh, a long-time Arab American activist, currently executive director of the SF Arab Film Festival and a member of the landmark LA 8 Case.
§Feroze Mithiborwala
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Feroze Mithiborwala, convener of the National Alliance of People's Movements in India and active in Palestine solidarity, anti-racist, anti-Islamophobia and anti-caste organizing nationall
§Reuven Abarjel @ Marcella Edery
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Reuven Abarjel, Arab Jewish founder of Israel's Black Panther party and activist from Israel
Marcella Edery, Arab Jewish feminist activist, organized the Single Mother's Tent to secure rights for single Jewish & Palestinian women in Israel
§Michel Shehadeh
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Michel Shehadeh, a long-time Arab American activist, currently executive director of the SF Arab Film Festival and a member of the landmark LA 8 Case.
§Reuven Abarjel
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Reuven Abarjel, Arab Jewish founder of Israel's Black Panther party and activist from Israel
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From right to left, Ricardo Levins Morales, Puerto Rican, Jewish activist and artist from Minneapolis
Selma James, long-time organizer, beginning with women, against colonialism & racism, and coordinator of the Global Women's Strike
Gabriel Ash, anti-capitalist writer and activist living in Geneva
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§Zeina Zaatari
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Zeina Zaatari, Arab American activist, founding member of the Radical Arab Women's Activist Network and the National Council of Arab Americans
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