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One more, because it came out yesterday: Another participant in this upcoming trip is Ajamu Baraka, who has written several columns characterizing critics of "anti-imperialist" regimes as racist. He repeats the charge in his new column, and takes the widely acknowledged truth of differential responses to various massacres, and soils the argument with this: "And in that sense, while the victims of the violence in Paris may have been innocent, France was not. French crimes against Arabs, Muslims and Africans are ever-present in the historical memory and discourse of many members of those populations living in France. Those memories, the systemic discrimination experienced by many Muslims and the collaboration of French authorities with the U.S. and others that gave aid and logistical support to extremist elements in Syria and turned their backs while their citizens traveled to Syria to topple President Assad, became the toxic mix that resulted in the blowback on November 13." As long as he's race-baiting, I wonder if he has a clue how deeply Arab victims of Assad (and Qaddafi etc. etc.) resent being told they're imperialist stooges by Westerners of any race? http://blackagendareport.com/paris_attacks_white_lives_matter On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Andrew Pollack <[email protected]> wrote: > P.S. While many of us are actively organizing in defense of Syrian > refugees - both by organizing for their right to find refuge in a > supportive environment, and by organizing against the multi-imperialist > wars which drove them away - the SSM is SUPPORTING their murder, directly > by supporting Russian et al. aggression and, even more insidiously, > indirectly by claiming they're returning home already thanks to Russia and > that therefore our efforts on their behalf are unnecessary: > > > http://www.syriasolidaritymovement.org/2015/11/11/over-1-million-syrians-returned-home-since-beginning-of-russian-campaign/ > > P.P.S.: The SSM (US, not to be confused with the heroic SSM-UK) organized > this statement of support for Assad; guess which of our favorite Stalinist > misleaders signed it? : > > > http://www.syriasolidaritymovement.org/2015/07/22/statement-of-palestinian-groups-and-individuals-in-the-occupied-homeland-refugee-camps-and-the-diaspora-about-the-global-war-on-syria/ > > > On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 11:13 AM, Andrew Pollack <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Quite a collection of nut jobs. (Plus at least one serious person, Glen >> Ford, who is far too intelligent to still be spouting the >> "anti-imperialist" line. His friends in Socialist Action unfortunately just >> encourage his political ignorance on this front.) >> >> But notice the threat of legal action at the bottom; since when do >> movement coalition names fall under copyright law? >> And as for "illegal activities..." >> >> On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 9:19 AM, Louis Proyect via Marxism < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** >>> #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. >>> #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. >>> #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. >>> ***************************************************************** >>> >>> (Just received from someone who does not want to be named. The subject >>> heading is his.) >>> >>> As their website http://www.syriasolidaritymovement.org/ clearly shows, >>> the pro-Assad, pro-Hamas, pro-Hezbollah American wing of the Syrian >>> Solidarity Movement do not spend all their time attacking or threatening >>> their UK wing. They are also very busy trying to secure donations, $20,000 >>> this time, to visit their hero, the war criminal Bashar al Assad. Over 22 >>> of them, male and female, are looking for gullible sponsors to pay their >>> air fares to Syria to attend a December 5, 2015 meeting of the Arab Women’s >>> Progressive League (AWPL), an obscure bunch of female Assadist supporters, >>> who seem more than happy to give Chileans, Australians and Americans free >>> holidays to Assadstan, even thoigh the $20,000 they are trying to raise >>> would be much better spent on feeding and clothing Syrian women and >>> children rather than giving serial freeloaders another freebie. >>> >>> Although these pompous nonentities are claiming that they and they alone >>> can establish a “back channel” between “Russia and Iran” on the one hand >>> and the Western democratic powers on the other, they seem to have missed >>> the point that these parties are currently meeting in Vienna and, as they >>> all have a considerable diplomatic corps, that they do not need paupers >>> like them to establish any lines of communication for them or between them. >>> >>> Although many of these 22 freeloaders would be well-known to those who >>> follow the microbes of the international terror industry, Issa Chaer, Sami >>> Ramadani and Fr. Dave Smith bear closer scrutiny. Why is an Australian >>> priest soliciting money to go to Syria on a freebie and why are two male >>> London professors, with very senior positions in the pro-Assad Stop the War >>> Movement going to an all-female conference in Syria, without using the >>> facilities and channels their universities have for such jaunts? >>> >>> If the peaceful transition we all wish for Syria is to happen, it will >>> not be achieved by giving the gadflies of international terrorism free >>> holidays with Assad. Far from donating to this unworthy cause, readers >>> should contact the universities that employ Profs Chaer (London South Bank >>> University) and Ramadani (London Metropolitan University) and ask them to >>> explain why they are allowing these two reprobates bring such disrepute >>> upon them. >>> _________________________________________________________ >>> Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm >>> Set your options at: >>> http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/acpollack2%40gmail.com >> >> >> > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
