I'm less interested in whether Beinart passes a political purity test than in whether his advocacy leads more Jews to consider taking concrete action. If one member of one synagogue takes one action to put the idea of boycotting Ahava cosmetics in front of their community as a result of Beinart's advocacy, I would consider that a net plus.
On Thu, Apr 5, 2012 at 8:16 PM, Joseph Catron <[email protected]> wrote: > "We need a broad, open debate in the American Jewish community on Zionist > BDS, because that's a key step to getting the progressive edge of American > Jewish opinion to start adopting it." > > But why would we bother to replace one racist agenda with another? > > I'm sure Beinart's a likeable enough guy in his personal life. I've been > impressed with the range of critical opinions he's curated on Open Zion, and > am sure he doesn't cross the street to kick puppies. > > That said, his proposal is designed expressly to preserve the Jewish > ethnocracy, and to bolster his own racial privilege at the expense of the > rights of others (Palestinian refugees and '48 Palestinians). > > I rather think that "the progressive edge of American Jewish opinion" > consists of Jews supporting the Palestinian struggle on its own terms, > rather than clinging to fading hopes of a racially-exclusive polity on > someone else's ethnically-cleansed land. > > On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 3:50 AM, Robert Naiman <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-naiman/zionist-bds-kosher-for-passover_b_1407215.html > > > -- > "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen > lytlað." > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Robert Naiman Policy Director Just Foreign Policy www.justforeignpolicy.org [email protected] _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
