NYC'S "END ISRAEL APARTHEID WEEK"

A report from "End Israel Apartheid Week" (KESHER)

Yesterday [Feb. 10] evening kicked off End Israeli Apartheid Week in NYC, part of this year's nation-wide effort by anti-Zionists to install the "Israel is a racist apartheid state" meme into the mental plumbing of as many people as possible. (The next event is tomorrow (Monday) at Judson Memorial Church, if you want to check it out. And you can witness the last gasp of the divestment movement at the same venue on Thursday. More on divestment at an Episcopal church (natch!) on Friday with mediocre Columbia professor Joseph Massad and virulent Chomsky protege professor Tanya Reinhardt. And oh joy! A teach-in in Jersey City.)

Kesher Talk friend Pamela Hall was there with others from the David Project. (Pamela's previous report was from an event sponsored by Rabbis for Human Rights):

We were there as were a bunch from The David Project. PLUS Ms. Charlotte (very scary Marxist) Kates.

It was a tedium. A really boring BORING 3 hours. Two speakers whose accents were so thick mostly what I heard was and in 1967....1967....the four days in 1967...yadaydadyada. The settlers (instead of the Israelis) and the history of why the Holy Land is Arabic. Saw o Mosque of Abraham and then we were reminded that Abraham is THEIR holy father (as the room had a good laugh at the expense of those nasty Jews who think Abraham is THEIR father). The Holy Land belongs to palis. They've been there since...couldn't understand her, but we all know what she's claiming....

Showed the maltreatment of holy ruins by the settlers ...Israelis... (that was rich) by showing the foundation of a modern building build over a ruin. Wasn't touching the ruin. It was still there...whatever... The history time-line that shows the land has always belonged Palis includes...Hebron ...it's is an Arabic word so I guess that's 'proof'.

[Judith: It seems to be one of many Hebrew/Arabic cognates. But if they say the city has always "belonged to Palestinians," that's of a piece with the egregious historical revisionism they are pedaling. Well, "revisionism" doesn't really describe it, it's baldfaced replacement theology.]

Had to stare at a map of Israel where everything was in Arabic accept Hebron. Had to watch a propaganda film that NEVER ENDED. Saw all those nasty children of those nasty, violent settlers tormenting those sweet Pali children with kicks and STONES when all these Pali kids wanted was to go to school. They just want to live free of the occupation. Saw those buffoons called Israeli soldirs tearing down olive trees to build that Apartheid wall and the propaganda-style subtitles enhanced what foolish people these settlers and their soldiers are.

[Judith: See, I know Jewish and Palestinian residents have committed violence upon each other. I'm not even going to contest the content of their films, other than to note that they only show one side. But if they lead off with revisionist history, I then don't care to find out what Jews did to Palestinians. you're going to lie about our history, then fuck you, I don't want to know. Someone who thinks Jews have a right to live in one of our oldest habitations can inform me about abuses by settlers, and I'll listen.]

Our people got a few questions on the floor. They were never answered OR they were shouted down by their ringers in the room as : THAT's NOT A QUESTION.

Then there would be so much noise of people shouting they would move on to the next question. On young Jewish male was actually hurt by the Hunter Security when his question was used to create an uproar Then security roughed HIM up and dragged him from the room. He was respectful and was not the one shouting. I hear we will all be called on by our side to give a report that he was injured by the security.

A collection was taken from the crowd of 55 to 60 and that was revealing. Now we knew who WE were in the room cause you KNOW we put NOTHING in 'the plate'. This bunch is working the message: Palis good, settlers BAD, it's their land; settlers mean, settlers soldiers buffoons, etc, etc, etc...