... Exposing Edward Said's lies about his "refugee" background is comparable to Holocaust-denial, declares an editorial in the November-December issue of Michael Lerner's Tikkun: "[Revealing Said's background] is as obscene as the attempts by various Holocaust revisionists to argue that many of the Jewish refugees were not really victims of the Holocaust but merely self-interestedly escaping a war zone," asserts Lerner, who is apparently incapable of distinguishing between truth (that there was a Holocaust) and falsehood (the claim that Said was a refugee).. But for another perspective on this issue from the same camp, see the article by far-left activist Ralph Seliger in the November issue of Jewish Currents, concerning a recent documentary about Said's supposed "refugee" status. Seliger acknowledges that "the film is clearly misleading on [Said's] personal history." While sympathetic to the Arabs who left Israel in 1948, Seliger concludes: "If the budding Jewish state had not faced a concerted effort to crush her in 1947-48, there would likely be no refugee problem"...
...The New York Jewish Week ran a feature story in its November 12 issue about the new top executive of UJA-Federation of New York, John Ruskay. Editor Gary Rosenblatt, author of the article, described Ruskay's involvement with the "Havurah" (Jewish counter-culture) movement of the 1960s, and his support for Americans for Peace Now and the New Israel Fund in the 1980s. Yet Rosenblatt's puff-piece skipped Ruskay's activity during the 1970s. Could it be because Rosenblatt did not want to mention the highly embarrassing fact that in 1973, Ruskay was a leader of the "Committee on New Alternatives in the Middle East," which lobbied against U.S. arms shipments to Israel during the Yom Kippur War...? Ruskay has never expressed remorse for his anti-Israel actions in 1973. Indeed, in the Jewish Week article, Ruskay defended all of his pre-1990s activities as "reflecting a deep commitment to the fabric of communities in which we live, and particularly the Jewish community"--except, apparently, Jewish communities invaded by Arab armies...
...Lenora Fulani, leader of the radical-left New Alliance Party, has recently been praising presidential hopeful Pat Buchanan. But one of Fulani's top aides, Cathy Stewart, met recently with New York State Democratic Party chairwoman Judith Hope to discuss "mutual goals and cooperation." Just what sort of "mutual goals" Hope has in mind remains to be seen, since Fulani has, among other things, embraced Moammar Kadaffi and described the 1991 Crown Heights pogrom as "the first clear exercise of power by the city's new coalition of black leadership" against "right-wing Zionists"...
...Israeli Arab Knesset Member Hasheem Mahmeed, in his capacity as a member of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, attended a NATO meeting in Brussels in late November, along with MK Nissim Zev of the Shas Party. Here's how Mahmeed introduced himself to the summit participants: "I am a Palestinian Arab who is a member of the Palestine Knesset"...
...The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee has launched a letter-writing campaign to Secretary of State Madeleina Albright, urging her to demand the shutdown of the Khiam prison in southern Lebanon, where Israel detains captured Lebanese terrorists. According to the ADC's "Action Alert," the Khiam prison is a "concentration camp"...
...The "two-state solution" is only a temporary solution, according to longtime Arafat confidante Hanan Ashrawi. Speaking at the University of Michigan on October 15, Ashrawi declared that "neither the Palestinians nor Israelis will be able to permanently establish separate states" and that "ultimately, they will have to merge" into a single "bi-national state"--evidently a resurrection of the traditional PLO slogan of a "secular, democratic Palestine" in place of Israel...
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