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		<title>By: dan e</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/06/why-a-cultural-boycott-of-israel-is-necessary/#comment-21790</link>
		<dc:creator>dan e</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 20:04:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I support cultural boycott of Izzylandia &amp; every other kind of boycott, divestment, expose your local Caterpillar dealer/rental outlet &amp; contractor customers, such as the City of  Sacramento etc.

However I do so as a gesture of solidarity only. Do not assume that I&#039;m under the same illusion as most who advance the idea, that it somehow offers a &quot;solution&quot;. 

The comparison with S. Africa proves nothing. To begin with, while middleclass S.A. Blacks and Coloreds have greatly improved their lives, and all non-white South Africans are happy about the end of official Apartheid &amp; the daily humiliations, the lot of the average miner &amp; family is still basically as it was: grueling labor, grueling poverty under a thinly disguised form of slavery. 

Second, there is no Congressional Arab Caucus, not even a Muslim Caucus. 

The actual fact is that &quot;Israel&quot; &amp; it&#039;s US powerbase, collectively most accurately described as the Zionist Power Configuration, will not stop what they&#039;ve been doing since 1917 and before unless &amp; until somebody MAKES them stop. The Zionazis and their US/Euro stooges regularly boast of actions that would have been too embarrassing for politicians of prior eras, that is prior to Fall 1967, when the Zionist Consensus decided it was safe to start operating out in the open.

 Better than expending energy/time on Boycott/Divestment efforts would be to organize a total boycott of all Israel Lobby/ZPC operatives/stooges/gunsels, which would mean stop socializing/schmoozing/&quot;Coalitioning&quot; with all Democratic Party politicians/activists. But no, even the Greens &amp; other &quot;third pty&quot; advocates can think of nothing better to do but tail after &quot;Progressive Democrats&quot;, join in activities/protests etc organized by PDA et al, and generally function as the caboose on the Facts on the Ground railroad.

The one thing that is not allowed in these circles is any focussing of attn on the anomalous role of Big Jewry in US public life, stemming from their anomalous level of collective affluence mediated through the acquisition of anomalous levels of higher education. 

Until it is recognized that the Democratic Party (sic) is now primarily an expression of the power of Organized Jewry, and only secondarily of the Confed. States of America In (internal) Exile, the Israeli State will go on doing as is its  wont. 

Which should surprise no one: Herzl, Nordau, Ussushkin, Weizman, Jabotinsky made no bones about what they were engaged in: a project to create a State by Any Means Necessary, as long as it could deal with its fellow racist colonial states like England, France, the US, et al on a basis of formal equality. 

The great genius David Ben-Gurion however realized that given the appeal of the word Socialism in the era just before and following the Great War &amp; arrival of Bolshevism, it was necessary to adapt the rhetoric, update the marketing approach. Given the defeat of the Axis by the Popular Front coalition including the USSR, only a facade of &quot;Marxism&quot; could deter Stalin from vetoing UN Gen Ass. Resolution 181, and depriving the Zionist State of its main claim to &quot;legitimacy&quot;. 

So  now we have the spectacle of the psuedo-&quot;Marxist&quot; CPUSA working its converts overtime to help market Zionist Stooge No 1, and of people claiming to be &quot;pro-Palestinian&quot; participating in &quot;coalition&quot; activities with members of the CP as well as other so-called &quot;Labor Movement&quot; outfits. 

Oh, well, there I go spinning my wheels again, wasting time/breath on &quot;peasnicks&quot; who aren&#039;t listening. 

Heheh, &quot;Run Tom Run&quot;, I&#039;m outa here:)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I support cultural boycott of Izzylandia &amp; every other kind of boycott, divestment, expose your local Caterpillar dealer/rental outlet &amp; contractor customers, such as the City of  Sacramento etc.</p>
<p>However I do so as a gesture of solidarity only. Do not assume that I&#8217;m under the same illusion as most who advance the idea, that it somehow offers a &#8220;solution&#8221;. </p>
<p>The comparison with S. Africa proves nothing. To begin with, while middleclass S.A. Blacks and Coloreds have greatly improved their lives, and all non-white South Africans are happy about the end of official Apartheid &amp; the daily humiliations, the lot of the average miner &amp; family is still basically as it was: grueling labor, grueling poverty under a thinly disguised form of slavery. </p>
<p>Second, there is no Congressional Arab Caucus, not even a Muslim Caucus. </p>
<p>The actual fact is that &#8220;Israel&#8221; &amp; it&#8217;s US powerbase, collectively most accurately described as the Zionist Power Configuration, will not stop what they&#8217;ve been doing since 1917 and before unless &amp; until somebody MAKES them stop. The Zionazis and their US/Euro stooges regularly boast of actions that would have been too embarrassing for politicians of prior eras, that is prior to Fall 1967, when the Zionist Consensus decided it was safe to start operating out in the open.</p>
<p> Better than expending energy/time on Boycott/Divestment efforts would be to organize a total boycott of all Israel Lobby/ZPC operatives/stooges/gunsels, which would mean stop socializing/schmoozing/&#8221;Coalitioning&#8221; with all Democratic Party politicians/activists. But no, even the Greens &amp; other &#8220;third pty&#8221; advocates can think of nothing better to do but tail after &#8220;Progressive Democrats&#8221;, join in activities/protests etc organized by PDA et al, and generally function as the caboose on the Facts on the Ground railroad.</p>
<p>The one thing that is not allowed in these circles is any focussing of attn on the anomalous role of Big Jewry in US public life, stemming from their anomalous level of collective affluence mediated through the acquisition of anomalous levels of higher education. </p>
<p>Until it is recognized that the Democratic Party (sic) is now primarily an expression of the power of Organized Jewry, and only secondarily of the Confed. States of America In (internal) Exile, the Israeli State will go on doing as is its  wont. </p>
<p>Which should surprise no one: Herzl, Nordau, Ussushkin, Weizman, Jabotinsky made no bones about what they were engaged in: a project to create a State by Any Means Necessary, as long as it could deal with its fellow racist colonial states like England, France, the US, et al on a basis of formal equality. </p>
<p>The great genius David Ben-Gurion however realized that given the appeal of the word Socialism in the era just before and following the Great War &amp; arrival of Bolshevism, it was necessary to adapt the rhetoric, update the marketing approach. Given the defeat of the Axis by the Popular Front coalition including the USSR, only a facade of &#8220;Marxism&#8221; could deter Stalin from vetoing UN Gen Ass. Resolution 181, and depriving the Zionist State of its main claim to &#8220;legitimacy&#8221;. </p>
<p>So  now we have the spectacle of the psuedo-&#8221;Marxist&#8221; CPUSA working its converts overtime to help market Zionist Stooge No 1, and of people claiming to be &#8220;pro-Palestinian&#8221; participating in &#8220;coalition&#8221; activities with members of the CP as well as other so-called &#8220;Labor Movement&#8221; outfits. </p>
<p>Oh, well, there I go spinning my wheels again, wasting time/breath on &#8220;peasnicks&#8221; who aren&#8217;t listening. </p>
<p>Heheh, &#8220;Run Tom Run&#8221;, I&#8217;m outa here:)</p>
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		<title>By: hp</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/06/why-a-cultural-boycott-of-israel-is-necessary/#comment-21637</link>
		<dc:creator>hp</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:44:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;d rather be fishing..</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;d rather be fishing..</p>
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		<title>By: Arch Stanton</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/06/why-a-cultural-boycott-of-israel-is-necessary/#comment-21622</link>
		<dc:creator>Arch Stanton</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;ll be doing my part.  Se ya&#039;ll in a floating gulag coming soon to a city near you.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ll be doing my part.  Se ya&#8217;ll in a floating gulag coming soon to a city near you.</p>
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		<title>By: Lloyd Rowsey</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/06/why-a-cultural-boycott-of-israel-is-necessary/#comment-21611</link>
		<dc:creator>Lloyd Rowsey</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:29:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>thanx, sk.  glad to see you&#039;re back.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>thanx, sk.  glad to see you&#8217;re back.</p>
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		<title>By: sk</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/06/why-a-cultural-boycott-of-israel-is-necessary/#comment-21584</link>
		<dc:creator>sk</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Oops, try &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/02/AR2008060200775.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; link instead of the one in last post.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Oops, try <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/02/AR2008060200775.html" rel="nofollow">this</a> link instead of the one in last post.</p>
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		<title>By: sk</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/06/why-a-cultural-boycott-of-israel-is-necessary/#comment-21583</link>
		<dc:creator>sk</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Such a boycott can only be carried out on an individual level, as any establishment support of the type that was available during latter stages of the struggle against Apartheid in South Africa--due almost solely to grassroots pressure on Congressional Black Caucus--won&#039;t be forthcoming. Thankfully, some revered &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/02/AR2008060200775.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;individual&lt;/a&gt; artists have started to face the issue head on.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Such a boycott can only be carried out on an individual level, as any establishment support of the type that was available during latter stages of the struggle against Apartheid in South Africa&#8211;due almost solely to grassroots pressure on Congressional Black Caucus&#8211;won&#8217;t be forthcoming. Thankfully, some revered <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/02/AR2008060200775.htm" rel="nofollow">individual</a> artists have started to face the issue head on.</p>
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		<title>By: Edwin Pell</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/06/why-a-cultural-boycott-of-israel-is-necessary/#comment-21582</link>
		<dc:creator>Edwin Pell</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 18:09:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yes it is long past time for sanctions on the parts of Palestine occupied by the zionist gangsters from Europe. Just like the sanctions that were put on Iraq in the past. With a no-fly zone over the of parts of Palestine occupied by the zionist gangsters from Europe. The age of colonial occupation are over time to return to Europe.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes it is long past time for sanctions on the parts of Palestine occupied by the zionist gangsters from Europe. Just like the sanctions that were put on Iraq in the past. With a no-fly zone over the of parts of Palestine occupied by the zionist gangsters from Europe. The age of colonial occupation are over time to return to Europe.</p>
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		<title>By: bozhidar balkas</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2008/06/why-a-cultural-boycott-of-israel-is-necessary/#comment-21581</link>
		<dc:creator>bozhidar balkas</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:59:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>i&#039;ve said this before, zionism is one of the most brutal isms we had to face to date.
yet, i believe, zionism will be destroyed.  one thing we can be  sure of is that  80%  of  world  pop will never accept  it.
how can they accept such an insulting  ideology that copmares  in  some  aspect  of  it  with the nazi ideology. thank u</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i&#8217;ve said this before, zionism is one of the most brutal isms we had to face to date.<br />
yet, i believe, zionism will be destroyed.  one thing we can be  sure of is that  80%  of  world  pop will never accept  it.<br />
how can they accept such an insulting  ideology that copmares  in  some  aspect  of  it  with the nazi ideology. thank u</p>
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