“There is some hesitancy with proclaiming to be in solidarity with the tent protests in Tel Aviv, because there has not been a direct call from those protests to end the Israeli occupation of Palestine,” said Ari Cowan, 21, who said on September 26 that he had slept in the plaza all but two of the nine nights of the occupation.So the protesters in New York refuse to look at Israelis, even anti-Zionists, through any other lense. Can you imagine how I, a avowed Zionist, would be treated? Well, there are plans to build a sukkah at OWS. I have every intention of going to show support for the protest through a specifically Jewish lense. The protesters deserve support, but they can and need to do better. With that, I thought I'd bring copies for the OWS library of: the Forward article above, April Rosenblum's pamphlet, "The Past Didn't Go Anywhere," and Steve Cohen's "That's Funny, You don't look antisemitic." Any ideas on other materials? Maybe the Emma Goldman letter here?
The complaint, which is not uncommon, is one for which Eidelman has little patience.
“To look at a social movement only through the prism of the Palestinian struggle, that’s very limiting,” Eidelman said. “What do you expect, we’re going to change the whole system in two months?”
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Occupy Wall Street: a bleg
Not exactly a full post here, but I was at the Kol Nidre service at Occupy Wall Street and found it incredibly moving. However, I have some fears ans skepticism regarding the protests. For one, Adbusters is involved. And I'd noticed a peculiar absence of reference to the Israeli Tent City protests. According to one activist who was involved in both, the
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I don't support the protest, jaded as I am--which I think is rather obvious and I'm in the process of explaining--but have you read any of those links on it on Bob from Brockley? I'm thinking specifically the Ross Wolfe ones and the Marred by Anti-Semitism one.
We have a link to the elusive antifa-hamburg reader 'Why your revolution is no liberation', at the bottom of this post on Moishe Postone where you can also find a link to 'History and Helplessness Mass Mobilization and Contemporary Forms of Anti-Capitalism'.
There must be more though - I'll have a think.
Also have a look at some of the resources at Contested Terrain.
(From a recent post at Bob From Brockley).
Oh, thanks, Mira. I read CT, but I hadn't known all of that was collected there.
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