Israel boycotts and divestment serve as cover for anti-Semitism

This is from a website named 'The Militant'. This articles calls anyone who dares to speak the truth about the bestiality of the Jews in Palestine 'anti-Semites' - never mind that the European Jewry are as 'Semitic' as the Eskimos and the Zulus. This article or abuse had been responded by those who were abused or mentioned in this vitriol. But I would like to address a few points where the Militant simply not to make sense.

They object to demonstrators attempt to boycott, because the Militant said they worry on accont the owner of Starbucks being a Jew makes the boycott 'anti-Semitic' against the non-Semitic Ashkenazi Jew. Go figure!

The statements by the 'Militant' are in brown font; followed by my rebuttal.

Jew-hatred and anti-Semitism, a centuries old form of racism, has been used by ruling classes throughout history when their system faced a crisis. Modern anti-Semitism often comes draped in an anticapitalist and even socialist cloak.

Aha! So when we watch those who prefer to call themselves 'Jews' drops thousands of bomb upon the Arab people they colonized in order to stem the 'demographic bomb', we are supposed to remain quiet on account that the 'progressives' at the Militant might start crying wolf, i.e. anti-Semitic.

The notion that Washington is a pawn of the Israeli lobby is a modern form of this anti-Jewish conspiracy theory. And those who promote it often use the term "Zionist movement" as a substitute for "Jew."

The Militant aught to know better or else change their name to something else. The evidence that Jews do in fact control the affairs of the American government is sky high. Jews do boast about their ability to control America. Sharon did say "we control America and the Americans know it.' Obama told the Jews assembled at AIPAC that all of Jerusalem was to be only for the Jews, never mind that it is not Obama's to give nor for Euro Jewry's to receive what does not belong to them. Olmert was boasting how he commanded W Bush to stop the speech he was giving and take Olmert's call, which Bush did. But there is one point of agreement with the 'Militant'. I am in total agreement and I agree that people should have the courage to say 'Jews', 'international Jews', 'world Jewry' and not hide behind 'Zionist' since those Jews who could be counted upon to be honest and fair on the question of Palestine are not more than 100 worldwide.

It also produces scientists, politicians, and military leaders who advance the bloody course of U.S. imperialism—a far greater threat to humanity than the Israeli capitalist state.

This is such a convoluted way of talking; as if the Jews' state and Imperialism are not partners in crime, galloping all over the lands of people of color, stealing their resources and spilling their blood.

The capitalist regime in Israel is the enemy of the Palestinian people, but it is also the enemy of Israel’s working people, Jewish and Palestinian.

This silly statement had already been responded to in the following article quite eloquently byLichi D'Amelio of the Socialistworker.org. The writer in the 'Militant' attempts to equate Jewish working class = Palestinian working class! That is absurd if not insane. The American taxpayers' money is what makes the Jews in Palestine happy and comfy. Take away the American money and Jewry would begin the stampede to the West again. But the West is keeping Jewry away from its own soil by sending it enough money to make it to stay where it is, on stolen Arab land.

Only a political program that appeals for a common struggle of all the oppressed and exploited—regardless of their national origin, or religious belief—can point the way forward.

Very typical 'militant' mumbo jumbo. What is being attempted here is to confuse the cause and reason for the boycott, the 'Militant' is attempting to say that the boycott is because the oppressors, the killers, the land grabbers and the occupiers happen to be Jews or else had the colonizers of Palestine been any other group besides those who go by 'Jews' then there would not have been any objection to the brutality and bestialty. That is exactly what the 'Militant' is saying. Didn't the4 Arabs side with Europeans and took up arams against the Turks to liberate their land, only to find out later that they spilled their blood to help both the Biritsh and the Zionist enterprise?

Applied to Israel the term “apartheid” is simply an epithet, rather than a scientific description of a social structure.

This statement is so ridiculous that it need not be dignified with a rebuttal.

she also asserted that the chick-pea-based dip “is not even Jewish, but an Arab food

European Jews with no lineage to Palestine except for calling themselves 'Jews' have claimed the Palestinians' cultures, arts and foods as their own. Would European Jewry ever dare to claim Sushi to be Jewry's ancient ancestral food? Would they claim chow mein to be Jewry's ancestral food? Of course not! Why is it ok for Jewry to steal from the Arabs and not ok to steal from others?

Here is that silly article by one Paul Pederson

BY PAUL PEDERSON

 
NEW YORK—The fifth annual “Israeli Apartheid Week” was held on campuses across the United States the first week in March. The activities are part of an international campaign to boycott businesses that have trade or other relations with Israel, and to sever ties between Israeli academic institutions and those in other countries.

The campaign has the backing of a range of groups that support the struggle of the Palestinian people against national oppression, including radical and socialist groups in the United States like the International Socialist Organization (ISO) and the Workers World Party.

The character of these activities—aimed increasingly at Jewish-owned businesses—is part of the deepening pattern of Jew-baiting and anti-Semitism in the middle-class left worldwide. It should be opposed.

At a February 10 panel discussion at Hunter College in New York, ISO leader Lichi D’Amelio appealed to students not to buy hummus produced by the company Sabra. After stating that the company gives money to the Israeli military, she also asserted that the chick-pea-based dip “is not even Jewish, but an Arab food.”  
 
Looting of Starbucks
Starbucks, whose owner is Jewish, has become a target of this campaign internationally. On January 10 some 200 protesters looted a Starbucks coffee shop near the Israeli embassy in London and attacked a number of businesses in the area. One proud participant posted a video of the looting on YouTube under the header “How to really boycott Israeli products.”

Jew-hatred and anti-Semitism, a centuries old form of racism, has been used by ruling classes throughout history when their system faced a crisis. Modern anti-Semitism often comes draped in an anticapitalist and even socialist cloak. The real exploiters—the billionaire ruling families, whose great majority is non-Jewish—are replaced by a racist conspiracy that paints the Jews as the source of society’s problems.

As part of Israeli Apartheid Week a meeting was held at New York University titled “NYU-Tel Aviv University: A Partnership in Occupation.” Students, academics and others are presented as a “partner in occupation” simply because they study or teach at Tel Aviv University. And, by that logic, why is studying or teaching at NYU less of a threat to the interests of humanity.  
 
Democratic, secular Palestine
The anti-Israel boycott campaign paints all Israelis as being the enemies of the Palestinian people. But that is false. The capitalist regime in Israel is the enemy of the Palestinian people, but it is also the enemy of Israel’s working people, Jewish and Palestinian. A growing percentage of Israeli citizens are Palestinian—today 20 percent, in a generation or two, close to one-third.

Only a political program that appeals for a common struggle of all the oppressed and exploited—regardless of their national origin, or religious belief—can point the way forward. At the heart of that course is the call for a democratic, secular Palestine in which both Palestinians and Jews can live without state-supported religious restrictions.

The organizers of the current anti-Israel boycott compare it to the international campaign led by the African National Congress (ANC) as part of building support for the revolutionary struggle to overthrow apartheid in South Africa.

There are sweeping differences between the apartheid regime in South Africa and the capitalist regime in Israel—in terms of organization of labor, the character of the regimes, and the historical conditions under which they emerged. The attempt to paint them as the same simply obfuscates the real social and class relations in Israel and the tasks facing the toilers there to chart a revolutionary course forward. Applied to Israel the term “apartheid” is simply an epithet, rather than a scientific description of a social structure.

Perhaps the most glaring difference between the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa and the fight for Palestinian national rights today is the existence of a revolutionary organization—the ANC under Nelson Mandela—in the case of South Africa.

The Freedom Charter, the basic document of the ANC written in 1955, leads with the following call:

“We, the people of South Africa, declare for all our country and the world to know: that South Africa belongs to all who live in it, Black and white, and that no government can justly claim authority unless it is based on the will of the people.”

In contrast to that revolutionary perspective, the current leading forces in the Palestinian national movement—the Palestine Liberation Organization and Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist party that controls Gaza today—both have political programs that point in the opposite direction.  
 
Support for Hamas
Support for the anti-Israel boycott effort among radicals—like the members of the Workers World Party and the ISO—often goes along with increasingly open support for Hamas. As ISO leader D'Amelio said of Khaled Meshal, the Hamas political bureau leader in Damascus, "There is little in what he says that I disagree with.”

The Hamas covenant, written in 1988, outlines the aims of that organization.

Speaking of the Jewish people, the document states, “With their money, they took control of the world media… . [T]hey stirred revolutions in various parts of the world with the purpose of achieving their interests and reaping the fruit therein. They were behind the French Revolution, the Communist revolution… . With their money they formed secret societies… . They were behind World War I, when they were able to destroy the Islamic Caliphate, making financial gains and controlling resources.”

Fatah likewise has renounced its former revolutionary democratic demand for a democratic, secular Palestine. Its leadership reflects the wealthy layer of Palestinians increasingly seeking an accommodation with imperialism and with Tel Aviv.

In the absence of any revolutionary perspective, campaigns such as the anti-Israel boycott can appear to be a radical substitute. But, as the crisis of capitalism deepens, the “anti-Israel” character of these campaigns is simply a modern form of Jew-hatred. All who genuinely support the battle for Palestinian national rights must oppose it.

http://www.themilitant.com/2009/7313/731336.html