My apologies for the lack of recent postings. Thing is, it's that time of year in academia when shit just kinda hits the fan. I will most likely be out of the loop for the next couple of weeks. In the meantime, (and in the spirit of Passover) please enjoy this shot of Arthur at the parting of the Red Sea.
Not many people know this, but even back then Charleton Heston had a thing for guns. According to Arthur, under that robe Heston's got a rifle strapped to his ass.
posted by Emma Jo Aiken-Klar, PhD at 10:57 AM
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Happy Passover! In your absence we note a silly article by Anna Morgan that The Star titles The myth of the Jewish Lobby full of misdirection and froth, worthy of serious rebuttal but a good entry to actually read the critique that a Jewish lobby for Israel acts to pressure politicians and control debate.
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n06/mear01_.html in particular note:
As a student of campus Zionist activism I thought of you when reading:
"Where the Lobby has had the most difficulty is in stifling debate on university campuses. In the 1990s, when the Oslo peace process was underway, there was only mild criticism of Israel, but it grew stronger with Oslo’s collapse and Sharon’s access to power, becoming quite vociferous when the IDF reoccupied the West Bank in spring 2002 and employed massive force to subdue the second intifada.
The Lobby moved immediately to ‘take back the campuses’. New groups sprang up, like the Caravan for Democracy, which brought Israeli speakers to US colleges. Established groups like the Jewish Council for Public Affairs and Hillel joined in, and a new group, the Israel on Campus Coalition, was formed to co-ordinate the many bodies that now sought to put Israel’s case. Finally, AIPAC more than tripled its spending on programmes to monitor university activities and to train young advocates, in order to ‘vastly expand the number of students involved on campus . . . in the national pro-Israel effort’.
Also read Chomsky's comments, which Morgan completely misrepresents, that the lobby article authors put too much stock on the power of the lobby rather than understanding middle east policy has more to do with "strategic-economic interests of concentrations of domestic power in the tight state-corporate linkage". A pithy Chomsky note, love it.
Chomsky's piece is at http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=9999
Emma - I thought you would like to know that you have now been labelled as an enemy of the democratically elected Palestinian people.
"We have one enemy," Abu Samhadana (newly appointed head of the future 'Palestinian army') said. "They are Jews ... I will continue to carry the rifle and pull the trigger whenever required to defend my people."
Congratulations, and watch your back.
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