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Boycotting Israel
Writer Don Cohen ("Zionist Support
Targeted': July 1, page 16) focused well on
the U.S. Social Forum's elimination of the
StandWithUs-sponsored workshop on
LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender)
rights in the Middle East. The snub, by
itself, demonstrated the hypocrisy of a
social justice forum that blatantly cur-
tailed free speech about human rights.
However, worse than that, the USSF
People's Movement Assemblies held in
downtown Detroit openly revealed that
their Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions
(BDS) actions are carefully organized to
demonize and isolate Israel — and on a
global scale.
The assembly we attended, on June 25
at Cobo Center, drew an audience of more
than 150 adults of all ages, was profession-
ally organized, international in scope and
appeared well financed. In their diverse,
multidimensional, decentralized organic
efforts, PMA speakers promoted divest-
ing from many corporations connected to
Israel and that are engaged at any stage of
production, marketing and/or sales. They
attacked the Jewish National Fund's "evil
trees': targeted Israel Bonds held by uni-
versity and corporate investors and struck
at the "Sister Cities" project that twins
American cities with communities in
Israel, among the many examples. Clearly,
university campuses will be targets for a
range of BDS activities.
Within the eight specific BDS "strands:'
there continues to be active "people-to-
people" collaboration with non-Israel-
related social justice organizations to
gradually win their support for the PMAs
anti-Israel activities and its new cover for
anti-Semitism. The Methodist Church is
just one example. Many who led or co-led
strand strategizing could be easily identi-
fied as anti-Zionist Jews, some of whom
viewed the founding of the State of Israel
as a mistake.
In our area, Wayne State University,
the University of Michigan and U-M/
Dearborn will be likely targets for BDS
"tactics:" Out of our heightened sense of
concern, we have to ask: Are our Jewish
college students going to be prepared for
these anti-Israel challenges, whether here
or elsewhere? What will the leadership of
our Jewish community, and parents, do to
help them — and the generation after?
Eugene Greenstein
Farmington Hills
Barbara Moretsky
Bloomfield Township
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July 15 • 2010
No Time To Learn
Regarding writer Don Cohen's very accu-
rate article "Zionism Support Targeted"
(July 1, page 16): As one of the observ-
ers and activists that attended the U.S.
Social Justice Forum in Detroit in June,
I found "an atmosphere discouraging
questioning or independent thought."
Two examples:
At the seminar titled "Defending
Palestinian Rights... The Palestinian
Catastrophe': there was a presentation
that included many historical and fac-
tual distortions after which the facilita-
tor asked for questions. An attendee
at the back of the room asked why the
Palestinians did not establish a state
when the United Nations partitioned the
area of Palestine into Israel and Palestine
in 1947 and why they did not establish a
state when they had many opportunities
in subsequent years.
The facilitator immediately pointed
his finger at the visitor, yelling: "How
dare you ask that question?" The visitor
calmly asked for an answer and again
was hollered down. I raised my hand
and asked that both the visitor and
facilitator exchange calmly so we could
learn something.
The facilitator, this time, pointed his
finger at me and said: "If you don't like it,
leave." Then he closed the session. Looks
like the facilitator lacked tolerance for any
views but his own and did not want to
defend my rights or the other visitor to
free discussion.
In the main hall, a young man, about
30 and carrying a box with a sign "FREE
GAZA' asked me to donate money. I asked
him what "FREE GAZA' meant and he
replied that Israel is starving and mur-
dering the Gazans and the Gazans are not
free to establish-a free state.
I asked that after Israel left Gaza Jew
free and the Gazans freely elected a
government, why didn't Gaza establish a
peaceful "country" rather than a terrorist
community.
I said didn't he know that Israel allows
tons of medical supplies, food, clothing
continuously into Gaza every day, even
though Gaza rockets Israel and has sworn
to destroy Israel. At that point, he inter-
rupted me, said he was Jewish, "hates
Israel:' turned and walked away from me
carrying his "FREE GAZA' box.
Ed Kohl
West Bloomfield
Bagley Memories
Thank you for your article "Different
Homecoming" on the Detroit Bagley
Elementary School Class of 1964
reunion (June 24, page 60). Although
those "kids" who attended were two
years behind me, it was great to read
about and to see the name of a favorite
teacher, Pat Lieberman Binder.
It brought back good memories.
Lois Glazer Zeidman
Phoenix