[S1474] Why is
Darfur so important to the Jewish community?
|
In the cartoon above Uncle
Sam holds a sign saying, "Stop the war of extermination in Darfur"
as he stands on a pile of Palestinian, Iraqi and Afghan bodies. The
cartoonist could also have added Somali bodies. |
Joachim Martillo - thorsprovoni@aol.com
April 11, 2007
Wednesday, March 21, 2007, the Interfaith Leadership
Meeting on Darfur took place between 11:00 AM and 1:00 PM at the Conservative
Jewish synagogue Kehillath Israel at 384 Harvard Street in Brookline.[1]
The synagogue's rabbi William Hamilton is a director of the David Project,
which has lead a media campaign against the Islamic Society of Boston (ISB) and
the Roxbury Crossing Islamic Center that the ISB is building. (See http://tinyurl.com/28n4x7 and http://tinyurl.com/2dxcyg.)
The meeting served as preparation for the March 29th public hearing of the
Massachusetts Joint Committee on Public Service during the on pending
legislation (S1474[2]) to direct
the Massachusetts state pension fund (Pension Reserves Investment Management
Board or PRIM) to divest selectively from Sudan because of the ongoing crisis
in Darfur.
The speakers included:
The attendees consisted of clergy and laymen of various
denominations and ethnic groups including an Egyptian Muslim.
There was no discussion during the meeting. The speakers simply presented the
current strategy and message about Darfur.
Gloria White-Hammond presented some horrific pictures and discussed the Sudan
Divestment Bill S1474 as the first in a serious of steps to bring about
intervention in Sudan. White-Hammond's approach to Darfur today is similar to
the techniques that she used on behalf of Charles Jacobs in the AASG. She
invokes a Pavlov trigger, which is usually a gruesome story or photograph, which
constitutes no proof whatsoever of her analysis of the situation in Sudan. In
this case, a viewer had no way to know whether he was looking at the victim of
government militia, rebel militia, brigands, tribal violence, a wife beating, or
a vehicular accident. Audience members assaulted by the images are supposed to
react by accepting her claims about the atrocities and the solutions without
question. White-Hammond is apparently most successful in using this technique to
manipulate well-off white Christian suburban Americans. She lamented the lack of participation of Muslims and
Muslim women in the Save Darfur movement.
Mark Hanis discussed the marketing of Sudan Divestment via sound bites and
punchy slogans, e.g., "Educate, advocate, legislate!"
Sweder is a professional Jew. The description does not mean that he is a doctor
or lawyer, for then he would be a Jewish professional. Professional Jews are
people like Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) or David Harris
of the American Jewish Committee (AJC), and they work for at least one entity
within the network of Jewish communal organizations, which collectively
constitute the organized Jewish community.
Sweder discussed the issue of Darfur from the standpoint of a Jewish communal
insider.
He described the initial difficulty of persuading the Jewish Council for
Public Affairs (http://www.jewishpublicaffairs.org/),
which is the national umbrella organization for the local JCRCs, to support
divestment legislation because of the history of the opposition of the
organized Jewish community to divestment from Israel, but Sweder and others from the Boston organized Jewish community
explained the record of Boston-area human rights activities in which the
organized Jewish community has played the leading role. Within the Boston
organized Jewish community, the AASG and the David Project constitute the
primary human rights advocacy organizations. The Boston professional Jews argued
that controlling human rights discourse is "good for the Jews."
(See http://tinyurl.com/yp78gr.) The
Boston delegation successfully convinced the JCPA to lead the JCRCs in a campaign for selective
divestment from Sudan.[5] Thanks to the direct and indirect ongoing efforts of
JCRCs and groups aided or sponsored by JCRCs throughout the country, Sudan
divestment has become law in Iowa and is in
the process of approval in 12 states (http://tinyurl.com/2h9zwu).[6]
The last speaker led the attendees in a song that he
composed for the Save Darfur campaign.
Altogether the information provided by the presenters indicates that a clique from the most extremist racist segment of the Boston
Jewish community has with the resources of the JCPA and local
JCRCs transformed Darfur activism into a highly effective viral marketing
program. The JCPA has developed a program
that local JCRCs use in Jewish Community Centers, at media update
sessions, at college events and at interfaith sessions.
Then from the Jewish community the Darfur campaign has
spread even further through American intellectual and political culture with the aid of academic falsifiers and media pundits like Samantha Powers,
Just as a biological epidemic initially does its harm
locally and then spreads rapidly over larger distances, the Darfur campaign has
spread like an influenza outbreak as Jewish bloggers and Jewish community
activists spread the propaganda to the media, to academia, throughout the
government, to the clergy, to business,[7]
throughout society, and finally internationally.
At
first, the Save Darfur movement only poisoned human rights discourse within the USA, then it began
threatening Sudan with an armed invasion practically guaranteed to
create a Sudanese disaster dwarfing that in Iraq, lately Darfur advocacy has complicated US relations with Arab
as well as Muslim states, and now it is beginning to interfere with US China
politics as Darfur activists have begun to target the Chinese Olympics.
On March 29, 2007 the Joint Committee on Public Service
heard testimony from approximately 300 politicians, students and activists at
the Boston State House on S1474. Chairman Jay Kaufman opened the hearing by
noting that he had never seen larger attendance at any similar event. For approximately three hours the Committee
listened to almost uniformly pro-Divestment testimony.
Actress Mia Farrow, whose movie career has been almost
entirely defined by her relationships with directors Otto Preminger, Andre
Previn and Woody Allen, has in some sense returned to her roots by taking part
in this JCRC production, for Otto Preminger is famous inter alia for the
screen adaptation of Leon Uris' novel, Exodus, whose composition was for
the most part financed by the Israeli government as propaganda. Since her
career tanked after her divorce from Woody Allen, she has been working hard to
establish her Jewish and pro-Israel credentials, and Hollywood sources have
indicated that she will get some parts in upcoming pictures from Universal if
her Darfur gig is successful enough.
Part of the video that Farrow showed at the hearing is hosted by Youtube at: http://tinyurl.com/2qu22e.
The gruesome images that Farrow showed in no way proved the veracity of her claims or the validity of selective divestment as a solution, but this sort of mental assault made it hard for the audience to judge her claims or proposed solutions rationally.
The
JCRC bussed high school students from Harwich to the hearing. Other speakers included members of the cast
from the AASG’s anti-Muslim anti-Arab fake human rights events like Panther
Alier of the Sudanese ‘Lost Boys’ and Smith College English Professor Eric
Reeves, who became an expert on the Sudan while working on the AASG and CSI’s
fraudulent “slave-redemption” campaign.
Eric
Cohen, who is a Neocon associate of William Kristol, also spoke.
Anthony
Barsamian of the KNOW Genocide Coalition and the Armenian Assembly of America
once again tagged along with the organized Jewish community. (See http://tinyurl.com/ysjo4x.)
Rabbi
Or N. Rose (Hebrew College, Newton, Massachusetts) connected the sufferings of
Darfurans to the sufferings of the Children of Israel in Egypt when he spoke.
The
Committee only questioned two witnesses, who represented local investment funds
and who had no problem with the Sudan Divestment Legislation because they were
going to sell stock short in order to profit from the decline in stock price
instead of profiting from any increase in stock value that resulted from
business that companies are doing in the Sudan.
The
Massachusetts Coalition to Save Darfur provides transcripts of a lot of
the pro-Sudan divestment testimony at http://savedarfurma.googlepages.com/statedivestment.
Only
three witnesses opposed S1474.
PRIM
executive director Michael Travaglini opposed S1474 because it would force
pension managers to assess the risk of divestment before investing in any
controversial region.
David
Rolde of the Green Rainbow Party attacked S1474 as a propaganda campaign to
demonize Arabs and Muslims and identified the pending legislation as part of an imperialist strategy to prepare
Americans for war in the Sudan to benefit of US and Israeli interests (http://www.green-rainbow.org/Newsletters/election06/articles/sudan.html).
Inventor-Entrepreneur
Joachim Martillo[8] read an
abridged version of a statement that deconstructed the interest of the
organized Jewish community in Darfur and that opposed S1474 because it is
harmful to Darfurans, based on falsehood and conceived in deceit.
Overall, the type of grass roots-like political activity in which
the organized Jewish community engaged at the Public Service Committee hearing
suggests that AIPAC and similar specifically Zionist political lobby
organizations represent only part of the web of control that Jewish or Zionist
groups can exert or attempt to exert over public discourse about the Middle
East, about human rights, about Arabs and about Islam.
April 1, 2007
Islamic Relief Worldwide held a fund-raising dinner for Darfur at the Sheraton Colonial Hotel in
Wakefield, Massachusetts.[9]
Imam Zaid Shakir (http://www.zaidshakir.com/) of the
Zaytuna Institute (http://www.zaytuna.org/) was the
guest speaker.
These
gatherings are all fairly similar whether they are run by Muslim American
religious, Arab American political, Jewish American religious, or ethnic
Ashkenazi American political groups.
The
fund-raising organization provides a catered meal in one of the hotel’s
conference rooms. Islamic Relief
provided fairly standard American fare of fish or vegetarian lasagna. In terms of interesting ethnic cuisine, the
American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (http://www.adc.org/) provides a far superior meal, but
the Islamic religious groups provide the best child care and can serve as a
reasonable way for a couple with young children to get out for an evening.
The speakers
described their experiences at refugee camps in Darfur and the slides were not
nearly as gruesome as the pictures provided by Gloria White-Hammond or Mia
Farrow. Imam Shakir emphasized the
Islamic piety of the population of Darfur.
The Islamic
Relief speaker pointed out that janjaweed (standard Arabic jund
jawa’id) is simply a generic term for cavalry or militia. A janjaweed
may be allied with the government, fighting for the rebellion or simply
engaging in brigandage.
Because
Darfur and Chad are so resource poor, refugee women that ventured outside the
camps to collect firewood threatened the livelihood of local people, who
sometimes became angry and attacked the refugees. This sort of violence is a consequence of the civilian population
displacement caused by the civil war but is separate from the fighting between
the rebels and the government. Once Islamic Relief workers acquired more
efficient stoves so that the refugees gathered far less wood for fuel, a major
source of friction between refugees and local people diminished tremendously.
Islamic
Relief sought no money for political lobbying, and the audience was quite
charitable. One attendee pledged
$10,000 to aid the refugees while two other guests pledged $5,000, and
practically everyone pledged something or forwent dessert.
The text
below is Joachim Martillo's complete statement, of which he read an abridgement
before the Massachusetts Joint Committee on Public Service during the March
29th public hearing on pending legislation S1474.
The
statement is tailored to the Passover season just as was the speech of Rabbi Or
N. Rose (Hebrew College, Newton, Massachusetts) before the Committee.
At a
Passover Seder (home service) traditionally the youngest child asks four
questions that relate to Passover to the other attendees. This Passover all Americans
should ask a fifth question of the organized Jewish community.
Because the organized Jewish community has taken the
lead in pushing the Massachusetts legislature to pass a bill to require the
state pension fund to undertake selective divestment from Sudan, both citizens
and legislators need to understand the importance of Darfur to the organized
Jewish community.
Because it is the Passover season, many Jewish Darfur
activists explicitly compare the sufferings of Darfurans with the afflictions
of the bnai yisrael (Children of Israel) in Egyptian bondage. Such activists
express the hope that Sudan Divestment can be the first step in liberating
Darfurans just as the Exodus brought freedom as the first step in transforming
the Children of Israel into the am yisrael (Community of Israel)[10].
This transformation reaches completion with the giving of the Law of Moses.[11]
Gentiles can be come Jews through a ritual acceptance
of the Law of Moses. For the last several hundred years, as the final step of
the process, the convert affirms the “Thirteen Principles of the Jewish Faith.”
Moses (Mosheh, Musa) Maimonides (the RAMBAM), who is the preeminent rabbinic
scholar of the Middle Ages and who unlike the vast majority of modern Jews was
ethnically Arab (See http://tinyurl.com/3bpcr6), first
summarized these principles in the twelfth century in his Commentary to Mishnah
(Sanhedrin, chapter 10). They provide a useful intellectual framework for
deconstructing the primary concerns of the organized Jewish community in the
Darfuran conflict.
The RAMBAM's first affirmation tells us to start with
fundamentals just as he starts with core idea of Jewish religion.
[Please note that different versions of the Thirteen Principles have minor
variations in formulation and order because of the different choices that
various translators made in rendering the original Arabic text into Hebrew.]
Ani maamin beemunah shlemah
shehabore yitbarakh shmo hu bore umanhig lekhol habrurim, wehu levado asah
weoseh weyaaseh lekhol hamaasim.
I believe with complete faith that the Creator — blessed be His Name — is
Creator and Guide to all his creatures, and he alone made and makes and will
make everything.
Here are the basics of Darfur.
In Darfur practically everyone is a black African Muslim.
The population is divided between nomads and settled farmers.
Since at least as far back as 1987 when there was a crop failure in Darfur, the
Sudan Liberation Army has been attempting to recruit and to organize the
settled farmers in an attempt to overthrow the Central Sudanese government. The
movement presents itself as democratic, but some of the leaders may have dreams
of reestablishing the minor Islamic Empire that used to be centered on Darfur.
The other rebel group is the Justice and Equality Movement, which is allied
with Hasan al-Turabi, who is an Islamist opposition leader with pan-Islamic
politics.
The ruler of Sudan is Omar al-Bashir. He is also Islamist-inclined, but he has
a more Arabist orientation. As a consequence his allies are generally called
Arabs as a political statement even if they are black Africans as is the case
in Darfur. He is more or less allied with the US in the War on Terror.
The RAMBAM tells us in affirmation ten that the organized Jewish community
cannot conceal its real motivations.
Ani maamin beemunah shlemah shehabore yitbarakh shmo yodea kol maaseh bnei
adam wekhol mahshevotam sheneemar: hayotzer yahad libam, hamevin el kol
maaseihem.
I
believe with complete faith that the Creator —
blessed be His
Name —
knows every deed of men and all their thoughts as it is said: He
Who puts their hearts together is He Who understands all their deeds.
A large segment of the organized Jewish community is panicked at an open public
discussion of the crimes of the State of Israel and at the growing size or
potential political strength of the American Muslim community.
Darfur divestment is a red herring that Israel advocacy organizations have
cooked up as a distraction. Militant Zionists have used this sort of tactic for
decades. In the 30s the most extreme Americans Zionists invariably opposed
discrimination against African Americans[12]
in order to obscure the key racist principle of Zionism:
Zionism presupposes that the historical or national rights of Jews to Palestine are superior to the human rights of the native population.
It
is hard to be more racist in the Central or Eastern European völkisch
sense.
During the 30s there were few Arab or Muslim Americans, and the racist
motivation of many superficially progressive activities of the organized Jewish
community was hard to discern except perhaps by Polish blue-collar workers, who
were generally stiffed by Jewish labor leaders.
Does the organized Jewish community really care about the rights of African
Americans?
The criminal conspiracy of the Boston chapters of the Jewish Community
Relations Council (JCRC, http://www.jcrcboston.org/), the
Anti-Defamation League (ADL, http://www.adl.org/) and the American Jewish
Committee (AJC, http://www.ajcboston.org) in the attempt
of the David Project (DP, http://www.davidproject.org) to
deprive local Muslim Americans of their fundamental constitutional rights as
American citizens to assemble and to worship freely in a new mosque at Roxbury
Crossing is stymieing a major effort to bring an infusion of cash into a
depressed African American section of Boston. (See http://tinyurl.com/yqdtvw, http://tinyurl.com/yayd4n.)
The organized Jewish community is saying, “Blacks don't have the right to
political respect. African Americans may not benefit from a major development
effort unless we bless it.”
Does the organized Jewish community really care about Africans?
During the 90s the
American Anti-Slavery Group (AASG), which like the DP was founded by Charles
Jacobs (http://tinyurl.com/yp78gr), engaged in an
anti-Arab propaganda campaign that scammed non-Jews by raising money in a fake
effort to redeem slaves, who were supposed to have been captured during the
civil war in Southern Sudan. Investigative reporting in the Irish Times
and the Washington Post (“The Great Slave Scam”, The Irish Times, 23
February 2002; “Ripping Off Slave ‘Redeemers’”, The Washington Post, 26
February 2002, http://tinyurl.com/24ryzx)
described how the AASG raised money from non-Jews and then divided it with
Sudanese pretending to be either slaves or slavers. The AASG seems to have used
most of the donations for the slave redemption to fund Zionist propaganda
campaigns, which count as educational activities under the rules of 501 (c) (3)
entities as defined in the US tax code.[13]
Because anti-Black, anti-Arab, and anti-Muslim
activities of the organized Jewish community are becoming more entwined with
general subversion of American norms for the sake of the State of Israel and
with profiteering at the expense of gullible people or goyishe kep
(non-Jewish heads) as one says in Yiddish idiom, genuinely anti-racist and
patriotic Jewish Americans have an ethical obligation to oppose professional
Jews like Nancy Kaufman (JCRC, http://tinyurl.com/yqfj2l),
Andrew Tarsy (ADL, http://tinyurl.com/yqgg5k),
Abe Foxman (ADL, http://tinyurl.com/3cghhj),
David Harris (AJC, http://tinyurl.com/2nkc8j)
and, of course, Charles Jacobs (DP, http://tinyurl.com/yvyvjp,
http://semitism.net/?p=51) as well as the Jewish
plutocrats like the Bronfmans (http://tinyurl.com/39tcxv),
Saban (http://tinyurl.com/24ldft), the Krafts (http://tinyurl.com/36odpd)[14]
and the Adelsons (http://tinyurl.com/35xqc6),
whose contributions make it possible for the professional Jews to ignore the
concerns of the vast majority of the American Jewish community.
As more and more official Jewish groups adopt
Jacobs' tactics of creating fake or distorted human rights or constitutional
issues to defame or demonize Arabs and Muslims, the most racist un-American
subversive treasonous segment of the American Jewish community is solidifying
its hold over a wide range of Jewish communal organizations with serious
repercussions both for the USA and also for American Jews.
The RAMBAM tells us the following.
Ani maamin beemunah shlemah,
shehabore yitbarakh shmo gomel tov leshomrei mitswotaw umaanish leovri mitswotaw.
I
believe with complete faith that the Creator —
blessed be His
Name — rewards those who observe His Commandments and punishes those
who transgress them.
Some of the consequences are obvious. Hostility toward Jews
is rising worldwide, and we can expect it to increase in the USA, but the
misuse of the Darfur and related misbehavior of the organized Jewish community
and Zionist Lobby no longer only threatens Palestinians, Iraqis and Afghans but
is now becoming a threat to the USA in general and to Massachusetts in
particular.
In order to understand how Darfur advocacy by the organized Jewish community
harms the USA, the American public must change the paradigm that it uses to
understand the conflict.
Darfur is the site of a very messy civil war. It is somewhat similar to the
disaster that the US has caused in Iraq under the direction of extremist
Zionist Neocons with two qualifications.
America is less directly involved, and the US
has caused far more death and displacement of population in Iraq in four years
than has occurred during 20 years of fighting in Darfur, where most of conflict
related deaths have been the result of starvation or disease..
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Here is a Muslim American view of the Sudan
Divestment movement. |
Now we are seeing in Darfur a phase that looks something
like Sherman's March through Georgia during the American Civil War.
Was the Union perpetrating genocide of white southerners? No.
Should the UK have undertaken an economic boycott of the Union? No.
The March was horrific, and the Union on the whole committed far more atrocities
than the Confederacy during the Civil War, but British divestment from the Union would not have
helped. would probably have prolonged the conflict, and might have assured the
continuance of the slave system. Because British sanctions could have served
British economic interests by removing the Union as an industrial competitor and
by guaranteeing the flow of raw materials from the Confederacy, any economic
punishment of the Union would have looked like self-serving hypocrisy.
Likewise, the organized Jewish community's proposal of selective divestment in
Darfur will probably make the conflict more intractable, worsen conditions for
Darfuran civilians, and remove any doubts non-Americans have about considering
the USA a dangerous hypocritical nation that threatens the rest of the world.
Groups of Americans feign to care about alleged genocide in Darfur, but America
is the mainstay of the State of Israel, which was founded by Eastern European
Zionists after the mass murders of Jews during WW2. The Zionists stole the
country and carried out a premeditated genocide of the native population with
the justification that there is an etymological relationship between the word
Jew and the word Judea. (See http://tinyurl.com/3bpcr6
for a brief discussion of Jewish ethnography.)
If the Irish had applied the same logic after the potato famines, they, who are
mostly Roman Catholic, would have claimed the right to steal Rome and genocide
the native population because the word Roman in the phrase Roman
Catholic is a derivative of the proper noun Rome.
Obviously, Zionism is so extreme that it is psychotic, and we Americans
certainly do not have the right to call people in Africa or Asia extremist if
they are inclined to Islamism as long as we support the State of Israel, and
practically no non-Americans anywhere believe any US claims of concern about
genocide or of desire to support democracy, anti-racism and human rights
throughout the world.
Even worse from our standpoint here in Massachusetts, the behavior of the David
Project, the Jewish Community Relations Council, and the American Jewish
Committee in the matter of the Roxbury Mosque as well as the ongoing
Islamophobic incitement by these and other Jewish communal organizations, leads
the rest of the world to consider the USA in general and Boston or
Massachusetts in specific to be Islamophobia central. (See http://tinyurl.com/yrltfb.)
The Boston organized Jewish community
inadvertently or perhaps purposely is putting the US and specifically
Massachusetts in the same sort of adversarial relationship that the State of
Israel has with the Arab and Muslim world.
One hundred years ago it would not have mattered, but in a world where travel
between any two parts of the globe generally takes less than a day and where
Arabic or Muslim countries are a major source of liquidity and investment
capital, perceived hostility toward approximately 1.5 billion Muslims is really
significant and costly to all Americans and those of us in Massachusetts in
particular. When venture capitalists in the United Arab Emirates or in Malaysia
look for biotech or hi-tech startups to fund, they skip over Massachusetts.
If the Massachusetts legislature really is sincere in caring about the lives
and rights of Muslims either in Africa or here in the USA, or if the
Massachusetts legislature wants to show Arabic and Islamic investors, who could
genuinely help our economy, that we are not the flaming anti-Islamic bigots and
fanatics that the professional Jews of the DP and their friends in the JCRC,
ADL, and AJC are,
The RAMBAM concludes the thirteen principles with a
statement of key Jewish beliefs.
Ani maamin beemunah shlemah
beviat hamashiah weaf al pi sheyitmahmeah, im kol zeh ehakeh lo bekhol sheyavo.
I believe with complete faith in the coming of the messiah, and
even if he tarries, despite all this I will expect in anticipation of him every
day that he will come.
Ani maamin be emunah shlemah, shetihyeh tehiyat hametim beet
sheyaaleh ratzon meet habore yitbarakh shmo weyitaleh zikhro laad ulnetzah
netzahim.
I believe with complete faith
that there will be resurrection of the dead at the time of choosing of the
Creator — blessed be His Name — and remembrance of him will be exalted forever
and for all time.
These two
affirmations underscore the core deceit that the organized Jewish community is
committing. Stealing Palestine to create a Zionist state in the pre-messianic
period is a rejection of the twelfth affirmation, and the organized Jewish
community continues to lie about the State of Israel, the Middle East, Sudan,
Arabs and Muslims, because faith in the resurrection that comes with the
ultimate Day of Judgment is no longer of any concern to the organized Jewish
community. Moreover, the vast majority of professional Jews in official Jewish
communal organizations have substituted ethnic narcissism, Holocaust obsession
and worship of the State of Israel for the fundamentals of Jewish faith, which
Muslims equate with observance of the Tawrat Musa. This phrase is the Arabic
equivalent of Torat Mosheh in Hebrew and of the Law of Moses in English.
The RAMBAM thus leads us to conclude this analysis of the importance of Darfur
to the organized Jewish community as follows.
I believe with complete faith
that racists are trying to deceive the Massachusetts legislature.[15]
Ani maamin beemunah shlemah
shehagizanim menassim lehat`ot et beit hamhokekim shel Masatshusets.
Let the Massachusetts legislature undertake the following
steps for the sake of Darfurans, Americans, and the millions of victims of
Zionist machinations.
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The web site http://www.ifamericansknew.com has
copiously documented New York Times distortions in matters related to
Israel and Zionist issues, e.g., http://tinyurl.com/2h8g9x. The David Project seeks to place its
Israel Advocacy trainees at the New York Times and other
media organizations so that they can act as information gatekeepers and
facilitators. (See http://tinyurl.com/2gmqe4
for an example at the Harvard Crimson.) Similar media manipulation
seems to take place at the Boston Globe where columnist Jeff Jacoby
often serves as the mouthpiece for David Project talking points. |
[1]
http://savedarfurma.googlepages.com/event2007-0321
Interfaith
Leadership Meeting on Darfur
Date: Wednesday,
March 21, 2007
Time: 11am -- 1pm
Location:
Congregation Kehillath Israel
384 Harvard
Street, Brookline, MA 02446
(metered
parking available on Harvard Street)
To RSVP: aherbstman@jcrcboston.org or call
617-457-8640
Suggested
Donation: $10
Proceeds --
MA Coalition to Save Darfur & The Genocide Intervention Network
Program:
·
"An
Eyewitness Report on the Genocide in Darfur"
Reverend, Dr. Gloria White Hammond, Chair, Million Voices for Darfur
·
"Creating
a Permanent Anti-Genocide Constituency"
Mr. Mark Hanis, Executive Director, The Genocide Intervention Network
·
"Targeted
Divestment: Ethical & Practical Considerations"
Mr. Eric Cohen, Co-Chair, MA Coalition to Save Dafur
·
Prayers
& Songs led by Area Clergy
*Teaching
materials for the spring holidays will be distributed
Note that
the Genocide Intervention Network and the MA Coalition to Save Darfur are
political action groups that promote international intervention in Sudan.
Unlike Islamic Relief, neither actually provides aid to the civilian population
of Darfur.
Genocide
Intervention Network
http://www.genocideintervention.net/about/mission.php
Our Mission
The Genocide
Intervention Network envisions a world in which the global community is willing
and able to protect civilians from genocide and mass atrocities. Our mission is
to empower individuals and communities with the tools to prevent and
stop genocide.
GI-Net aims
to build an educated political constituency. GI-Net’s programs and policy goals
will be consistent with the principles of the “Responsibility
to Protect” (R2P) report. This report offers guidelines for international
intervention when governments are unwilling or unable to protect their own
citizens from preventable, widespread violence. Using the R2P report as a guide
and consulting with the authors of the report and other experts, our efforts
will enable citizens to support the most responsible and the most effective
means of civilian protection in the face of genocidal crises.
Massachusetts
Coalition to Save Darfur
http://savedarfurma.googlepages.com/TheMassachusettsCoalitiontoSaveDarfu.pdf
The mission of the Massachusetts Coalition to Save Darfur is to stimulate, support and facilitate the efforts of faith-based and secular organizations and individuals to educate, focus attention and inspire action to help the people of Darfur. The Massachusetts Coalition to Save Darfur is co-chaired by Sifa Nsengimana and Eric Cohen, following the founding work by the original co-chairs, Kenneth A. Sweder and Reverend Doctor Gloria White-Hammond.
[2]
Massachusetts
Sudan Divestment actually refers to the following three bills:
1. http://www.mass.gov/legis/185history/s01474.htm (S1474:
pension divestment; full text: http://www.mass.gov/legis/bills/senate/185/st01/st01474.htm),
2. http://www.mass.gov/legis/184history/s02166.htm (S2166:
further regulating investment in Sudan; full text: http://www.mass.gov/legis/bills/senate/st02/st02166.htm),
3. http://www.mass.gov/legis/184history/s02659.htm (S2659:
rewrite of S2166; full text: http://www.mass.gov/legis/bills/senate/st02/st02659.htm).
The term Sudan Divestment Legislation refers to all three bills collectively.
[3]
Gloria
White-Hammond has received inordinately positive and uncritical coverage in the
Boston Globe, which recently published “A family of fighters” on her and
her family in the December 10, 2006 Sunday Magazine section (see http://tinyurl.com/2zoojl). Such
glowing articles are typical of Boston Globe and Boston Herald
reports on people and activities associated with the David Project (http://www.davidproject.org) or the
American Anti-Slavery Group (http://www.iabolish.com/).
David Project and AASG
in the Globe Archive
The David
Project and the American Anti-Slavery Group received 71 articles of
coverage since April 1999. During this time period Jacobs also placed one
op-ed and one-feature article in the Globe.
There are
two duplicates in lists below
The David
Project (24 articles since April 4, 2003)
1. Schools try to patch rift
in mosque project (Source: Boston Globe)
Date: Dec 30, 2006 | By:
Michael Paulson
...building the mosque, and The David
Project, a Jewish organization that has...both the Islamic Society and
the David Project in an effort to find a solution...filed suit last
year against The David Project, as well as several news
organizations...
2. Islamic Society of Boston,
David Project air grievances (Source: Boston Globe)
Date: Dec 28, 2006
...Boston's recent letter to the David
Project ("Tension high amid Roxbury...included a full response to
the David Project's disingenuous questions about...ISB. That fact
was known by the David Project long before it made its latest...
3. Good neighbors (Source: Boston Globe)
Date: Dec 24, 2006 | By: Diana
L. Eck
...swamped by the well-publicized
accusations of the David Project, a Jewish advocacy group, about
the mosque's funding and leadership and the ensuing litigation against the David
Project by the Islamic Society of Boston. Meanwhile, Jewish...
4. Tension high amid Roxbury
mosque plan (Source: Boston
Globe)
Date: Dec 17, 2006 | By:
Charles A. Radin
...Charles Jacobs , president of the
David Project, that the group was trying to...release a week
earlier by the David Project , which had accused the
society...know why you and others at the David Project appear to
be so intent on inflaming...
5. BRA official's travels to
Middle East raise accounting questions (Source: Boston Globe)
Date: Dec 7, 2006 | By: Charles
A. Radin
...behalf of the mosque project. The
David Project, a Jewish advocacy group, said...agency has
responded fully to the David Project's initial requests for
information...additional requests it has made. David Project
president Charles Jacobs said...
6. Group opposed to Roxbury
mosque sues BRA for documents (Source: Boston Globe)
Date: Oct 6, 2006
The David Project, a
non profit Jewish advocacy organization...all public records requests."
The David Project is among numerous organizations and...Jeffrey
Robbins, an attorney for the David Project, said in a telephone
interview that...
7. Islamic Society of Boston
suit moves forward (Source: Boston Globe)
Date: Sep 30, 2006
...group of individuals and entities
including the Boston Herald, WFXT-TV (Channel 25), a pro-Israel group The David
Project, and terrorism specialist Steven Emerson asserting that they
coordinated a campaign falsely linking mosque officials...
8. Judge rules Islamic Society
suit can proceed (Source: Boston Globe)
Date: Jul 21, 2006 | By: Yvonne
Abraham
...against media and Jewish rights organizations
can go forward. The suit alleges that the Boston Herald, Fox25, The David
Project, Citizens for Peace and Tolerance, and others orchestrated a
media campaign to stop the Islamic Society's attempts...
9. Religious leaders seek to
mediate bitter dispute over new mosque in Boston (Source: Boston Globe)
Date: Jul 4, 2006 | By: Charles
A. Radin
...to members of the interreligious
center May 11. The David Project, a Jewish leadership center,
made its presentation...constructive role." Jeffrey S. Robbins, attorney
for The David Project, said he was pleased both with the
religious leaders...
10. Muslims, Jews spar in ads
over mosque (Source: Boston
Globe)
Date: Jan 5, 2006 | By: Yvonne
Abraham
...including a pro-Israel group, the
David Project, for what the society calls a...mosque in Roxbury.
Lawyers for the David Project and other defendants have
repeatedly...We stand in solidarity with the David Project and
those in our community who...
11. Mosque lawsuit dismissal is
sought (Source: Boston
Globe)
Date: Dec 29, 2005 | By:
Stephen Kurkjian Globe Staff
...Jacobs, the president of the David
Project, a Boston-based research group...development of the project. The
David Project is one of the lawyer's clients...Kolodner,
education director for the David Project, to other defendants. In
the...
12. Praised as beacon, mosque
project stalls amid rancor (Source: Boston Globe)
Date: Dec 18, 2005 | By: Yvonne
Abraham and Stephen Kurkjian, Globe Staff
...WFXT-TV (Channel 25), the David
Project, a pro-Israel group, and Steven...Islam. The suit alleges that
the David Project, reporters, and others joined...under the
Constitution. The David Project counters that it is the
Islamic...
13. Critics of mosque plan seek
review (Source: Boston
Globe)
Date: Dec 9, 2005 | By: Stephen
Kurkjian, Globe Staff
...Islamic Society for 15 or 20
years, yet they try to tie the two together." Cooper has sued Robbins's
clients -- the David Project and Dennis Hale, among others -- for
libel, defamation of character, and conspiracy on the grounds that they have...
14. Islamic Society expands
libel suit (Source: Boston
Globe)
Date: Nov 1, 2005 | By: Charles
Radin Globe Staff
...Roxbury Community College; The David
Project Inc., a Boston-based group...later joined by Kolodner of the David
Project and officers of Citizens for Peace...Charles Jacobs, president
of the David Project, said in a statement yesterday...
15. Intimidation allegations at
Columbia rejected (Source: Boston Globe)
Date: Apr 1, 2005
...students made a video alleging
that Middle Eastern studies professors had harassed them. The video was funded
by the David Project, a Boston-based pro-Israel group. The
committee, appointed by the university, interviewed students, faculty...
16. Report rejects intimidation
allegations at Columbia (Source: Boston Globe)
Date: Apr 1, 2005
...students made a video alleging
that Middle Eastern studies professors had harassed them. The video was funded
by the David Project, a Boston-based pro-Israel group. The
committee, appointed by the university, interviewed students, faculty...
17. Fields of battle (Source: Boston Globe)
Date: Mar 27, 2005
...about the university's Department
of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures (MEALAC) that was produced by
the David Project, a pro-Israel group with offices in Boston and
New York-missed the anecdotes, retailed in the film, about how...
18. Mideast cable show to air 5
days (Source: Boston
Globe)
Date: Jan 6, 2005 | By: Matt
Viser, Globe Correspondent
...a public access channel in
Roxbury featuring Southern white supremacist David Duke. Jacobs is the
president of the David Project, which defines its goal as
promoting a ''fair and honest" portrayal of Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
But when...
19. Conservative students
battle academia (Source: Boston Globe)
Date: Dec 26, 2004
...to 20 other states. At Columbia,
anguished debate followed the screening of a film by an advocacy group called
The David Project that alleges some faculty violate students'
rights by using the classroom as a platform for anti-Israeli political...
20. Harvard to return $2.5m
given by Arab president (Source: Boston Globe)
Date: Jul 28, 2004 | By: Ralph
Ranalli Globe Staff
...should be such a professorship at
Harvard Divinity School," said Fish, who now works in New York for The David
Project, a nonprofit organization that supports students who advocate
for Israel. ''But the money should come from a reputable...
21. Blasted bus speaks on
behalf of Israel (Source: Boston Globe)
Date: Jun 21, 2004 | By: Lisa
Kocian, Globe Staff
...speakers addressed the crowd,
including Charles Jacobs, president of the Boston-based David Project.
An educational inititiative, the David Project trains people to
advocate for Israel. He criticized the media and human rights groups, saying...
22. 'Mosaic' may get rebuttal
on cable (Source: Boston
Globe)
Date: Feb 12, 2004
...of the show, who say it is biased
against Israel, are taking their case to the airwaves. Charles Jacobs heads The
David Project, whose goal is to provide a ''fair and honest
understanding" of the conflict in the Middle East. He's been meeting...
23. Middle East news reports
are not welcomed by all (Source: Boston Globe)
Date: Feb 5, 2004 | By: Rhonda
Stewart, Globe Staff
...like bringing the KKK into
Newton. It's not diversity, it's hate speech, " said Jacobs, who also
heads the David Project, which states its goal as promoting a
''fair and honest" portrayal of Israeli-Palestinian conflict. ''Newton...
24. Mideast show set to air;
foes vow to press fight (Source: Boston Globe)
Date: Jan 22, 2004
...People are calling for planning
meetings about what to do," said Charles Jacobs, who heads the
Boston-based David Project, an organization that aims to promote
a ''fair and honest" depiction of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Jacobs...
25. HARVARD MUST GIVE BACK
TAINTED MONEY (Source: Boston Globe PAID ARCHIVE)
Date: Aug 31, 2003 | By: JEFF
JACOBY
...But that changed in December,
when the founder of the David Project, an organization created to
combat global anti-Semitism...move. Fish refused to give up. With the help of
the David Project, she contacted the media. By the end of May,
Harvard...
26. ARAB NATION SEEN HALTING
CENTER AID (Source: Boston Globe PAID ARCHIVE)
Date: Aug 20, 2003 | By: Jenna
Russell, Globe Staff
...she handed a copy of the petition
to Graham as she crossed the stage to collect her diploma. Now working for The David
Project in New York, Fish said she was stunned at the latest
development. "This is incredible to me," she said. "I
expected...
27. GRENADE HAS BEEN DETONATED (Source: Boston Globe PAID ARCHIVE)
Date: Aug 10, 2003 | By: SANDY
COLEMAN
...according to organizers. It will
be led by Israeli historian and author Tal Ben Shahar. To register, call the David
Project at 617-542-5041. WALPOLE CABLE STUDIO TO GET NEW EQUIPMENT - The
Walpole Community Television board of directors...
28. FRENCH CONSULATE PICKETED (Source: Boston Globe PAID ARCHIVE)
Date: Apr 4, 2003 | By: C.
Kalimah Redd, Globe Correspondent
...several pro-Israel organizations,
such as the South Israel Action Team, the Land of Israel Committee, and the David
Project. Several protesters said the recent attacks in France illustrate
growing anti-Semitism that has spread throughout...
American
Anti-Slavery Group (45 articles since April 27, 1999)
1. Hanging With Gloria Steinem (Source: Boston Globe)
Date: Nov 24, 2006 | By:
Stephanie Schorow
...True Stories of Modern Day
Slavery," edited by Jesse Sage and Liora Kasten, directors of the
Boston-based American Anti-Slavery Group. Now she is
lending her not inconsiderable celebrity appeal to promoting this collection of
first-hand slavery...
2. Muslim reformer still a
target (Source: Boston
Globe)
Date: May 17, 2006 | By: Jeff
Jacoby
...Muslims. In fact, the defendants
-- who include journalists, a terrorism expert, and the founder of the American
Anti-Slavery Group, plus the Episcopalian lay minister and
the Jewish attorney who together with Mansour formed the interfaith...
3. From Somerville, a sharp
eye on Darfur (Source: Boston
Globe)
Date: May 14, 2006 | By:
Michael Jonas
...to see him. ''I didn't find the
issue," he says. ''It found me." Four years ago, members of the American
Anti-Slavery Group, a Boston-based organization working to
raise awareness of the practice of slavery in southern Sudan, came...
4. From Somerville, a sharp
eye on Darfur (Source: Boston
Globe)
Date: May 14, 2006
...to see him. ''I didn't find the
issue," he says. ''It found me." Four years ago, members of the American
Anti-Slavery Group, a Boston-based organization working to
raise awareness of the practice of slavery in southern Sudan, came...
5. Free will (Source: Boston Globe)
Date: Feb 27, 2006 | By:
Vanessa E. Jones
...the behest of Boston's American
Anti-Slavery Group, which Levy quickly contacted...was
looking for in the American Anti-Slavery Group,
which focuses on abolishing...representative of the American Anti-Slavery
Group, discovered TVOS Network...
6. HFA series digs up a
hypnotic collection (Source: Boston Globe)
Date: Apr 24, 2005
...screenings to raise funds for
different causes. Some of the proceeds from ''Stolen Childhoods" will go
to the American Anti-Slavery Group. In the film, child
laborers from around the world describe what it's like to work in quarries,
dumps...
7. Giving voice to the
voiceless (Source: Boston
Globe)
Date: Apr 17, 2005 | By: Robin
Dougherty
...nearly 10 years of work in human
rights and conflict resolution with groups such as Women Waging Peace, the American
Anti-Slavery Group, and the World Sindhi Institute. She
found many groups to be so Washington-oriented and policy-driven...
8. 'Enslaved' woman to return
to India (Source: Boston
Globe)
Date: Jun 10, 2004
...has no formal education, spoke to
a neighbor about her plight, the neighbor contacted the Boston-based American
Anti-Slavery Group, said Mann. That group contacted
lawyers and humanitarian agencies that gave Siraj food and shelter.
9. Protesters call for UN to
act in Sudan (Source: Boston
Globe)
Date: Jun 10, 2004
...be in the front page of every
newspaper," said Bok, who works as a speaker for the Boston-based American
Anti-Slavery Group, which organized the protest along with
the Black Ministerial Alliance of Boston. ''Nobody knows about...
10. Hers is a ministry of mind
and body (Source: Boston
Globe)
Date: Mar 30, 2004 | By: Judy
Foreman, Globe Correspondent
...Industrial Union, the Women's
Health Leadership Forum of Brigham and Women's Hospital, and the Boston-based American
Anti-Slavery Group, with whom she has traveled to the
Sudan to raise funds and awareness about Sudanese slavery. A few years...
11. Something old is new in
Natick (Source: Boston
Globe)
Date: Jan 18, 2004 | By: CATE
COULACOS PRATO
...Sudan. Bok, who works for the
Boston-based American Anti-Slavery Group, became
the first escaped slave to testify...States on modern-day slavery. According to
the American Anti-Slavery Group's website,
www.iAbolish.com, about 27...
12. Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Events (Source: Boston
Globe)
Date: Jan 18, 2004
...Perkins School for the Blind and
the public tomorrow at 1:30 p.m. Bok, who works for the Boston-based American
Anti-Slavery Group, became the first escaped slave to
testify before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations hearings on Sudan...
13. FORMER SLAVE'S MEMOIR
ELICITS HORROR, INSPIRATION (Source: Boston Globe PAID ARCHIVE)
Date: Oct 22, 2003 | By: Joanne
Skerrett, Globe Staff
...offers more insights into the
conflicts between the north and south and, at the urging of his mentors in the American
Anti-Slavery Group, based in Boston, he bravely takes the
Sudanese government and other world leaders to task for their indifference...
14. HOW MUSLIMS TREAT
NON-MUSLIMS (Source: Boston Globe PAID ARCHIVE)
Date: Jun 26, 2003
The treatment of non-Muslims is as
important an issue for Islamic modernity as the treatment of Muslim women.
CHARLES JACOBS President American Anti-Slavery Group
Boston
15. UP FROM `SLAVERY' (Source: Boston Globe PAID ARCHIVE)
Date: Nov 18, 2002 | By: Cindy
Rodriguez, GLOBE STAFF
...who decided to rent a house in Roxbury,
closer to where they all worked. Charles Jacobs, director of the American
Anti-Slavery Group, a Boston-based organization, said that
while many people may not call what happened to Nalawu slavery...
16. ENDING SLAVERY IN
MAURITANIA (Source: Boston Globe PAID ARCHIVE)
Date: Nov 17, 2002
...slaves and former masters. If the
American public rallies behind this unlikely coalition, we can at last bring
freedom to African Muslims who have been held in bondage for centuries. CHARLES
JACOBS President American Anti-Slavery Group Boston
17. PEOPLE/NORTH (Source: Boston Globe PAID ARCHIVE)
Date: Oct 27, 2002 | By: WENDY
KILLEEN
...traded during the 18-year
Sudanese Holy War. Admission to Walker's lecture is free, but donations to the American
Anti-Slavery Group will be accepted. The church is at 101
Forest Ave. Call 781-596-2540. ART STOP - The Lobby for the Arts...
18. BUYING FREEDOM IN SUDAN (Source: Boston Globe PAID ARCHIVE)
Date: Jul 9, 2002 | By: Emily
Ramshaw, Globe Correspondent
...and the Boston-based American
Anti-Slavery Group. Christian Solidarity...associate director
of the American Anti-Slavery Group. Hammond's group
pays...Jacobs, president of the American Anti-Slavery Group,
but added that there...
19. HOSPITAL OFFERS CANCER
PROCEDURE (Source: Boston Globe PAID ARCHIVE)
Date: Jun 13, 2002
...slave from Sudan to speak Francis
Bok, an escaped slave from Sudan, and Charles Jacobs, the president of the American
Anti-Slavery Group, will speak at 7 p.m. June 20 at Temple
Israel, 837 Humphrey St. This year's Speakers Forum, entitled...
20. FREEDOM FOR 6,000 IN SUDAN (Source: Boston Globe PAID ARCHIVE)
Date: Apr 16, 2002 | By: Corey
Dade, GLOBE STAFF
...Gloria White Hammond of Bethel
A.M.E. Church in Jamaica Plain, and others affiliated with Boston-based American
Anti-Slavery Group said increased condemnation from the US
government and other nations has forced slaveowners to release more...
21. SLAVERY IN THE 21ST CENTURY (Source: Boston Globe PAID ARCHIVE)
Date: Mar 10, 2002 | By:
Caroline Louise Cole, GLOBE CORRESPONDENT
...He will never see his parents
ever again." Bok is now a Boston high school student and spokesman for the
American Anti-Slavery Group in Boston. Kidnapped at
7 while selling eggs and beans at his village's market, Bok was sold to an
Arab...
22. AT HOME WITH A BOSSTONE (Source: Boston Globe PAID ARCHIVE)
Date: Dec 11, 2001 | By: JIM
SULLIVAN, GLOBE STAFF
...she didn't mean forced labor, a
Boston-based abolitionist group is weighing in: Two associates of the American
Anti-Slavery Group sent letters to the singer last week to
inform her that real slavery still exists across the world. Harvard...
23. LETTER FROM SUDAN: BUYING A
SLAVE'S FREEDOM REDEEMS US ALL (Source: Boston Globe PAID ARCHIVE)
Date: Aug 12, 2001 | By: The
Rev. Gerald E. Bell
...Let's just send a check and
pray," I suggested. But she persisted and, along with Charles Jacobs of
the American Anti-Slavery Group, persuaded me to
allow Francis Bok, a young Sudanese man who was enslaved at age 7 and who now
lives in Boston...
24. EX-SLAVE SPEAKS OUT AGAINST
SUDAN (Source: Boston Globe PAID ARCHIVE)
Date: Jul 14, 2001 | By:
Catherine Holahan, Globe Correspondent
...at Bethel AME Church in Jamaica
Plain, and Harvard student Jay Williams - all members of the Boston-based American
Anti-Slavery Group. During the past month, the group
traveled to Sudan on a mission led by the Swiss-based human rights organization...
25. FREEING THE SLAVES BOSTON GROUP SAYS IT BOUGHT LIBERTY FOR
THOUSANDS IN SUDAN (Source: Boston Globe PAID ARCHIVE)
Date: Jul 13, 2001 | By:
Michael Paulson, Globe Staff
...Harvard senior Jay Williams of
the Boston-based American Anti-Slavery Group. The
trip was coordinated by the American Anti-Slavery Group
and Christian Solidarity International, a human...
26. AMBITIOUS `FREEDOM' FALLS
SHORT (Source: Boston Globe PAID ARCHIVE)
Date: Jun 26, 2001 | By: John
Koch, Globe Staff
...sexually, stabbed, and fed the
same food as her captors' dogs. Two groups of Westerners, the Boston-based American
Anti-Slavery Group and Christian Solidarity International
of Switzerland, have been buying Sudanese slaves back from their abductors...
27. WHEN WILL WE ACT ON SUDAN'S
SLAVE TRADE? (Source: Boston Globe PAID ARCHIVE)
Date: Apr 23, 2001 | By:
CHARLES JACOBS
...African peace effort that redeems
African slaves for cash raised in Europe and America. My organization, American
Anti-Slavery Group, has for years supported the
International's Underground Railroad. It was time for me to see for myself...
28. EFFORT AGAINST SLAVERY IS HONORED\ MASS. STUDENTS JOIN FIGHT TO
END TRADE IN SUDAN (Source: Boston Globe PAID ARCHIVE)
Date: Sep 19, 2000 | By:
Charles A. Radin, Globe Staff
...advance, the concert was a
benefit for the American Anti-Slavery Group, and
"when I heard what was going on - 27...Charles Jacobs, president and
founder of the American Anti-Slavery Group, was
honored with a Boston Freedom Award last...
29. FREEING WORLD'S SLAVES (Source: Boston Globe PAID ARCHIVE)
Date: Sep 18, 2000 | By:
CHARLES JACOBS
...pastor from the Central Baptist
Church, and Reverand Alfred Steele, a New Jersey assemblyman, joined the American
Anti-Slavery Group in front of the Sudanese permanent
mission. So did Curtis Sliwa, the head of New York's Guardian Angels...
30. TEENAGER CRUSADES AGAINST
SLAVERY (Source: Boston Globe PAID ARCHIVE)
Date: Sep 10, 2000 | By: Coco
McCabe and Joe Vieira
...her summer as an intern for the
Boston-based American Anti-Slavery Group. She was
incensed and she wanted to do something...about doing some fund-raising on
behalf of the American Anti-Slavery Group. The group's
mission is to monitor, publicize...
31. ONE BY ONE, SALVES IN SUDAN
ARE BOUGHT AND FREED BY WESTERN GROUPS. WHY DOES THE UN DEPLORE THE PRACTICE? (Source: Boston Globe PAID ARCHIVE)
Date: Dec 19, 1999 | By: Colin
Nickerson
...ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. The
Boston-based American Anti-Slavery Group has tried
to raise public awareness, with some...irritates Charles Jacobs, president of
the American Anti-Slavery Group, the Boston-based
organization that financially...
32. ONE BY ONE, SALVES IN SUDAN
ARE BOUGHT AND FREED BY WESTERN GROUPS. WHY DOES THE UN DEPLORE THE PRACTICE?\
THE PRICE OF FREEDOM (Source: Boston Globe PAID ARCHIVE)
Date: Dec 19, 1999
...ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. The
Boston-based American Anti-Slavery Group has tried
to raise public awareness, with some...irritates Charles Jacobs, president of
the American Anti-Slavery Group, the Boston-based
organization that financially...
33. CANADIAN OIL COMPANY FINDS
OPPOSITION IN THE PIPELINE\ \ HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS ACCUSE TALISMAN ENERGY OF
SUBSIDIZING BRUTAL RELIGIOUS CONFLICT IN SUDAN\ \ CANADIAN OIL COMPANY TALISMAN
ENERGY FINDS OPPOSITION IN THE PIPELINE (Source: Boston Globe PAID ARCHIVE)
Date: Nov 21, 1999 | By: Colin
Nickerson, Globe Staff
...Charles Jacobs, president of the
Boston-based American Anti-Slavery Group, one of
the most visible crusaders against...investment in Sudan is unconscionable. The
American Anti-Slavery Group is at the front of the
human rights watchdogs...
34. US INVESTMENTS ARE SAID TO
FUEL OPPRESSION IN SUDAN (Source: Boston Globe PAID ARCHIVE)
Date: Nov 9, 1999 | By: Charles
A. Radin, Globe Staff
...bred," said Charles Jacobs,
president of the American Anti-Slavery Group,
"and residents of Boston and the United States...Solidarity International,
the chief ally of the American Anti-Slavery Group, is
intent on converting Muslims and animists...
35. HALTING SUDAN'S SLAVERY AND
SLAUGHTER (Source: Boston Globe PAID ARCHIVE)
Date: Nov 8, 1999 | By: CHARLES
JACOBS
...The ruling regime drops bombs on
ordinary people - on their schools, churches, and hospitals. After the American
Anti-Slavery Group testified to Congress in May, Senator
Sam Brownback, Republican of Kansas, and Representatives Donald Payne...
36. RYDER CUP COVERAGE GOES
DIGITAL (Source: Boston Globe PAID ARCHIVE)
Date: Sep 25, 1999 | By: Don
Aucoin, Globe Staff
...a senator, played by Lindsay
Crouse, who fights against slavery in Sudan. That issue is familiar to the American
Anti-Slavery Group, a Somerville-based organization that
has sought to draw attention to modern-day slavery in parts of Africa...
37. NO WRONG WAY TO FIGHT
SLAVERY (Source: Boston Globe PAID ARCHIVE)
Date: May 13, 1999 | By: Adrian
Walker, Globe Staff
...human rights group, the American
Anti-Slavery Group purchases slaves in the...effort is
simple: the American Anti-Slavery Group raises
money in the United...to attack slavery. The American Anti-Slavery
Group has at least done something...
38. ADS TURN SPOTLIGHT ON SLAVE
TRADE (Source: Boston Globe PAID ARCHIVE)
Date: May 12, 1999 | By:
Hermione Malone, Globe Correspondent
...to buy a human being. That fact
prompted the American Anti-Slavery Group to develop
an advertising campaign to further...the largely Christian and animist south.
The American Anti-Slavery Group will conduct a
print advertising campaign...
39. A DOUBLE STANDARD ON
SLAVERY (Source: Boston Globe PAID ARCHIVE)
Date: Apr 27, 1999
...has been going on for centuries.
A couple of tenacious nongovernmental organizations -- the Boston-based American
Anti-Slavery Group and Christian Solidarity International
of Geneva -- have not only broken through the wall of silence that...
40. A DOUBLE STANDARD ON
SLAVERY (Source: Boston Globe PAID ARCHIVE)
Date: Apr 27, 1999
...has been going on for centuries.
A couple of tenacious nongovernmental organizations -- the Boston-based American
Anti-Slavery Group and Christian Solidarity International
of Geneva -- have not only broken through the wall of silence that...
41. APPEAL FROM A FORMER SLAVE (Source: Boston Globe PAID ARCHIVE)
Date: Mar 27, 1999
...nearly impossible to conceal the
crimes committed by slaveholders in Sudan and Mauritania. Yet apart from the American
Anti-Slavery Group in Boston and Christian Solidarity
International, few of the organizations that are the glory of American...
42. ESCAPED SLAVE'S STORY STUNS
TEENS VICTIM TELLS OF MODERN-DAY TRAGEDY (Source: Boston Globe PAID ARCHIVE)
Date: Mar 18, 1999 | By:
Charles A. Radin, Globe Staff
...and may soon move to Boston to
work more closely with Charles Jacobs, president of the Somerville-based American
Anti-Slavery Group. Teyeb and Jacobs stunned students with
the revelation that slavery still exists in the world, in varying...
43. SLAVERY IN AFRICA: WHY
DON'T ARAB-AMERICANS SPEAK UP? (Source: Boston Globe PAID ARCHIVE)
Date: Sep 7, 1998
...Stop! Do not do these things in
the name of my religion!" Although abolitionist groups, such as the American
Anti-Slavery Group, have reached out to Muslims, we have
been almost universally ignored. While individual black Muslims have...
44. ASK THE GLOBE THE ADDRESS
BOOK (Source: Boston Globe PAID ARCHIVE)
Date: Jul 25, 1997
...Natick -- Peter Falk, c/o NBM,
5750 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 640, Los Angeles For E.K., Chelsea -- American
Anti-Slavery Group, P. O. Box 441612, Somerville
45. SILENCE ON SLAVERY (Source: Boston Globe PAID ARCHIVE)
Date: Apr 2, 1996 | By: Jeff
Jacoby, Globe Staff
...of the Boston-based American
Anti-Slavery Group. "Everyone knows the...action by
research from the American Anti-Slavery Group):
reporter Samuel Cotton...chains. The address of the American Anti-Slavery
Group is P.O. Box 441612...
[4] Amiram Barakat wrote about Mark Hanis’ “Birthright Israel” experience in “Members of the tribe / A cause in common” on August 26, 2006 (http://tinyurl.com/2hq3xs). The Economist (“Second thoughts about the Promised Land”, Jan. 11, 2007, http://tinyurl.com/3e2kdo) also discusses the effect of “Birthright Israel” on Hanis. Both the amount of coverage that Hanis has received and his complete obliviousness to the genocide that Zionists planned, executed and continue to carry out against Palestinians is astounding. The lack of journalistic interest in Hanis’ feelings about the ethnic cleansing and dispossession of Palestinians is also amazing.
[5]
While
Sudan is the first country against which the JCPA/JCRCs are demanding the
implementation of a divestment program, the JCPA/JCRCs do have their own
foreign policy, which is mostly Israel-centric, and they have tried to manipulate
the USA into foreign aggression or interventions in the past.
JCRCs like
the local chapters of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) hold extensive media
update sessions to make sure that journalistic gatekeepers and facilitators
disseminate precisely those stories considered “good for the Jews” or
pro-Israel.
Below is a
typical JCRC press release. The claim that the Taliban forced Hindus to wear
identifying clothing is a variant of Amir Taheri’s calumny of Iran that he
later retracted.
http://www.jcrcboston.org/newsroom/2001/jcrc-condemns-despotic.html
JCRC Condemns 'Despotic' Taliban Rule, Calls
On International Community To Protect The Rights Of Minorities
(Boston, May 23,
2001)- The Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston is horrified by
the decision of Afghanistan's Taliban leadership to force members of the Hindu
minority to wear identity labels on their clothing. This edict is reminiscent
of the yellow star of David that Jews were required to wear in Nazi Germany.
In a statement today, JCRC President Geoffrey H. Lewis
called upon the international community to condemn these acts and to work
together to put an end to discrimination against minorities: "Haven't
we been here before? This edict affects religious minorities everywhere, and
must be stopped. We are ever mindful that the Nazi's requirement to wear the
star was a prelude to the killing of 6 million Jews."
The Taliban's edict also discriminates against Hindu
women, forcing them to wear a veil. "The situation for women in
Afghanistan is appalling" stated Executive Director Nancy K. Kaufman
"Women are not allowed to work, have been stripped of their professions
and live in fear of their lives."All
of this takes place in the wake of the recent destruction by the Taliban of
historic Buddhist statues. JCRC welcomes the news that United States is
committed to bringing the Taliban and other Afghan factions into compliance
with international human rights norms.
[Note that
the AJC not only provides media updates but also purchases hundreds of
thousands of dollars of advertising in newspapers throughout the country. Papers
dependent on such advertising revenue tend to become sensitive to AJC concerns
about news and editorial coverage.
AJC Boston Chapter Launches Israel Ad
Campaign
The
American Jewish Committee’s Boston Chapter launched an ad campaign in the Boston Globe on Wednesday March 28th,
to deepen understanding about Israel and support for her ongoing quest to
achieve peace and security.
“It
is critical that Bostonians understand the vitality of Israel’s democratic
society and support Israel as she faces one of the most difficult periods since
independence 59 years ago,” said Larry Lowenthal, Executive Director of
AJC’s Boston Chapter.
Ads
from the campaign will appear in the Boston Globe’s Opinion page once a
week for the next eleven weeks.
[6]
The JCRCs have worked hard to shut down any possibility
of civil discussion of Israel violations of international laws relating to
human rights, humanitarian law and war.
The JCPA seems to strive for a similar approach to Sudan. If civil dialogue becomes impossible, only
uncivil dialogue remains, and military intervention or war appears to be the
goal of JCPA/JCRC discourse about Sudan and Darfur.
http://www.jcrcboston.org/newsroom/2001/text-of-ma-house-of.html
Text of MA House of Representatives
Resolution Regarding UN World Conference Against Racism
The
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
In The Year
Two Thousand And One
Resolutions
Supporting United States Secretary Of State Colin Powell's Recall Of The United
States Delegation To The United Nation's Conference On Racism
Resolved,
WHEREAS, THE
UNITED STATES, UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF STATE COLIN
POWELL, HAS RECALLED ITS DELEGATION TO THE UNITED NATION'S WORLD CONFERENCE ON
RACISM HELD IN SOUTH AFRICA; AND
WHEREAS, THE
GOALS OF SOUTH AFRICA IN HOSTING THE CONFERENCE ARE NOBLE AND HUMANE, THEY HAVE
BECOME DISTORTED AND DIVISIVE BY PARTICIPANTS WHO HAVE SINGLED OUT ISRAEL FOR
CENSURE AND ABUSE; AND
WHEREAS, THE
UNITED STATES STRONGLY CONDEMNS RACISM IN ANY AND ALL OF ITS INSIDIOUS FORMS,
IT CANNOT PARTICIPATE IN A CONFERENCE THAT IS CONTRIBUTING TO HATRED; AND
WHEREAS,
SINCE ITS INCEPTION, THE UNITED STATES HAS STRONGLY SUPPORTED THE STATE OF
ISRAEL AND ITS RIGHT TO EXIST AND DEFEND ITS BORDERS; AND
WHEREAS, THE
STATE OF ISRAEL RECOGNIZES AND PROTECTS THE RIGHTS OF ALL HER PEOPLE, JEWISH
AND NON-JEWISH; THEREFORE BE IT
RESOLVED,
THAT THE MASSACHUSETTS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES EXTENDS ITS SUPPORT TO UNITED
STATES SECRETARY OF STATE COLIN POWELL IN RECALLING OUR DELEGATION TO THE
FLAWED UNITED NATION'S CONFERENCE ON RACISM AND COMMENDS HIM FOR HIS DECISIVE
ACTION; AND BE IT FURTHER
RESOLVED, THAT
A COPY OF THESE RESOLUTIONS BE FORWARDED BY THE CLERK OF THE HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES TO UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF STATE COLIN POWELL.
H.R.,
September 6, 2001
ADOPTED
[7]
The following essay from Lisa Katz of About.Com (http://www.about.com)
shows the evolution of the “DNA” of the Darfur propaganda disseminated by a
tertiary or quaternary vector.
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[8] In 1990 Joachim Martillo invented VLAN/LSB Routing, which is a technology that is fundamental in the construction of immense high-capacity highly available Internets and which is probably the most important component of modern computer networks. (See http://www.eaazi.org/Telford001/routetti2.html.)
[9] Boston Fundraiser for
Darfur
The people of Darfur are struggling to live a life of normalcy in the midst of
utter chaos, violence, and uncertainty. Many of the 2.2 million displaced
residents of Darfur live in refugee camps, desperately trying to survive with
shortages of food, healthcare, clean water, and sanitation.
In addition to assisting the people of Darfur with life's basic necessities,
Islamic Relief operates a school with over 1,800 students and a health clinic
that provides healthcare, medicine and health awareness training.
Understanding
the importance of self-sufficiency, Islamic Relief also helps mobilize people
to work together and find ways to earn a living.
Please join Islamic Relief on Sunday, April 1 for our fund-raising dinner aimed
at helping the people of Darfur rebuild the lives they once had.
Guest: Speaker:Zaid Shakir -- Zaytuna Institute
Date: Sunday, April 1, 2007
Time: 6:00pm
Location:
Sheraton
Colonial Hotel
One Audubon Road
Wakefield, MA 01880
(781) 245-9300
Tickets
$30 per Person
$20 per Student
$60 per Family
Babysitting will be provided.
For more information, please contact:
Farhina Muneeruddin (781) 504-9027 fmuneer@gmail.com,
Ayman Shabra (978) 973-5497 aushabra@yahoo.com,
Siham Byah (617) 331-0964 sicy_byah@yahoo.com
Islamic Relief
6131 Orangethorpe Ave Ste 450
Buena Park, CA 90620
(888) 479-4968
http://www.irw.org/
info@irw.org
Tax ID#: 95-4453134
Islamic Relief Wordwide is an international relief and development
organization, dedicated to alleviating the suffering of the world's poorest
people. Islamic Relief Worldwide has full-time offices in 33 countries and
provides assistance in over 35 countries worldwide.
Islamic Relief Worldwide is a member of the U.N. Economic and Social Council
(special category), and is a signatory to the Code of Conduct for the
International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and NGOs in Disaster Relief.
It is committed to implementing the Code of Best Practice in the Management and
Support of Aid, as stated by "People In Aid." Islamic Relief Worldwide
always aims to meet U.N. standards in all of the projects it implements.
[10] Conceptually, am yisrael of Biblical Hebrew is fundamentally different from haam hayehudi of Modern Israeli Hebrew. Haam hayehudi is a loan translation of Yiddish dos yidishe folk or German das jüdische Volk. Volk in German is used to describe an ethnic or ethnonational group. It is fairly close to ethnos in koiné Greek, which in the Septuagint is invariably the translation of goy in the Hebrew bible, which uses goy as the term for a secular nation or a nation independent of God and which uses am for the host or community that God has consecrated. The Septuagint invariably uses koiné Greek laos as the translation for am. In koiné Greek the members of the cult of the Άσκληπιός (transliterated Asklēpiós, Latin Aesculapius), the demigod of medicine, constituted the laos of Asklēpiós. Traditional Rabbis in the 19th century and before referred to die jüdische Gemeinde, die jüdischeKehillah, der yidishe kahal or klal yisroel. Medieval rabbis or hakhamim preferred to use qehal maaminim or qehal meyahidim to describe the Jewish community as the community of believers or the community of monotheists.
[11] The ethnic Arab Egyptian Jewish scholar Sa'adiah ben Yosef Gaon (882–942 or 892–942; Hebrew: סעדיה בן יוסף גאון, Arabic: سعيد بن يوسف الفيومي Saīd bin Yūsuf al-Fayyūmi) states in Emunot weDeot (Kitab al-Amanat wal-l'tiķadat) 3,7: “Our nation is only a nation through its Torah” (Ummatenu ainah ummah ella betoratah).
[12] See Militant Zionism in America, The Rise and Impact of the Jabotinsky Movement in the United States, 1926 – 1948, by Rafael Medoff.
[13] This sort of unethical, improper or even criminal misuse of funds is historically very common in Jewish communal political organizations and can be traced back hundreds of years since Eastern European Rabbinical authorities allied and merged with the wealthy merchant class. Using high profile lawsuits as a distraction from embezzlement appears to be a longstanding technique of Eastern European Jewish communal leaders that have been secretly dipping into the organizational cashbox. The current Bronfman Singer imbroglio only came to a head after all the major Holocaust lawsuits in which Singer was involved reached conclusions. (See http://tinyurl.com/2593s5.)
[14] In the March 18, 2007 Sunday Globe Magazine, Michael Paulson published a panegyric of the Krafts. Its title is “Giving Large” (http://tinyurl.com/33m8lj), and it has a lot of similarity to the earlier magazine piece on the Hammonds (“A family of fighters”, http://tinyurl.com/2zoojl).
[15] If you doubt
that the organized Jewish community would lie about Darfur for the sake of
Israel, please read the article “Fire destroys Neturei Karta synagogue, rabbi's
residence in Monsey, N.Y.” from Haaretz, April 5, 2007 (http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/845003.html).
The current campaign within the Jewish community against critics of Zionism may
have graduated from verbal assaults (http://tinyurl.com/yrltfb) to
physical attacks.
Such Jewish intracommunal violence is nothing new. Zionists have a
well-documented history of assaulting anti-Zionist Jews, and such conflicts
within the Jewish community have not infrequently led to murder. (See A Murder
in Lemberg by Michael Stanislawski, http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8382.html.) By
comparison, lying about Arabs, Muslims and the Sudan is quite penny ante.