And the Jewish mostly zionist community in the US is going nuts .
The “Encyclopedia of Race and Racism,” which carries the names of both Macmillan Reference USA (now owned by the Michigan-based Gale, Cengage Learning company) and the Macmillan Social Science Library is including "zionism " in the section that talks about racism in a clear understanding that zionism is racism. After all the UN has a resolution that equates zionism with rasicm http://domino.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0a2a053971ccb56885256cef0073c6d4/761c1063530766a7052566a2005b74d1!OpenDocument . Or just look what the zionist are doing to the Palestinians
Please do you part and contact the publishing company and urge them not to yield on this issue and take zionism out of that section . They are getting a lot of heat from the zionists and we need to make sure that people everywhere will support them in referencing the right explanation in the right section. They can be reached at Phone: 1-800-877-4253Fax: 1-877-363-4253 Monday-Friday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. EST or Outside U.S. and Canada:Visit www.gale.com/world
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The International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN) invites you to the UK launch of its Founding Charter
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Friday, 24 October, 7-9.30pm
Trinity United Reformed Church, Buck St, London NW1
Refreshments, wheelchair accessible (accessible toilets nearby) Camden Town
ALL WELCOME
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Speakers include: Professor Emeritus Moshé Machover, co-founder in 1962 of the Jewish Israeli & Palestinian Matzpen, the Socialist Organisation of Israel, active until the 1980s; Dr. Ghada Karmi, Palestinian doctor of medicine, academic and author of Married to another man: Israel's dilemma in Palestine; Dr. Mike Berry, Nottingham University, co-author of Bad News from Israel (Glasgow University Media Group); Michael Kalmanovitz, IJAN; and others. Chair, Selma James, IJAN.
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The International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN) is launching its founding Charter in continental Europe, India, Israel, Latin America, Morocco, the US, Canada as well as the UK.
"We are an international network of Jews who are uncompromisingly committed to struggles for human emancipation, of which the liberation of the Palestinian people and land is an indispensable part. Our commitment is to the dismantling of Israeli apartheid, the return of Palestinian refugees, and the ending of the Israeli colonization of historic Palestine."
The meeting will consider how the Charter is relevant to different sectors of people to promote anti-Zionist and other organising, and what we can do collectively to advance the movement for boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel.
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For more information: uk@ijsn.net; 020 7209 4751; 07816 251377; www.ijsn.net
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Press report:
UK press launch of the Founding Charter of the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network
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On Thursday morning, 2 October, with great enthusiasm, people from many backgrounds met for the press launch of the Founding Charter of the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN) at the Crossroads Women’s Centre in Kentish Town.
Chair Selma James, one of the international co-ordinators of IJAN, explained that the Charter represents a network of Jewish people who are adamant that “Zionism and the state of Israel do not speak in our name.”
She said: “Zionists have tried to censor Palestinian and all other resistance to Zionism, including the long Jewish tradition of struggles for liberation and against exploitation and oppression. IJAN makes it clear that resistance exists and has grown, and that as a network of Jewish people, we take our direction from the Palestinian struggle.”
To much applause Ms James said the Charter would also be launched in continental Europe – France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland – as well as Canada, India, Israel, Latin America, Morocco, and a number of cities in the US. “Our job is to make visible opposition to Zionism everywhere in the world.”
Michael Kalmanovitz (IJAN) said that “We believe that Palestinian people must have the Right of Return given the deliberate, planned ethnic cleansing of Palestine by Zionists over the last 60 years.” And “We totally oppose the idea that Israel is a Jewish homeland”.
IJAN unequivocally supports the call by Palestinian people for boycott, divestment & sanctions of Israel, known as BDS. There were actions last week called by the Boycott Israeli Goods Campaign and by JBIG, Jews for Boycotting Israeli Goods.
Mr Kalmanovitz said we have been able to build on the work of Matzpen and the Mizrahi Black Panther Party; and currently the Shministim – Israeli teenagers who have refused en masse to be conscripted into the army. “IJAN is part of a worldwide anti-war, anti-racist movement.”
Professor Emeritus Moshé Machover was a co-founder of Matzpen, the socialist organization in Israel, which from its beginning in 1962 was comprised of both Palestinian Arabs and Jews who were citizens of Israel. Their analysis of Israel was that it was “a colonizing project and a settler state . . . structurally allied to imperialist domination of the whole region”.
Professor Machover said that “people are intimidated by the accusation that if you criticize Israel you are branded as anti-Semitic.” He said that in fact there has been “Zionist collusion with most anti-Semitic regimes since the very beginning” and that he would go further: “the accusation itself is anti-Semitic because it saddles all Jews with the criminal responsibility for what Israel is doing.”
He said that IJAN is vital because it can help “break this false propaganda and encourage people to mobilise and exert external force to help the internal struggle in Israel and Palestine and the whole of the Middle East region.”
A lively Q&A followed with very positive contributions from people involved in Black, asylum, and anti-rape organisations. In response to a question from the Peace Strike campaigners based in Parliament Square, the speakers clarified that the first Jewish people imprisoned and worse in the concentration camps were anti-Nazi activists from the working class movement, and that Jewish people were not led like lambs to slaughter as the Zionists, in their anti-Semitism, would have us believe.
Finally it was announced that there will be a public launch of the IJAN Charter on Friday, 24 October at the Trinity United Reformed Church in Camden, 7-9.30pm, where anti-Zionists will take the next steps in the campaign for BDS. The Charter spells out its aim: ‘to help widen [the] cracks [in Zionism], until the wall comes down and Israel is as isolated as was apartheid South Africa.’
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