When you say, 'America is the most violent and terrorist country on earth,' are you condemning every last one of us 355 million living here?
... So, telling myself that Jews in Israel Support Israel's Land Grab and Support the Bombing of Babies, is that too broad of a stroke, and to say I hate those Israel-supporting Jews, is that ...?
ANTISEMITIC?
What the fuck is this, then?
Katie, Jewish, Aaron, Jewish, Bibi, Jewish, Dana, Jewish. Listen to this shit. This is antisemetic, for sure. ANTI-ARAB.
And it’s baby killer talk. And, where is the pushback from Dana, a Jew, against Bibi, a Jew?
Who’s running the show?
Link:
It isn’t Benjamin Netanyahu Baby Killer! It is Zionist Jewish Racist Israelis as Baby Killers. It is Jewish American Zionist Israel Supporters who are Baby Killers.
How many ended up in DC yesterday? And the Goyim/Jewish Lawyers are Readying those Lawsuit Briefs:
Link.
Hundreds of people were left stranded on the tarmac in Washington, D.C., after bus drivers refused to take them to the March for Israel on Tuesday, according to a rabbi.
The March for Israel brought over 100,000 people to the nation's capital in a show of solidarity for Israel and to call attention to the hostages that are still being held by Hamas. While the event was peaceful and garnered support from legislators of both major political parties, several rabbis said getting to the rally was a harrowing journey after their buses never showed up.
David Kurzman, senior director of community affairs at the Jewish Federation of Detroit, told reporters on a call that it was a "historic day" for the Jewish community that was marred by the experience with the bus drivers.
Kurzman wouldn't say which bus company was involved or who was responsible for coordinating the transportation. But he said he was informed people called in sick when they became aware of the assignment.
"In the way that this action prevented community members, proud Jewish Americans, from exercising their freedom to speak, protest, assemble, gather today at the nation's capital, that to me was a malicious act," Kurzman said.
Kurzman stopped short of calling it an "act of antisemitism," but said it was an act targeting the Jewish community.
These fucking people are fighting the genocide:
Several Israeli officials have boasted that the operations in Gaza amount to an ethnic cleansing campaign. Agriculture Minister Avi Dichter said:
"It is first and almost an operational event. We have a huge number of fighters of our own that have to operate in a densely populated area. We need to reduce the number of residents." He continued, "This is going to result in some sort of Nakba. [This is] a Gaza Nakba 2023, that’s how it’ll end."
So, all those activists and academicians who are Jewish — I have many in my past, in my activism, in my union organizing, in my teaching and journalism and even masters in urban planning days — caling the USA as Settler-Colonial genocide purveryors, what do they say about Israel as Settler-Colonial genocide purveyors?
Can you say this country — USA — is a settler-colonial-Christian nation of white supremacy? Or that this country, U$A, is bad for all the bombing and coups over time? Again, if you are Jewish telling me about the bad bad bad of this country’s origins, U$A’s, all the killing by whites against Indigenous Nations, and the slavery against blacks, and the exclusion acts and internment of Japanese, and the lynching and Jim Crow and . . .
Are you painting your/our nation with too broad of a stroke as a Jewish person? I’m allowed to do this: Cite Swanson’s site, U.S. Wars and Hostile Actions: A List
Can I Google all the covert and overt lawless venture by Israel? Try it. It provides nothing, maybe just Iran-Contra.
But then can I do this?
At the start of this week, Israeli Defense Minister, Yoav Gallant, said,
"What we are doing in Gaza, we can do in Beirut."
After Tel Aviv began military operations in Gaza last month, Hezbollah and the Israeli military began exchanging fire along the border. Scores of people have been killed, including soldiers and civilians on each side. An Israeli strike caused the death of a Lebanese journalist.
Can I say this if fucking racist and sick and wholly coming from Israeli officials’ Jewish mouths? These people are sick, and they are IDF, Israel politicians, Israel public, Israel-backers in U$A!
"After troops photographed themselves inside Hamas’s parliament building in Gaza City several days ago, the military has demolished the site," Times of Israel (TOI) writes.
"The building was captured by the 7th Armored Brigade and Golani Infantry Brigade."
The below video of the demolition is widely circulating and was featured by TOI:
LINK.
Ahh, the trials in UK:
Ahh, so, you can be a Jew in America, you can come here or be born here, but you have that escape valve, uh, what’s that about? Exceptionalism and Chosenness your fellow Americans have not access to?
According to the halakhic definition, a person is Jewish if their mother is Jewish, or if they convert to Judaism. Orthodox Jews do not recognize conversions performed by Reform or Conservative Judaism. However, the Law provides that any Jew regardless of affiliation may migrate to Israel and claim citizenship.
And so Occupied Racist Jewish Israel, it’s courting the big Rottweiler: Does a Now Not So Secret U.S. Military Base in Israel Portend a Wider U.S. War in the Middle East?
[The U.S. Combined Air Operations Center (CAOC) at Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar provides command and control of air power throughout Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and 17 other nations.]
[The Israeli settlement of Leshem built by Y.D. Ashush which also was awarded part of a Pentagon contract for building a secret U.S. military base in the Negev desert.]
[Aerial view of Al Udeid Air Base west of Doha.]
Jews in Occupied Palestine, and most Jews in Occupied America, want war with Iran!
Shit, suing Biden?
THE PLAINTIFFS IN the lawsuit include the Palestinian human rights organizations Defense for Children International – Palestine and Al-Haq; Gaza residents Omar Al-Najjar, Ahmed Abu Artema, and Mohammed Ahmed Abu Rokbeh; and U.S. citizens Mohammad Monadel Herzallah, Laila Elhaddad, Waeil Elbhassi, Bassim Elkarra, and “A.N.,” who all have family members who have been killed and displaced by Israel’s war.
“To be honest, it’s difficult to revisit all the scenes of the past weeks. They open a door to hell when I recall them,” said Al-Najjar, a 24-year-old intern physician who works at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis, Gaza, in a statement.
“I’ve lost five relatives, treated too many children who are the sole survivors of their families, received the bodies of my fellow medical students and their families, and seen the hospital turn into a shelter for tens of thousands of people as we all run out of fuel, electricity, food, and water. The U.S. has to stop this genocide. Everyone in the world has to stop this.”
Fucking Zionist, Israel First, Jewish Forever Monsters.
What tyranny, what a global system of three guys (above) determining the safety/future/lifeblood of 7.5 billion people. Of course they should be taken out. They are Hitlers to the 1,000 power. What would you have done if you had a chance to throw a grenade at Adolph?
Here’s some well needed satire: IDF locates "bunker" under hospital that Israel built in 1983. This proves the hospital had it coming
After repeatedly bombing the Al-Shifa hospital, depriving it of power and medicines, opening fire on it, killing doctors, nurses and patients, letting premature babies die from lack of ventilators, and forcing surgeons to carry out operations without pain relief, Israel has proven these actions were entirely justified. This is because it has located the base and tunnel network that, according to old media reports, Israel built under Al-Shifa hospital in 1983.
After courageously battling an elite guard of three-year-olds armed with assault rifles who yelled: “Death to the infidels” as they opened fire, the IDF headed down a secret access point called a “stairway” with red hand-prints on the walls and the words: “Do not proceed,” apparently written in blood.
Israel’s fearless soldiers did indeed proceed, not knowing what horrors might await them, and that’s when they discovered a dusty old room with the words: “Secret underground Hamas command centre,” written on the wall. A shelf contained books entitled: “How to launch stray rockets from graveyards,” and: “Tricking Israel into blowing up human shields,” as well as the world’s largest collection of “Mein Kampf for babies”.
Even worse, the room contained all of the fuel and medicine that Israel had kindly given to the hospital because it wanted to save all of the civilians it had chosen to attack for no reason. There was a note beside the stash which read: “Haha, our stupid hospital isn’t getting the things it needs so we can make Israel look bad when they rain bombs and open fire on it, day in, day out.”
Further searching revealed an address book lying open on the reception desk, containing the details of every member of Hamas. The list included every civilian in Gaza, every member of Doctors Without Borders, every representative of the United Nations, every journalist from Al-Jazeera, and Jeremy Corbyn. This explains so much.
Now that Israel’s alternative facts have shockingly proven to be true, the mainstream media unanimously agrees Netanyahu is entirely justified in reducing every hospital in Gaza to rubble because this is the only way to liberate the people of Palestine who they totally care about x
The above image was in Cindy Sheehan’s latest piece on Voting for the "Lesser-Evil" Gave Us: Bush I; Clinton; Bush II; Obama; Trump; AND Genocide Joe Biden (etc).Which "Lesser-Evil Will be Next in the Empire of Suffering?
Here, from David Swanson:
The miraculous thing here, the rarest of silver linings, is that some people recognize the evil in killing Gazans AND in killing Israelis. That’s almost unheard of. Never before in my experience or in my knowledge of history has there been a war where any significant number of people expected to be on one side have declared both sides to be in the wrong. It’s such a rarity, that it hasn’t developed the rhetorical armor to protect it from various cartoonish criticisms, like the idea that for both sides to be in the wrong they must be exactly equally in the wrong, or that for both sides to be in the wrong all the victims must be to blame and the governments be exonerated, or that for both sides to be in the wrong whichever side a particular person opposes must be in the right.
I want to quote for you an email I received recently in reply to an email from World BEYOND War about peace efforts around the world:
“I unsubscribed but am appalled at you propagating Hamas terrorists propoganda [sic] lies! The gaza [sic] Israel massacre is 100% Hamas terrorists fault! It’s beyond reprehensible that the world is so full of hate and anti Semitism that they unquestioningly support propaganda and lies of hamas/terrorists!”
You’ll notice that support for the genocide in Gaza very often takes a different form than simply supporting genocide in Gaza. Most often it takes the form of changing the conversation to the mass murder of Israelis by Hamas. It also takes the form of blaming Hamas for keeping soldiers or weapons near civilians, thereby supposedly forcing the Israeli government to kill everyone. Or it takes the form of simply denying that it’s happening because, even though there are endless reports and videos and photos, the Hamas government agrees that it’s happening and therefore it isn’t. Or it isn’t happening because the Israeli government is doing it and therefore it is antisemitic to admit it’s happening. This is a favorite accusation from some people who are actually horribly antisemitic.
The various means of excusing the genocide have one thing in common: the belief that one side is 100% right and the other 100% to blame. If you carefully observe the actual world, even locally, even in your own house, there’s almost never anything for which only one party is 100% to blame. If we can’t get rid of an absurd justice system that behaves as if a conviction (even a false one) fixes a crime and exonerates every other person on earth, we can at least stop thinking like prosecutors. Blame is not finite or simple. And mass murder is not justifiable because it’s against a population whose government you have blamed.
I’ve spoken at events in recent days at which people yelled at me that Gaza is an open-air prison, that killing Israelis isn’t killing Israelis because it’s a jailbreak. Well, of course it’s an open-air prison, but killing people can’t be made into not killing people just because it’s something else too. The people of Gaza and the people of the world who have failed to adequately support them live in a world in which nonviolent action is more successful than violent. Killing Israelis remains evil even though you know it’s going to provoke killing Gazans many times over. In fact it’s more evil because of that, even if you release an erudite statement about the long-term strategies of anticolonial asymmetric warfare.
At some of the same events I’ve had people demand to know what it is I want the Israelis to do, surrender to their enemies? But to think such a question is to utterly accept apartheid. When the United States faced the need to end Jim Crow, it was not a need to surrender to its enemies, but to integrate them, to become a nation that included more people on equal terms all as fellow people, neighbors, friends, companions. This was unthinkable to those who insisted on a white nation. In Israel it is unthinkable to those who insist on a Jewish nation. But there’s an answer to that. It’s not an easy answer, even if it’s easy to say it. The answer is to stop thinking of a Jewish nation and absurdly pretending that such a thing can be a democracy. The answer is to set about the hard work of accepting everyone as human beings in a wider and richer, and less violent and hateful state, with freedom of religion, assembly, speech, and of private and cultural behavior.
A two-state solution sounds more plausible, except that it assumes antagonistic apartheid states harboring bitter resentments, and one of them existing in isolated little hamlets dominated by the other state. We need to reconsider what’s more and what’s less plausible. Endless wars would be less plausible without the U.S. arsenal of apartheid, or with U.S. willingness to democratize the United Nations or to join the rules based order of treaties and courts.
Last weekend in Madison, Wisconsin, I debated a professor from the university there on the topic of the war in Ukraine. As expected, he favored more weapons, claimed not to be aware that the U.S. and UK had blocked peace negotiations, spoke as if the 2014 coup didn’t exist, believed Russia’s imperial tendencies erased any role played by NATO’s expansion (no matter how many NATO commentators predicted it in real-time), etc. But what struck me about his argument was that for the most part he didn’t say what he thought at all, he said what political scientists supposedly all thought en masse, and what game theory thinks, and what the supposed logic of the bargaining process that is warfare dictates. And amazingly, every single thing that these impersonal entities thought lined up exactly with what corporate television and newspaper companies think — even if it was perhaps a bit behind the very recent growing acceptance of the existence of the hopeless stalemate.
This professor was relatively smart and informed and well-spoken, yet seemingly not the least bit ashamed to effectively communicate that he was engaged in group-think. He didn’t use that term. He might respond that the wisdom of a large academic community is greater than that of an individual. But first accepting war and then relating what people trying to imitate computers think will happen next in a world accepting war is neither science nor morality. It’s a cop-out. And it plays into the notion of a proper way to think, in a moment when all sorts of improper ways to think are being banned and punished in the name of democracy. So, I thank you for allowing me to say exactly what I think and hope that you will do the same.
Listen to Omar, Abdaljawad:
All those other “freedom fighters” are valorized, but never the Palestinian fighter. And, Hamas tried political solutions, even the shitty two-state solution Hamas supported, but they were not listened to.
Even IDF guy, he says, genocide:
Israeli-born historian Omer Bartov, who recently signed an open letter warning of Israel committing a potential genocide in Gaza. Omer Bartov is a professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has cited him as one of the world’s leading specialists on the subject of genocide. Bartov is the author of numerous books, including, most recently, Genocide, the Holocaust and Israel-Palestine: First-Person History in Times of Crisis.
I was a soldier in the IDF, in the Israeli Defense Forces, between 1973 and 1976. And so, as a young soldier, the first thing that I experienced was the trauma, the huge surprise of the Arab — the Egyptian and Syrian attack on Israel on October 6th, 1973. And I should say that when the Hamas attack on Israel occurred on the 7th of October, 2023, 50 years and a day later, that was quite traumatic, I think, for myself and many members of my generation. And we can talk further about why it was so traumatic.
But in the course of my service, I also served in the northern Sinai, and the command post that I belonged to was in Gaza. And so I would go quite often to Gaza, which was then — had a population of about 350,000, was poor, hopeless and congested. And since then, of course, now we have between two and two-and-a-half million people living in Gaza, which is much poorer, much more congested and whose population is much more desperate, and has been desperate for a long time, considering that it’s been under Israeli siege now for 16 years. So, for me, the lack of progress for all those years in somehow resolving this terrible humanitarian problem is very personal.
And I should add one thing. I was usually not employed as a soldier in occupation duties, but there was a time that I was. And I have very distinct recollection of that, leading my platoon through an Egyptian city at the time, with people looking at us from behind the windows, obviously not wanting us to be there, obviously afraid of us, and us walking on the street obviously feeling uncomfortable being where we are and being somewhat afraid of what might happen to us as we were marching then. That sort of sense of what being an occupation soldier means stayed with me all those years, and it’s always made me — has been one of the reasons, a sort of more personal rather than political or analytical reason, why I’ve always thought that it’s time to end this occupation, for which we called in that August 4th petition, two months before the Hamas attack on Israel.
That letter: “In a world where powerful states are becoming more brazen in their impunity, it is crucial to give voice to those who resist. Along with nearly 800 lawyers, scholars, and practitioners, representing a diverse range of perspectives from academia and practice, I have signed a statement warning of the possibility of genocide in Gaza, Palestine. This open letter underscores the gravity of the situation, pinpointing multiple instances where the state of Israel appears to have breached international law, in full public view and frequently with the endorsement of a certain political class and a servile media. It is imperative we address these transgressions and hold accountable those who act with disregard for international law and for basic human decency, however flawed these might be. I urge every reader to reflect on this statement and the implications of what is happening for us, for international law, and, most of all, for the Palestinian people.” — Mohsen al Attar
So, the West doesn’t like it that unguided rockets are being sent to Tel Aviv by Hamas and Palestinian fighters? Then send Palestine American made guided, precision smart missiles. YEP.
Yes, go to DC Jews for those prisoners, but this is not something we all should be protesting?
An official “secret” memorandum authored by Israel’s Ministry of Intelligence “is recommending the forcible and permanent transfer of the Gaza Strip’s 2.2 million Palestinian residents to Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula”, namely to a refugee camp in Egyptian territory. There are indications of Israel-Egypt negotiations as well as consultations with the U.S.
The 10-page document, dated Oct. 13, 2023, bears the logo of the Intelligence Ministry … assesses three options regarding the future of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip … It recommends a full population transfer as its preferred course of action. … The document, whose authenticity was confirmed by the ministry, has been translated into English in full here on +972. See below, click here or below to access complete document (10 pages)
And then we have this: Always a false flag.
This was Not a “Surprise Attack”/ Was the Hamas Attack a “False Flag”?
“I served in the IDF 25 years ago, in the intelligence forces. There’s no way Israel did not know of what’s coming.
A cat moving alongside the fence is triggering all forces. So this??
What happened to the “strongest army in the world”?
How come border crossings were wide open?? Something is VERY WRONG HERE, something is very strange, this chain of events is very unusual and not typical for the Israeli defense system.
To me this suprise attack seems like a planned operation. On all fronts.
If I was a conspiracy theorist I would say that this feels like the work of the Deep State.
It feels like the people of Israel and the people of Palestine have been sold, once again, to the higher powers that be.
Link.
Ahh, here, more people telling me to stop with my fucking potty mouth.
What a sap, or sop. I condemned the email, and what you did not and could have included in it. So much for feedback.
Ahh, again, you want the fucking last word, lecturing me on communication style, how to temper remarks, and learn with whom I am speaking.
Yep, really informed son of a bitch, no? Condemning me in my inability to communicate according to Dworkin? You can't be serious, can you?
Again, you stick your fucking nose out like a holier than though -- you've don so much morey
Now, telling me I can't be a teacher in your eyes.
All these pejoratives -- "nasty" am I according to Dworkin.
Then, fuck, the Trotsky accusation? Are you serious? Is this the great dichotomous thinking frame for social justice activists I have to follow? Jesus, do you ever stop your fucking level of patronizing?
Again, you are in your own fucking bubble. The tone patrol, those cops, you, the cop, telling me about my shitting communication style and lack of understanding writing protocols and knowing my audience etc.
The fact is, like me, you are faceless, but in your case, you initiated the interaction with your role as email distributor. I took issue with that initial email, and I came back to you/Moving Images for that. You take issue with my wording and my attack? You do realize this is going in one ear and out the other, since that is such a tired and old and ageist/credentialist piece of crap that many in revolutionary movements just take with a chunk of lithium.
Then, this constant reminder in your salvos to me of your activist creed, the totality of your life being so much more important than mine around "solidarity" and then, all those accomplishments you've done in your life that put me to shame. I suppose you just don't see how an email coming from your outfit without a strong condemnation of genocide just might get under some of our skin. I presciently anticipated this sort of rationalization from "you," a faceless emailer, who is now Mark Dworkin, par excellence embodied.
What laurels you have, Mark, and shit, you betcha someone on the receiving end of your "annual" report can and will call it out for the lack of condemnation. Are you that daft to believe that I am so enmeshed in your SOP and your company's internal mechanisms that I really care how you massage emails, and what you put in them? I actually did not attack you or Melissa in general, just the email which came to me unsolicited. I never went after your life's accomplishments, but here we are then, you attacking me?
Thick fucking skin, Mark. I've interviewed a thousand people, at least, for radio, journalism, essays, more. Man, is the world filled with amazing people with amazing lives and amazing accomplishments which, if I was comparing and contrasting, put my life to shame. That's not how I roll, but it is how you roll.
Again, you have to tell me all that you have done, and then that story about your mother. Now that is poignant and real and would have been a nice bit to incorporate in your end of the year newsletter-report. Amazing, how we have those lifelong parent-child traumas and issues to work on our entire lives. Kudos to you for revealing that.
So, alas, my fucking shitty rhetorical style, my vapid ability to teach or make a point, and my pathetic worthless life as an activist, and now, I have to pull out of teaching all people, according to Dworkin, I'll have to circle the wagons and start over in my life.
This is how you do it, uh? One snotty email from me about the lack of content around the Genocide in Occupied Palestine by Isra--Hell and of course, the USA, shoot, you have to put down the messanger.
To repeat, I did get that nice bit of background on you and the Zionist bonds and the lack of forgiveness you say you have lived with tied to your mother. I also teach a memoir writing class, so I will bring that up Friday. A lot of my students have that very same issue around forgiving or lack thereof, or acts of mercy and their own redemption.
Paz, Paul
Here, what I was writing about: On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 9:13 AM mark dworkin <video@whidbey.com> wrote:
You know Paul not everyone in the world is gonna do everything exactly as you want, nor should we. You say, wrongly, as if it is our job to do what you want, that we should have spoken out against Israel in our annual report. And bc we do not do exactly what you want on your timing you condemn us.
Maybe you are a Trot, I do not know. I've dealt with Trots b4. BUT you could try to be a decent human being and not curse those who have been and should be your comrades. I have no idea about your history with Palestine, but I broke with my mother in 1963 when she took a job selling Israeli bonds. She and I eventually reconciled in general, and now she has been dead for 30 years, but I never forgave her and continued to struggle with her about it.
Although you deserve it I did not lecture you about solidarity - what BULLSHIT, not about building a movement though it looks like you have something to learn there too. I criticized something concrete that you did, your nasty condemnation of us. Speaking of Medea, she is a longtime friend and we much support her, have demonstrated with her, have shared video with her. Can you say the same or are you too busy being holy and sanctimonious. Medea does not go around trashing comrades, see saves her energy to oppose the enemy. I am not your enemy and will not be treated as such.
If you knew anything about communication you would temper your remarks and tailor them to the time, place, and person with whom you are speaking. Since you don't, it is clear you cannot. Please don't waste my time attacking me when I'll bet I've done more and sacrificed more for global justice than you ever, and doubtless accomplished more too.
Hard to believe your are a teacher, you do not act like one.
m
On 11/15/2023 8:46 AM, Paul Haeder wrote:
Again, you want to explain how my presentation and retort doesn't fit your value system.. The bottom line was you had an opportunity in this one email to say something more concrete -- ask your peeps to sign onto any number of pledges, or write Biden, or boycott Isra-hell, etc.
And then, in the end, lecturing me about building solidarity and failing to build a movement. Again, just couching those terms -- "was rude, your tone nasty, and that kind of crap directed toward comrades does not build solidarity, does not build a movement, quite the opposite" -- you have to realize goes in one ear, is mushed up by my own thought police and those tone police and those oh so curating nanny rude police.
Fucking rude, no? I don't buy that "crap" you are feeding at the end, as if you actually have a handle on how to build a movement around, hmmm, your way of moving the needle? Is old Medea too rude for you doing her COde Pink disruptions and calling people in a room mass murderers? Hmmm.
Your chance was there -- to speak out then as media folks, documentarians. They are dying. Murdered. Shit, now we have the quiet car management on Amtrak (see Aaron's below).
Amazing you want to cultivate me toward your idea of tone, rudeness, language.
So much for Aaron's attempt to get another freak to answer a simple question: Are you calling for a ceasefire? Ahh, playing nice still gets your thrown from the train!
With Israeli airstrikes on Gaza killing at least twenty Palestinian journalists—and the Biden administration working to muzzle others—Big Tech is quietly coordinating with Tel Aviv to muzzle Palestinian media outfits.
Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip killed three Palestinian journalists on October 25 in one of the deadliest days for local reporters since the military’s bombing campaign began nearly three weeks before. As the hours passed, footage appeared showing the moment Ramallah-based journalist Mohammed Farra learned that his wife and children were all killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza’s Khan Younes neighborhood.
On Wed, Nov 15, 2023 at 7:52 AM mark dworkin <video@whidbey.com> wrote:
you got a yearly report about our films, mainly to tell supporters what we have done with their money. for years we have asked groups devoted to Palestine justice for ideas about a film we might make, with little in the way of suggestions. your only response was to condemn us - rudely. Sorry that I do not do everything your way, whatever that is. But everyone I see, anyone who asks how I am doing, my reply is much the same - I am outraged about Palestine justice.
my Facebook page is full of condemnations of Israel and little more.
Every week we are part of a demonstration where we live, one we started, for peace and justice. the main theme these days is Palestine. When my doctor asks how I am doing, he wants to know about my health. If there is any time, I make sure to tell him Israel's murderous brutality is driving me crazy, as it seems to be to you too. There is also a time and place for everything. If I include a statement about Palestine when I pay my phone bill that is silly. What is the point?
Our once yearly mailing is about our films, about the only thing we ever do that is just about us, it is not a general statement about our politics or about what is happening in the world in general - which we offer in many other arenas. It is not a platform for social and environmental proponents, simply a report on what we have been doing - which is of interest to many many people.
If you have ideas for a film we might make, please tell us, we are all ears. Your response was rude, your tone nasty, and that kind of crap directed toward comrades does not build solidarity, does not build a movement, quite the opposite. So I rightly called you on it.
mark
On 11/15/2023 7:23 AM, Paul Haeder wrote:
I've shown some of your films to my college classes , and interviewed Melissa.
Fuck, that's it? 'Like to be rude?' Is this your normal, your new normal?
I'm not sure how large that mailing list from which I received your message, but I stand by my statement: fucking say something, man, like stop the genocide, cease fire now. You have a platform of supposed social and environmental justice proponents.
Yeah, I'm more than just horrified by Israel and USA and Jewish supremacy at work now with 20K murdered. Pissed and angry and mad. Triggered by milquetoast crap. Amelioration.
It's a social justice theme, Moving Images? Then state THAT in your email, not generalities around " troubled times the world is experiencing." Cease fire now, and stop the genocde.
Again, take me off your list. Fuck, that's the led in this letter? Me being rude? Says it all .... Says it all.
On Wed, Nov 15, 2023, 6:28 AM mark dworkin <video@whidbey.com> wrote:
Like to be rude, eh?
We are not Zionists or Jewish extremists, but rather passionately support Palestine and have done so actively for 60 years. Do not know about you. But as we have not made any films about Israel and Palestine, we had little to report on that. But we think and act about it everyday, everyday.
We have made other well-known films in pursuit of global justice and will continue. Sorry you are not interested.
mark
On 11/15/2023 6:20 AM, Paul Haeder wrote:
Wow. Gutless to skirt over the genocide of Palestinians. How's that working out for sustainability, that unholy Occuping Isra-Hell? Lots of cool drip irrigation and permaculture? RIGHT.
Gutless, Melissa. Quoting your milquetoast: "We hope you are well in these difficult times. Some good results from the recent election, but the international news these days is pretty horrifying."
Oh, difficult times, and the international news . . . pretty horrifying! Take me off your mailing list, please!
This stupid email will be yet another fucking point I have to make in my Substack. Is it because you identify as Zionist or Jewish Extremist?
Here's some amazing work I share with my students: https://www.youtube.com/live/IkV2RmdDTTk?si=4sqRP_zl9dDfm9si
Adios, and thanks for removing me from the mailing list
Paul
https://paulokirk.substack.com/p/of-mice-and-men-and-women-and-hasbara
On Tue, Nov 14, 2023 at 9:49 AM Melissa Young <video@whidbey.com> wrote:
Dear Friends, Supporters, Allies,
We hope you are well in these difficult times. Some good results from the recent election, but the international news these days is pretty horrifying. This fall we at Moving Images are glad to report good news about two new films that encourage social justice and environmental protection. Thanks for your interest and support.
WORKS FOR ALL
After participating in the Labor Notes conference last year, we filmed with a terrific network of unionized worker coops in Cincinnati, a project that was postponed for several years because of the pandemic. With continuing economic inequality in our country, worker owned and managed businesses are one way to address that. In Cincinnati, Co-op Cincy, led by two dynamic women organizers, is building a network of unionized worker co-ops to create a local economy that works for all. The film premiered at a union-coop symposium Oct. 20 & 21, 2023. At the symposium, Melissa Young and Mark Dworkin received an Expanding the Movement Award: "For their inspiring work of documenting democratic workplaces and efforts to create a more equitable economy in Cincinnati, the U.S., and around the globe."
Preview, reviews, DVDs, screening rights: Works For All | Bullfrog Films: 1-800-543-3764: Environmental DVDs and Educational DVDs
"The Cincinnati union co-op movement should be an inspiration to everyone looking for what racial and economic justice looks like in practice." - Esteban Kelly, Executive Director of the U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives
“The common threads of doing work with meaning, having dignity at work, participation in the ownership of their work, and earning more from their work, shows how Co-op Cincy and Co-op Dayton continue to turn ‘Bread and Roses’ from words into action.- Rob Witherell, United Steelworkers
“Works for All is an outstanding and inspiring look at another side of the labor movement: the efforts to build an alternative and sustainable economy.” - Bill Fletcher, Jr., trade unionist, writer
"I loved getting to see inside some of these businesses, the network between them inspired by Mondragon,...the union partnership in their successes, and how worker ownership has moored the values of cooperation, sustainability, and dignified work. Ra Criscitiello, SEIU - United Healthcare Workers West
EVER GREEN, A Community Conservation Story
EVER GREEN, our environmental film that debuted a year ago, has been picked up by Bullfrog films for national distribution. It has screened several times on Whidbey, and with Meaningful Movies groups in the Seattle area, plus elsewhere, to inspire community discussion about current environmental issues. Recently it was presented in both the UN Association Film Fest in Palo Alto, and the Friday Harbor Film Festival. Preview, reviews, DVDs, screening rights: Ever Green | Bullfrog Films: 1-800-543-3764: Environmental DVDs and Educational DVDs All proceeds from these sales go to the Whidbey Environmental Action Network.
After final editing of WORKS FOR ALL, we are working hard to get that program distributed far and wide, plus setting up screenings and discussions for other programs, another phase of the work we do. Last spring we presented nine films in a Moving Images Film Festival at the Clyde Theatre in Langley WA.
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Moving Images is a non-profit organization, Federal ID #94-3157037. Your contribution is tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law. In appreciation for your contribution, we will send you your choice of a Moving Images film on a DVD, or a link to stream it. Here is a reel with excerpts from many of our past films to help you choose.
Take care, stay well, in solidarity,
Melissa Young and Mark Dworkin, producers, Moving Images
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I’m sure some of you might agree with Mark Dworkin. So be it. I stand by my initial email back to Melissa, who I interviewed and know.
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“Offers a celebration of those working to turn things around and make them right.”
—Seattle International Film Festival
Something remarkable is happening in the fields and orchards of the Pacific Northwest. After leaving the land for decades, family farmers are making a comeback. They are growing much healthier food, and more food per acre, while using less energy and water than factory farms. And most of this food is organic.
For decades Northwest agriculture was focused on a few big crops for export. But climate change and the end of cheap energy mean that each region needs to produce more of its own food and to grow it more sustainably. Good Food visits farmers, farmers’ markets, distributors, stores, restaurants and public officials who are developing a more sustainable food system for all.
VOTE? Give it hell! While babies are murdered by Jews in Israel and supported by Jews in the Blinken White House and supported by all those fucking NON-JEWS in the Zionist End Times Israel First camps, Christian or whatever.
Give me some feedback on this, not just a thumbs up or thumbs down. Toothless in Wisconsin!
Dude, trust me on this one, they are called zionists, I am definitely not the one who defends religions, but the fact is that many jews are standing up for Palestine, and generalizing and calling them all baby killers would be a form of racism and therefore simply wrong.
Also, Lots of israeli soldiers are deflecting so cheer up, there also moderate jews which think like you do.