[Jewish] Response to Israel as an Apartheid State, along with an idea for an event!! :)

[Julian Padilla]

1) does anyone actually ever buy the penis enlargement advertised in  
email? i hope not
2) i question any neutrality of oppression that attempts to provide  
"both sides". injustice is not a side, it is a cop out
3) jews are as linked to israel as is the christian fundamentalist  
american conservatives, but if you start emailing us about their  
events and views i will get off this list
2) the occupation is not "annoying" it is never-ending, horrific  
terrorism inflicted on a displaced and impoverished population of  
color whose land and resources are exploited for mostly white people  
in the name of god and a badly analyzed history
3) just as not all jews are zionists, not all protests of israel are  
anti-semitic, aka meant to make you feel like a "bad person for being  
jewish" (and i imagine the curfews, destruction of houses, massacre  
of children and adults, etc that the government of israel  
(democratically elected, as i understand it) conducts makes muslims  
feel bad too)
4) which leads me to my next point: an interfaith event between jews  
and muslims has nothing to do with say a political event between  
zionists and non-zionists
5) i am not opposed to dialogue but... well why repeat myself. please  
just refer to point 2.
love
j

On Jun 13, 2007, at 10:52 PM, snc06 at hampshire.edu wrote:

>
>
> Dear  Hampshire College Jewsih Student Union,
>    As a Jew myself, I am very connected to Israel.
>      However, I don't agree with everything that Israeli military  
> does.
>          Yet after reading this e-mail, it really upset me to know  
> that the
> Muslim student union at the University of California, Irvine, had  
> blood smeared
> the Israeli flag.  I understand where they are comming from being  
> annoyed with
> the occupation, but at the same time it gives me the sense that I  
> am a bad
> person for being Jewish.
>
>    On that note, I really think that the Jewish student Union  
> should take part
> in  more interfaith dialogues.  It really dissapointed me that we  
> did not have
> many this year. I suggested a cultural exchange night to the  
> "Students For
> Justice in Palestine" (SJP) here at Hampshire, in which the party  
> would be a
> cultural exchange of both Jews and Muslims, and work towards peace  
> talking
> about the situation in Israel and the Palestinian territories. But  
> the SJP told
> me that they did not like this idea, claiming that this would  only  
> cause
> tension, fights, arguements. etc. But I feel that by having these  
> interfaith
> and intercultural events, they contribute greatly towards achieving  
> peace, even
> if it is at a small scale level!!!
>    I am really interested in  starting an interfaith event with the  
> Jewish
> student Union--maybe we could make it a 5 college event, bring all  
> of the
> Jewish and Muslim groups together!!! Would anyone be interested in  
> working on
> me with this ?!
>
>  Please let me know what you think.
>        Sincerely,
>           Stephanie Chase
>
>
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