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April 12, 2002
John Chuckman
Tom
Friedman's Fabrications
April 11, 2002
Patrick Cockburn
Battle of St. Petersburg Zoo
Jeff Halper
After
the Invasion:
Now What?
Falk / Krieger
Taming the Nuclear Monster
Steve
Perry
The
Good Life of
Nellie Stone Johnson
Nick Ring
Efficiency and Occupation:
Terrorism vs. Taylorism
Alexander
Cockburn
From
the West Bank to BBQ
to Old Sparky, And Beyond
April 10, 2002
M. Junaid Alam
Blaming the Victims:
Hating the Palestinians
George
Monbiot
World
Bank to West Bank
Fran Schor
US-Sponsored State Terror
David
Vest
Political
Color Schemes
Jack McCarthy
Florida State Radicals:
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Rises Again
Doreen
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A
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Michael Neumann
Israelis and Indians
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Bernard
Weiner
Colin
Powell's Table Talk
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Thomas Friedman,
Another Wasted Pulitzer
Ron Jacobs
Buyer
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Robert Jensen
I Helped Kill a Palestinian
Vijay
Prashad
Memories
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Thinking the Unthinkable
April 8, 2002
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Vest
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Dr. Neve
Gordon
Letter
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The
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April 7, 2002
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Accompanying Ambulances
in Bethlehem
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The Search for Bread
Among the Ruins
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Who
Killed Daniel Pearl?
April 6, 2002
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War, Snake Oil and Circuses
Viktor
Litovkin
Russian
Generals Raise Questions About Pentagon Victories in Afghanistan
Patrick Cockburn
CIA Survey of Iraqi Airfields
May Herald Attack
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Oil
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Campaign Finance Sham
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The
Blind Leading the Criminal
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April 5, 2002
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Seitz
In
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The Invasion of Bethlehem
and Our Tax Dollars at Work
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The
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"What Do You Mean God Is Punishing Me?"
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Morris to Canada:
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Sharon's
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April 4, 2002
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Stohlman
An
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The
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April 3, 2002
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April 12, 2002
Why I
Didn't Organize a Seder This Year
The Curses of Nationalism
By Anne Winkler-Morey
To those of you who would call me a self-hating
Jew because I oppose the Israeli government's policy of terrorism
and apartheid against the Palestinian people, let me say this
right away before you do: I do not go to synagogue. I would like
my daughter to have the experience, but I have not ever found
one that does not advocate support for Israel.
While I usually celebrate Passover, Yom
Kippur and Hanukkah, and I say the Kaddish for my father, I do
so in a non-tradition manner, changing words and rites to suit
my internationalist ideology. Yet this year the matzo and the
horseradish I bought a month ago are unopened. When I hear growing
Israeli terror justified by biblical references, I could not
bring myself to organize a Seder, even with all the good ideas
and Web sites providing alternative services.
I am not going to pretend that I spend
my days reading the Torah or that my kitchen is a Kosher one,
as do many who oppose Israeli policy. And it is none of your
business what I think about God.
Yet I am Jewish. I am Jewish because
I am the child of a Holocaust survivor, the grandchild and great-grandchild
of survivors of countless pogroms. Like many, I cannot trace
exactly where my ancestors come from because they were proverbial
wandering Jews. This history, this heritage, explains much about
who I am. Like many, it has led me to look at the world in such
a way that I could not possibly support the Israeli government.
My grandparents and great-grandparents,
who had no country of origin when they came to the United States,
had one fewer dividing -ism to overcome. Some adopted Judaism
as their nation, some the United States and others became internationalists.
The experience of the Holocaust--my father's
experience--makes it impossible for me to embrace nationalism
of any sort. I know the (non-Jewish) German people are made of
the same stuff as all other humans, and that it was nationalism,
a belief in the Fatherland over all that led so many to Nazi
collaboration. I also know the German people felt like a besieged
people, an oppressed people, as a result of World War I, when
they voted for Hitler in 1933.
Nationalism is a handmaiden of racism.
True, it can be liberating for an oppressed people, but it is
an ideology that is not easily tempered. The Jewish experience
should serve as a lesson for all.
Most Israelis of my middle age are the
children of the oppressed, and a significant percentage of them
support their government's oppression of a people. Nationalism
is racism when it defines a good American as a flag-waving American
and it is racism when it defines a good Jew as a one who stands
by Israel right or wrong.
"Never Again" is a powerful
idea, an idea echoed by holocaust survivors and their progeny.
For some, it means "Never Again" for my people, e.g.,
Jews. For me and for many others, it is a powerful commitment:
a calling to fight against oppression of any person anywhere.
It mandates my support for Palestinian sovereignty--not because
their nationalism is potentially any less dangerous than Jewish
nationalism, but because in this case, they are the oppressed
people.
I don't always live up to my ideals.
I wish I had combated my fear of you and written this earlier
instead of using my embrace of internationalism as an excuse
to let you define who is a Jew.
In the United States and around the world,
there is a Jewish tradition of internationalism, of radical dissent.
It is a tradition born of the experience of oppression and often
made tenable by access to educational and other material resources.
For Jews like me looking for footsteps to follow, these ancestors
provide a strong, viable, and self-loving alternative to the
myopic ethnocentric tradition that has led so many Jews to support
Israel "Uber Alles."
We are all products of our history, but
we do have choices. Let's follow the ancestors who have struggled
for all humanity.
Anne Winkler-Morey teaches history and Chicano studies at the University
and Macalester College. This article originally appeared in the
Daily Minnesotan, the campus newspaper of the University of Minnesota.
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