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These essays originally appeared on the Web site
www.somervilleMEjustice.com, a site created during the
successful battle against a divest-from-Israel campaign that attempted to make
the Massachusetts city of Somerville call for divestment from the Jewish state.
These essays are designed to take on the most frequent arguments of the
divest-from-Israel campaigns and have been edited to make them more suitable
for general use in other communities.
Money
Anti-Israel activists in the
US must tread more carefully than their Middle East colleagues in calling for
direct boycotts of Israel due to US anti-boycott law and America's general
support for the Jewish state. Thus, calls to divest from Israel must be dressed
up in human-rights vocabulary, and "sold" as a means to "level the playing
field" among universities, cities, churches and other institutions that may
have investments that benefit the Israel, but no similar investments in the
Palestinian territories. This article, MONEY, helps to demolish this argument
by putting US investment into the proper perspective...Click Here
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Apartheid
Those calling for
divestment or boycotts of Israel are following what they call an "apartheid
strategy," modeling their activity on the anti-apartheid activism of the 1980s
in order to isolate Israel internationally and economically. The gross
hypocrisy of a movement allied with far greater human rights abuses than even
the Apartheid regime of South Africa is exposed in this essay, APARTHEID...Click
Here for More
Power
Israel's foes like to
portray themselves as small, powerless "voices in the wilderness" in contrast
to an imaginary vast, interconnected power structure of Jewish interests
standing in their way. This article, POWER, helps set the record straight as to
the real power relationship between Israel's detractors and its supporters...Click Here
for More
Violence
One of the talents of
anti-Israel activists is their ability to paint elaborate, emotional pictures
of the suffering of Palestinians, completely divorced from the violence and
visited upon Israelis and how Palestinian militantism has led to the suffering
in both communities. Most pro-Israel activists shy away from similar cynical
uses of human suffering to push a political agenda. This article, VIOLENCE,
pulls no punches regarding the cost to Israel of the current round in the Arab
struggle to destroy the Jewish state, yet also puts the issue into the context
of America's own struggle to raise children free from the glorification of
violence...Click here
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