What a crock. Tell me what would happen if any one of these dried up old hippies, under the spell of dark olive eyes and red, green, and black flags would do when they got off a plane in Tel Aviv, and realized that Israel is much more than "settlers" in the "west bank". Then what would they start demonizing? The 90-year old ladies from Poland? The charming Yemenite farmers? The amazing advances of technology? The amazing advances of academia, government, military? What aspect of Israel will they tear at next?

Abe, what the ISM minions do is go straight from the airport to Gaza or the West Bank. They do not pass Go, they do not collect $200, they do not hang out with average Israelis. Maybe they hang out with ultra-lefty Israelis, maybe. But mostly they avoid Israel. Israelis have cooties, ya know.

Israel is a racist apartheid state?

What are these hippies and ISM terrorist wannabes smoking?

By granting legitimacy to the kinds of anti-zionists that want to "wipe Israel off the map" or beat an 80 year-old old Auschwitz survivor in an elevator, these "fools" are helping to set the stage for a second holocaust.

It would be very nice if it were possible to read a commentary without encountering a vulgarity. I see no reason in this post for using the f-word. I expect offensive behavior from the anti-semites, not from our side. Let's show the haters what reason looks like, by expressing it not only in our logic, but in our choice of words.

The event is a bit strident, but the comparison is that far off when you restrict your focus to just the occupied territories.

Chevra wrote: "By granting legitimacy to the kinds of anti-zionists that want to 'wipe Israel off the map' or beat an 80 year-old old Auschwitz survivor in an elevator, these 'fools' are helping to set the stage for a second holocaust."

Chevra, your being over the top and quite unfair. Anti-zionists are a diverse bunch. Some just want a binational solution, a democratic state where they are equal rights. While some are scared of it thinking it is slow death, the more recent credible demographic studies say that Jews are likely to remain a majority for the seeable future. They do not hang out with psychotic Holocaust deniers as you imply above. You are not seeing things with precision, but making gross emotional statements.

i view you with a sense of awe inasmuch as you were able to actually sit thru the entire 3+ hours without suffering any apparent long term ill effects...i may have simply killed myself to avoid the pain...

"Some just want a binational solution, a democratic state where they are equal rights."

Just a binational "solution"?

It is no solution at all. It would result very quickly in a Jewish minority who then be at the mercy of an Islamofascist majority who would visit on them all those evils we are all very well aware of. Furthermore, there are virtually no Jewish Israelis from either the left or the right who would go along with it.

Israel is a democratic state. It is the only state in the Middle East where Arabs enjoy full democratic rights. There are Arab doctors, lawyers, members of parliament, supreme court justices, teachers, architects and nurses.

There is in fact no difference between an anti-Semite who praised Hitler and machine-gunned Jewish women and children into pits and those who would destroy Israel by force of arms or through promoting a so-called "binational state". Both are profoundly evil.

Well, I wouldn't say profoundly evil. I like to reserve descriptions like that for people like Saddam Hussein and Yassir Arafat. But I would say either willfully ignorant or narcissistically smug or deliberately malicious.

"Well, I wouldn't say profoundly evil."

Would an individual not be profoundly evil who worked for the destruction of the United States? How much more evil then are the individuals who work for the destruction of the Jewish refuge, a refuge which exists because millions of our brothers and sisters were murdered in cold blood and many hundreds of thousands were ethnically cleansed by the Arab nations.

Ignorant or smug doesn't work here. These people know exactly what they are doing. Just like those who worked for the Nazis on the Final Solution in fact.

I went on Monday nigh and heard the same racist lies that have been peddled by the attackers for decades. The question and answer session was short and somewhat selective. One of the speakers said "if we push hard enough and for a long time" eventually 'we' will defeat Israel. But when questioned about institutionalized racism in Palestinian schools (the root of terrorism) ALL of the speakers on the panel dodged the question and attempted to turn it around on Israeli schools or Israeli society.

Ironically another speaker, Saree Makdisi, said "you cannot continue to tell the people something and just expect them to believe it's true because you say so". I laughed out loud when I heard him say this, since that is EXACTLY WHAT HE DOES ! Saree tells the same falsehoods whether about Hezbollah's use of civilian shields or accusations that Israel is not a Democracy.

The same people supporting Hezbollah this summer were organizing this event! See the video at YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epHp1gUZca8

Someone just informed me of these events, but did not leave an email address or name. Please contact me via the Divestment Watch website (www.DivestmentWatch.com) and we can talk about how I can help.

Fred Taub
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Here's a link to the Australian, a bit late because of problems logging in to Typepad,
by Irshad Manji on Israel

Irshad Manji: Modern Israel is a far cry from old South Africa
It's absurd to apply the term apartheid to one of the most progressive states in the world,

Ben said:
Anti-zionists are a diverse bunch. Some just want a binational solution, a democratic state where they are equal rights.

Yes, with no idea whatsoever, in their dream world, of the zero sum game being played while at the same time inciting others to violence.
Israel is a democratic state. The Palestinian areas under the control of the Arab League through its thugs has been the despotic mess that it has been from the time of Jordanian and Egyptian rule through to the present day. The Israelis gave up Gaza completely and we know the result of a year with Fatah and Hamas having free reign.

SAREE MAKDISI IS A LIAR

Saree Makdisi was one of the speakers at the racist event Monday night and is a compulsive liar when it comes to anything related to Israel and Palestine. Last night he claimed that "a secret" Israeli policy keeps Jerusalem's Jewish population at 72% and Arab population at 28%. Yet when I took a look at wikipedia the Jewish population was only 68% of Jerusalem, that makes Saree a bonafide LIAR!

There was so much hatred and racism emanating from the stage that I thought the 4 speakers were going to spontaneously combust