But before they started our David Project contingent was great!! Total attendance was probably about 75. Our group was maybe 25? Spread out. Solid. I loved how they calmly walked into the room and placed the protest pamphlet on each seat (the audience hadn't filled the room yet). It took a long time before THEY figured out they been tricked AGAIN! I loved watching them trying to figure out who had done it. Hah! That was so NOT going to happen. So plan B for them was at the end of all the speakers. The last male speaker had the woman moderator do her "Vanna" impression by holding up the David Project pamphlet as he trivialized it as being full of lies. (smirk, smirk)

Anyway, we had speaker number #1 and Number #3 presented to us as college instructors of ENGLISH. Both are Arab and #1 had an accent so- o-o thick he has GOT be turning out a generation of BORATS. He was a mass of buzz words.

In between we had the "Native American". I almost left. He NEVER shut up. On and on and on he went about the history of the "Indigenous Peoples" and America's holocaust and land-grabs that ....I wasn't ever really clear what he was asking for .... He was such a poor speaker. Read from notes. I thought at one point we were going to get a Ben Stein homage "Anyone...Anyone...?" Finally he popped an Apartheid reference...droned on some more and mercifully SAT DOWN!!. My friend said he chose that horrid 20 minutes or so to relive his WHOLE Senior Year in high school. (Wish I'd thought of that.) Nope! I actually tried to pay attention.

The lone female speaker is in the media. (NPR/CNN...whatever) Jewish according to my friend, but ...whatever. She was the Kumbaya of the evening. "We can do it. We can all get along." And by the way, did you know...she's spoken to LOTS of Israeli Jews who also agree THAT WALL is an APARTHEID Wall. (really?....who are these people?) Anyway. Torture. Nothing we haven't heard before.

PS I was just reminded I left out one of the sponsors of OUR materials. I sure didn't mean to. My head was full. Some of those kids are also from "Stand With Us". Monday night, Dani, from Stand with Us tried to get a question answered by the panelists. He was first up and it was a fair and polite question, but... of course... there would be NO answer. He was brushed off. And our microphone gal ... Ms. Charlotte (Very Marxist) Kates, managed to chose ONLY two more people for questions. Ringers! Who ate up so much time with preface and personal story-telling that: Times Up!

[Judith says: More on Charlotte Kates, who is so crazy that she instantly delegitimizes any group she represents. If you want to find out whether a political group is aware of how they come across to mainstream people, a good barometer is whether they allow Charlotte Kates to be involved.]

Flyer from the David Project. (these are thumbnails of 3 pages)

Flyer from Stand With Us (also a thumbnail):