RE: Not Just Isreal...

["Max Sawicky" <sawicky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The draft declarations coming out of the racism
conference mentions no country other than Israel,
and alludes to no others but Serbia (once).  There are
a number of references to Palestine, but nothing
beyond generalities for everything else (i.e.,
statements against racism pertaining to Asians,
Africans, and denunciation of anti-semitism
and anti-Roma feeling by nobody in particular.
This includes an exceedingly murky discussion
of slavery in the Western Hemisphere.

In this particular respect, if not others,
the statement of the Jewish caucus is very
much on target.  The only pointed references
to racist policy by states are to Israel.
I'm not against any such references, but in
a document purporting to reflect a world view
of racism, such narrowness confirms the conference
as a total farce.  Not least important, it will
do nothing for the Palestinian cause.  A more
even-handed and wide-ranging survey would put
anti-Arab/Muslim/Palestinian policy by Israel
and others in a harsher light, in my view.

There's a good piece by Earl Ofari Hutchinson
in Salon along similar lines.

mbs





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>...In addition to all this, the regime's oppressive apparatus is
terrorising the native population by savagely attacking them and demolishing
and burning their homes...

http://user.tninet.se/~lto357q/framse4/kurdicp7.htm