Local Jews to Quakers: Censure Vigilers! Cassie Cammann, Clerk of the local Friends Meeting, penned an unauthorized letter to the editor of the Washtenaw Jewish News in response to Steven Pastner’s charge that the Quakers are “pro-Palestinian”. The Friends usually require consensus before such a letter would be sent, but a little investigation found that […]

Presidential Protest is On Led by the Ann Arbor Coalition Against War, members of Jewish Witnesses for Peace and Friends will join in and carry signs protesting this Bush (I mean, Obama) Administration for its warmongering displays of US imperialism, and absolutely obsequious behavior towards the Jewish state. We will gather at the Northwest corner […]

Local NPR Affiliate Stations Close Ranks In last week’s report, we learned that our friend Alison Weir, executive director of IfAmericansKnew.org, has so far been denied the opportunity to purchase a sponsorship of WUOM, the University of Michigan’s NPR affiliate. At the impromptu protest she organized at the Ann Arbor broadcast studios of WUOM, one […]

AIPAC Identifies Jewish Community’s Achilles Heel Last week we reported that “Israeli” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a challenge to the Jewish peace community – indeed the watching world – to respond to his demand that Palestinians recognize Israel as “the state of the Jews”. Now the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) likewise issues a […]

Netanyahu Challenges Jewish Peace Activists As the Jewish state punishes and punishes again an essentially unarmed, indigenous people simply for existing on land coveted by European settlers, “Israeli” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remains unsatisfied. He wants Arabs, particularly Palestinian Arabs, to now bend to his demands to accept a Zionist “right” that simply doesn’t exist. […]

Democracy Redefined On Sunday members of the Interfaith Council for Peace and Justice will have an opportunity to elect four vacancies on their Board by a full member vote. Sounds pretty democratic until one realizes that there are exactly four candidates running for the four slots and that these candidates were pre-screened and pre-selected by […]

Does Anti-Zionist mean Anti-Israel? [We think so] There are more and more Jewish “Anti-Zionists” these days, which might be a good thing, or might be more of the same Peace Now, Gush Shalom, JVP, New Jewish Agenda forms of Left-Zionism. But groups like International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network are telling us quite clearly that they are […]