Anti-Zionist Anna Baltzer Tabbed as National Organizer This week the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation (ETO) announced the hiring of Anna Baltzer as National Organizer. We feel that the addition of an anti-Zionist bodes well in shifting ETO in a new direction, since previously it has seemed that ETO toed a Left Zionist, […]

Jewish Federation Bans Peace Activists In a replay of the Maccabean civil war that gave rise to Hanukkah, David Shtulman, Executive Director of the local Jewish Federation, mustered up his inner thug to write: It is my position that no person who harasses the Jewish community through picketing with hateful signs outside a Jewish house […]

A Glimpse Into Media Manipulation In place of the daily print edition of the defunct Ann Arbor News stand two on-line news sites: AnnArbor.com and The Ann Arbor Chronicle. The former allows independent news articles to be posted on its Community Wall section, and JWPF selected our most verbal Vigiler to write up a short […]

“No Jewish State” Requested at Ann Arbor City Council If you want to solve a problem, you need to get to its core to make the necessary corrections. Window dressing goals and tactics will provide window dressing solutions. In the case of justice in the Levant, these solutions, e.g. “end the occupation”, do not address […]

Norman Finkelstein: The Giant with Feet of Clay* Maybe it took an outburst from Abdul Roberts, a Lebanese resident of Dearborn, Michigan, to rock us into an awareness that previously might have been merely gnawing at our subconscious minds: Professor Finkelstein is a supporter of a Jewish state in Palestine, and we’re not the only […]

An Evening with Michigan Peace Team Ten members of Jewish Witnesses for Peace and Friends combined to form a table at Friday’s fund-raiser for the Michigan Peace Team held at the Greenfield Manor in Dearborn. Approximately 500 people attended this gala affair, which featured speakers Cindy Corrie, mother of murdered activist Rachel Corrie, and Grace […]

Malcolm X’s Lesson for Sincere Jews Malcolm X writes, after his return from Mecca (The Autobiography of Malcolm X, pp. 383-384): I tell sincere white people, ‘Work in conjunction with us – each of us working among our own kind’. Let sincere white individuals find other white people … and let them form their own […]