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Berkeley Daily Planet

"The ‘Karmic Justice’ of Lovelle Mixon’s Act"

by Joseph Anderson
Thursday April 2, 2009 (print edition)
Wednesday April 01, 2009 (online version)


This perspective might be very hard for many sociopolitically naive white people to read. But it’s very important to understand the sheer depth of negative feelings that many people of color (even those with no criminal record) have against the police. This is due to lifelong and often unpredictable, almost always potentially life-threatening, negative experiences (from petty to lethal), that they or their loved ones and friends, as people of color, have had from the police.

Most people of color know that the cops, and police departments as institutions, historically represent the street enforcement arm of white American racism. Indeed, the police were born out of the white slave patrols.

People of color and conscious white people have seen how cops have wantonly brutalized many members of the Black and Brown community—the police murder of Oscar Grant (who was brutally assaulted by more than just the one potentially legal “sacrifice” cop who murdered him) being just the latest in a long series of notorious cases that have become epidemic in the Bay Area and all across the nation. Such is the arrogance of police power that sometimes this police abuse reaches other communities: Asians, members of the Arab community (recently in San Francisco, women and children at a peaceful political march), and peaceful political protesters of all ethnicities.

Relatively recently, in Oakland, 11 cops were fired for falsifying a whole series of search warrants to bust into people’s homes. And the OPD Chief of Internal Affairs was put on leave, pending an investigation for his having viciously beaten a Latino suspect in his custody to death years ago.

In the weeping and mourning over the deaths of four cops, how soon we forget the Oakland Riders case: the political damage control performed there kept the focus of the investigation just on those specific corrupt street cops, but did nothing to clean up the department in whose culture and corruption they were spawned. It is said that Oakland alone in the Bay Area pays out (at least averaged over time) about $2 million a year in police brutality cases—and many more millions soon yet to come. Surely that is money that could be spent on education and job training.

American flags were officially flown at half-staff for those killed cops—summarily tried, sentenced and executed in the streets, just like they do with people of color. But no flags were flown at half-staff over City Hall by the Black mayor of Oakland for Oscar Grant or any of the other innocent minority victims of police summary executions. Mayor Ron Dellums (and Congresswoman Barbara Lee) took a week before he (or she) said anything about Grant, and even then only in the most indirect and tepid terms, and Dellums only after his finally being confronted by the people in front of City Hall. (See YouTube videos: Davey D on Ron Dellums; Ron Dellums Gets Confronted; Oscar Grant Tribute; and Jerry Amaro.)

Yet Dellums immediately, personally and vociferously, condemned the killings of the cops, and without any prompting by citizen demands. (And at least one of the cops’ family still wouldn’t let Dellums speak at the funeral. Good.) So much for “the new age of Obama” and “Change we can believe in!” So much for the illusion, mindlessly repeated—wherever there is a camera or a microphone—by some of those docilized middle- and upper-class Negroes, who always want to gain white people’s approval as “the good Blacks,” that “all human life is equal!”

“The good Blacks” (especially top Black politicians) will, at best, once again, call for some kind of touchy-feely police “sensitivity training” and “dialogue”— but never for the best training: quick effective prosecutions, sound convictions, and serious criminal sentences against rogue and killer cops. But since when, right from this country’s founding when it was genocidally and otherwise horrendously established upon generations of millions of Red, Black, Yellow and Brown lives, has all life ever “been equal” in the history of Amerikkka?

At least a couple of the TV local news stations have shown a servile Rev. Philip Ellinberg, some negro (probably what we Blacks call “a jackleg / bootleg preacher” since he seems to be absent from any telephone or online directory listings) who was supposed to (and apparently did) sing for Massa at the killed cops’ funeral. Where was he at Oscar Grant’s funeral—or those of any other police-executed minorities? Where is he at the Oscar Grant Movement meetings held almost every Saturday afternoon in Oakland at the Olivet Missionary Baptist Church?

Where were the flags at half-staff, much less the state and mass media-covered funeral, for Oscar Grant and all the other unarmed, innocent victims of killer cops’ vigilantism and street executions? All Bay Area people have to do is to look at all the names on the boards of the Stolen Lives Project (started by Danny Garcia) and its portable mural of names: men, women (even grandmothers), and kids shot to death (sometimes in a hailstorm of bullets, even against innocent people just minding their own business), choked to death, smothered to death, truncheoned to death, and, of course, sustain-tasered to death—and not those unhandcuffed, little, quick, light two-second tap shocks cops sometime demonstrate on another cop (with two cops on both sides carefully catching the one as he buckles) for television PR purposes (“See? It doesn’t really hurt.”). Do you think that any of the Bay Area cities would even fly their flags at half-staff for just one day for, collectively, ALL of those victims of police executions?

This is especially noteworthy given that a cop who was wounded (but not killed) by Mixon was Sgt. Pat Gonzales, who narrowly escaped karmic justice, but who, as a repeat offender, last shot a young (Black) Gary King Jr. in the back and killed him. The media lauds this cop while his repeated brutality and violence are ignored. And cops up in Sonoma county even went and gratuitously killed the adopted Black kid (Jeremiah Chass) of an affluent white married couple, right in their home driveway, who made the mistake of calling the cops to help calm down their very well-liked but sometimes emotionally distraught son. About a thousand people attended his memorial, but you didn’t see that on TV.

There’s a sarcastic old saying, known among Blacks, “When the White Man is hurt, evvverybody must cry.” But millions of people aren’t cryin’ over four killed cops —including even many politically conscious white people—and AREN’T MOURNING along with that state mass propaganda funeral. While the cops and the media come up with suspiciously last-minute (and technically unconfirmed) stories to try to tell us just “how bad” Lovelle Mixon was (how about research into those dead cops’ background to see how abusive and dirty they were?), many of us see it as karmic justice, regardless of what person killed the four (and almost five!) cops, all in a brief afternoon’s work.

Lovelle Mixon’s name will be legendary in the Bay Area—long after people forget the names of the four cops he killed in one afternoon. And it’s karmic justice that just as many Blacks in America have been murdered by cops during a “routine” traffic stop, these cops were killed during a “routine” traffic stop.

The cops called Lovelle Mixon “a cold-hearted individual who doesn’t have any regard for human life.” Well, the cops should know: they too, often against minorities, behave exactly the same way.

So, now, as far as many, especially, Black and Brown Bay Area people feel, there’s finally some karmic justice.

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Berkeley resident Joseph Anderson is a longtime progressive activist.

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http://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2009-04-02/article/32613?headline=The-Karmic-Justice-of-Lovelle-Mixon-s-Act

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YouTube: "March of Stolen Lives", pt1, pt2, pt3; and "March for Stolen Lives".

This perspective might be very hard for many sociopolitically naive white people to read. But it’s very important to understand the sheer depth of negative feelings that many people of color (even those with no criminal record) have against the police. This is due to lifelong and often unpredictable, almost always potentially life-threatening, negative experiences (from petty to lethal), that they or their loved ones and friends, as people of color, have had from the police.

Bull Connor was a Democrat. It never stopped 90 percent of the blacks from voting Democrat anyway. And they certainly voted in a fascist for President.

"People of color" means  masochists.

"And cops up in Sonoma county even went and gratuitously killed the adopted black kid (Jeremiah Chass) of an affluent white married couple, right in their home driveway, who made the mistake of calling the cops to help calm down their very well-liked but sometimes emotionally distraught son. About a thousand people attended his memorial, but you didn’t see that on TV. "

Dear Mr. Anderson,

Please allow me to comment on your inclusion of the death of my nephew Jeremiah Chass and to clarify a few of your points.

Jeremiah was the child of a white mother and a black father. He was biracial, not only black but white as well. I can't remember ever referring or treatment as a "black" kid. His parents are far from affluent, they are middle class working folks like most of us. Adopted??? Yes. Jeremiah's biological father died when he was very young. His mom remarried and J was adopted by his step-dad. He had 16 years with his devoted mother, later, his step father and brother.

Jeremiah was in crisis the morning he was killed. He was not "sometimes emotionally distraught"- this was a first time event. Prior to that morning, he suffered from normal teenage angst. We will never know what was the cause, but I can tell you with 100% certainty that there were never drugs or alcohol. The family did not even have Tylenol in the home.

Jeremiah Chass was killed on March 12, 2007. To this day, the claim is that it was a justified and even a "heroic" act by the Sonoma County Sheriff Department. The fact that the Department refuses to take any responsibility or to have the decency to sincerely apologize to the family is tragic.

Yes, there were over 1,000 friends that attended Jeremiah's memorial service. It took 3 hours to get through all the stories and comments from his classmates and friends on how he touched their lives. He WAS well liked, kind, gentle, and with a spirit and wisdom well beyond his years. And yes, you are right....we won't see this on TV.

"Karmic Justice" is all that the 2 cops got for their acts on March 12, 2007. These 2 men must live with the knowledge of what really happened and will face God at their end.

RIP J

Dear Louise,

(And you may always call me Joseph.)

Thank you very much for your thoughtful and heartfelt response. Thank you very much for taking the time to 'write' it. It moved me greatly.

And thank you for correcting my "facts". My apologies to you and his parents, other loved ones and friends.

Since I wasn't there, my understanding, or gleaning, was taken from what looked like a credible (and rather long and otherwise surprisingly good) mainstream media story (that actually went into the positive aspects of Jeremiah's background), as well as a few others. Although, of course, I (especially as a longtime progressive activist) realize that we can't always assume the facts in those stories are necessarily all true. I was trying to think of a word, and I used the word "sometimes", because I didn't want readers to assume that Jeremiah was characteristically/constantly "emotionally distraught" and that being so "emotionally distraught" was who he was.

(And when most parents at least first adopt kids, their economic situation at the time is usually pretty stable and even comfortable, even if they are "middle-class" -- which is actually a fairly wide economic range. Some middle-class people have a nice home, with a nice front lawn with a flower garden and a backyard with a fournished deck and a big barbeque grill, a two-car garage, maybe even a nice van, a three or four cars filled driveway when the kids are older, family vacations at least once every other/few year/s, an always packed refigerator, nice Christmases, or Chanukahs, or Bar Mitzvahs, with lots of presents, both parents with good stable jobs or even, financially, the mom able to stay home and take care of the kids when they're younger, and they all often even live in suburban communities in nice school districts. And the kids are college-bound one day. That's what my parents were and are like. Compared to many people, especially these days, my parents are 'RRRICH'!!: all their basic needs and comforts are met. That, and a loving family, and/or good caring friends [because some people just aren't lucky to have all good family relationships], and at least reasonable health, is all that's really important. But, of course, I shouldn't assume that everyone who lives in Sonoma/Napa valley is affluent.)

Jeremaih seemed like such a conscious, sensitive and even socially gifted person -- and I assume that in this world, with its human predicament of senseless oppression and war, sensitive conscious people (especially genius/gifted people) are at least sometimes 'emotionally distraught'. Probably in my commentary I should have so-called "factually" written "once emotionally distraught", since I didn't know he was "in crisis".

I don't want to go into it publicly, but my situation (while my background is not exactly the same) is closer to Jeremiah than it is further. Close enough that I feel I have a kindred spirit 'kinship' with Jeremiah. So, while I never had a particular "crisis", such as you factually allude to, like Jeremiah had on the last morning/afternoon of his life, I felt like (just reading about it) I was there in the eyes of Jeremiah and his parents. And I can only imagine the horror his parents must have felt when the (actually) Sonoma County sheriff's deputies (but I just said "cops", for brief) -- who his parents called for *HELP* -- essentially gunned down and killed their son right in their home driveway.

In fact, one of the things I've said in my past radio interviews/comments is that,

"If you are Black..., and you have a problem..., for which you call the police..., you will then have *TWO* problems..., the 2nd one potentially and unpredictably *LETHAL*."

And it is often true that when Black/Brown people call the police for help, they often end up being treated like criminals -- or especially their distraught, or otherwise "in crisis", loved ones (be it young, old, male, female, whether its because they're upset, depressed, on drugs, off medication, have a psychological dysfunction, inebriated, whatever...) end up being "legally" murdered -- DEAD -- by the cops 15-20 minutes after the cops arrive. These stories are so sadly and tragically repetitive.

In fact, if people live in a neighborhood/community where they CAN call at least a couple/few/several their more calm trustworthy level headed neighbors, INSTEAD OF CALLING THE COPS, when someone's loved one is distraught (for whatever reason) or "in crisis", to help calm and/or restrain someone's loved one, then that's what they should do -- as my always calm father and one of his friends was called from clear across town to help calm down and restrain a distraught or "in crisis" Black woman. Because any trusted neighbors/friends of yours are going to approach the situation with SINCERE CONCERN, CARE & RESPECT -- SOMETHING THE COPS WILL *NOT* DO WITH PEOPLE OF COLOR.

THE COPS (IF YOU'RE A PERSON OF COLOR) JUST COME TO __*END* "THE PROBLEM"__. AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. PERIOD.

-- AND TO GET BACK TO THE DONUT SHOP, OR GO COLLECT EXORTION MONEY OR STEAL FROM THEIR STREET HO'S OR DRUG DEALERS, OR, ESPECIALLY UP IN SONOMA/NAPA (where there's not as much to do anyway as in a big city), GO PULL OVER CUTE YOUNG (typically white) WOMEN ON PRETEXTUAL "TRAFFIC STOPS" TO 'CHAT 'EM UP' AND 'HIT ON' THEM and find out where they lived, etc. (used to regularly happen to a young cute white female friend of mine up in Sonoma 'all the time' when she commuted back and forth from there to UC Berkeley -- she'd just say, "Don't tell me...: it looked like one of my brake lights were out, right?"), OR GO HAVE A TRYST WITH SOME WOMAN WHILE ON DUTY.


As for Jeremiah being "biracial, not only black but white as well": you should understand two things about the history of this country:

(1) African Americans are the most ethnically diverse minority in this country -- and are the original multicultural people here in the Americas. Many, if not most, native-born African Americans whose ancestors go back to slavery, especially from the Southeast, are, of course, African, often part Native American, often part Irish, and from the North (or from the Caribbean!) are often part Jewish, often part Latino (especially in the Northeast and Southwest), and other ethnic groups -- the intermixing having come over different times and in different places. So, most of we African Americans are "part something" in our ancestry.

(2) that in the history of this country, and still today in most parts of this country (especially outside of very ethnically diverse states like California, where what one ethnically wants to call themselves is often socially respected, and where white people are actually now a MINORITY), THERE HAS NEVER BEEN ANY SUCH THING AS "BIRACIAL" -- NOT LEGALLY, NOT SOCIALLY -- AND THAT'S HOW THE POLICE, ALL OVER THE COUNTRY, STILL SEE IT TOO.

SO, AS FAR AS THE _PIGS_ WERE CONCERNED, JEREMIAH WAS *BLACK* -- OR WHATEVER (LATINO, ARAB, SOUTH ASIAN, EAST ASIAN, MUSLIM, ETC.) HE MIGHT HAVE LOOKED LIKE, VS. WHITE.

Or, put it another way, Jeremiah may have been "not only black but white as well", BUT IT'S THE *BLACK* HALF THAT THE COPS MURDEROUSLY DIDN'T CARE ABOUT -- AND ALL THEY THOUGHT WAS, "LET'S KILL THAT NIGGER AND GET THIS OVER WITH!!" -- EVEN RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIS PARENTS!! -- EVEN RIGHT IN HIS PARENT'S HOME DRIVEWAY!! -- THAT EVERY DAY THEY HAVE TO SEE AND REMEMBER THE VERY SPOT WHERE THAT'S WHERE THEIR SON WAS GUNNED DOWN AND KILLED -- BY THE STATE.

AND WHAT DO THE PIGS ALWAYS CALL IT (EVEN AFTER EVERY INVESTIGATION STAMPS IT)?: _"JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE"_.

When I came the Bay Area -- and while the Bay Area certainly isn't perfect by any means -- I noticed that, by *comparison* with most of the rest of this country (say, outside of the very multicultural and international Manhattan), everyone, generally speaking, was comparatively much more, ethnically/"racially", socially tolerant, or even accepted, or even *celebrated*, and respected -- except from the behavior of the cops. That negative police behavior seems to be a general constant everywhere in this country when it comes to people of color (even sometimes from people of color police -- or as Ice Cube /NWA rapped in "FUCK THA POLICE!", "Black po-lice showin' out fo' the whyte cops!."

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"Yes, there were over 1,000 friends that attended Jeremiah's memorial service. It took 3 hours to get through all the stories and comments from his classmates and friends on how he touched their lives. He WAS well liked, kind, gentle, and with a spirit and wisdom well beyond his years."

That Jeremiah touched so very many people is just beautiful beyond words...

I'd say that he and his family were at least spiritually and socially "rich"...


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""Karmic Justice" is all that the 2 cops got for their acts on March 12, 2007. These 2 men must live with the knowledge of what really happened and will face God at their end."

Especially when those killer cops saw -- and it was not just _a propaganda pageant_, like the OPD mass-propaganda funeral in Oakland (where almost no one from their neighborhood patrols showed up), with even Canadian Mounties flown in to artificially boost the numbers, most of the cops at that OPD staged propaganda funeral were not even from anywhere near the Bay Area -- but instead how many people deeply cared about and were actually touched by Jeremiah Chass ...

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Dear Louise,

(And you may always call me Joseph.)

Thank you very much for your thoughtful and heartfelt response. Thank you very much for taking the time to 'write' it. It moved me greatly.

And thank you for correcting my "facts". My apologies to you and his parents, other loved ones and friends.

Since I wasn't there, my understanding, or gleaning, was taken from what looked like a credible (and rather long and otherwise surprisingly good) mainstream media story (that actually went into the positive aspects of Jeremiah's background), as well as a few others. Although, of course, I (especially as a longtime progressive activist) realize that we can't always assume the facts in those stories are necessarily all true. I was trying to think of a word, and I used the word "sometimes", because I didn't want readers to assume that Jeremiah was characteristically/constantly "emotionally distraught" and that being so "emotionally distraught" was who he was.

(And when most parents at least first adopt kids, their economic situation at the time is usually pretty stable and even comfortable, even if they are "middle-class" -- which is actually a fairly wide economic range. Some middle-class people have a nice home, with a nice front lawn with a flower garden and a backyard with a fournished deck and a big barbeque grill, a two-car garage, maybe even a nice van, a three or four cars filled driveway when the kids are older, family vacations at least once every other/few year/s, an always packed refigerator, nice Christmases, or Chanukahs, or Bar Mitzvahs, with lots of presents, both parents with good stable jobs or even, financially, the mom able to stay home and take care of the kids when they're younger, and they all often even live in suburban communities in nice school districts. And the kids are college-bound one day. That's what my parents were and are like. Compared to many people, especially these days, my parents are 'RRRICH'!!: all their basic needs and comforts are met. That, and a loving family, and/or good caring friends [because some people just aren't lucky to have all good family relationships], and at least reasonable health, is all that's really important. But, of course, I shouldn't assume that everyone who lives in Sonoma/Napa valley is affluent.)

Jeremaih seemed like such a conscious, sensitive and even socially gifted person -- and I assume that in this world, with its human predicament of senseless oppression and war, sensitive conscious people (especially genius/gifted people) are at least sometimes 'emotionally distraught'. Probably in my commentary I should have so-called "factually" written "once emotionally distraught", since I didn't know he was "in crisis".

I don't want to go into it publicly, but my situation (while my background is not exactly the same) is closer to Jeremiah than it is further. Close enough that I feel I have a kindred spirit 'kinship' with Jeremiah. So, while I never had a particular "crisis", such as you factually allude to, like Jeremiah had on the last morning/afternoon of his life, I felt like (just reading about it) I was there in the eyes of Jeremiah and his parents. And I can only imagine the horror his parents must have felt when the (actually) Sonoma County sheriff's deputies (but I just said "cops", for brief) -- who his parents called for *HELP* -- essentially gunned down and killed their son right in their home driveway.

In fact, one of the things I've said in my past radio interviews/comments is that,

"If you are Black..., and you have a problem..., for which you call the police..., you will then have *TWO* problems..., the 2nd one potentially and unpredictably *LETHAL*."

And it is often true that when Black/Brown people call the police for help, they often end up being treated like criminals -- or especially their distraught, or otherwise "in crisis", loved ones (be it young, old, male, female, whether its because they're upset, depressed, on drugs, off medication, have a psychological dysfunction, inebriated, whatever...) end up being "legally" murdered -- DEAD -- by the cops 15-20 minutes after the cops arrive. These stories are so sadly and tragically repetitive.

In fact, if people live in a neighborhood/community where they CAN call at least a couple/few/several their more calm trustworthy level headed neighbors, INSTEAD OF CALLING THE COPS, when someone's loved one is distraught (for whatever reason) or "in crisis", to help calm and/or restrain someone's loved one, then that's what they should do -- as my always calm father and one of his friends was called from clear across town to help calm down and restrain a distraught or "in crisis" Black woman. Because any trusted neighbors/friends of yours are going to approach the situation with SINCERE CONCERN, CARE & RESPECT -- SOMETHING THE COPS WILL *NOT* DO WITH PEOPLE OF COLOR.

THE COPS (IF YOU'RE A PERSON OF COLOR) JUST COME TO __*END* "THE PROBLEM"__. AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. PERIOD.

-- AND TO GET BACK TO THE DONUT SHOP, OR GO COLLECT EXORTION MONEY OR STEAL FROM THEIR STREET HO'S OR DRUG DEALERS, OR, ESPECIALLY UP IN SONOMA/NAPA (where there's not as much to do anyway as in a big city), GO PULL OVER CUTE YOUNG (typically white) WOMEN ON PRETEXTUAL "TRAFFIC STOPS" TO 'CHAT 'EM UP' AND 'HIT ON' THEM and find out where they lived, etc. (used to regularly happen to a young cute white female friend of mine up in Sonoma 'all the time' when she commuted back and forth from there to UC Berkeley -- she'd just say, "Don't tell me...: it looked like one of my brake lights were out, right?"), OR GO HAVE A TRYST WITH SOME WOMAN WHILE ON DUTY.


As for Jeremiah being "biracial, not only black but white as well": you should understand two things about the history of this country:

(1) African Americans are the most ethnically diverse minority in this country -- and are the original multicultural people here in the Americas. Many, if not most, native-born African Americans whose ancestors go back to slavery, especially from the Southeast, are, of course, African, often part Native American, often part Irish, and from the North (or from the Caribbean!) are often part Jewish, often part Latino (especially in the Northeast and Southwest), and other ethnic groups -- the intermixing having come over different times and in different places. So, most of we African Americans are "part something" in our ancestry.

(2) that in the history of this country, and still today in most parts of this country (especially outside of very ethnically diverse states like California, where what one ethnically wants to call themselves is often socially respected, and where white people are actually now a MINORITY), THERE HAS NEVER BEEN ANY SUCH THING AS "BIRACIAL" -- NOT LEGALLY, NOT SOCIALLY -- AND THAT'S HOW THE POLICE, ALL OVER THE COUNTRY, STILL SEE IT TOO.

SO, AS FAR AS THE _PIGS_ WERE CONCERNED, JEREMIAH WAS *BLACK* -- OR WHATEVER (LATINO, ARAB, SOUTH ASIAN, EAST ASIAN, MUSLIM, ETC.) HE MIGHT HAVE LOOKED LIKE, VS. WHITE.

Or, put it another way, Jeremiah may have been "not only black but white as well", BUT IT'S THE *BLACK* HALF THAT THE COPS MURDEROUSLY DIDN'T CARE ABOUT -- AND ALL THEY THOUGHT WAS, "LET'S KILL THAT NIGGER AND GET THIS OVER WITH!!" -- EVEN RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIS PARENTS!! -- EVEN RIGHT IN HIS PARENT'S HOME DRIVEWAY!! -- THAT EVERY DAY THEY HAVE TO SEE AND REMEMBER THE VERY SPOT WHERE THAT'S WHERE THEIR SON WAS GUNNED DOWN AND KILLED -- BY THE STATE.

AND WHAT DO THE PIGS ALWAYS CALL IT (EVEN AFTER EVERY INVESTIGATION STAMPS IT)?: _"JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE"_.

When I came the Bay Area -- and while the Bay Area certainly isn't perfect by any means -- I noticed that, by *comparison* with most of the rest of this country (say, outside of the very multicultural and international Manhattan), everyone, generally speaking, was comparatively much more, ethnically/"racially", socially tolerant, or even accepted, or even *celebrated*, and respected -- except from the behavior of the cops. That negative police behavior seems to be a general constant everywhere in this country when it comes to people of color (even sometimes from people of color police -- or as Ice Cube /NWA rapped in "FUCK THA POLICE!", "Black po-lice showin' out fo' the whyte cops!."

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"Yes, there were over 1,000 friends that attended Jeremiah's memorial service. It took 3 hours to get through all the stories and comments from his classmates and friends on how he touched their lives. He WAS well liked, kind, gentle, and with a spirit and wisdom well beyond his years."

That Jeremiah touched so very many people is just beautiful beyond words...

I'd say that he and his family were at least spiritually and socially "rich"...


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""Karmic Justice" is all that the 2 cops got for their acts on March 12, 2007. These 2 men must live with the knowledge of what really happened and will face God at their end."

Especially when those killer cops saw -- and it was not just _a propaganda pageant_, like the OPD mass-propaganda funeral in Oakland (where almost no one from their neighborhood patrols showed up), with even Canadian Mounties flown in to artificially boost the numbers, most of the cops at that OPD staged propaganda funeral were not even from anywhere near the Bay Area -- but instead how many people deeply cared about and were actually touched by Jeremiah Chass ...

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DOES CONGRESSWOMAN BARBARA LEE STILL SPEAK FOR US?

(OR, ARE ALL LIVES TRULY "EQUAL"?)

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"Does Barbara Lee Still Speak for You and Me?"

By Henry Norr
Wednesday March 25, 2009
Berkeley Daily Planet newspaper
Berkeley, CA

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When four Oakland police officers were killed last weekend, Rep. Barbara Lee wasted no time before speaking out. The very next day -- on a Sunday, no less -- she issued not one but two press releases expressing condolences to the victims' families and support for their colleagues. The following day she took to the floor of the House and for more than six minutes paid tribute to these "fallen heroes," as she put it. The press statements promptly appeared on her official website, and a video clip of her remarks to the House was posted to her YouTube channel.

Unfortunately, she wasn't nearly as quick to respond to some other recent incidents of violence that have concerned many of her constituents:

• Oscar Grant. After the BART police murdered Oscar Grant III at the Fruitvale station, Lee made no public statement about the incident for more than a week. Only after hundreds of her constituents had taken to the streets to express their outrage -- not only at the killing, but also at the establishment's demonstrable indifference to it -- did she issue a statement declaring that her "thoughts and prayers are with the family of Oscar Grant as they grieve the loss of their loved one."

Even then, she and her staff don't seem to have made much of an effort to get her statement out. They didn't even bother to post it on her website -- as of March 25, it's still not there -- and the only place Google finds the text is in a Bay Area News Group blog, not even in the Oakland Tribune or other East Bay papers. (On Jan. 14 Lee issued another statement saying she was "pleased" at the arrest of former officer Johannes Mehserle. That one did make it to her website.)

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http://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2009-03-26/article/32553?headline=Does-Barbara-Lee-Still-Speak-for-You-and-Me-

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Henry Norr is a former journalist for the San Francisco Chronicle

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Those outside the Bay Area may not know the backstory: Early on January 1, a young adult African-American named Oscar Grant was fatally shot at a BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) stop by a BART police officer. The incident was captured on a few cellphones as it happened. The officer has been arrested for murder and there have been several riots in downtown Oakland.

How is this connected to the recent action in Gaza, or to the Israel-Palestinian conflict in general? Nothing published about Grant suggested that he was politically involved in this issue. However, this incident has been cynically manipulated by the local anti-Israel groups to recruit support in the African-American community for their own jihadist agenda. So, to nobody's surprise, recent anti-Israel rallies in San Francisco featured posters attempting to link Grant's death to the Gaza situation, to recruit those angry over the shooting to the side of those for whom Grad and Qassam rockets are "legitimate resistance".

Here's Tzipporah's report from a "community meeting" held in Oakland 2 days ago. For upcoming attractions, just see what's been happening in France.


Violence Brewing in Oakland: A Forum to Incite African Americans to Hate Jews

Last night I fell down a rabbit hole and found myself in a world where honesty and truth were banished and lies reigned supreme. I was not out chasing rabbits though; I was at the Eastside Cultural Center in Oakland, along with about 200 other people, participating in a program called “From Palestine to Oakland: An Emergency Community Forum.”

The forum was co-sponsored by the Eastside Arts Alliance and the Gaza Action Committee. Speakers were from various anti-Israel organizations, such as the Arab Resource and Organizing Center, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Communities Against Police Execution (CAPE,) and Plan for a Safer Oakland (aka, CriticalResistance.org.) Many of the organizers looked familiar because I had seen them before, from other recycled ANSWER niche groups, such as Jews Against Zionism. The goal of the forum was to draw parallels between the so-called oppression of Palestinians and Oakland African Americans. This forum was clearly a slick attempt by anti-Israel groups to co-opt African Americans and draw them into the world wide movement against the existence of Israel and hatred of Jews.

Subtlety was not their strong point. First, three young people from the Eastside Arts Alliance and the Gaza Action Committee stood on the stage with crudely drawn maps of Oakland and Israel. In this rabbit hole, Israel was called Palestine. The speakers taught us that Palestine was once a great and peaceful Muslim country. But then in 1948 European Jews and the United States decided to work together to rid Palestine of Muslims and give the country to the Jews. These Jews are called Zionists: “Zionism: A political belief system started in the late 1800’s (sic) and based on parts of the Jewish religion that believes the land of Palestine was given by God to the Jewish People. (Not all Jews are Zionist and not all Zionists are Jewish). (sic)
The U.S and Zionist forces embarked upon genocide and ethnic cleansing because they felt that Palestine was in a strategic part of the world, and the U.S. and the European Jews wanted to have a foot-hold in the midst of the Muslim world. The speakers stuck pieces of paper with outlines of brown people on them all over the pre-Israel Palestine map. They added other pieces of paper symbolizing trees and orchards. When they declared that it was now 1948, they moved all the people to Gaza and the West Bank and filled the map with a dozen or so large blue Stars of David which took the place of the displaced Palestinians who were presumably huddling in fear on the edges of the map. They added pictures of Uzi machine guns and barricades to the map.

They taught us that “war broke out in 1967,” and Israel conquered more Muslim land. They did not explain the cause of the war. To them, war simply “broke out,” perhaps as a bad case of the hives might break out.

We learned that Israel was founded “with the purpose of creating a ‘Jewish only’ state even though the vast majority of the population was not Jewish. They told us that Muslims have curfews in Israel. Palestinians must carry ID cards that designate what limited rights they are entitled to. Only Jews have the full panoply of rights.

Then they asked the audience to make the connection to Oakland. Think, they exhorted us, how the same forces that oppress the Palestinians also oppress the Black people in Oakland. I wondered if Zionists control Oakland. Why yes, I learned, they apparently do. They moved the brown people from “occupied Palestine” to the map of Oakland. They pointed to Piedmont and stuck a couple of Stars of David there. Then they surrounded the brown, oppressed Oaklanders with the Uzis and placed barricades around Piedmont and other areas they considered to be Zionist identified.

The audience loved it. They were very receptive to this blatant anti-Semitism and Palestinian mythology. My heart was thumping and I was certain that the word “JEW” was written on my forehead. I kept my pepper spray handy. The crowd was pumped up - lots of cheering and clapping. Two hundred happy Jew-haters surrounded me.

The remaining speakers revealed the following amazing facts:
1. The CIA and the Mossad are one big organization;
2. Oakland and Boston Police go to Israel for training (this factoid was imparted by a member of the New England Committee to Defend Palestine;)
3. Members of the IDF come to Oakland to train police;
4. During Hurricane Katrina, the Mossad sent Israeli snipers to New Orleans with orders to shoot black people “who were trying to survive;”
5. Palestine is Oakland;
6. The condos in Oakland are equivalent to the Jewish settlements in Israel, because Black people were pushed out of gentrified areas of Oakland the way the gentle Palestinians were pushed out of Palestine;
7. A speaker who identified herself as Nicole Solis said she is a teacher at a rich private school in Oakland. She described the school as a bubble for privileged kids. She said she is not permitted to talk about the things that really matter, such as graffiti art, Zionists, and guns;
8. Black people dressed in baggy pants are targets for Oakland police who are itching to kill them;
9. Oakland is heavily policed because Black people live here. The police are here to occupy the Black neighborhoods and commit genocide. Their presence has nothing to do with crime. The Oakland police are equivalent to the Jews in Israel;
10. Palestinians and American Blacks have one enemy: the U.S. Actually two enemies, because Israel is an extension of the U.S.
11. Palestinians cannot walk more than 30 minutes without violating a curfew;
12. The same Israeli people building the “wall” in Palestine are also building the “wall” between the U.S. and Mexico;
13. Gang members are now prosecuted as domestic terrorists. (As a criminal defense lawyer in Oakland, I know this is not true;)
14. Their definition of occupation is an outside power coming into a neighborhood, city, or country by military or police force, conquering the native people, and then forcing them off their land. In Oakland, this is achieved by gentrification. Gentrification is occupation;
15. Tel Aviv was an Arab city. The Zionists changed the name as part of their colonization of Palestine;
16. Schools in the U.S. should teach Arab history;
17. Oakland schools teach that slavery was a good thing and slaves were happy;
18. Palestinian and Black leaders are kept illegally in prisons so they cannot organize the people;
19. The first thing Israel does when they attack a village is to destroy the agriculture, such as the olive trees;
20. Federal police working with Oakland police intend to destroy Black culture;
21. COINTELPRO is actively trying to divide Black and Palestinian people in order to disrupt their organizing;
22. An Israeli PR firm in San Francisco is trying to entice people from grassroots organizations to visit Israel in order to feed them false information;
23. “They” do not want us to make the connections between what is happening in Palestine and Oakland;
24. Jews have invented creation myths of persecution in order to justify the genocide and colonization of Palestinians;
25. Oscar Grant represents persecution, resistance, and a great wave of grief, and love;
26. Myths are perpetuated in churches and temples to control the people;
27. Jews paint themselves as eternal victims;
28. The Committee Against Police Execution (CAPE) defends the right of people to come together to destroy property. The people who were arrested in the Oscar Brand riots should have all charges dropped against them, and the Oakland police chief should be fired.
Several times during the meeting, we were urged to attend a demonstration later in the week on the Berkeley campus to protest a lecture by Benny Morris. They reminded us several times that violence is an acceptable response to “justice denied.”

After 90 minutes of this anti-Semitic rubbish, I left. The red queen was on her head.

bluetruth Saturday, Apr. 11, 2009 at 9:12 PM:

"How is this connected to the recent action in Gaza, or to the Israel-Palestinian conflict in general?"

BECAUSE FOR BLACKS AND PALESTINIANS (THE 'NIGGERS' OF PALESTINE, as far as Israeli Jews are concerned and who have been racistly and brutally treating Palestinians for well over 60 years):

1) BOTH ARE VICTIMS OF WHITE-SUPREMACY -- GENERAL WHITE-SUPREMACY IN THE U.S., AND JEWISH WHITE-SUPREMACY IN PALESTINE;

2) BOTH ARE VICTIMS OF RACIST COLONIZATIONS --whether, respectively, in the U.S. from its founding against the indigenous people here, or later the urban Black community itself, or even in Africa, or in Palestine against the indigenous people (namely, the Palestinians) there;

3) BOTH ARE UNDER LARGELY WHITE-SUPREMACIST OCCUPATION FORCES IN THEIR OWN COMMUNITIES;

4) AND BOTH ARE OFTEN WANTONLY SHOT AND KILLED -- OR EVEN TORTURED -- WITH IMPUNITY BY GENERALLY WIHTE RACIST COPS HERE AND RACIST JEWISH SOLDIERS THERE.

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FOR JUST ONE EXAMPLE OF POLICE OCCUPATION FORCES IN JUST ONE BLACK COMMUNITY (IN OAKLAND), READ:

UnderCurrents: Trying to Make Sense of the MacArthur Shootings [in Oakland]
By J. Douglas Allen-Taylor
Wednesday March 25, 2009

http://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2009-03-26/article/32545?headline=UnderCurrents-Trying-to-Make-Sense-of-the-MacArthur-Shootings

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For extensively more of what I have to say about the RACIST ideology of ZIONISM, Yahoo/Google search: "joseph anderson" + "berkeley" + zionism

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"Several times during the meeting, we were urged to attend a demonstration later in the week on the Berkeley campus to protest a lecture by Benny Morris."

THIS IS THE ISREALI JEWISH HISTORIAN PROFESSOR WHO -- TO HIS CREDIT -- READILY AND PROUDLY *ADMITS* THAT ISRAELI JEWISH ZIONISTS (even before the actual founding of Israel) ENGAGED IN THE SYSTEMATIC VIOLENT ETHNIC CLEANSING OF PALESTINE...

...BUT *OPENLY* SAYS THAT ISRAELI ZIONIST JEWS "SHOULD HAVE *FINISHED* THE JOB"!!

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"The remaining speakers revealed the following amazing facts: 1-28."

ACTUALLY MOST OF THESE FACTS ARE GENERALLY, OR EFFECTIVELY, OR OPERATIONALLY, AND IN PRACITCE, QUITE **TRUE** -- AND ARE WELL-DOCUMENTED.

CHECK RELIABLE RESOURCES -- EVEN JEWISH, LIKE * http://www.IJSN.NET * -- ON THE INTERNET OR ELSEWHERE (including various resources at your local university) -- BUT I GUESS A ZIONIST BLIND RACIST DOESN'T REALIZE THIS.


OF COURSE THIS ONE IS *NOT* TRUE: "28. The Committee Against Police Execution (CAPE) defends the right of people to come together to destroy property."

Please Please please help me... I need recognition. I want people to think I'm a real journalist!

Hey, I *DON'T* want to get anyone in *any* potential trouble with the PO-lice (or your employer), but *ONLY* if you feel like it (consider your own situation), and *ONLY* if you feel it's safe enough for you (only you know your own situation the best), you (especially if you're American-born or have lived in the U.S. a lllonggg time) might want to consider firing off a brief letter in support of my commentary, "Karmic Justice" (if you agree with it in any way, even/however indirectly), to the Berkeley Daily Planet (opinion@berkeleydailyplanet.net). And/or suggest it to others. Just a thought...: *nnnno* pressure...!


Take care,
Joey

The people of Oakland were too smart- not a single one showed up to protest Benny Morris- only 6 people showed up,overall- with some lame signs. they quickly realized the sell out, standing room only crowd at the Morrison library had NO interest in their koolaid.

[ not groveling. Not one bit.
by Joseph Anderson Sunday, Apr. 12, 2009 at 1:20 PM

Please Please please help me... I need recognition. I want people to think I'm a real journalist!

Hey, I *DON'T* want to get anyone in *any* potential trouble with the PO-lice (or your employer), but *ONLY* if you feel like it (consider your own situation), and *ONLY* if you feel it's safe enough for you (only you know your own situation the best), you (especially if you're American-born or have lived in the U.S. a lllonggg time) might want to consider firing off a brief letter in support of my commentary, "Karmic Justice" (if you agree with it in any way, even/however indirectly), to the Berkeley Daily Planet (opinion@berkeleydailyplanet.net). And/or suggest it to others. Just a thought...: *nnnno* pressure...!

Take care,
Joey ]

AND...

[ Re: Benny Morrison at the Morrison Library
by I was there Sunday, Apr. 12, 2009 at 1:24 PM

The people of Oakland were too smart- not a single one showed up to protest Benny Morris- only 6 people showed up,overall- with some lame signs. they quickly realized the sell out, standing room only crowd at the Morrison library had NO interest in their koolaid. ]

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First of all...,

HEIL ISRAHELL!!


Second, I wish to correct my Zio-Nazi "Chosen People" Zionist KKK brethren: Joseph Anderson is not a journalist -- he's A RESPECTED SOCIOPOLITCAL COMMENTARY WRITER that has, much to my jealously, written for numerous highly respected political journals and publications. This includes the San Francisco Chronicle in a commentary that tore apart my Zio-Nazi zealot brethren David Horrorwitz [uh, Horowitz] -- in addition to once verbally cornering and tearing Horrowitz apart in person: Horrorwitz immediately and literally ran off from Horrorwitz's OWN speaking event when invited to UC Berkeley by Zionist and College Republican students).

Anderson is highly regarded by the San Francisco Bay View editors too -- the venerable African American newspaper in San Francisco -- who's servers we Zio-Nazis once majorly hacked into and took down, but DAMNIT the S.F. Bay View, at www.sfbayview.com, is back up again (both in print and now online) and reaches more people than ever! In fact, one of their contributors is that prominent anti-Zionist progresssive Jewish journalist and essayist, Jeffrey Blankfort -- and even other anti-Zionist progressive Jews write for that African American paper.

Anderson (admittedly his commentary was very brave) probably wants to encourage people to COUNTER-BALANCE all the RACIST letters that will inevitably be sent to the Berkeley Daily Planet -- and a lot (under different names, of course) from Zio-Nazis just like me!

I mean, Zionist Jews and Israel steadfastly, politically and MILITARILY supported Apartheid South Africa long after it had become a pariah state!! Why not, since we were the only remaining settler-colonial apartheid states of its kind left in the world. And now it's just ISRAHELL!!

Zionist Jews not only picketed against NELSON MANDELA after he was freed after 27 years in prison, but still picket and oppose (like recently in Canada) DESMOND TUTU wherever he speaks. And our dear departed Zionist leader (is he departed yet or is he still comotose? -- I mean physically, not just morally like he was all his life) ARIEL SHARON SAID ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE, "WHAT CAN A PEOPLE WHO DESCENDED FROM TREES TEACH US ABOUT CIVILIZATION?"

OY VEY!! The commentaries that Joseph has written about Zionism alone has made my Zionist 'Jewish KKK' mother's eyes weep unconsolably! Just google "joseph anderson"+berkeley+zionism!

Damn that Joseph Anderson!!

What did Joseph call us?:

_NA_tiönalist _ZI_önists

and HISTÖRY'S GREATEST HYPÖCRITES-Я-ÜS!

I know we Zionist Jews have said over and over again,

"AFTER HITLER, *ÖÜR* TÜRN!",

but THAT just came too damn close to the truth!!

Oh, and I heard that the reason that so few people came to picket our great ethnic cleansing 'Jewish Nazi' champion advocate Benny Morris when he spoke before a pack of our "CHOSEN PEOPLE" at our ZIO-NAZI KLAN / mini-NUREMBURG RALLY at UC Berkeley is because -- just as the last time David Horrorwitz or Daniel Pipes came to UC Berkeley -- sponsored by HILLEL!! -- and condemned by a lot of even Jewish faculty members in an open letter to the Daily Californian, UC Berkeley's campus newspaper -- is because people like Anderson encouraged others not to bother because these notorious Jewish racists have virtually no friends anymore in academia anyway, even among Jews.

Damn!! Lots of people seem to listen to Anderson!! The last time our Jewish Klan leader David Horrowitz spoke, he actually COMPLAINED that there were no protesters!!: you see, Horrorwitz needs anti-Zionist protesters to even get into the campus newspaper!! -- let alone the Bay Area newspapers. By himself, nobody pays much attention to Horrorwitz or Pipes or Benny Morris.

Wrote Anderson (also in the Berkeley Daily Planet and elsewhere):

"This [Hillel] invitation prompted a Feb. 10 formal letter to the Daily Californian, signed by many JEWS and others in the university community, objecting to Hillel’s invitation to Pipes in the strongest possible terms. The letter described Pipes’ remarks as “vilely xenophobic” and “echo[ing] messages directed against Jews in the past.” The signatories of the letter included Professor Emerita Bluma Goldstein, who lost more than 30 members of her family in the Holocaust, but who nonetheless morally rejects the imposition of nationalist Zionism in Palestine."

Because of people like Joseph Anderson and other admittedly brave -- for defying us Zio-Nazis -- at UC Berkeley and in Berkeley, ZIONISM HAS ITSELF NOW BECOME A DIRTY WORD!! Even we Zio-Nazi Jews don't dare openly call ourselves Zionists anymore out in public!! It's like someone openly calling themselves a neo-Nazi!

So, my "Chosen People" Zio-Nazi Klan brethren, please DON'T publicize Anderson's letter -- DAMN HIS WRITINGS OBVIOUSLY GO FAR AND WIDE -- because it's generating too many commentaries already in the Berkeley Daily Planet and elsewhere already -- by people who are opposed to ALL racism, even Zionist Jewish racism!!

Joseph Anderson? THE Joseph Anderson? The one who was thrown out of Norman Finkelstein's talk in Berkeley because even his peers thinks he's a nutbar?

Joey, dearest- you are mistaken about Zionism:
(when did they release you from Napa State, btw?)
Here- you've got a lot to learn:

Zionism and Israel - Issues and Answers
www.zionism-israel.com/zionism_issues.htm

Does the Flight and Expulsion of Palestinian Refugees prove that Zionism is Racism?

The Palestinian refugee problem was created because the Arabs of Palestine refused to live in a Jewish state and Arab states refused to accept U.N. Resolution 181, which partitioned Palestine. The refugees were not created by Zionism. The Arab side instigated a war, driven by Nazi-collaborator Haj Amin El-Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. Husseini told the British that his solution for the "Jewish Question" in Palestine was the same as "the solution that had been adopted in Europe," namely extermination. Had there been no war, there would have been no refugees. The Jews of Palestine defended themselves, as any people would, regardless of ideology. After the war, they were reluctant to admit a large body of people who were belligerents by definition, because they had refused to live in a Jewish state. After World War II, Czechoslovakia expelled ethnic Germans who had been Czech citizens living in the Sudetensland, because they proved to be a threat to the national existence of Czechoslovakia. Nobody claimed that Czechoslovakia is racist for that reason.
If Zionists are not racists, why do they oppose the "legitimate right" of return of the Palestinian Refugees

Palestinian advocates claim that the refugees of 1948 have a right guaranteed in international law to return to Israel. In fact, there is no such law. The Fourth Geneva Convention, often cited in this context, does not stipulate a right of return for refugees. UN Resolution 194, also cited as the basis for this "right" is a resolution of the UN General Assembly. Such resolutions are not binding in international law. No nation has the obligation to admit enemy belligerents. Moreover, Resolution 194 does not insist on a Right of Return. It says that "refugees wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbours should be permitted to do so."

The refugees were not Israeli citizens. They did not want Israeli citizenship. Beyond the dry provisions of the law, in this case admission of several million refugees would soon create an Arab majority in Israel. The people who advocate "Right of Return" also favor abolishing the Israeli Law of Return that permits Jews to immigrate to Israel freely. Israel would cease to be the national home of the Jews, and the Jewish people would lose the right to self-determination. Clearly "Right of Return" cannot be implemented in any case if it contradicts a different fundamental right that is anchored in international law.
Is the Israeli "Law of Return" Racist?

The Law of return stipulates that any Jew may come to Israel and become a citizen without undergoing naturalization. Other applicants must undergo a naturalization process. The Law of Return embodies a major purpose of the state of Israel, which is to provide a safe haven for Jews from every country and to make possible the restoration of the Jewish people. The need for a haven, foreseen as important by the founders of Zionism, assumed tragic significance during the Holocaust, when every country in the world closed its doors to Jews fleeing Nazi persecution. Abolishing the Law of Return, as anti-Zionists demand, would destroy the purpose of Israel as a national home for the Jews.
Is all criticism of Israel anti-Semitism?

Many people, including Israeli Jews, criticize the Israeli government and other governments because they disagree with specific policies. That criticism is usually not racist. The Zionist Organization of America opposes the Israeli disengagement policy, for example. That is not anti-Semitic or racist criticism. Many Israelis and others speak out against the occupation of Palestinian territory, or Israeli religious laws, or brutality of soldiers at checkpoints. That is not anti-Semitic or racist criticism. However, "criticisms" such as charges that "the Zionists" control the United States, arguments that the Talmud is the secret Jewish blueprint for taking over the world, allegations that "the Jews" instigated the war in Iraq for the benefit of Israel, and diabolical comparisons between the extermination of European Jewry in the Holocaust and Israeli treatment of Palestinians appear very often in anti-Zionist "criticisms" of Israel. They are often accompanied by excerpts from Hitler's Mein Kampf, articles written by Holocaust - deniers and excerpts from the forged "Protocols of the Elders of Zion." These are not legitimate criticisms of Israel, but racist propaganda.
If Jews have always been yearning for return to their homeland, why didn't they begin to return until the 19th century?

This challenge, probably first formulated by Marxist critics, betrays either boundless cynicism or ignorance of history. Jews did try to return to Zion throughout the 2,000 year exile, and many did settle in Jerusalem, Safed, Hebron and other towns, despite enormous hardships.. However, given the lowly political status of the Jews, any international movement would have been doomed to failure, as were the numerous false messiahs like Shabbetai Tzvi, who promised to rebuild Jerusalem. It is like asking, "If workers and peasants didn't like being downtrodden, why didn't they make a Bolshevik revolution in the Middle Ages?"
Did Zionists displace the Arabs of Palestine?

Beginning in 1920, anti-Zionist propaganda insisted that Zionists were going to dispossess and expel the Arabs of Palestine. In 1922, at the beginning of the British Mandate, there were about 660,000 Arabs in Palestine, while at the end of the British mandate there were about 1.3 Million Arabs. About 735,000 lived in the areas that would become Israel after the War of Independence. There were more Arabs in Palestine than had ever lived there before in all of recorded history, and their standard of living, which had been considerably below that of Arabs in neighboring countries, was well above it. The Arab claim of dispossession, repeated so often in Mandatory Palestine, was an invention. See Zionism and its Impact
Do Israeli Arabs live under an Apartheid Regime?

Anti-Zionists charge that the Arabs of Israel live under an "Apartheid" regime similar to that practiced in South Africa. South African Apartheid was practiced against native Africans who wanted an equal say in South African affairs. Regulations prevented marriage between races, enforced unequal pay and discriminatory employment and denied Black Africans equal representation in the government. Israeli treatment of Arab minorities is not perfect, but it is improving. It is not "Apartheid." Israeli Arab citizens vote and participate in the government along with Jewish citizens, can own and buy land, and are legally protected against discrimination in government services and the work place. They enjoy a far higher standard of living and better health care and educational opportunities than their neighbors in Egypt, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon. Arabs can serve in the Israeli army and many do, especially Bedouin and Druze.
Isn't Israel an Expansionist Country?

Anti-Zionists charge that Israel has "expansionist" aims, because it has not set its borders, it conquered territories in wars and it has a "secret plan" to expand over the entire Middle East. The truth is that Israel didn't set its borders because none of the Arab countries would recognize any borders at all for Israel. Of the original territory of the Palestine Mandate given to Britain in 1922 as a national home for the Jewish people, over 70% was removed in 1922 and became Jordan. In 1947, the UN partitioned the remainder of the territory between the Arabs and Jews of Palestine. The Arabs did not agree to the partition plan and started a war. Israel won the war and conquered territory originally allotted to a Palestinian state. No Arab state recognized the borders of the 1949 cease fire lines and none was ready to sign a peace treaty with Israel. In 1967 Israel fought the 6-day war after Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser closed the straits of Tiran and the Suez canal to Israeli shipping, and threatened to destroy Israel. Israel conquered the Golan Heights, West Bank, and Sinai peninsula, a vast area several times the size of Israel. All this land was to be returned in peace settlements, but no offer for peace came until 1977. Israel then made peace with Egypt and returned the entire Sinai peninsula. In negotiations with the Palestinians, Israel offered to give them about 97% of the West Bank in return for peace, but they refused. Likewise, Israel offered to return virtually the entire Golan heights in return for peace with Syria, but Syria's President Asad insisted that Syria has sovereignty over the Sea of Galilee and the Jordan river. Israel has a territory of less than 8,000 square miles. It is absurd to claim that Israel is an expansionist state that poses a danger to its neighbors. ( See Maps)
Are Ashkenazi Jews descended from Khazars and does it matter?

An article by Arthur Koestler many years ago speculated that Ashkenazy Jews are descended from the Khazars, a Central Asian kingdom that converted to Judaism and eventually vanished. This claim has been used by anti-Zionists to argue that the Jews are not a nation, and that Ashkenazy Jews have no rights to Israel. The best evidence indicates that Jews dispersed throughout Europe from Rome. There were Jewish communities in France in the dark ages evidently. Other Ashkenazy Jews are descended from Spanish (Sephardic) Jews who were forced to leave Spain in 1492. Genetic evidence indicates that European Jews are probably closer to Palestinian and Syrian Arabs than to central Asians who are partly descended from the Khazars; see articles here and here for example. In any case, the claims of a people to nationhood are almost never based on genetics or "race." Nobody claims that all the French are descended from ancient Gauls, or that all the British are descended from the Celts and Picts. When Americans talk about "'our' forefathers," the 'our' doesn't usually exclude the generations of immigrants who came after the Mayflower settlers. Today's Palestinians are not all descended from ancient Canaanites and Philistines. Some are converted Jews. Some are descended from Arab families who arrived with various conquerors. Whatever the merits of the genetic arguments, claims that anyone has no right to a country because they are not racially "pure" are racist claims, and identify the people making those claims as racists.
Was Israel created because of the Holocaust?

Anti-Zionists argue that Israel was created because the nations of Europe took pity on the Jews after World War II, and that the right to a Jewish state can be rescinded if Israel doesn't "behave." Actually, Israel was created as a result of the League of Nations Mandate of 1922, which granted a mandate to Great Britain to create a "National Home" for the Jews in Palestine. This right was based on the right to self determination, a right shared by all peoples.
Why can't there be peace in a single democratic state for Arabs and Jews?

Every people has the right of self-determination - the right to develop their own culture, customs and language, and to defend themselves from foreign domination. If it is logical and just to support a state for the Palestinian Arabs, then certainly it is logical and just to support a state for the Jewish people, who do not have twenty two other states that speak their language and have similar customs. Historically, the "one state" solution is not a peace settlement, but rather a vehicle for expelling the Jews from the country. In 1948, the Arab countries offered a "Single State" solution. Haj Amin El Husseini, made it clear that the first act of such a state would be to annihilate the Jews of Palestine. No "peace" solution can be based on destroying a state and denying self-determination to its people.
Why should there be a state for a religion?

Judaism is not just a religion, though anti-Zionists may claim that it is. A large percentage of Jews are atheists or agnostic, including most of the founders of Israel and many of the founders of the Zionist movement. The identity of each person and each group is determined by the people in that group. It is not the prerogative of anti-Zionists and racists to determine the definition of Judaism. It is up to members of the Jewish nation.
Israel was supposed to be a safe haven for Jews, but Jews are not safe there. Isn't this a failure of Zionism?

No place on Earth is completely safe for anyone. Israel has lost upwards of 20,000 citizens in wars and terrorist incidents since 1948. However, the Jewish people lost six million members in the Holocaust of World War II; hundreds of thousands of Jews were killed in pogroms in the Ukraine and Russia. Over the years many more were killed in pogroms of the Middle Ages, especially the crusades. Israel cannot make the world safe for the Jews, any more than the United States can guarantee the perfect safety of every American citizen. However, Israel can give the Jewish people the same fundamental safeguard that every other nation has - the right to self defense.
Doesn't the occupation prove that Zionism is Evil and Expansionist?

No country has ever had its legitimacy called into question because it ran an occupation. Nobody believes the United States should be destroyed because it is occupying Iraq, or that Iraq should be destroyed because it occupied Kuwait. This argument is applied only to Israel.

Nobody should live under occupation. The current occupation is not the result of "Zionism" but of the refusal of Arab Palestinians to live in peace with Israel. It is complicated by the beliefs of some Israelis in "Greater Israel," which was not a part of mainstream historical Zionist ideology and does not have consensus support of all Zionists.

The occupation is a result of of the vicissitudes of history. In the view of most Israeli Zionists, it is not a part of Zionist ideology. This became quite evident during the recent disengagement - withdrawal from Gaza. Anti-Zionists simply couldn't fit the disengagement into their diabolical picture of Zionism, so they invented "explanations" for it. More
Isn't Israel doing to Palestinians what the Germans did do the Jews - Another "Holocaust"?

One of the most diabolical claims of anti-Zionists is that Israelis are like Nazis, and are perpetrating an Holocaust in the Palestinians. Israelis are not putting Palestinians in gas chambers or starving them to death. Israel is fighting a war, against a vicious and implacable enemy. The Jews of Europe were innocent citizens who were selected by the Nazis for extermination solely because of their religion. Israel has instituted security measures that are cause hardships for the Palestinians and are sometimes harsh. Occasional excesses, committed by Jewish and Muslim and Druze IDF soldiers alike are not the result of evil conspiracies or racist ideology, but errors of individuals that are the sad and inevitable result of a war that has been forced on Israel.
If Israel wants peace, why doesn't it withdraw to 1967 borders?

Israel offered virtually all of the territories and Arab Jerusalem to Arafat at Taba in 2001, but he rejected the offer and the Palestinians went on with the second intifada instead. The offer included about 95% of the territory of the West Bank in a contiguous area, not Bantustans as Palestinians claim. See The Myth of the Israeli Bantustan offer at Taba and other myths

The second intifada was made possible by the withdrawal of the Israeli army in the previous years from virtually all Palestinian towns. Arafat's active role in funding and promoting terror, and his double-speak regarding this and Israel's right to exist resulted in Israel's rejection to view him as a partner in further negotiations. At that time, the ideas of the fence and the disengagement as unilateral plans were born. Despite official declarations, many Palestinians still don't accept Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state. The charters of both Hamas and Fatah call for the destruction of Israel and all Zionist activity. The Hamas charter states:

"Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it."

"The Islamic Resistance Movement believes that the land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf consecrated for future Moslem generations until Judgement Day. It, or any part of it, should not be squandered: it, or any part of it, should not be given up. "

The Fatah Constitution states:

Article (7) The Zionist Movement is racial, colonial and aggressive in ideology, goals, organisation and method.

Article (8) The Israeli existence in Palestine is a Zionist invasion with a colonial expansive base, and it is a natural ally to colonialism and international imperialism.

It is worth remembering that the Fatah was founded before the 1967 war, and the constitution dates from approximately 1964. The desire to destroy Israel did not begin with the occupation.

The leader of Fatah, Farouk Kaddoumi, said not long ago that a Palestinian state in 1967 borders is only the first stage to liberating all of historical Palestine. About half of the Palestinians (the numbers vary in different polls) support 'armed resistance' against Israel, including suicide attacks on civilians. PA TV regularly broadcasts hate-sermons or clips that glorify violence against Israel and Jews. Since Abbas came to power, this has changed a bit but far from stopped.

No country would welcome the creation of a hostile country that seeks its destruction at its doorstep. Therefore a Palestinian state can only come into being if the Palestinians too work hard for peace. Confidence building measures or other concessions like the disengagement, removal of checkpoints, release of prisoners, should be answered by concessions from the Palestinians. The Palestinians were powerful enough to kill over 1000 Israelis during the second intifada, they get a lot of international aid and support from the international community and have all the Islamic countries on their side. They are not powerless and helpless victims.

A full withdrawal to 1967 borders means Israel would have to give up the Old city of Jerusalem, including the Wailing Wall and the Jewish Quarter, as well as the Hebrew University. Moreover, as the occupation is the result of a war forced on Israel, and the settlement policy a reaction to the Arab refusal to make peace, it is unfair to demand from Israel that it alone bears the burden of solving the situation. Contrary to anti-Zionist rhetoric, a contiguous Palestinian state is possible also if Israel keeps the large settlement blocs. The Taba proposal as well as Geneva are based on that premise, with a land swap to compensate the Palestinians. The exact borders are issues however that have to be negotiated in a final peace agreement between both parties.
If a people is downtrodden and oppressed, it fights back. People have the right to resist against injustice and occupation. You expect them to resign to Israel's whims.

As explained above, the conflict is older than the occupation, and there was unprovoked Palestinian violence against civilians even before the creation of Israel. Examples include the 1929 riots in Hebron and Jerusalem. Most people under occupation don't blow up civilians in supermarkets or busses. Most 'resistance' of other peoples was and is focused on soldiers, sometimes politicians, but seldom at killing as many civilians as possible. Often people resist oppression in non-violent ways. What is also quite unique is the extremist anti-Semitic propaganda (Mein Kampf is a best seller among the Palestinians). Nobody likes his oppressor, but such propaganda is unprecedented. However, the heart of the problem is, again, that most Palestinians do not accept Israel and their resistance is directed at its very existence. Palestinian violence increased at moments that Israel made concessions and handed over territory, because these 'resistance groups' are opposed to peace. Every country has the right and also the duty to protect its civilians. It is strange that Israel is often denied this right. It is true that not everything that Israel does in the territories is related to security, and we do not approve of everything happening there. However, Israel doesn't celebrate after it has killed Palestinian civilians, and often there is an outcry in Israel if a military operation leads to innocent deaths. Recently a female Palestinian tried to blow up herself in an Israeli hospital where she was treated for burns caused by a cooking accident. She was caught at a checkpoint. There was no outcry and no official condemnations in the Palestinian media.
Why shouldn't churches, universities and others boycott Israel, Israeli products, firms that do business with Israel or the occupation and Israeli academics? This tactic worked in righting injustices in South Africa.

The assumption that Israel is like South Africa is inherently anti-Zionist and racist (see above). It assumes that the Jewish people have no right to self-determination. Initiatives that single out Israel assume that all the fault in the conflict is on one side, and ignore terrorism. Those who sponsor these initiatives admit that their goal is the destruction of Israel.
Is anti-Zionism anti-Semitism?

Ideologically, anti-Zionist ideas, including Jewish religious and Marxist anti-Zionism are tinged with racism. The basic tenet that anti-Zionists hold in common is that Jews are somehow different from all other peoples, and therefore do not deserve or should not have a state of their own. That is a racist idea in itself. Ultraorthodox Jewish anti-Zionists believe that Jews are special, "chosen people." Sects like the Satmar Hassidim and Neturei Karteh believe that Jews should not engage in "vulgar occupations" or have an army, because these are occupations for contemptible gentiles. The Messiah must come and redeem the chosen people. The Messiah, according to ultraorthodox anti-Zionists, will then smite the gentiles and punish them as they deserve, and re-establish the Kingdom of the Jews to rule over the world. Surely, this is a racist notion.

Most other anti-Zionist positions are based on anti-Semitic ideas and assumptions, and often substitute "Zionists" for "Jews" in propaganda that is otherwise identical to anti-Semitic propaganda. Typical claims include:

"Zionists" control the government.

"Zionists" control the media

"International Zionism" is out to control the world.

"Zionists" are disloyal.

"Zionists" start wars (compare the claims about "Zionist" involvement in the Iraq war with Hitler's claims that international finance Jews were starting World War II).

Is anti-Zionism anti-Semitism? You be the judge. Here is a sample of "anti-Zionist" propaganda from some Web sites:

What Zionism is -- and its pernicious influence upon the USA

... Jewish Persecution - A Primary Tool Of International Zionism.

Zionism is cause of instability in the world

The Roots of International Zionism are Spreading

Jewlicious » Why Zionism rules

from radioislam.org/zionism/

The situation only changed after the purges of 1937 and 1938. But even then Stalin was unable to state openly that those whom he opposed were of course not counter-revolutionaries, spies, saboteurs, conspirators, or the like, but were Zionists pursuing their methods and objectives, and were quite simply enemies of the people. Despite the falseness of the accusations, the term "enemies of the people" is, however surprising this might appear, true only of Zionists! He was compelled to resort to false accusations in order to rid the peoples of the Soviet Union of a very great danger and save them from their most vicious enemies.

... The chief power of Zionism lies in being silent. The main point is that, whatever may happen, the whole truth about Zionism cannot be permitted to become widely known. That would mean the failure of the whole affair. An agreement to keep quiet is reached not only with their own people, but also with the most furious opponent of Zionism: they must keep quiet.

Here is what others have said about anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism:

"Anti-Zionism, the denial of Jews the basic right to a home, is nothing but Anti-Semitism, pure and simple."
09/03/01 Michael Melchior

"When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews, you are talking anti-Semitism."
Dec. 1969. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

.... the fact is that critiques of Israel often do morph into more old-fashioned anti-Semitism, partly because of the equation of Israeli and Jew. Schoenfeld quotes the British writer Petronella Wyatt, who has written that conversation about the Middle East in educated British circles often abounds in such comments as, "Well, the Jews have been asking for it, and now, thank God, we can say what we think at last." A columnist for the London Observer has publicly declared that he refused to read pro-Israel letters signed with Jewish-sounding names.

There are also many instances of anti-Israel posters and cartoons employing shockingly anti-Semitic language and imagery, including the old "Christ killer" label. A cartoon in the respectable Italian newspaper La Stampa showed an infant Jesus lying in front of an Israeli tank, the caption saying, "Don’t tell me they want to kill me again."
Cathy Young, www.reason.com/0402/co.cy.hating.shtml

“There is no difference whatever between anti-Semitism and the denial of Israel's statehood. Classical anti-Semitism denies the equal right of Jews as citizens within society. Anti-Zionism denies the equal rights of the Jewish people its lawful sovereignty within the community of nations. The common principle in the two cases is discrimination”
New York Times, November 3, 1975 Abba Eban

While there are honorable Anti-Zionist positions they are few. On the whole Ant-Zionism is close to, or a mask for, Anti-Semitism. John L. Strawson, Proponent of Palestinian Rights.

The eminent linguist Georges Sarfati examined in detail how anti-Zionists and anti-Semites use language to delegitimize Israel, Zionism and Judaism, as explained in this interview on language as a tool against Jews and Israel
Isn't the Marxist view of Zionism the correct view for Progressive People?

The Marxist view of Jews was racist, and incorporated the stereotypes of 19th century anti-Semitism. Marxists maintain that Jews are an aberration of European society, who have developed objectionable social characteristics. These will be corrected when the socialist revolution makes everyone equal, and Jews will become citizens of the world. Most of these "Jewish characteristics" noted by Marxism are familiar to us from the stereotypes of anti-Semitic writing. Here is a sample of quotes from Marx's "A World Without Jews:"

The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew. His god is only an illusory bill of exchange.

The Jew is perpetually created by civil society from its own entrails.

The chimerical nationality of the Jew is the nationality of of the merchant, of the man of money in general.

Contempt for theory, art, history, and for man as an end in himself, which is contained in an abstract form in the Jewish religion

We recognize in Judaism, therefore, a general anti-social element of the present time, an element which through historical development -- to which in this harmful respect the Jews have zealously contributed

In its perfected practice, Christian egoism of heavenly bliss is necessarily transformed into the corporal egoism of the Jew, heavenly need is turned into world need, subjectivism into self-interest

Christianity had only in semblance overcome real Judaism. It was too noble-minded, too spiritualistic to eliminate the crudity of practical need in any other way than by elevation to the skies.

Indeed, in North America, the practical domination of Judaism over the Christian world has achieved as its unambiguous and normal expression that the preaching of the Gospel itself and the Christian ministry have become articles of trade, and the bankrupt trader deals in the Gospel just as the Gospel preacher who has become rich goes in for business deals.

Only then could Judaism achieve universal dominance and make alienated man and alienated nature into alienable, vendible objects subjected to the slavery of egoistic need and to trading.

The social emancipation of the Jew is the emancipation of society from Judaism.

Once society has succeeded in abolishing the empirical essence of Judaism -- huckstering and its preconditions -- the Jew will have become impossible

Marx, himself of Jewish ancestry, absorbed nineteenth century German attitudes to Judaism and made them part of the worst aspects of Marxism. The fruit of these racist ideas is now packaged by some latter-day Marxists as enlightened humanism and internationalism, which supposedly rejects Zionism because it is racist. However, it is manifestly this part of the Marxist philosophy that is racist.

Ami Isseroff

www.zionism-israel.com/zionism_issues.htm

The Joseph Anderson of berkeley that called every Jew a legitimate target ?
Hmmm.
Can you say "anti-Semite?" I think you can.
How many IMC's got you banned, Joey?
Just wondering.


YO, AVRAM!
by JA Tuesday, Mar. 01, 2005 at 8:01 AM

Personally, I *EXULT* everytime I see an Israeli Jew bit the dust. And the same goes for their American cousins! EVERY SINGLE JEW EVERYWHERE IN THE WORLD is a
just and appropriate target for anti-colonialist liberation! We need to start targeting *EVERY* synagogue, *EVERY* Jew community center, school and everywhere else that you racist devils preach and propogate your agenda.

BOUT TO MEET YO MAKER, JEWBOY? HA, HA HA!!!!!!!!!!

RE: No- THIS Joseph Anderson
by in the know, Sunday, Apr. 12, 2009 at 7:36 PM .

Heh-heh-heh...!

We Zio-Nazi idiots sure are good at trying to SMEAR people!

It's just too bad that that Joseph Anderson DOESN'T GIVE A DAMN!!

*DAMN*...! HE'S BRAVE...!!

NOTHING RATTLES HIM!!

They say that Joseph Anderson's A BBAAAAD MMMUTHU---

[---*SHUTT* YO' MOUTH...!!!]

Okay, but that's why we Zio-Nuts keep *HONORING HIM* with ALL our attention!!

*OYYY VEYYYY*...!!!

Joseph Anderson wasn't so brave when he did his "steppin fetchit" routine, shuffling out of Walt and Mersheimers talk in Berkeley "Don't taser me", he whimopered, like a scared little boy. "Don't taser me".

Joseph- why do you regularly get thrown out of talks, especially when its talks by folks on your side of the fence?

You remind me of 12 galazies Frank Chu- searching for attention in mass gatherings.

I've been told to give you more space because you are on SSI, but frankly, you are an embarrassment

I'M A PSYCHO-ZIO-NAZI IDIOT -- AGAIN AND AGAIN!! ...I CAN'T HELP MYSELF!! -- AS YOU CAN OBVIOUSLY TELL!!

I'VE JUST GOT A *LOVVVE* JONES FOR JOSEPH !!!

RE: No- THIS Joseph Anderson
by in the know, Sunday, Apr. 12, 2009 at 7:36 PM .

Heh-heh-heh...!

We Zio-Nazi idiots sure are good at trying to SMEAR people!

It's just too bad that that Joseph Anderson DOESN'T GIVE A DAMN!!

*DAMN*...! HE'S BRAVE...!!

NOTHING RATTLES HIM!!

They say that Joseph Anderson's A BBAAAAD MMMUTHU---

[---*SHUTT* YO' MOUTH...!!!]

Okay, but that's why we Zio-Nuts keep *HONORING HIM* with ALL OUR ATTENTION!!


---- ALTHOUGH WE ZIO-NUTS THINK ANYONE ACTUALLY CARES!! ----


THAT'S HOW SSSICK WE ARE!! : JUST REMEMBER GAZA!!


*OYYY VEYYYY*...!!!

Looks like JA's off his meds again.

Please, everybody look at JA! He needs it very badly.

http://02d2262.netsolhost.com/anderson.html

"Renaldo Zapano" is really DAN SPITZER -- a COWARDLY rabid hardcore Zionist Jew!

You know, Zionist Jews are not dangerous because they really have brains!: they're dangerous because they *don't* have morals (the once brutally oppressed now become the brutal oppressors), but they *do* have *guns* -- and *tanks* -- and *missiles* -- and *bombs* -- and *jet fighters* -- mostly supplied by the U.S. government (our taxes).

Dan Spitzer (or Daniel Spitzer, whatever he's going by when he uses his real name), who lives in the East Bay ( in Berkeley, CA, or one of its adjacent/nearby municipalities, like El Cerrito, Albany, or maybe Oakland, he's quite allusive) in the San Francisco Bay Area) uses *many aliases* (even uses aliases posing as women) to hide behind. He's even used my name, Joseph Anderson, in a phony post. Sometimes he picks real names of people (from the phone book or college directories) who, of course, don't know he's using them in his internet phony posts -- see Ellie Kim (real name, but PHONY POST):

[ 'Marty Price is a respected member of the community.
by Ellie Kim
Tuesday Apr 21st, 2009 6:42 AM.' ]


This is what the *real* Ellie Kim wrote in response:

{ You zionist jews should use your _own_ name for your little personal attacks.

by E. Kim
Tuesday Aug 4th, 2009 12:41 PM

I was notified about this post, but I did not write this post about Marty Price or Joseph Anderson, neither of whom I know (and I would never be up at 6:42 AM to post this):

Marty Price is a respected member of the community.
by Ellie Kim
Tuesday Apr 21st, 2009 6:42 AM }


Dan Spitzer also claims to be "a journalist" (of course he just says this, when he appears in person at various public meetings) to somehow try to legitimate himself) -- but you can't find *anything* he's written as as a so-called "journalist". He certainly isn't listed anywhere as working for any newspaper, magazine, or TV/radio station. (Printing harcore right-wing Zionist flyers in your basement doesn't count Dan.)

As *"a jounalist"* his most recent notorioius actions were to go around Berkeley, CA, (as well as El Cerrito, Albany, Oakland, etc.) trying to, Mafia-style, INTIMIDATE advertizers from advertizing in The Berkeley Daily Planet -- and trying to get the city newspaper SHUT DOWN(!!) -- because it prints *BOTH* pro-Israel (well, that part he likes) *AND* anti-Zionist (Ooo, strictly verboten!) letters to the editor and commentaries (or merely letters/commentaries critical of certain Israeli policies) -- even anti-Zionist or other critical commentaries written by other Jews!

For more on Spitzer, SEE in The Berkeley Daily Planet:

Sidebar: Will the Real Dan Spitzer Please Stand Up?
By Richard Brenneman
Thursday June 04, 2009

and

Sidebar: ‘Kill the Cops, Kill the Jews,’ and Other Fabricated Quotes
By Richard Brenneman
Thursday June 04, 2009


Here's that larger story about Dan Spitzer and his close partners in moral crimes:

The Campaign Against the Daily Planet
By Richard Brenneman
Thursday June 04, 2009


Well, DAN SPTIZER HAS BEEN EXPOSED FOR WHAT HE IS IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA -- and his little *ANTI-JOURNALISTIC*, MAFIA-STYLE INTIMIDATION CAMPAIGN -- where he would imtimidatingly 'pay a little visit' to (especially to small store-owners) advertizers in the Berkeley Daily Planet -- is FINALLY *FINISHED* in the Bay Area now:

ESPECIALLY SINCE A WHOLE GROUP OF ANTI-ZIONIST AND OTHER JEWS (EVEN RABBIS), OR JEWISH GROUPS / ORGANIZATIONS, CRITICAL OF ISRAELI POLICIES HAVE TAKEN OUT SUCCESSIVE *FULL-PAGE* AND HALF-PAGE ADS IN THE BERKELEY DAILY PLANET MORALLY CONDEMNING DAN SPITZER!

I THINK THAT MAKES BERKELEY'S DAN SPITZER LOOK DESPICABLE ENOUGH...

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Ooops! Forgot to supply the pertinent URL's (re post above).


For more on DAN SPITZER, see The Berkeley Daily Planet:

Sidebar: Will the Real Dan Spitzer Please Stand Up?
By Richard Brenneman
Thursday June 04, 2009
http://www.berkeleydaily.org/issue/2009-06-04/article/33066?headline=Sidebar-Will-the-Real-Dan-Spitzer-Please-Stand-Up-

and

Sidebar: ‘Kill the Cops, Kill the Jews,’ and Other Fabricated Quotes
By Richard Brenneman
Thursday June 04, 2009
http://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2009-06-04/article/33065?headline=Sidebar-Kill-the-Cops-Kill-the-Jews-and-Other-Fabricated-Quotes


Here's that larger story about Dan Spitzer and his close partners in moral crimes:

The Campaign Against the Daily Planet
By Richard Brenneman
Thursday June 04, 2009
http://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2009-06-04/article/33078?headline=The-Campaign-Against-the-Daily-Planet

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