[WCUSP] Carter speaking/ Mazin Qumsiyeh

[Mitchell Plitnick]

We've tried, unsuccessfully,to bring Carter to California, and are following 
up with several other ideas with him. Stay tuned.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marlene Santoyo" <marlsan at cavtel.net>
To: "WCUSPWILPF" <wcusp at wilpf.org>; "AFSCPeter Lems" <PLems at afsc.org>; "JVP 
Nat'Mitchell Plitnick'" <mitchell at jewishvoiceforpeace.org>; 
"JVPphiladelphia" <jvp-philadelphia at lists.riseup.net>
Sent: Monday, January 15, 2007 4:49 PM
Subject: Carter speaking/ Mazin Qumsiyeh


> Hello All,
>
> Passing this info on. I imagine there will be some interesting coverage
> when Carter speaks at Brandies Univ.
>
> Has JVP Philly or National,and/or AFSC expolored having Carter speak
> here in Philly or could there be a national tour { Mitchell, Peter at
> AFSC}?
>
>
> Marlena Santoyo
> 515 Glen Echo Road
> Philadelphia, PA 19119
> Tel. (215)-247-4385
> marlsan at cavtel.net <mailto:marlsan at cavtel.net>
>
> -------
>
> From: Mazin Qumsiyeh [mailto:qumsi001 at hotmail.com]
> Sent: 2007 January 14 Sunday 11:26 PM
> Subject: [HumanRights] Amazon.com, wheels of justice, and "Little Mosque
> on the Prairie"
>
> 1) The controversy about Andover High School (see
> http://justicewheels.org/joe-carr-and-mazin-qumsiyeh-on-andover ) was
> rather
> unique (we had controversies in only three of nearly 200 schools,
> perhaps
> when racists get wind of our activities and overreact :-).  But it is
> also
> important to see the effectiveness of such educational programs and the
> need
> to do more speaking in these and similar settings (more classrooms at
> schools, colleges and Universities etc).  The Wheels of Justice bus tour
> (http://wheelsofjusticetour.org) could use your support!  If you are
> living
> in these states or know people who live therr who can help in our spring
> tour, please contact me (qumsi001 at hotmail.com) and/or Mike Miles
> (anathoth at lakeland.ws): Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Georgia,
> Mississippi, Alabama.   We are also looking for experienced volunteer
> speakers with eyewitness accounts to occupation in Iraq or Palestine.
> You
> can also donate to us and get more info on how you can help at the
> website
> (http://wheelsofjusticetour.org).  Also if you liked what the local
> group
> and teachers did in Andover, you could donate to the Somerville
> Divestment
> Project (http://www.divestmentproject.org)
>
> 2) Follow-up to earlier action alert about Amazon's poor treatment of
> Carter's book: Thanks to the hundreds of you who wrote and those who
> copied
> me on the letters to Amazon.  Other recipients of my email said they
> could
> not find the negative Washington Post/Goldberg review displayed
> prominently
> in the front. But you can go to Amazon.com and search Jimmy Carter and
> it
> will take you to its page. There you would actually have to scroll
> through
> it to get to customer reviews which I agree were good. Other readers
> said
> that Amazon has allowed good customer reviews and so it is OK if they
> included Goldberg's malicious review.  But this is simply not how Amazon
> treats other books.  In fact to my knowledge there is simply no book in
> Amazon's top 100 sellers that is treated like Carter's (with a negative
> long
> review before customer reviews).  Take for example Thomas Friedman's
> stupid
> book in defense of corporate globalization "The World is Flat" and see
> how
> it is displayed with no negative editorial reviews.  In fact, Amazon
> sells
> Hitler's Mein Kempf, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and other
> books
> like that without treating them in as shabby a way they treated Carter's
> book (ie. no lengthy 1600 word negative reviews in the section for
> editorial
> reviews)! BTW, the reviewer (Goldberg) was a guard at the infamous
> Ketziot
> prison (in this video about political prisoners in Israeli jails their
> is
> quite a chilling anecdote about Ketziot: "Captured Prisoners,"
> http://www.ifamericansknew.org/stats/cap-pris.html).  Anyway I know I
> will
> buy my future books at local booksellers and when I have to do it over
> the
> internet, I will use the  unionized bookstore Powells. If you enter
> through
> the union portal, a percent supports the union there:
> http://www.unionplus.org/benefits/education/frame_powells.cfm
>
> On a related matter, Carter has agreed to speak at Brandeis University
> January 23rd and take questions after the University agreed that it
> would
> not be a debate with Racist pundit Alan Dershowitz (who called for
> destroying whole villages and supports torture and racial profiling).
> Dershowitz will be in the audience and will have a chance to ask a
> question.
>  I would like those who can go to simply mention in public "Why does
> Dershowitz have the Chutzpah to demand a debate with a president when
> Dershowitz refuses to havea  public debate with Professor Norman
> Finkelstein?" Also ask Carter why he thinks Israel has apartheid only in
> the
> occupied areas when it clearly has discriminatory laws and segregated
> schools inside Israel.  62 unrecognized Palestinian villages inside the
> Green line, 250,000 Palestinians with Israeli citizenship who are
> recognized
> by Israeli law as "present absentees" (Christian and Muslim citizens
> whose
> land was confiscated); see http://www.qumsiyeh.org/isisraelunique/ .
> Just
> this week and contrary to International and Human rights laws, Israel
> passed
> a law to revoke citizenship from "unpatriotic" Israelis
> (http://www.imemc.org/article/46504)! Carter is also looking for other
> invitations to Universities so if you have strings to pull, this is a
> good
> opportunity.
>
> A new comedy/sitcom aired on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is
> called
> "Little Mosque on the Prairie" and it is amazing.  Here are four clips
> from
> one of the episodes:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tu2-lXDe2to&mode=related&search=
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmSAYyTKD0o&mode=related&search=
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4SH-vxBZEo&mode=related&search=
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsOH7Kmmfrs&mode=related&search=
>
> Background on show is at:
> http://www.cbc.ca/programguide/program/index.jsp?program=Little+Mosque+O
> n+The+Prairie&network=CBC%20Television&startDate=2007/01/15&startTime=21
> :00
>
> Wish we could see this or something like it in the US.
>
> Bishop Desmond Tutu taken from and describing the book: "Speaking the
> Truth
> About Zionism and Israel" (edited by Rev. Michael Prior, Melisende,
> 2004):
> "In our struggle for justice and peace in South Africa we had to learn
> to
> speak - and listen to - hard truths. Our experience should encourage all
> who
> strive for justice and peace in the Holy Land. My visits to the Holy
> Land
> remind me so much of South Africa: apartheid is back, complete with the
> "Separation Wall" and bantustans. History, it seems, repeats itself.
> Yet, if
> peace could come to South Africa, surely it can come  also to the Holy
> Land.
> I welcome this book that exposes some of the hardest truths about
> Israel-Palestine. The distinguished contributors - from Israel,
> Palestine,
> the US, the UK and Ireland, women and men, Jews, Christians and
> Muslims -
> speak their Truth. Reconciliation will follow later."
>
> Mazin
> http://qumsiyeh.org
>
>
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