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Cracking Up

By Callimachus | Related entries in In The News

Smash notes some dissent within the peace movement.

JAMAL KANJ, a fiery Palestinian from a group called Al-Awda, takes the podium. “We Palestinians,â€Â? he begins, “have been subjected to GENOCIDE at the hands of the Israelis for generations.” He rants on. “In 1948, they forced us out of our homes, and today we must DRIVE THE JEWS FROM PALESTINE!â€Â?

Suddenly, a middle-aged man wearing a black “F the President� T-shirt rushes the stage, screaming at Kanj, “I’m TIRED of this CRAP! You people keep bringing this up! This is supposed to be an ANTI-WAR rally, not an ANTI-ISRAEL rally!�

Kanj yells back, into the microphone. Others in the crowd stand up and join in the shouting match.

The Arab-Israeli conflict has arrived in San Diego.

Hitchens, meanwhile, is among those amazed that ANSWER is allowed to hijack the anti-war movement again and again.

To be against war and militarism, in the tradition of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, is one thing. But to have a record of consistent support for war and militarism, from the Red Army in Eastern Europe to the Serbian ethnic cleansers and the Taliban, is quite another. It is really a disgrace that the liberal press refers to such enemies of liberalism as “antiwar” when in reality they are straight-out pro-war, but on the other side.


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3 Responses to “Cracking Up”

  1. Bryan Shelton Says:
    September 27th, 2005 at 8:23 pm

    ANSWER makes me ashamed to be anti-war. But they are hard to shut down because they have gobs and gobs of money and so are capable of mobilizing a lot of people. Other lefties try their damndest to marginalize them (and were successful during some of the larger pre-invasion rallies) but it’s hard to shut down deep pockets.

    They really are a bunch of Stalinist assholes…

  2. Callimachus Says:
    September 27th, 2005 at 8:40 pm

    Thanks, Bryan. It helps reinforce my faith in the essential decency and mental clarity of the people I see in the rally photos every time I hear someone say that.

  3. Jim Says:
    September 28th, 2005 at 10:50 am

    “They really are a bunch of Stalinist assholes… ”

    Harry’s Place has been beating up their version of ANSWER, Stop The War, for about 3 years now. You never hear them defended anymore, at least there.

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