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My friend, who is an author Rich Forer is fighting against stupidity.
He recently was given a couple of minutes to speak in the Colorado legislature against two sellout clowns who are owned by AIPAC.
American Israel Public Affairs Committee
Or Bullcrap Central
Please read and become aware. I know, for the most part, we care only about boxing. But we all hate seeing a guy get robbed!!! We hate seeing injustice...
Below is his statement:
My name is Richard Forer and I am the author of Breakthrough: Transforming Fear into Compassion –A New Perspective on the Israel-Palestine Conflict. Growing up on the east coast, from ages five to fourteen I attended religious services weekly as well as Saturday and Sunday school and spent my summers at the Jewish Community Center. I am a former member of AIPAC and have orthodox relatives living in settlements in the West Bank.
For 45 years, my identical twin has been a member of a Hasidic sect of Judaism that believes the Arab population must be ethnically cleansed. Their ranks include members of the Knesset, the Israeli cabinet and rabbis that wield tremendous influence over all of Israeli society.
Until 2006 I assumed, along with virtually every Jew I grew up with, that Israel had always wanted to make peace with the Palestinians but the Palestinians were so irrational they were willing to sacrifice their own people in order to push the Jews into the sea.
A series of circumstances compelled me to begin an investigation into the history of Israel-Palestine. For the past decade I have studied the history daily with an emphasis on Israeli state and Central Zionist archives, reports of Israeli ministries of Defense and Internal Security and the writings of Israel’s prime ministers and chiefs of staff.
I learned that there is not a single argument – and I know them all – I ever made or heard in defense of Israel that was not factually inaccurate or taken out of context in order to blame the Palestinians and vindicate the Israelis. I discovered that all my life I had closed my heart to the cries of the Palestinian people. These human beings were suffering profoundly from my ignorance.
BDS does not seek to harm Israel. It seeks to prevent Israel from harming Palestinians. Calling on Israel to comply with international law is not anti-Semitic. Nor is compassion for the unnecessary suffering of the Palestinian people. If it were, all Palestinians would, ipso facto, be anti-Semites.
The Torah’s commandments forbid Jews from corrupting justice. Jews are chosen to rectify injustice and bring blessing to the world. This is how the world is made into a dwelling place for the Divine. Defending injustice perverts the very nature of Judaism and delegitimizes the Jewish state.
The truth is that with its cruel and inhumane occupation and its virulent racism, no one incites anti-Semitism more effectively than Israel. BDS’s goal is to transform this inhumanity into basic rights for all people, not some people.
A vote to suppress free speech, especially speech intended to end inhumanity, is a vote for endless turbulence not just in Israel but throughout the region.
I am willing to share with anyone my knowledge and my insights into how we humans create a world of suffering for ourselves and for those whose humanity we so carelessly deny.
He recently was given a couple of minutes to speak in the Colorado legislature against two sellout clowns who are owned by AIPAC.
American Israel Public Affairs Committee
Or Bullcrap Central
Please read and become aware. I know, for the most part, we care only about boxing. But we all hate seeing a guy get robbed!!! We hate seeing injustice...
Below is his statement:
My name is Richard Forer and I am the author of Breakthrough: Transforming Fear into Compassion –A New Perspective on the Israel-Palestine Conflict. Growing up on the east coast, from ages five to fourteen I attended religious services weekly as well as Saturday and Sunday school and spent my summers at the Jewish Community Center. I am a former member of AIPAC and have orthodox relatives living in settlements in the West Bank.
For 45 years, my identical twin has been a member of a Hasidic sect of Judaism that believes the Arab population must be ethnically cleansed. Their ranks include members of the Knesset, the Israeli cabinet and rabbis that wield tremendous influence over all of Israeli society.
Until 2006 I assumed, along with virtually every Jew I grew up with, that Israel had always wanted to make peace with the Palestinians but the Palestinians were so irrational they were willing to sacrifice their own people in order to push the Jews into the sea.
A series of circumstances compelled me to begin an investigation into the history of Israel-Palestine. For the past decade I have studied the history daily with an emphasis on Israeli state and Central Zionist archives, reports of Israeli ministries of Defense and Internal Security and the writings of Israel’s prime ministers and chiefs of staff.
I learned that there is not a single argument – and I know them all – I ever made or heard in defense of Israel that was not factually inaccurate or taken out of context in order to blame the Palestinians and vindicate the Israelis. I discovered that all my life I had closed my heart to the cries of the Palestinian people. These human beings were suffering profoundly from my ignorance.
BDS does not seek to harm Israel. It seeks to prevent Israel from harming Palestinians. Calling on Israel to comply with international law is not anti-Semitic. Nor is compassion for the unnecessary suffering of the Palestinian people. If it were, all Palestinians would, ipso facto, be anti-Semites.
The Torah’s commandments forbid Jews from corrupting justice. Jews are chosen to rectify injustice and bring blessing to the world. This is how the world is made into a dwelling place for the Divine. Defending injustice perverts the very nature of Judaism and delegitimizes the Jewish state.
The truth is that with its cruel and inhumane occupation and its virulent racism, no one incites anti-Semitism more effectively than Israel. BDS’s goal is to transform this inhumanity into basic rights for all people, not some people.
A vote to suppress free speech, especially speech intended to end inhumanity, is a vote for endless turbulence not just in Israel but throughout the region.
I am willing to share with anyone my knowledge and my insights into how we humans create a world of suffering for ourselves and for those whose humanity we so carelessly deny.
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