Posted on 07/30/2017 5:17:50 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Shortly before a recent Massachusetts state committee hearing to discuss a proposed “Anti-Discrimination Bill,” the Boston Globe ran an opinion piece criticizing the bill. The Op-Ed, by Columbia University professor Katherine Franke, argued that measures to discourage anti-Israel boycotts “betray” the legacy of civil rights icon Rosa Parks. In fact, Parks was an outspoken and very public opponent of discriminatory anti-Israel boycotts. […]
… Along with Coretta Scott King, Bayard Rustin and other civil rights luminaries, Parks was a co-signer of a 1975 letter that described as “repugnant” the Arab world’s boycott targeting Israel, a precursor to today’s BDS movement. The letter, drafted by a group called the Black Americans to Support Israel Committee, stated:
We have fought too long and too hard to root out discrimination from our land to sit idly while foreign interests import bigotry into America. Having suffered so greatly from such prejudice, we consider most repugnant efforts by Arab states to use the economic power of their newly acquired oil wealth to boycott business firms that deal with Israel or that have Jewish owners, directors or executives and to impose anti-Jewish preconditions for investments in this country.It also praised Israel’s “political freedoms and civil liberties,” and pushed back against attempts to equate Zionism with racism. “Zionism is not racism,” the letter notes, “but the legitimate expression of the Jewish people’s self determination.” This support for Zionism by black leaders isn’t surprising. Shortly before his death, Martin Luther King, Jr. praised Israel and said that “Israel must exist and has a right to exist” — as clear a proclamation of Zionism as it gets. …
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The Islaophiles at it again, huh?
What is the secular basis of Judaism? Practical need; self-interest. What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly god? Money. Very well, then! Emancipation from huckstering and money, consequently from practical, real Judaism, would be the self-emancipation of our time. […]Lots of Arab/Muslim countries run themselves according to “Arab socialism” and/or “Islamic socialism”. Many are also “Arab nationalist” too, and nationalism plus socialism—well, we all know what that is.
The monotheism of the Jew, therefore, is in reality the polytheism of the many needs, a polytheism which makes even the lavatory an object of divine law. Practical need, egoism, is the principle of civil society, and as such appears in pure form as soon as civil society has fully given birth to the political state. The god of practical need and self-interest is money.
Money is the jealous god of Israel, in face of which no other god may exist. Money degrades all the gods of man — and turns them into commodities. Money is the universal self-established value of all things. It has, therefore, robbed the whole world — both the world of men and nature — of its specific value. Money is the estranged essence of man’s work and man’s existence, and this alien essence dominates him, and he worships it.
The god of the Jews has become secularized and has become the god of the world. The bill of exchange is the real god of the Jew. His god is only an illusory bill of exchange. …
— On “The Jewish Question”, 1844
Didn’t Rosa Parks also wants men to be permitted to swing “it” in a women’s locker room at the YWCA? < /s >
It’s tough being an “icon”, so often others try to co-opt your iconic status.
Rosa Parks was a filthy commie who acted to destabilize our society.
Not a fan.
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