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Jonathan Cook: ‘Antisemitism claims mask a reign of political and cultural terror across Europe’:And here is the article mentioned in his first sentence:Haaretz: ‘In Germany, a witch hunt is raging against critics of Israel. Cultural leaders have had enough’: https://www.haaretz.com/misc/article-print-page/1.9362662(This link gets around the subscription firewall)Cde Bortnick … it has got to be the same person … has a website. He’s an artist. An 88 year-old artist at that. http://www.bernardbortnick.com/#Bio%20and%20Contact.htmlSpeaking of Glenn Greenwald, here is his piece (on his new site, since he has quit Intercept) from Nov 8 titled ‘No Matter the Liberal Metric Chosen, the Bush/Cheney Administration Was Far Worse Than Trump.’: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/no-matter-the-liberal-metric-chosen . It denounces the thesis of Trump as Unprecedented Evil, as Neo-Nazi Tyrant and other nonsense eternally repeated in the hysterical liberal/leftist echo-chamber.Robbo-Replying to your #208865 ….
As to your second point, the purpose of this part of the definition (‘Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination’) is almost certainly purely and simply intended to delegitimise any possible rising tide of support for the ‘One-State’ solution. (As opposed to a hypothetical world-universal No-State solution.) But their reply (if any) would be very interesting indeed, yes.
PS: Among self-identifying Jews in the US, support for the One-State solution has according to these figures anyway risen to 13%: https://mondoweiss.net/2020/11/a-biden-presidency-would-bring-huge-pressure-on-liberal-zionists-from-pro-bds-jews/ (About the middle of that page.) And it is reasonably guessed to be around 25% among the young.A much better obituary of Fisk than the Guardian’s.
‘Robert Fisk—a courageous and truthful reporter on the Middle East who “covered history” (1946–2020)’:
‘In first application of anti-BDS law, Germany censors Israelis’:
In first application of anti-BDS resolution, Germany censors Israelis
Paul Mattick’s comment on posts https://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/forum/topic/the-new-recession-is-arriving/page/12/#post-208177 to https://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/forum/topic/the-new-recession-is-arriving/page/13/#post-208187 is the following;‘I wish these critics would address the issue in the Rail. They forget, of course, the “oil crisis”, a successful attempt to increase prices by restricting supply, which forced a general.price increase. But it is also generally recognized that increased taxation and interest rates also impelled businesses to raise prices.’There was a US presidential election in which the WSPUS had a presidential candidate (1932?? 1936??). I can’t remember his name and can’t remember where I read it. I thought maybe in Karla’s book but when I went back and looked for it I didn’t find it. Anyone know his name and the year?
(There was no mention of whether he was actually on the ballot in any state or was a write-in.)Paul Mattick’s lastest piece, ‘Magic Money’: https://brooklynrail.org/2020/10/field-notes/Money-MagicMattick jnr’s ‘Marx’s Dialectic’: https://libcom.org/library/marxs-dialectic-paul-mattick-jr
O’Neil’s ‘Exploitation and Workers’ Co‐operatives: a reply to Alan Carter’ can be freely downloaded here: http://booksdl.org/scimag/get.php?doi=10.1111/j.1468-5930.1991.tb00286.x&key=RWM8YCRWC4X1LFBZ
In this recent article involving sociologically-significant gradiations of skin pigmentation in Sudan and environs can be seen a reference to the word ‘abid’ as used as term of racist abuse: light skinned toward the darker skinned, and darker skinned toward the still darker skinned. (Arabs toward non-Arabs, and also among Arabs themselves.): https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/black-lives-matter-sudan-200813141537238.htmlThat site whose link I gave in the earlier post — nonsite.org — reflects the views of Adolph Reed and co.
Yesterday in the New York Times there was an article about Reed, with the title ‘A Black Marxist Scholar Wanted to Talk About Race. It Ignited a Fury’ and the subtitle ‘The cancellation of a speech reflects an intense debate on the left: Is racism the primary problem in America today, or the outgrowth of a system that oppresses all poor people?’: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/14/us/adolph-reed-controversy.html
Cf. At the bottom of this page the dissenting comment from ‘Stavos’, an enemy of unnecessary frugality:
https://www.leftcom.org/en/articles/2015-10-07/notes-on-the-question-of-the-transition-to-communism
