Statement of Support from the US Palestinian Community Network

Pernyataan Dukungan dari Jaringan Masyarakat Palestina AS

The US Palestinian Community Network (USPCN) congratulates IJAN for convening the first national gathering of Anti-Zionist Jews in the United States. This is a momentous and historic achievement! We offer our unequivocal and strongest support for this Assembly Against Racism and Israeli Apartheid, its leadership, and organizers. You are unwavering allies in struggle, and indefatigable brothers and sisters in solidarity. Together, we will overcome Zionism, decolonize Palestine, and make another world possible. L’kheirut! (To liberty)!

Jaringan Masyarakat Palestina AS (USPCN) mengucapkan selamat kepada IJAN untuk mengadakan pertemuan nasional pertama Yahudi Anti-Zionis di Amerika Serikat. Ini merupakan prestasi penting dan pencapaian bersejarah! Kami menawarkan dukungan kami yang tegas dan sangat kuat untuk Pertemuan Perlawanan Rasisme dan Apartheid Israel, kepemimpinannya dan penyelenggaranya. Anda sekutu kuat kami dalam perjuangan, dan saudara-saudari yang tak kenal lelah dalam solidaritas. Bersama, kita akan mengatasi Zionisme, mendekolonisasi Palestina, dan membuat dunia yang lain menjadi ada. L’kheirut! (Untuk kebebasan)!

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Skedul Dan Kegiatan

US Assembly of Jews: Confronting Racism & Israeli Apartheid AGENDA
Saturday, June 19, 5pm on Welcome and Opening Program
5-6pm	Welcome Address and Who’s in the Room MC: Shoshana Vogel Introductory Remarks: Barbara Lubin Welcome Address: Mich Levy
6-8pm	Opening Panel: State of the Movement Moderators: Mich Levy and Barbara Lubin The Role of Jewish anti-Zionist Organizing as part of the Palestine Solidarity Movement, anti-Racist and anti-Imperialist Struggles in the US (Sara Kershnar) The Role of anti-Zionist Jewish Organizing in Support of Palestinian grassroots Movement in the US (Andrew Dalack) Solidarity and Joint Struggle with anti-Racist, anti-Colonial and anti-Imperialist Movements within the US (Kali Akuno) Gender Justice and anti-Colonial Resistance: Centering Justice, Confronting Racism (Rabab Abdulhadi) The State of the Movement: What it Takes to Organize as anti-Zionist Jews Internationally and in the US (Selma James) Questions and Responses
8:00-8:30pm	Opening Statements
8:30–9:30pm	Havdalah : An inclusive ritual marking the ushering in of our work together at the Assembly and the USSF
9:30pm on	The Shondes, other performers and DJ
Sunday, June 20 The Political Moment and anti-Zionist Strategies
8:30-9am	Morning coffee and registration re-opens
9am-1:15pm	Concurrent Workshops
9-11am	Workshop Session 1
	Contemporary Jewish anti-Zionism: Placing it in History — International Institute Classroom 1 Deepening our anti-Zionist Practice: Transforming Legacies of Trauma, Drawing from Legacies of Resistance (Part I) — International Institute Hall of Nations Queer and Feminist Politics, and Jewish Opposition to Zionism — International Institute Classroom 2 Roots and Resistance: Incorporating Lessons from anti-Racism into anti-Zionist Organizing For Collective Liberation— International Institute American Room
11-11:15am	BREAK
11:15-1:15pm	Workshop Session 2 Deepening our anti-Zionist Practice: Transforming Legacies of Trauma, Drawing from Legacies of Resistance (Part II) — International Institute Hall of Nations Reclaiming Ashkenazi Cultural Spaces from a Zionist Agenda: Questions & Possibilities — International Institute Classroom 2 Zionist Liberalism: A Strategic Approach — International Institute Classroom 1 The Aryan Within: The Place of Whiteness in Zionism and anti-Whiteness in anti-Zionism — International Institute American Room
1:15-2:30 pm	LUNCH: Keynote by Dr. Haidar Eid One Democratic State Group, Gaza
2:30-4:30 pm	Major Session 1: What is the political moment? Moderators: Selma James and Sara Kershnar State of Palestine and the Region—Zionism, Imperialism and Resistance (Ziad Abbas) Cracks in the Edifice of Zionism (Gabriel Ash) Confronting Islamophobia, Defending Targeted Communities (Fahd Ahmed) Locating Jewish anti-Zionism in the anti-Zionist landscape and in History (Michel Shehadeh) Confronting Zionism as Part of the anti-Capitalist Movement (Daniel Ullman)
4:30-6:30pm	Dinner and Regional meetings: What are the implications of the political moment for our organizing? Each region is asked to identify facilitator and documenter and bring group notes to synthesis spot following session.
6:30-9pm	Major Session 2: Entry Points and Strategies for US Accountability Moderator: Jesse Benjamin Israel’s Role in US Imperialism and Directions for Intervention (Rebecca Tumposky) Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (Flo Razowsky) Strategic Defense Against Backlash (Allison Deger) Framing the Issue and Impacting Public Opinion (Danny Muller) Followed by Small Group Strategy Sessions
9:30pm on	Film: Impunity, silk screening and adhoc meetings
Monday, June 21 Campaigns and Areas of Work
8:30–9am	Morning coffee
9am-1:15pm	Concurrent Workshops
9-11am	Workshop Session 3 Betrayed by Zionism: Working Class and Labor Struggles — International Institute American Room, Section 1 Coming out Publicly as an anti-Zionist Jew — International Institute Classroom 2 Counter-Hasbara: Creating Effective anti-Zionist Messages— WSU Student Center Room 283 Dealing with Opposition: Backlash and Defense — WSU Student Center Room 261A Feminist Solidarity: Problems and Possibilities — WSU Student Center Room 29 Islamophobia and the Jewish Location — International Institute Hall of Nations Klezmer Musicians Against the Wall — WSU Student Center Room 261 B Sharing and Developing Our Best Practices: anti-Zionist Workshops and Education — International Institute American Room, Section 2 The Prison Industrial Complex — International Institute Classroom 1
11-11:15am	BREAK
11:15-1:15pm	Workshop Session 4 Canada: Zionism, Islamophobia and the New McCarthyism— International Institute Hall of Nations Christian Hegemony, Christian Zionism and their Relevance to Working for a Free Palestine — WSU Student Center Room 261B Environmental Justice and anti-Zionist organizing: The Path to Climate Security Passes Through Gaza — WSU Student Center Room 261A Jewish Anti-Zionist Participation in Local BDS Campaigns — WSU Student Center Room 29 Jewish Anti-Zionist Spiritual Reclamation and Political Organizing — International Institute Classroom 1 Pan-African/Palestine Solidarity — International Institute American Room Using Media to Strengthen Social Movements — International Institute Classroom 2
1:15-2:30pm	Lunch
2:30-5:30pm	Major Session 3: Campaigns and Areas of Work Moderator: Eric Romann Challenging Zionist Institutions: the Case Against the Jewish National Fund (Legal Activist) Anti-Zionist Jewish Theory, Discourse and Popular Education (Brooke Lober) Cultural Jamming for BDS (Dunya Alwan) Small Group sessions: Areas of Work Building the JNF Campaign in the United States (Miriam Marton) Reclaiming and Building anti-Zionist Jewish Culture, Community and Spirituality (Deborah Rosenstein and Jonah Aline Daniel) Direct Solidarity and Supporting Infrastructure Development in Palestine (Barbara Lubin and Ziad Abbas) Campus-Based Organizing: Student, Staff and Faculty Activism (Jesse Benjamin, Perry Bellow-Handelman and Ilana Rossoff) Anti-Zionist Jewish Voice, Theory, Discourse and Popular Education (Brooke Lober) Labor Organizing in Support of BDS (Sam Weinstein) Culture Jamming for BDS (Dunya Alwan)
5:30–8pm	Break and Dinner: Sector and issue-based organizing meetings IJAN Student: Campus-Based Organizing and BDS IJAN Labor: Organizing Labor Forces in Support of Palestine IJAN Academic: Idea Development, Dissemination & Defense Jews of Color ð IJAN Spiritual/Cultural Reclamation: Personal and Political Transformation Self-organized meetings Each group is asked to identify facilitator and documenter and bring group notes to synthesis spot following session.
8pm on	Film: Matzpen, Open Mic and Open Time
Tuesday, June 22 Where to from Here?
10am–1pm	Closing Session: Vision and Movement Building for anti-Zionist Jewish Organizing: Where are we going?
1pm on	Break down and preparation for participation of anti-Zionist delegation in US Social Forum opening march

Yang menarik dari skedul kegiatan pertemuan mereka adalah dibahasnya mengenai Islamophobia.

Salut ! Kelihatan ada kesungguh-sungguhan untuk menyelesaikan semua permasalahan terkait dengan masalah Zionis dan kolonialisasi Palestina.

Alangkah indahnya kalau ada Kompasianer di Detroit dan sekitarnya yang mau dan sempat untuk mengikutinya.. Lalu membuat reportase untuk kita.. 

Penutup

Sekali lagi, masalah Israel-Palestina bukanlah masalah agama entah itu Islam, Kristen maupun Judaism. Ini masalah pemerintahan Israel yang dikuasai zionist.

Ibaratnya Jerman dimasa lalu dikuasai Nazi. Maka kita tidak bisa memukulrata bahwa semua rakyat jerman itu jahat tetapi kita semua tahu bahwa sumber permasalahannya ada pada Nazi yang memerintah Jerman pada saat itu. Begitulah mungkin kondisi Israel sekarang.

Itu pendapat subyektif saya 

You decide Folks !

Salam Kompasiana
(We don’t have to be a nazi or a revisionist or a Jew-hater to be critical of Israel)

Sumber:

1. http://www.jewsconfrontapartheid.org/