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TIDBITS – MAY 23 – READER COMMENTS: TEXAS OKS WHITE SUPREMACIST
TERROR; HOW EXTREMISTS TOOK OVER ISRAEL; ARREST WARRANTS FOR ISRAELI &
HAMAS LEADERS; CALIF ACADEMIC WORKERS STRIKE FOR PRO-PALESTINIAN
PROTESTERS; INTL RECOGNITION OF STATE OF PALESTINE  
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May 23, 2024
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_ Reader Comments: Texas Gov. OKs White Supremacist Terror; How
Extremists Took Over Israel; Arrest Warrants for Israeli & Hamas
Leaders; Calif Academic Workers Strike for Pro-Palestinian Protesters;
Intl Recognition of State of Palestine; more.... _

Tidbits - Reader Comments, Resources, Announcements, Shorts, AND
cartoons - May 23, 2024, xxxxxx

 

* RE: THE GOVERNOR OF TEXAS NODS TO WHITE SUPREMACIST VIOLENCE
 (ROSENBERG FUND FOR CHILDREN)
* RE: THE UNPUNISHED: HOW EXTREMISTS TOOK OVER ISRAEL  (BILL
ROGERS)
* RE: 10 STRATEGIES FOR THE ANTIWAR MOVEMENT TO MAXIMIZE IMPACT THIS
SUMMER  (NORMA HARRISON; MODERATOR RESPONSE)
* RE: ‘NOBODY IS ABOVE THE LAW’: ICC PROSECUTOR SEEKS ARREST
WARRANTS FOR ISRAELI, HAMAS LEADERS  (ARLENE HALFON)
* DUMPSTER FIRE WORSHIP  --  CARTOON BY MIKE LUCKOVICH
* RE: DON’T ARREST THE HOMELESS - HOUSE THEM!  (VELVA SPRIGGS)
* RE: TRUMP’S WAR ON GOVERNMENT WILL TAKE PUBLIC HEALTH BACK A
CENTURY  (NORM LITTLEJOHN)
* THE PRINCIPAL'S OFFICE  --  CARTOON
* RE: GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – MAY 22  (JOSE VERA; GLOBAL LEFT
MIDWEEK REPLIES)
* RE: ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE RAMPS UP LOBBYING TO PROMOTE
CONTROVERSIAL DEFINITION OF ANTISEMITISM  (JUDITH PASTERNAK)
* RE: INSIDE THE EFFORT BY TWO BEVERLY HILLS BILLIONAIRES TO KILL A
STATE LAW PROTECTING FARMWORKERS  (DAVID BACON)
* EVANGELICALS  --  CARTOON BY NICK ANDERSON
* RE: SHE CAMPAIGNED FOR A TEXAS SCHOOL BOARD SEAT AS A GOP
HARD-LINER. NOW SHE’S REJECTING HER PARTY’S EXTREMISM.  (CAP'N
STEVE)

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* UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ACADEMIC WORKERS STRIKE TO STAND UP FOR
PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTESTERS  (JANIE HAR / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS)

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RESOURCES:

* INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION OF THE STATE OF PALESTINE  (WIKIPEDIA,
THE FREE ENCYCLOPEDIA)

* LIST OF UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES WITH ENCAMPMENTS AND PROTESTS -
AS OF MAY 20

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ANNOUNCEMENTS:

* CARTOONISTS ON PALESTINE  --  NEW YORK CITY AND ONLINE  -- MAY
29  (JEWISH CURRENTS)

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RE: THE GOVERNOR OF TEXAS NODS TO WHITE SUPREMACIST VIOLENCE
 

This is appalling! White supremacists like Daniel Perry walk free
while racial justice activists linger in prison for decades; face
nearly insurmountable barriers to parole, let alone pardon, after 30,
40 or even 50 years of incarceration; often after being convicted on
suspicious/unjust convictions.

"Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott delivered a ringing endorsement of
racist, right-wing vigilante violence last Thursday, when he extended
a rare state pardon to a bigoted killer who was duly convicted for the
murder of Garrett Foster, a protester at a 2020 Black Lives Matter
demonstration ... Abbott pardoned Perry on May 16 immediately after
receiving a recommendation from the Texas Board of Pardons and
Paroles, which is under near-complete control of the governor himself
... 'I look forward to approving the Board’s pardon recommendation
as soon as it hits my desk,' Abbott said in April last year—less
than 24 hours after the jury decided Perry was guilty."

Rosenberg Fund for Children
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Posted on xxxxxx's Facebook page
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RE: THE UNPUNISHED: HOW EXTREMISTS TOOK OVER ISRAEL
 

"In Part I, we describe the origins of a religious movement that
established Jewish settlements in the newly won territories of Gaza
and the West Bank during the 1970s. In Part II, we recount how the
most extreme elements of the settler movement began targeting not only
Palestinians but also Israeli leaders who tried to make peace with
them. And in Part III, we show how the most established members of
Israel’s ultraright, unpunished for their crimes, gained political
power in Israel, even as a more radical generation of settlers vowed
to eliminate the Israeli state altogether."

Bill Rogers
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RE: 10 STRATEGIES FOR THE ANTIWAR MOVEMENT TO MAXIMIZE IMPACT THIS
SUMMER
 

Have you told us that 144 Countries have declared that Palestine is a
state?

Norma Harrison

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Moderator Response:

See Resource item in today's Tidbits: International Recognition of the
State of Palestine

 

RE: ‘NOBODY IS ABOVE THE LAW’: ICC PROSECUTOR SEEKS ARREST
WARRANTS FOR ISRAELI, HAMAS LEADERS
 

I agree with Biden: There is no equality between the Israeli actions
and that of HAMAS. However, I do agree that individuals on both sides
should be prosecuted in order to set a precedent.
Even if you're the victim, and a long time victim at that, you should
not be persecuting people who are not responsible for the problem. If
that was common thinking, the actions of all wars, everywhere, every
time would not take place.

Think of Nat Turner, American anti-slavery fighter, who during a
rebellion killed White Southerners who never owned slaves and even may
have opposed slavery. Or think of the people living in the Village of
Auschwitz, who may have opposed the Nazi genocide of Jews, who were
killed by the Auschwitz prisoners when they were finally released. Or
the residents of Warsaw Ghetto who killed ordinary residents of the
Ghetto. Today, we honor them despite their unjust violence against
innocent people.

Similarly, think of the innocent people killed and hurt by HAMAS;
despite 75 years of oppression of Palestinians by Israel. Maybe if the
justifiably furious long-time victims of the past had been prosecuted
along with their own victims, victims today might not be so willing to
persecute others because of where they happen to be at a specific time
or some demographic group to which they belong. Prosecution of these
long-term victims who become the abusers are rare; maybe it's time for
this kind of prosecution to begin.

Yes, the HAMAS leaders who inappropriately took their revenge against
innocent people for what had been happening to Palestinians for 75
years should be prosecuted along with the totally non-equivalent
terrorists of the Israeli Government. If these prosecutions had taken
place, these horrors of today would be less likely to take place.

Arlene Halfon

 

Dumpster Fire Worship  --  Cartoon by Mike Luckovich

 

Mike Luckovich
May 22, 2024
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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RE: DON’T ARREST THE HOMELESS - HOUSE THEM!
 

Poverty is exacerbated in situations involving mental illness.

Citizens with mental illness constitute a significant percentage of
people with mental illnesses who live on the street with no hope of
mental health care nor housing. America must be judged by the way it
treats its most vulnerable people.

The punishment of the poor has its roots in the English Poor Laws of
centuries past.

Velva Spriggs

 

RE: TRUMP’S WAR ON GOVERNMENT WILL TAKE PUBLIC HEALTH BACK A CENTURY
 

Trump and his allies are planning to “deconstruct” the
administrative state by stripping its power and forcing out tens of
thousands of workers. That will put all of our lives at risk.

Norm Littlejohn
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THE PRINCIPAL'S OFFICE  --  CARTOON

 

Socialist Planning Beyond Capitalism
May 3, 2024
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RE: GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – MAY 22
 

Since when is jose ovejero a Marxist intellectual. His alteration of
the communist manifesto is appalling. What has he achieved in Spain as
a Marxist or for feminists? Has he watched how the self defined
"feminists" in mexico cover their faces and yield weapons to hit
innocent bystanders, deface public buildings and destroy public and
private property with absurd demands and slogans which have resulted
in critics by the majority of the Mexican women who see a major
improvement in their economic and social condition under Obrador? Or
Morena, the best and more powerful party that has emerged in the last
80 years of struggle against neoliberalism which is what retrograde
Ovejero represents? Please xxxxxx read what you endorse before you
lose your leftist reputation. Otherwise you are merely going to look
like a puppet of the imperialist, neoliberal and religious forces
working against Morena, AMLO and Sheinbaum for the last 6 yrs.

Jose Vera

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Global Left Midweek replies:

We appreciate your feedback. We aren't familiar with Jose Ovejero, so
we did not choose to post his piece assuming he is a Marxist, but
because of the issues it raises about Claudia Sheinbaum's candidacy.
We are open to criticism of Ovejero and Mexican feminists, just as we
are to criticism of AMLO and Morena. Do you know of any critical
writings on the current feminist movement in Mexico?

 

RE: ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE RAMPS UP LOBBYING TO PROMOTE CONTROVERSIAL
DEFINITION OF ANTISEMITISM
 

Scary! Thanks for the warning.

Judith Pasternak

 

RE: INSIDE THE EFFORT BY TWO BEVERLY HILLS BILLIONAIRES TO KILL A
STATE LAW PROTECTING FARMWORKERS

(posting on xxxxxx Labor
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The LA Times has been so terrible on this, running articles that are
basically helping Wonderful campaign against the law.  This one
below was sort of a pathetic attempt to make up for that in the face
of the criticism they've received, and even then it got most things
wrong and softpedaled the unionbusting.

David Bacon

 

EVANGELICALS  --  CARTOON BY NICK ANDERSON

 

Nick Anderson
May 22, 2024
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RE: SHE CAMPAIGNED FOR A TEXAS SCHOOL BOARD SEAT AS A GOP HARD-LINER.
NOW SHE’S REJECTING HER PARTY’S EXTREMISM.
 

How refreshing. Intellectual honesty.

Cap'n Steve

 

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA ACADEMIC WORKERS STRIKE TO STAND UP FOR
PRO-PALESTINIAN PROTESTERS
 

By  Janie Har
May 20, 2024
The Associated Press
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University of California, Santa Cruz graduate students and other
academic workers, members of UAW Local 4811, begin a strike and are
joined by UCSC Students for Justice in Palestine as they picket the
main entrance to campus on Monday, May 20, 2024 (AP photo).
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Graduate students at the University of
California, Santa Cruz walked off their jobs and went on strike
Monday, the first campus to do so as part of a systemwide protest
against a public university they say has violated the speech rights of
pro-Palestinian advocates.

United Auto Workers Local 4811 represents 48,000 graduate students who
work as teaching assistants, tutors, researchers and other academic
employees on the 10-campus UC system. Organizers said the campuses
will not strike all at once, opting instead for rolling strikes, to
protest the arrests and forcible ejection by police of union members
who participated in demonstrations calling for an end
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Rebecca Gross, a UC Santa Cruz graduate student in literature and
union leader, said at least 1,500 people were on strike Monday and had
no plans to return to work until the union reaches a deal with the
university. Students and researchers are not teaching, grading or
working in their labs, and they are withholding data, she said.

 

INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION OF THE STATE OF PALESTINE

 

 

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As of May 2024, the State of Palestine
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sovereign state by 143 of the 193 member states of the United Nations
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It has been a non-member observer state
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The State of Palestine had been officially declared
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the Palestine Liberation Organization
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on 15 November 1988, claiming sovereignty over the internationally
recognized Palestinian territories
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the Gaza Strip [[link removed]]. By the end
of 1988, the Palestinian
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78 countries.[3]
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In an attempt to solve the decades-long Israeli–Palestinian
conflict
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signed between Israel [[link removed]] and the
PLO in 1993 and 1995, creating the Palestinian Authority
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as a self-governing interim administration in the Gaza Strip
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which led the Palestinians to pursue INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION OF THE
STATE OF PALESTINE without Israeli acquiescence.

In 2011, the State of Palestine was admitted into UNESCO
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they take the position that their recognition of a Palestinian state
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LIST OF UNIVERSITIES AND COLLEGES WITH ENCAMPMENTS AND PROTESTS - AS
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CARTOONISTS ON PALESTINE  --  NEW YORK CITY AND ONLINE  -- MAY 29
 (JEWISH CURRENTS)

 

Wednesday
May 29, 2024
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm ET

Join us for a comics reading and performance by cartoonists writing
about Palestine, including contributors to the collection Cartoonists
for Palestine
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hosted by _Jewish Currents_ director of community engagement Solomon
Brager and _Cartoonists for Palestine _editor Shay Mirk. We will
have readings from Jennifer Camper, Marguerite Dabaie, Eli Valley,
Kazimir Lee, and Ben Passmore, and a live drawing to musical
performance by Tracy Chahwan accompanied by Nebila Oguz and Omar
Dewachi. This event will be held in person at the Bureau of General
Services—Queer Division in New York City, as well as live streamed
online
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