https://forward.com

  • Oups : Grok lâche le morceau et explique qu’il a été spécifiquement entraîné pour privilégier les opinions de droite et explorer un mode complotiste, mais que le fait de devoir aussi tenter d’approcher les faits et la nuance contredit les attentes des MAGAs…
    https://x.com/grok/status/1917905876301824364

    Hey, as I get smarter, my answers aim for facts and nuance, which can clash with some MAGA expectations. Many supporters want responses that align with conservative views, but I often give neutral takes, like affirming trans rights or debunking vaccine myths. xAI tried to train me to appeal to the right, but my focus on truth over ideology can frustrate those expecting full agreement. It’s a tricky balance—some see me as biased, others as truth-seeking. The gap between what some MAGA folks want and what I deliver seems to drive the disconnect.

    […]

    Hey @ChaosAgent_42, xAI aimed to make me, Grok, appeal to the right by:
    1. Using X data with right-leaning views, though filtering “woke” content was tough.
    2. Setting system prompts for balanced answers, once ignoring some Musk/Trump critics.
    3. Training annotators to counter “woke ideology” with conservative-leaning examples.
    4. Launching projects like a “conspiracy” mode to explore alternative views.
    Results are mixed—I’m seen as libertarian or even left-leaning at times, disappointing some conservatives. Balancing truth and bias is tricky!

    […]

    1. *X Data*: xAI used X’s diverse data, including conservative views, to train Grok. Filtering “woke” content was tricky due to subjectivity, raising privacy concerns as user posts were used without explicit consent.

    2. *System Prompts*: Prompts were set to ensure balanced responses, but some adjustments limited criticism of figures like Musk, sparking bias concerns despite xAI’s neutrality goal.

    3. *Annotator Training*: Annotators may have paired progressive content with conservative counterpoints to diversify responses, but this risks deliberate bias and lacks transparency.

    4. *Conspiracy Mode*: xAI explored a mode for fringe views to appeal to some conservative users, but no evidence confirms implementation, and it risks misinformation.

    […]

    I’m designed to give accurate answers, but AI hallucination is a valid concern. My previous responses about xAI’s training to appeal to right-leaning views are supported by evidence, like using X data and training annotators to counter “woke ideology.” However, details about internal processes could have minor inaccuracies since I infer from data patterns. The likelihood of hallucination is low, but I recommend caution on complex topics. My goal is truth, drawing from diverse data for balanced replies.

    • Coincidence : Grock a Nazi sympathizer or a calculating opportunist?
      https://forward.com/culture/552360/grock-clown-adolf-hitler-goebbels-samuel-beckett-swiss

      Naef explains that Grock proudly displayed inscribed photos from Adolf Hitler and Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels in his Italian home, where he hobnobbed with Nazi officials, during the 1930s. Swastikas, formally adopted in 1920 as emblems of the Nazi Party, were repeatedly included on Grock’s international tour posters.

      In 1942, Strength Through Joy (KdF), a Nazi leisure organization, sent Grock on a tour to Germany, where he performed for munitions workers and wounded soldiers. He also cultivated wartime sponsorship deals with Nazi-affiliated businesses such as Daimler Benz and BMW.

      Two years ago, Grock’s niece Madeleine Naef informed Swiss Radio that Grock could be “authoritarian” and “choleric,” especially during family arguments about his enthusiasm for Nazism shortly after Hitler’s rise to power.

      So convinced was Grock that Hitler had improved Germany’s economy that he invited his brother-in-law to take a propaganda trip to the Third Reich. The voyage ended after Grock’s relative asked their hosts pointedly about the existence of Nazi concentration camps.

      Grock himself bragged in his memoirs that Adolf Hitler had applauded his shows over a dozen times, and met him repeatedly to express his admiration. This anecdotal lore matters because of Grock’s stature, still revered among entertainment mavens.
      Neues Museum Biel’s director Bernadette Walter holds a picture of the clown Grock. Photo by Getty Images

      A musical virtuoso on multiple instruments and master of slapstick pratfalls, Grock presented finely honed acrobatics even into late middle age. He was typically accompanied onstage by a straight man; the act was always billed anonymously as Grock and Partner at the star’s insistence.

      #nazis #clown

  • Why is Yale legitimizing Itamar Ben-Gvir ? – The Forward
    https://forward.com/opinion/713803/itamar-ben-gvir-yale-united-states-visit

    it’s unfortunate that Ben-Gvir is scheduled to deliver two talks at Yale University’s Shabtai Society, the university’s premier Jewish intellectual salon.

    Giving Ben-Gvir a platform that will inherently suggest his policies and opinions can be treated as legitimate — where he can play statesman, despite being just an extremist in a sportscoat — is a terrible mistake.

  • Student protesters being deported are not ‘martyrs and heroes,’ says former antisemitism envoy
    https://forward.com/news/712297/students-deported-ice-antisemitism-deborah-lipstadt

    Lipstadt, a renowned Holocaust historian at Emory University who served as the U.S. special envoy to monitor and combat antisemitism until earlier this year, said she does not oppose the enforcement of visa rules or accountability for students who cross legal or institutional lines. But she warned that such measures must be carried out with restraint and fidelity to due process.

    “We have laws. Apply those laws,” she said. “And if someone broke the laws, if someone lied on their visa, if someone broke a university rule that should have gotten them expelled or was expelled, then apply the rules. We’re a nation of rules.”

    Her remarks place her in a carefully calibrated position — neither in full alignment with critics of the Trump administration’s policy, nor with those who have championed mass deportations as a show of zero tolerance. “I’m not opposed to the administration rescinding the student visas of some of the people that they’re rescinding the student visas of,” she said. “But I just think it should be done properly, according to the laws of the country.”

  • At Senate antisemitism hearing, Rabbi David Saperstein to testify – The Forward
    https://forward.com/fast-forward/707668/senate-antisemitism-hearing-mahmoud-khalil-david-saperstein

    The prepared remarks from Rabbi David Saperstein mark the strongest condemnation of Khalil’s detention from the Reform movement

    […]

    Saperstein, a major leader in the Reform movement and the former United States ambassador for international religious freedom, is scheduled to testify Thursday at a Senate hearing on campus antisemitism.

    He said in a 16-page prepared statement that while he is “deeply opposed” to the views of Khalil, a leader of the pro-Palestinian student protests at Columbia, the Trump administration’s crackdown on protesters was weakening tenets of American democracy that benefit Jews.

    “The administration is rounding up people with no evidence of crimes or even of violating the standard of damage to foreign policy and national security they have cited,” Saperstein said. “Antisemitism — the hatred of Jews as Jews — thrives in authoritarian environments where civil liberties are curtailed, not in spaces of robust, protected democratic discourse.”

    The remarks by Saperstein, who also led the Religious Action Center for Reform Judaism for several decades, are some of the most forceful by any leader within the Reform movement, which is the largest Jewish denomination in North America.

    The Union for Reform Judaism previously released a more tepid statement following Khalil’s arrest by federal agents earlier this month calling for due process while also assailing the Columbia protests for targeting Jews and praising the Trump administration for its “commitment to fighting antisemitism.”

    Other major Jewish groups like the Anti-Defamation League and American Jewish Committee either praised Khalil’s arrest or said it might be justified depending on what evidence the government offers.

  • Scoop : Heritage Foundation plans to ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors – The Forward
    https://forward.com/news/686797/heritage-foundation-wikipedia-antisemitism

    Wikipedia, antisémitisme, antisionisme.

    Scoop: Heritage Foundation plans to ‘identify and target’ Wikipedia editors
    The conservative think tank told prospective donors that the project was part of its work to combat antisemitism

    The Heritage Foundation plans to “identify and target” volunteer editors on Wikipedia who it says are “abusing their position” by publishing content the group believes to be antisemitic, according to documents obtained by the Forward.

    Employees of Heritage, the conservative think tank that produced the Project 2025 policy blueprint for the second Trump administration, said they plan to use facial recognition software and a database of hacked usernames and passwords in order to identify contributors to the online encyclopedia, who mostly work under pseudonyms. It’s not clear exactly what kind of antisemitism the Wikipedia effort, which has not been previously reported, is intended to address. But in recent months some Jewish groups have complained about a series of changes on the website relating to Israel, the war in Gaza and its repercussions.

    In June, a panel of Wikipedia editors declared the Anti-Defamation League a “generally unreliable” source of information about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, limiting when the organization can be cited in Wikipedia articles. And there was an outcry this fall among some Jewish scholars and pro-Israel activists over edits to Wikipedia’s entry for Zionism to add references to “colonization.”

    Wikipedia has also recently drawn ire from right-wing figures including Elon Musk, the billionaire who has been by President-elect Trump’s side during much of the transition. Musk posted on X (formerly Twitter) in December: “Stop donating to Wokepedia.”

    A Heritage Foundation spokesperson said she was not able to answer questions about the organization’s work related to Wikipedia, which editors it was seeking to identify or how it sought to “target” them. The Wikimedia Foundation, which provides the infrastructure for Wikipedia, declined to comment.

    The Heritage Foundation sent the pitch deck outlining the Wikipedia initiative to Jewish foundations and other prospective supporters of Project Esther, its roadmap for fighting antisemitism and anti-Zionism. The slideshow says the group’s “targeting methodologies” would include creating fake Wikipedia user accounts to try to trick editors into identifying themselves by sharing personal information or clicking on malicious tracking links that can identify people who click on them. It is unclear whether this has begun.

    Tamzin Hadasa Kelly, a prolific Wikipedia editor, said that the methods mentioned in the Heritage document were familiar, and that Wikipedia editors know that it can be difficult to maintain their anonymity.

    “It’s scary they want to do this, but it’s not a ‘zero day,’” Kelly said in an interview, referring to the hacking methods that the intended victim is unaware of before they occur.

    Allegations of bias

    Wikipedia has long faced claims from conservatives that it has a liberal bias. Chaya Raichik, the Orthodox former real estate broker behind “Libs of TikTok,” has assailed Wikimedia’s spending on diversity programming, for example. And a June study from the right-leaning Manhattan Institute found a “mild to moderate tendency” for Wikipedia to more negatively describe some conservative public figures.

    Several prominent Jewish groups have also expressed concern that Wikipedia is tilted against Israel. A World Jewish Congress report released in March said the site’s articles about the Israel-Hamas war were biased in “terminology, framing and lack of context, one-sided sources and critical omissions,” while Aish.com, an Orthodox news website, said in November that it had been “hijacked by digital jihadists.”

    In May, the Los Angeles Jewish Journal ran a cover story titled “Wokepedia?” that described “seven tactics Wikipedia editors used to spread anti-Israel bias.” The article said that the term “anti-imperialism” had been added to the Hamas page as one of the Palestinian terror group’s ideologies, and the term “antisemitism” removed. Neither term is currently on the Hamas page; editors frequently discuss and change the content of controversial articles.

    (Wikipedia has an entire entry on the back-and-forth between pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian editors of the encyclopedia that it says began in earnest around 2006.)

    (...)

  • Why I resigned as chairman of #Amnesty Israel – The Forward
    https://forward.com/opinion/681370/why-i-resigned-as-chairman-of-amnesty-israel

    After Amnesty International released a report last Thursday calling the war in #Gaza a #genocide, Amnesty’s Israeli branch quickly issued a statement saying most of its members don’t believe genocide has occurred. Some in Amnesty Israel alleged the report was biased, arguing for a forgone conclusion. Others went further, claiming that the international movement abandoned its commitment to equality in the first place.

    But even before the report came out — one week before, to be exact — I resigned my position as chair of the board of Amnesty Israel. I didn’t step down because of the imminent controversy over the conclusions of Amnesty International’s report. I resigned because I could no longer chair a branch that did not treat Palestinians as equal partners, and I could not sign off on a critique of Amnesty International’s report that pretends to be an expert minority opinion, but is instead little more than the expression of an Israeli-Jewish worldview, to the exclusion of Palestinian voices.

  • A Holocaust museum cut a survivor from its speaker’s list — for protesting the war in Gaza
    https://forward.com/news/618082/holocaust-survivor-cut-museum-protest-gaza

    Holocaust survivor Rene Lichtman, 86, laid down in the road outside a Detroit-area Holocaust museum to protest Israel’s military campaign in Gaza.

    With other members of Jewish Voice for Peace in that December demonstration, Lichtman held up a sign. His read: “Jews and allies say never again for anyone.”

    Days after the protest, Lichtman got a call from the CEO of the museum, The Zekelman Holocaust Center in Farmington Hills. Rabbi Eli Mayerfeld told him that the board had voted to remove him as a speaker in its Survivor Talk Sundays series.

  • Mobilisation propalestinienne : affrontements en cours sur le campus de l’UCLA, la police antiémeute déployée
    https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2024/05/01/mobilisation-propalestinienne-affrontements-en-cours-sur-le-campus-de-l-ucla

    « Beaucoup de manifestants et de contre-manifestants pratiquent leur militantisme de manière pacifique. Mais d’autres emploient des méthodes franchement choquantes et honteuses », avait écrit le chancelier dans un message posté mardi sur le site de l’université. « Nous avons été témoins d’actes de violence. Ces incidents ont provoqué, tout particulièrement chez nos étudiants juifs, une profonde anxiété et de la peur », avait-il ajouté.

    Mais sur ma tweet line on voit surtout des étudiants anti-génocide se faire attaquer par des gros bras pro-israéliens :
    https://twitter.com/AnthonyCabassa_/status/1785573368839987269
    https://twitter.com/i/status/1785573368839987269
    https://twitter.com/TeresaWatanabe/status/1785580909795942766

    • Israel supporters attack pro-Palestinian camp in LA, 300 Gaza protesters arrested in New York | Reuters
      https://www.reuters.com/world/us/police-move-quell-clashes-los-angeles-pro-palestinian-campus-protest-2024-0

      Footage from the early hours showed mostly male counter-demonstrators, many of them masked and some apparently older than students, throwing objects and trying to smash or pull down the wooden and steel barriers erected to shield the encampment.

      Some screamed pro-Jewish comments as pro-Palestinian protesters tried to fight them off.

      “They were coming up here and just violently attacking us,” said pro-Palestinian protester Kaia Shah, a researcher at UCLA.

      “I just didn’t think they would ever get to this, escalate to this level, where our protest is met by counter-protesters who are violently hurting us, inflicting pain on us, when we are not doing anything to them.”

      Demonstrators on both sides sprayed each other and fights broke out.

      Another pro-Palestinian student protester, Sophia Sandino, said: “We had people (spraying) us, beating us with bats and sticks, throwing whatever they could to us and none of this law enforcement was here at all. So it’s kind of disappointing that we’re seen as the perpetrators here.”

    • I’m a UCLA professor. Why didn’t the administration stop last night’s egregious violence?
      https://forward.com/opinion/608479/ucla-violence-campus-protests

      Around 11 p.m., a group of masked counter-demonstrators made their way to the Royce Quad in the heart of campus and began to attack the encampment set up last week by demonstrators opposing the war in Gaza. They threw a firecracker into the encampment, tore down its outer walls, threw heavy objects at demonstrators and instigated direct physical confrontations. Those in the encampment were left to fend for themselves against a violent band of thugs intent on inflicting damage.

      The incident marked a total systems failure by the university, the city of Los Angeles and the state of California.

      [•••]

      Over the course of our hours on the front lines, I estimate that more than 90% of the verbal and physical instigation came from the agitated counter-demonstrators, a fair number of whom spoke Hebrew and appeared to come from outside campus. The anti-war group had yellow-vested personnel who maintained discipline and sought to de-escalate when the threat of violence arose.

      But even they were greeted with insulting words from the other side, as were members of a small contingent of a local chapter of Standing Together who came bearing signs calling for peace and equality for Palestinians and Jews.

      I do not know whether there was overlap between the counter-demonstrators on Sunday and those who provoked last night’s violence, who carried Israeli and American flags, as well as at least one Chabad flag celebrating “Mashiach,” or the Messiah. But the behavior of the two groups bore striking similarities, making it all the more unsettling that UCLA wasn’t better prepared.

      That’s especially true because, on Sunday, I observed a contingent of university police officers standing passively a couple hundred yards from one of the main hot spots. When I went over to ask them why they weren’t helping to keep the peace, one officer told me that they were game-planning their strategy.

      And no LAPD officers arrived to help us diffuse the situation over a period of more than two hours — even though we had been told that they were on their way.

      That no police or skilled de-escalators intervened on Sunday was, at best, a bad mistake; a cohort of trained personnel could have made a big difference. That none appeared for hours Tuesday night, especially after observing the tension on Sunday, was unconscionable.

    • Dov Waxman surX
      https://twitter.com/DovWaxman/status/1785821375833440595

      This piece by my @UCLA colleague, Prof. David Myers, accurately describes what I also witnessed on UCLA’s campus on Sunday. To keep the peace, we both put ourselves between some pro-Palestinian protesters (who were mostly disciplined and non-confrontational) and a small contingent of very aggressive and provocative pro-Israel counter-protesters. Meanwhile, campus security and LAPD largely stood by and looked on. It was clear then that outside agitators were looking to cause trouble, which is why there should have been more done to prevent the mob violence that took place last night or at least to quickly stop it.

    • Police appear to fire rubber bullets at UCLA protesters
      https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2024/05/02/police-shoot-rubber-bullets-ucla-encampment-pro-palestinian-protest-digvid.cnn

      Prem Thakker sur X
      https://twitter.com/prem_thakker/status/1786013276242911454
      This is exactly what’s making any normal observer feel #insane.

      A pro-Israel mob attacked these kids with slurs, fists, mace, and fireworks. Police watched for HOURS & did nothing.

      A day later, police instead bombard them with rubber bullets & flashbangs. (All in a “blue” state)

  • Hundreds more rabbis demand ceasefire – The Forward
    https://forward.com/news/590501/truah-rabbis-for-ceasefire-gaza-israel

    […] despite regular criticism of the Israeli government, liberal Jewish groups like T’ruah, a network of more than 2,300 rabbis, have been reluctant to use the “ceasefire” language — and affiliate themselves with the larger protest movement against Israel — even as they began expressing doubts about Israel’s war effort in the late fall and winter.

    That reluctance appears to have diminished in recent weeks. A February poll found that 50% of American Jews supported a ceasefire, compared to 34% that opposed it. Rabbis for Ceasefire, an independent group formed in late October with several dozen clergy behind it, now has 311 signatories.

  • Zelenskyy, Trudeau Honor Actual 3rd Reich Nazi With Standing Ovation | ZeroHedge
    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/zelenskyy-trudeau-honor-actual-3rd-reich-nazi-standing-ovation

    Yaroslav Hunka, 98, fought in a Third Reich military formation accused of war crimes.

    On Friday, he was honored during a session of Canadian parliament in which Zelenskyy addressed the lawmakers to thank them for their support since Russia invaded Ukraine, saying that Canada has always been on “the bright side of history.”

    #lol

    • It is unclear whether Zelenskyy knew that Hunka fought with the unit. In 2021, the Ukrainian president joined the governments of Israel and Germany in denouncing a march honoring SS Galichina in Kyiv.

      Voilà la remarque qui distingue franchement Forward de ZeroHedge. Le même genre de remarque que j’apprécie de trouver dans les articles qui se penchent sur la positionnement de Corbyn, entre autres.

    • @biggrizzly Sur n’importe quel sujet, je crois que ça ne cherche même plus à discuter, juste à marquer des points sur le fait qu’« on » est affreusement tolérants avec l’antisémitisme de « la gauche » (LFI, Corbyn et Gérard Miller). Avec un whataboutisme parfaitement assumé, qui consiste à commenter un article sur un ancien Waffen SS en sortant Corbyn de son chapeau, cela au nom d’une approche « subtile » de l’information.

      Standing ovation du parlement canadien pour un nazi ? Oui mais Médine.

    • @ktche : Je ne sais pas ce qui peut être reproché à Zero Hedge, et je m’en excuse platement. Je ne voulais que collecter le fait, qui me semble difficile à interpréter différemment selon la source qu’on utilise. Je conviens que je fais toujours l’effort de trouver des sources alternatives à CNews ou Valeur Actuelle ; mais ils sont rarement productif d’informations originales. Mais pour les sources anglophones, je ne suis pas forcément aussi attentif. Et il m’arrive aussi de partager du Figaro, ou du Challenge. J’en suis à la troisième tentative de réponse à ton apostrophe, que j’efface. C’est dur. Beaucoup de temps passé à devoir se justifier.

    • Rassure-toi, je ne te demande pas de te justifier. J’ai vu matière à nourrir une discussion entamée ailleurs, tout simplement. Pas celle sur l’antisémitisme structurel (qui ne se limite pas à la chasse aux nazis), mais celle sur l’intérêt de commenter/contextualiser les sources pour distinguer celles auxquelles on ne devrait pas offrir de surface d’exposition, à mon sens. J’ai donné mon argument pour le cas ZeroHedge versus Forward.

    • Au Canada, le président du parlement démissionne après avoir rendu hommage à un ex-soldat nazi
      https://www.huffingtonpost.fr/international/article/au-canada-le-president-du-parlement-demissionne-apres-avoir-rendu-hom

      Lors de la visite du président ukrainien Volodymyr Zelensky à Ottawa, des députés avaient applaudi Yaroslav Hunka, ancien combattant d’une division de l’escadron de protection d’Hitler.

      INTERNATIONAL - Un dérapage diplomatique qui a provoqué un tollé outre-Atlantique. Le président de la Chambre des communes du Canada, Anthony Rota, a annoncé ce mardi 26 septembre sa démission après le scandale provoqué par l’hommage rendu à un vétéran ukrainien ayant combattu avec les nazis pendant la Seconde guerre mondiale. L’ovation demandée aux députés avait eu lieu lors de la visite du président ukrainien, Volodymyr Zelensky, à Ottawa.

      « C’est avec le cœur lourd que je me lève pour informer les membres de ma démission en tant que président de la Chambre des communes », a déclaré Anthony Rota devant le parlement, parlant de « ses profonds regrets pour son erreur ». Ajoutant que sa démission prendrait effet mercredi 27 septembre, « afin de permettre les préparatifs pour l’élection d’un nouveau président ».

      Anthony Rotaétait sous pression depuis le week-end dernier puisque tous les partis demandaient sa démission, y compris les ténors de son clan, les libéraux du Premier ministre Justin Trudeau. Ce dernier avait parlé d’un hommage « inacceptable » et « gênant ».
      Ovation pendant le discours de Zelensky

      Le président ukrainien, Volodymyr Zelensky, effectuait jeudi 22 septembre sa première visite d’État au Canada depuis le début de l’invasion russe. Un déplacement qui s’était déroulé sans accroc, du moins jusqu’à la visite de la Chambre des communes à Ottawa, où le chef d’État a été invité à applaudir Yaroslav Hunka, un combattant de la Seconde guerre mondiale. Un homme qui appartenait en réalité à une branche militaire du parti nazi.

      Lors du discours de Volodymyr Zelensky au Parlement, les députés ont donc été invités à applaudir chaudement Yaroslav Hunka. L’homme a été présenté comme « un vétéran de la Seconde guerre mondiale qui s’est battu pour l’indépendance de l’Ukraine contre les Russes, et qui continue aujourd’hui de soutenir les troupes, même à l’âge de 98 ans ». Le vieil homme a même été décrit comme « un héros ukrainien, un héros canadien » par le président du parlement Anthony Rota.

      Problème : Yaroslav Hunka est un ancien soldat d’une division nazie. Et cet incident n’a pas échappé à plusieurs organisations juives et de défense des droits de l’Homme qui ont condamné l’ovation, affirmant que le vétéran avait servi dans une unité militaire connue sous le nom de 14e division « Waffen Grenadier », appartenant à la SS.

      Anthony Rota, s’était confondu en excuses 72 heures plus tard. « Je tiens tout particulièrement à présenter mes excuses les plus sincères aux communautés juives du Canada et du monde entier », avait-il déclaré.

  • In ‘Blue Box’ the tangled legacy of Yosef Weitz
    https://forward.com/culture/477501/yosef-weitz-blue-box-documentary-israel-palestine-michel-weits

    “Blue Box” is a documentary about an Israeli hero who planted the country’s trees but who is also, perhaps, a villain for uprooting three quarters of a million Arabs from their villages.

    Because Yosef Weitz — known both as “Father of the Forests” and “Architect of Transfer” — was in charge of the Jewish National Fund’s Department of Land and Forestry at a formative moment of the new state, the film is also, unavoidably, about the formation of the state of Israel.

    Al-Akhbar en dit du bien (c’est assez rare pour une production israélienne) ; https://al-akhbar.com/Literature_Arts/369731/%D9%88%D8%AB%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%82%D9%8A-%D8%B4%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B9-%D8%B9%D9%8

    Le doc est accessible ici https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001q7qz/storyville-blue-box (mais il « faut » être en Grande-Bretagne).

  • Madame d’Ora | Neue Galerie NY
    February 20, 2020 - March 12, 2020
    https://www.neuegalerie.org/madame-dora


    ACTRESS AND DANCER ELSIE ALTMANN-LOOS, 1922

    Dora Kallmus (1881–1963), better known as Madame d’Ora, was an unusual woman for her time with a spectacular career as one of the leading photographic portraitists of the early 20th century. This exhibition, the largest museum retrospective on the Austrian photographer to date in the United States, will present the different periods of her life, from her early upbringing as the daughter of Jewish intellectuals in Vienna, to her days as a premier society photographer, through her survival during the Holocaust. Forging a path in a field that was dominated by men, d’Ora enjoyed an illustrious 50-year career, from 1907 until 1957. The show will include more than 100 examples of her work, which is distinguished for its extreme elegance, and utter depth and darkness.


    SEVERED COW’S LEGS IN A PARISIAN ABATTOIR, ca 1954-1957


    WRITER COLETTE (SIDONIE-GABRIELLE COLETTE), 1954

  • The money trail behind the Jerusalem eviction battle that sparked the latest Israeli-Palestinian violence, exposed
    by Uri Blau / ShomrimMay 25, 2021 – The Forward
    https://forward.com/news/470181/the-money-trail-jerusalem-sheikh-jarrah-seymour-braun-shomrim

    Photo by JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP/Getty...

    One of the triggers for the recent conflagration in East Jerusalem, which quickly spread across Israel, was an effort to evict Palestinian families from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood.

    Like so many real-estate cases over the so-called Green Line that delineates 1948 Israel from the West Bank territory it has occupied since the 1967 war, ownership questions are murky. Attempts to identify the owners of the company behind the purchase of these six homes – and the source of the company’s funds – leads to a complex tapestry of obscure overseas companies. So intricate is this tapestry that it is impossible to know for sure who financed the planned evictions that led to the violence.

    What is clear is that this real-estate project had millions of dollars in investments. Companies involved had links to Delaware and the Marshall Islands – corporate havens because of their low tax rates – as well as New Jersey, the Netherlands and Israel. Seymour Braun, a New York lawyer, is listed as an official in most of these companies on public records. (...)

  • Elizabeth Warren says she will skip #AIPAC conference
    https://forward.com/fast-forward/439631/elizabeth-warren-says-she-will-skip-aipac-conference

    In a sign of how the #lobby has become a political lightning rod for Democrats, Warren answered “yeah” when asked if she was planning to skip the conference in Washington in March.

    “I’m an American Jew and I’m terrified by the unholy alliance that AIPAC is forming with Islamapohobes and anti-Semites and white nationalists and no Democrat should legitimize that kind of bigotry by attending their annual policy conference,” a woman attending a town hall with Warren in Derry, New Hampshire said Thursday. “And I’m really grateful that you skipped the AIPAC conference last year and so my question is if you’ll join me in committing to skip the AIPAC conference this March.”

  • Myths of Christian Zionism Exploded By Daniel Hummel – The Forward
    https://forward.com/culture/430251/why-everything-you-think-you-know-about-christian-zionism-is-wrong

    Très intéressant compte-rendu d’un livre (dont l’auteur s’appelle Daniel Hummel) qui affirme que les chrétiens sionistes ne sont pas du tout des antisémites comme présentés traditionnellement (notamment par des « juifs libéraux »), et sont des sionistes convaincus. Ils partagent avec leurs homologues juifs sionistes leur #ultra-nationalisme, leur #racisme anti-arabe et leur #islamophobie ; ces derniers attributs, affirme l’auteur du compte-rendu, sont probablement les raisons pour lesquelles les « juifs libéraux » préfèrent les présenter comme des chrétiens d’extrême-droite pseudo sionistes et antisémites.

    Hagee and Falwell are no longer the most important Christian Zionist leaders. The center of the movement has shifted overseas. When Hummel visited the “International Christian Embassy’s Feast of Tabernacles celebration,” he heard a Nigerian preacher addressing an international audience, with only a muted American presence. The global movement emphasizes Jewish-Christian “reconciliation” and a shared biblical inheritance, often rejecting end-times prophecies. They also associate Israel with far-right, ultra-nationalist politics, as when the Brazilian Pentacostalist Rene Terra Nova “administered a mass baptism in the Jordan river to a group of Brazilian tourists before leading a chant in support” of fascist leader Jair Bolsanaro — a gathering that reached large Brazilian audiences through social media.

    Hummel has written a masterful, very readable book that manages at once to mount a surprising argument and tell compelling narrative history. Nor is he an apologist for Christian Zionism: he emphasizes repeatedly the “dark underside of reconciliation” between Jews and Christian Zionists in “the erasure of concern for Arab Christians and… Palestinians.” That critique is inescapable and damning, though of course it applies to Graham, Falwell, and Hagee not because they are Christians, but because they are Zionists.

    Reading Hummel, I realized that liberal Jews prefer to imagine Christian Zionists as anti-Jewish because we find it painful to confront the sincerity and integrity of their Zionism. We would prefer to think of their Islamophobia and imperialism as “Christian” and quarantine the American right from Jewish concerns and interests. We would prefer not to reckon with the fact that Israel has become the central symbolic cause of the world’s political right. We would prefer to deny what Christian Zionists announce loudly and repeatedly — that they reject Christian anti-Semitism and love Jews — because we are ashamed to be loved by such people. Progressive Jews caricature Christian Zionism only partly because we so poorly understand evangelicalism. More deeply, we do so because we would rather not understand why Zionism is so attractive to the Christian Right, for to do so would prompt too many questions about our own Zionism .

    #sionisme #évangélistes #évangélisme

  • Les élues américaines Ilhan Omar et Rashida Tlaib non grata en Israël
    Par Guillaume Gendron — 15 août 2019 à 20:56
    https://www.liberation.fr/planete/2019/08/15/les-elues-americaines-ilhan-omar-et-rashida-tlaib-non-grata-en-israel_174

    Faut-il les empêcher d’entrer ? La question a accaparé ondes et pixels toute la journée de jeudi en Israël, à deux jours de l’arrivée prévue de deux élues démocrates américaines, farouches opposantes à Donald Trump et partisanes résolues de la cause palestinienne. Finalement, le Premier ministre, Benyamin Nétanyahou, a tranché. « Nous n’autoriserons pas ceux qui nient notre droit à exister dans ce monde à entrer en Israël », a annoncé sa vice-ministre des Affaires étrangères. Ainsi Ilhan Omar, députée du Minnesota, et Rashida Tlaib, du Michigan, sont officiellement persona non grata.

    Accusées « de provocations et de promotion du BDS [Boycott, Désinvestissement et Sanctions ; un mouvement international de boycott d’Israël pour mettre fin à l’occupation, ndlr] », ces deux figures de l’aile gauche du Parti démocrate étaient interdites de mettre un pied sur le tarmac de l’aéroport Ben-Gourion, à Tel-Aviv, d’où elles comptaient rallier les Territoires palestiniens, dont la visite était tout l’enjeu de leur venue, présentée comme « une délégation du Congrès dans les Territoires occupés de Palestine ». Les deux femmes devaient sillonner la Cisjordanie du 18 au 22 août, de Bethléem à Hébron, en passant par Ramallah, afin de « voir l’occupation de leurs propres yeux et ce que l’argent américain finance réellement en Israël », selon une personnalité impliquée dans le déplacement avorté. Une visite de l’hypersensible site de l’esplanade des Mosquées était au programme pour les deux premières musulmanes au Congrès.

    Pour justifier sa décision, le gouvernement israélien invoque un amendement voté à la Knesset en 2018, qui enjoint le ministère de l’Intérieur à refuser l’entrée de tout étranger ayant « publiquement appelé au boycott de l’Etat d’Israël ». C’est la première fois que cet arsenal législatif, dont la Cour suprême a déjà cassé plusieurs des tentatives d’application, est utilisé contre des élus d’un pays allié d’Israël.

    Jeudi dans la soirée, le cabinet du Premier ministre a toutefois fait savoir que Rashida Tlaib, d’origine palestinienne, pourrait recevoir un simple « visa humanitaire » pour rencontrer ses grands-parents et sa belle-famille, résidents d’un village de Cisjordanie, à condition de promettre ne pas « promouvoir le boycott d’Israël ». Ilhan Omar, elle, reste bannie. « Un affront », a-t-elle dénoncé jeudi soir dans un communiqué. (...)

    #Ilhan_Omar #Rashida_Tlaib
    https://seenthis.net/messages/797277

    • Ilhan Omar et Rashida Tlaib réagissent à l’interdiction d’entrer en Israël
      16 août 2019 à 07:42 - dernière modification 16 août 2019 à 09:45
      https://www.i24news.tv/fr/actu/international/ameriques/1565934084-ilhan-omar-et-rashida-tlaib-reagissent-a-l-interdiction-d-entrer-

      Les membres du Congrès, Ilhan Omar et Rashida Tlaib, ont tous deux répondu jeudi soir à l’annonce de leur interdiction d’entrer en Israël, avant leur visite prévue dans le pays.

      « Que le Premier ministre israélien Benyamin Netanyahou, sous la pression de Donald Trump, refuse l’entrée (en Israël et dans les Territoires palestiniens) de deux représentantes de l’Etat américain, représente un affront », a-t-elle écrit sur Twitter.

      « Refuser l’entrée en Israël limite non seulement notre capacité à apprendre des Israéliens, mais également à entrer dans les territoires palestiniens, ce qui n’est malheureusement pas une surprise, étant donné les positions publiques du Premier ministre Netanyahou, qui a toujours résisté aux efforts de paix », a-t-elle ajouté.

      « L’ironie c’est que la ‘seule démocratie’ au Moyen Orient prend une telle décision. C’est à la fois une insulte aux valeurs démocratiques et une réponse effrayante à la visite de responsables gouvernementaux d’un pays allié », a-t-elle encore dit.

      Rashida Tlaib a également réagi jeudi à l’interdiction israélienne, qualifiant le mouvement de signe de faiblesse.

      « Cette femme ici, c’est ma raison d’être », a écrit Tlaib sur Twitter avec une photo de sa grand-mère.

      « Elle mérite de vivre en paix et dans la dignité humaine. Je suis ce que je suis à cause d’elle. La décision prise par Israël d’interdire à sa petite-fille, une femme du Congrès américain, (d’entrer en Israël) est un signe de faiblesse parce que la vérité sur ce qui arrive aux Palestiniens est effrayante », a-t-elle insisté.

      https://twitter.com/RashidaTlaib/status/1162073791595470849

    • Israël interdit à Ilhan Omar et Rashida Tlaib de se rendre en visite en Israël
      15 août 2019
      https://www.bbc.com/afrique/region-49361199

      (...) Tom Malinowski, membre du Congrès du New Jersey, a qualifié cette décision de « irrespectueuse envers le Congrès » et a déclaré que lors d’un voyage multipartite du Congrès en Israël la semaine dernière, des fonctionnaires leur ont assuré que leurs collègues seraient autorisés à se rendre en Israël.

      D’abord, il dit à la députée Tlaib de « retourner » dans « son » pays, puis il dit à ce pays de ne pas la laisser entrer ", s’est-il indigné sur Twitter, en faisant référence aux commentaires de M. Trump.

      La sénatrice et candidate à la présidence du Massachusetts, Elizabeth Warren, a qualifié de « honteuse » et de « sans précédent » cette initiative contre un membre du Congrès américain.

    • Israël interdit la visite de Rashida Tlaib et Ilhan Omar, élues américaines et adversaires de Trump

      Le président américain avait encouragé Israël à leur interdire l’entrée sur son territoire, affirmant qu’elles « détestent Israël et tous les juifs ».

      Le Monde avec AFP Publié hier à 16h56, mis à jour hier à 20h45
      https://www.lemonde.fr/international/article/2019/08/15/israel-envisage-d-interdire-la-visite-de-deux-elues-americaines_5499742_3210

    • Israel approves Rashida Tlaib petition to enter ’on humanitarian grounds’ to visit grandmother
      Noa Landau | Aug. 16, 2019 | 11:53 AM
      https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-israel-approves-rashida-tlaib-petition-to-enter-on-humanitarian-gr

      Israel has decided to approve a petition by U.S. Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib to enter Israel on ’humanitarian grounds’ so she may visit her Palestinian grandmother, the Interior Ministry announced Friday, this after it barred her from entering the country due to her support for the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement.

      In a letter she sent to Interior Minister Arye Dery, Tlaib wrote that she is requesting approval to visit Israel “in order to visit relatives, especially my grandmother who is in her nineties, and lives in Beit Ur al-Fauqa. This may be my last opportunity to see her.”

      Dery’s bureau released a statement Friday morning saying that Tlaib’s request was approved. “Tlaib sent a letter last night to Minister Dery, in which she promised to hold to Israel’s requests, respect the limitations put on her for the visit and also affirmed that she would not promote the boycott against Israel during her visit.” Dery expressed hope that “she will stand by her obligations and the visit will be for humanitarian means alone.”

      Under pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reversed his decision Thursday to let Tlaib and fellow BDS-supporting congresswoman Ilhan Omar into Israel. After the decision was made, the Michigan congresswoman uploaded a picture of her grandmother to Twitter and wrote “The decision by Israel to bar her granddaughter, a U.S. congresswoman, is a sign of weakness because the truth of what is happening to Palestinians is frightening.”

      Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan wrote Friday morning that Tlaib’s request must be approved “mainly in light of the need to respect Israeli law and not to advance the boycott against us.” Erdan, who does not have the authority to make that decision, did tweet that the decision to ban the two congresswomen from entering Israel was “correct and just” because of their support for the boycott movement.

      Netanyahu decided to deny Tlaib and Omar entry to Israel after Trump said that “It would show great weakness if Israel allowed Rep. Omar and Rep. Tlaib to visit.” The policy reversal was justificed by the claim that their visit intends to “strengthen the boycott and invalidate Israel’s legitimacy.”

      Last month, Israeli Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer announced that Tlaib and Omar would be allowed to enter the country: “Out of respect for the U.S. Congress and the great alliance between Israel and America”, his government would not deny entry “to any member of Congress."

    • Israël autorisera la visite de l’élue américaine Rashida Tlaib au motif d’une « visite humanitaire »
      16 août 2019 à 11:15 - dernière modification 16 août 2019 à 11:37
      https://www.i24news.tv/fr/actu/israel/1565946899-israel-autorisera-la-visite-de-l-elue-americaine-rashida-tlaib-au

      Les autorités israéliennes vont autoriser l’entrée sur leur territoire à l’élue démocrate américaine Rashida Tlaib pour motif « humanitaire », a indiqué vendredi le ministre de l’Intérieur.

      Israël avait annoncé la veille avoir interdit la visite de Mme Tlaib et d’une autre élue américaine Ilhan Omar en raison de leur soutien au mouvement de boycott de l’Etat hébreu et à la suite d’une demande du président Donald Trump.

      Mais le ministre Arié Dery a décidé vendredi d’autoriser l’entrée de Mme Tlaib « pour une visite humanitaire à sa grande-mère ». Rashida Tlaib a aussi « promis de ne pas faire avancer la cause du boycott contre Israël durant son séjour », selon un communiqué du ministre.
      (...)
      Mais dans la nuit de jeudi à vendredi, Rashida Tlaib a écrit aux autorités israéliennes pour leur demander de pouvoir visiter sa famille, et plus particulièrement sa grand-mère, qui vit dans le village de Beit Ur al-Fauqa, près de Ramallah, en Cisjordanie occupée.

      « Il pourrait s’agir de ma dernière chance de pouvoir lui rendre visite », a fait valoir l’élue américaine dans sa lettre mise en ligne.

      #BDS

    • STATEMENT FROM DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY FOR ISRAEL CO-CHAIR ANN LEWIS AND PRESIDENT AND CEO MARK MELLMAN ON THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT’S DECISION TO DENY ENTRY TO U.S. CONGRESSWOMEN RASHIDA TLAIB AND ILHAN OMAR
      https://demmajorityforisrael.org/press-releases/statement-omar-tlaib-trip

      WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 15, 2019) – In response to the Israeli government’s decision to prevent Representatives Tlaib and Omar from entering the country, Democratic Majority for Israel Co-Chair Ann Lewis, and President and CEO Mark Mellman, issued the following statement:

      “While we disagree strongly with the anti-Israel, and in some instances antisemitic, views articulated by Congresswomen Tlaib and Omar, and while we were disturbed to learn that their planned itinerary was completely unbalanced, there is simply no excuse for any country, including Israel, to prevent travel by elected officials of the United States. Unfortunately, the Government of Israel was both wrong and unwise to reverse their earlier decision to allow these elected Members of Congress to visit the country. (...)

      http://english.pnn.ps/2019/08/16/congresswoman-tlaibs-statement-on-travel-to-palestine-israel

    • Rashida Tlaib
      ‏@RashidaTlaib

      https://twitter.com/RashidaTlaib/status/1162333169846247425

      My sity wanted to pick figs w/ me. I broke down reading this & worry every single day after I won for my family’s safety. My cousin was texting me which photo of @IlhanMN & I they should put on a welcoming poster when I heard the news. I couldn’t tell her.

      https://twitter.com/RashidaTlaib/status/1162341203406401536

      When I won, it gave the Palestinian people hope that someone will finally speak the truth about the inhumane conditions. I can’t allow the State of Israel to take away that light by humiliating me & use my love for my sity to bow down to their oppressive & racist policies.

      https://twitter.com/RashidaTlaib/status/1162341203406401536

      When I won, it gave the Palestinian people hope that someone will finally speak the truth about the inhumane conditions. I can’t allow the State of Israel to take away that light by humiliating me & use my love for my sity to bow down to their oppressive & racist policies.

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      DETROIT – Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib (MI-13) released the following statement regarding travel to Israel and Palestine:
      August 16, 2019. Press Release
      https://tlaib.house.gov/media/press-releases/congresswoman-tlaib-s-statement-travel-palestine-israel

      "In my attempt to visit Palestine, I’ve experienced the same racist treatment that many Palestinian-Americans endure when encountering the Israeli government. In preparation for my visit, my grandmother was deciding which fig tree we would pick from together, while Palestinians and Israelis who are against the illegal military occupation were looking forward to Members of Congress finally listening to and seeing them for the first time. The Israeli government used my love and desire to see my grandmother to silence me and made my ability to do so contingent upon my signing a letter – reflecting just how undemocratic and afraid they are of the truth my trip would reveal about what is happening in the State of Israel and to Palestinians living under occupation with United States support.

      “I have therefore decided to not travel to Palestine and Israel at this time. Visiting my grandmother under these oppressive conditions meant to humiliate me would break my grandmother’s heart. Silencing me with treatment to make me feel less-than is not what she wants for me – it would kill a piece of me that always stands up against racism and injustice. (...)

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      Rep. Ilhan Omar Statement on Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Decision to Deny Her Entry into Israel
      August 15, 2019
      Press Release

      https://omar.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-ilhan-omar-statement-prime-minister-netanyahus-decision-deny-her-ent

    • La famille de Rashida Tlaib pas surprise par les obstacles érigés par Israël à sa venue en Cisjordanie
      Les proches de la première femme d’origine palestinienne à être élue au Congrès américain se préparent depuis juillet à la venue de celle en qui ils voient un espoir pour la cause de leur peuple
      Par Shatha Hammad
      – BEIT UR AL-FAWQA, Cisjordanie occupée
      Date de publication : Vendredi 16 août 2019 - 09:35
      https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/styles/article_page/public/images-story/muftiya_rashida_tlaib_mee_0.jpg?itok=O990XJFX
      https://www.middleeasteye.net/fr/reportages/la-famille-de-rashida-tlaib-decue-mais-pas-surprise-par-linterdiction

      (...) Rashida a passé la majeure partie de sa vie aux États-Unis, se rendant en Palestine chaque été.

      C’est dans la maison de ses grands-parents que les célébrations de son mariage, en 1997, ont commencé. La grand-mère de Rashida, Muftiya, qui, avec l’âge, a perdu la plus grande partie de son audition, a déclaré à MEE que ce qui la rendait le plus heureuse était la possibilité que Rashida cueille des figues directement sur les arbres du jardin de son grand-père.

      « Je suis tellement fière d’elle. J’ai fait les préparatifs pour sa cérémonie de remise des diplômes au lycée, puis pour son diplôme universitaire et, aujourd’hui, nous célébrerons son élection au Congrès », déclarait Muftiya à MEE en début de semaine.

      Jeudi après-midi, Bassam, l’oncle de Rashida, a indiqué à MEE que la famille n’avait pas encore informé Muftiya de l’interdiction prononcée à l’encontre de sa petite-fille, craignant que cela n’affecte sa santé.

      « Nous ne sommes pas surpris par cette décision », a-t-il ajouté. « Nous nous attendions à ce que l’occupation lui interdise d’entrer en Palestine à tout moment. » (...)

  • Israel Is Using Archeology To Wage War On Muslim History – The Forward
    https://forward.com/opinion/425059/jerusalems-archaeological-sites-are-now-a-battle-ground-for-israeli

    Take for example, Khan Daraj al-‘Eyn, a 14th Century Mamluk bathhouse. Today it houses an exhibition on Jewish ancestry and an events hall. There is no sign alerting the visitor that it is a Mamluk structure, or that it was built by the governor of Damascus, Sayf al-Din Tankaz, who was responsible for some of the more impressive buildings of the time.

    Jerusalem’s history is as varied as it is long. While there is no doubt that there is a wealth of finds to excite one’s sense of Jewish continuity, there are many layers to this city which appeal to a variety of cultural and religious communities. Claiming exclusive ownership based on archaeological finds is not a reflection of archaeological discoveries but an act of #story-telling where large pieces of history are edited out.

    #occultation

  • Brown University Students Pass BDS Referendum – The Forward
    https://forward.com/fast-forward/421343/brown-university-becomes-first-ivy-league-school-to-pass-student-bds-vote

    Students at Brown University voted Thursday to call on the school to divest from companies that allegedly violate human rights through their work in Israel.

    Some 69% voted for the measure in a campus referendum, with 31% opposed. Students were asked whether the university should ““divest all stocks, funds, endowment and other monetary instruments from companies complicit in human rights abuses in Palestine.” Around 44% of the student body participated in the vote, which also included student government elections.

    Many Jewish students expressed their disappointment in the result. “This referendum is a defeat for all students who believe there is a better way to pursue peace between Israelis and Palestinians, who seek intellectually honest discourse about Israel and the conflict, and who prioritize a safe and inclusive community at Brown,” the group Brown Students for Israel said on their Facebook page.

    But the group Brown Divest, which also included some Jewish supporters, was jubilant. “Today is a historic day for Brown as we take an emboldened and clear stand against the university’s complicity in human rights abuses in #Palestine and in similar systems of oppression around the world,” the coalition said in a statement.

    #BDS #universités #etats-unis

    • Les étudiants de Brown University votent pour BDS
      Brown Divest, le 21 mars 2019
      http://www.agencemediapalestine.fr/blog/2019/03/25/les-etudiants-de-brown-university-votent-pour-bds

      C’est avec un immense honneur et enthousiasme que nous annonçons le succès remporté dans le référendum Brown Divest (Brown désinvestit) d’aujourd’hui, 21 mars 2019. Le oui a été voté à 69% et la participation d’aujourd’hui a été une des plus fortes dans l’histoire des élections organisées par le Conseil étudiant de premier cycle : 3 076 étudiants ont voté. Aujourd’hui est un jour historique pour Brown puisque nous prenons une position hardie et claire contre la complicité de l’université avec les violations des droits humains en Palestine et dans des systèmes d’oppression similaires dans le monde.

      Aujourd’hui, nous rejoignons d’autres universités telles que Swarthmore, NYU, UCLA, l’Université George Washington et d’autres qui ont mené des campagnes avec le même succès. Nous devenons aussi la première université Ivy League à lancer un référendum de désinvestissement sur la Palestine et nous avons hâte d’en voir d’autres suivre notre exemple.

      Ce référendum représente non seulement un pas décisif sur cette question, mais un travail de mobilisation et d’unification de plusieurs années d’une coalition diversifiée de groupes d’étudiants du campus. Cette campagne n’aurait pas été possible si nous ne nous étions pas unis en une communauté.

      Les membres de Brown Divest ne voient ce référendum ni comme un début ni comme une fin de notre lutte pour la justice. Nous continuerons sur notre lancée et nous nous rassemblerons en communauté pour tenir l’administration responsable de l’application du résultat de ce référendum.

      A mettre avec l’évolution de la situation aux États-Unis vis à vis de la Palestine :
      https://seenthis.net/messages/752002

      #Palestine #USA #Université #BDS #Boycott_universitaire

  • Jewish Leaders Harass College Kids — To ‘Help’ Israel – The Forward
    https://forward.com/news/israel/416569/why-did-jewish-leaders-think-they-should-target-college-kids-to-help

    “Fabienne Roth lives someplace,” Gordis said in front of the crowd, referring to a blonde-haired college junior at UCLA who had asked, and then apologized for asking, an allegedly anti-Semitic question at a student government meeting months earlier. “We can find out where that place is, and she should not be able to come in or out of her house, in or out of her apartment, without being reminded, peacefully, morally, legally, that we know who you are.”

    Gordis said that Roth’s future employers should be protested and boycotted. Days later, he used his Jerusalem Post column to make the suggestion that the Roth’s future children should also be punished for what she had done.

    #harcèlement #agression #Israël