tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5997821105166599918.post2366132899210972987..comments2023-11-14T09:41:39.946+00:00Comments on Micah's Paradigm Shift: A Letter to the Council of Christians and JewsRobert Cohenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11656729802011708553noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5997821105166599918.post-82285085186964981032013-09-12T12:21:57.492+01:002013-09-12T12:21:57.492+01:00We as Jews need to take every opportunity to reass...We as Jews need to take every opportunity to reassure Christians that not all Jews think it's antisemitic to speak out against the Occupation, nor to take nonviolent action with others to put pressure on Israel to end it.<br /><br />I'd be interested to hear whether Robert gets any response.<br />Stevienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5997821105166599918.post-71856218498113907512013-09-05T23:36:08.152+01:002013-09-05T23:36:08.152+01:00You can, however, see why the Christians in CCJ wo...You can, however, see why the Christians in CCJ would be frightened of doing anything which their Jewish partners oppose and call anti-semitic.<br /><br />A more appropriate parallel for the BDS campaign (which is, of course, not boycotting all Jews on an ethnic basis as the Nazis did) would be the way the pre-state Yishuv boycotted Arab shops, goods and labour. Jewish enterprises which employed the cheaper Arab labour were pressurised into replacing them with Jews. Some of this hitsory can be found in teh wikipedia article at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_labor thought it seems to be a contested and much edited page.<br /><br />For a zionist confirmation of the main point, in the interests of balance, you could check out http://www.zionism-israel.com/dic/Kibbush_Haavoda.htmPaul M Seligmanhttps://twitter.com/PaulMSeligmannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5997821105166599918.post-30773221264886083482013-09-05T16:35:55.668+01:002013-09-05T16:35:55.668+01:00As a christian journeying with my own response to ...As a christian journeying with my own response to the Israel/Palestine issue I find Roberts blog and commitment one of the most heartening things around and he is the sort of peacemaking Jew I want to relate to as we all seek a just peace for Israelis and Palestinians in the land which we all consider `holy`. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com