Jewish ANTI-Zionism, a history (KPFA FM)

No, but neither is the swastika Nazi. Both are ancient Indian symbols of union and enlightenment

What's money got to do with a US-armed, British imperial, Jewish settler colonial project?

Balthaser (Indiana U South Bend)

GUEST: Jewish academic Benjamin Balthaser is an associate professor of multi-ethnic US literature at Indiana University, South Bend.

He is the author of the forthcoming book, Citizens of the Whole World: The American Jewish Left and Cultures of Anti-Zionism, due out this fall (Verso Books).

He has also written, Anti-Imperialism Modernism: Race and Transnational Radical Culture from the Great Depression to the Cold War, and Dedication, a personal history of growing up in a Jewish “red diaper” family.

• AUDIO: A History of Jewish Anti-Zionism | KPFA
• VIDEO: A History of Student Movements
• In Solidarity with the Students
• #This is a Coup | Verso Books

Anti-Imperialist Modernism

He sits in conversation with Mitch Jeserich on Letters & Politics (KPFA.org, Berkeley) about American Jewish thinking, once very anti-Zionist until the 6 Day War.

Then Zionism, the idea of having a right to return to a land your ancestors (Jews) wrote in a book (the Bible) was yours for all time, started to get a foothold. If when you arrive on that land and find it full, say, "These are not a people," therefore the land is empty.

"We'll take it over with British and American help and say we built it out of nothing. Never mind that we work for empire, our own, British globalism, and a nascent American urge to control the oil-rich and geopolitically strategic region."

No genocide in our name: Ceasefire NOW! (ifnotnowmovement.org)

• Jewish Voice for Peace (jvp.org)
• NOT IN OUR NAME (ifnotnowmovement.org)
• Jewish Veterans for Peace: breakingthesilence.org.il
• ‎شرش | Shoresh | שר”ש‎ (@shoresh_us) • Anti-Zionist Jews
• American Civil Liberties Union (aclu.org)
• Amnesty International
• American Veterans for Peace
• Code Pink: Women for Peace

Tricking US Jews to fight for empire

Even Leftist Jews can get behind that, right? If not, they're antisemites and need to be expelled from the culture and community if not the religion. But we're secular so that doesn't matter, and the Ultra-Orthodox religious Jews assure us we're behaving in an anti-biblical way in complete contravention to religious dictates.

Setting up a CIA-groomed dictator in Bibi Netanyahu, as well as his brother, to run the settler colonial project is a mere expedient, and soon Israeli prime ministers will align with their own interests, sell weapons to whomever they want, and take over all the land they can conquer from Lebanon to Egypt, to Jordan to Qatar. Israel will be the capital of a new empire for and by Zionist Jews.

• Benjamin Balthaser | Indiana University South Bend
• Bad Jews Racial Subjectivity, Anti-Zionism, Jewish New Left
• Not Your Good Germans: Holocaust Memory, Anti-Fascism, and the anti-Zionism of the Jewish New Left | Benjamin Balthaser - Academia.edu
• Host Mitch Jeserich, Prof. Benjamin Balthaser (Letters & Politics, KPFA.org, 5/8/24); Text by Shauna Schwartz, Sheldon S., Seth Auberon, Wisdom Quarterly

No, no, no...let's go into a refugee camp (video)

Abby Martin, TeleSUR, Oct. 6, 2016; Sheldon S., Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Starbucks Coffee union sparks fury by tweeting "solidarity with Palestine!" (Daily Mail)

Empire Files: Inside Palestine’s Refugee Camps

Most of the torment of "Palestinians" is done by Israeli men to children under 18.

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Some Jews say NO to Israeli crimes

(TeleSUR English) In her first on-the-ground report from Palestine, Abby Martin gives a first-hand look into two of the most attacked refugee camps in the West Bank — Balata and Aida camps.

With millions of displaced Palestinians around the world, hundreds of thousands are refugees in their own country. Many have lived packed into these refugee camps after being ethnically cleansed from their villages just miles away.

Watch the introduction to The Empire Files coverage from Palestine, "How Palestine Became Colonized," here: bit.ly/2cBOdST

TeleSUR (TV channel) is funded in whole or in part by multiple Latin American governments (Wiki).

Refuge Recovery Treatment Centers closing

Noah Levine, Refuge Recovery Treatment Centers (refugerecovery.com); Wisdom Quarterly

With a heavy heart [Noah Levine is] announcing the closure of Refuge Recovery Treatment Centers.

[He has] a deep appreciation for the 562 people [his for-profit company] have helped and those who continue to participate in Refuge Recovery [peer-led] meetings.

[It] will continue to serve the community with regular meetings and meditations at 2516 Lincoln Blvd. See schedule below.

Everything is impermanent. Every physical and mental experience arises and passes [away]. Everything in existence is endlessly arising out of causes and conditions.

- Noah Levine

Weekly Schedule

2516 Lincoln Blvd. Venice, CA

Monday

7:30 pm Meditation & Dharma Talk w/ Noah Levine

Tuesday

6:00 pm Refuge Recovery Yoga

7:30 pm Refuge Recovery Meeting

Wednesday

7:30 pm Meditation and Dharma Talk w/ Casey & Paul

Friday

7:30 pm Alcoholics Anonymous Meeting

Saturday

6:00 pm Refuge Recovery Meeting

Sunday

6:00 pm Women's Refuge Recovery Meeting

Wild man survives naked in Cambodian jungle

CC Liu, Pat Macpherson, Mr. Nguyen, Wisdom Quarterly; Arn Chorn Pond BBC.co.uk (BBC World Service, Monday, Sept. 15, 2014) CAMBODIA COVERAGE

Escaping the Khmer Rouge to a Thai Buddhist refugee camp (THAI-ON/flickr.com)

The jungle has no mercy, not for monkeys, snakes, leeches, tigers, or humans...

See all previous episodes from Outlook: LISTEN NOW (55:00)

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Music Saved me From the Killing Fields

Woodlands and jungle (bhumi deva land)

[Paul] Arn Chorn Pond survived a brutal childhood in Cambodia as a child soldier against the Vietnamese -- living naked like a half-animal "wild man" in the jungle for months trying to escape the brutality -- under the Khmer Rouge. But he was eventually able to make a new life for himself in suburban America after being adopted by an American in the Northeast, eventually settling in New Hampshire. Now he's working to save traditional Cambodian art and music.
 
Also: Turkish film director Kutlug Ataman is recognized around the world for his documentaries. And ghoulish Italian Cesare Bergamini has been catching and killing eels for decades. His boathouse on the River Tiber is under the Rome ringroad. More episodes

• AUDIO: Listen now on pop-out player

"Secret Space" from the Russian side (video)

LRC Lightworker Refugee Camp (2012indyinfo.com)
(UFOTVstudios) December, 2011

Narrated by Elliott Gould, "The Soyuz Conspiracy" includes never before seen footage.

The filmmakers discovered new evidence revealing a scandalous conspiracy surrounding the death of one of the old Soviet Union's most famous cosmonauts, Col. Vladimir Komarov.

When the new Soyuz rocket was launched into space on April 23, 1967, Komarov's spaceship faced catastrophic failures. It eventually lost power, and Komarov was killed on impact.

My Higher Self: Self Introspection
(Laura Tyco) It is very easy for humans to see lack in others, imbalances, imperfections. It remains difficult for humans to be impartial and objective. What lacks 99% of the time is seeing the world from within with an inner connection. We react to stimuli. Emotions are triggered, associations are set off, and we are brought from one state to another without consciousness...

The government was not about to admit failure on the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Soviet Union. Instead, it covered up the entire incident by saying that Komarov's mission was a complete success and explained his death by saying he was later killed in a bus crash.

Only Yuri Gagarin, Komarov's best friend, was strong enough to force the Soviet government to tell the truth about what really happened to Komarov.

• UFOTV® The Soyuz Conspiracy: The Story of Vladimir Komarov
  

Buddhist Monk in America

Per, a Buddhist monk in America, opens up. He talks about his difficulties living as a monastic in a country with a culture so different from his own. Excerpted from "Blue Collar and Buddha," an anthropological documentary about Laotian refugees living in America. More at:

• collectiveeye.org