Reply #56: Not like it matters to you... but i looked it up. [View All]

[drdon326]

http://www.tikkun.org/index.cfm/action/current/article/151.html
Banning Lerner from Speaking at the anti-war demo
| 02.16.2003


Why Rabbi Lerner Blew the Whistle on ANSWER: The Facts

The TIKKUN COMMUNITY has opposed the use of violence as a means for resolving conflicts, and has consistently opposed the war in Iraq. Thousands of us marched against the war on February 15 and 16, despite the refusal of the anti-war organizers in SF to even allow Rabbi Michael Lerner's name to be considered as a possible speaker. But it is important to understand the background of that issue--and to not let it be erased from memory.

TIKKUN Community members  organized in the Jewish community and in other spiritual communities to bring people to the October 2002 demonstrations against the war, organized by ANSWER. Rabbi Lerner was an original signatory to the Not In Our Name statement and endorsed the ANSWER rally.

But at that rally the ANSWER coalition put forward an array of speakers who used anti-Israel rhetoric to link the struggle against the Iraq war to Israel-Palestine. This was offensive to a very large numbers of Jews who attended the rally.
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Was discussed extesively on DU1

http://www.democraticunderground.com/cgi-bin/duforum/duboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=37942&forum=DCForumID60&archive=

read it.