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Dear friends ,
The Olympia Food Co-op boycott of Israeli products (except for fair trade olive oil) has generated much controversy and emotion.
I do pray for healing and understanding among those who support and those who oppose such a boycott in the community of Olympia, Washington and around the world.
All of us must stand together and mourn the loss of life generated by this conflict. May their memories be a blessing.
The Food Co-op and many concerned citizens around the world have asked the question: How do we transform the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the use of nonviolence? What is meaningful action?
While negotiations, lobbying and dialogue occur, those who have been directly impacted by occupation, the Palestinians, have called upon the world to engage in meaningful
nonviolent action to apply pressure upon Israel so that Israel cannot conduct the business of occupation as usual. Have we all not seen and read about life in Palestine under occupation?
The Goldstone report, B'tselem, Gisha and many other organizations and individuals have documented the systematic violation of Palestinian human rights in the past several years.
How do we both construct peace and engage in non-cooperation with policies that systematically violate human rights on a daily basis?
Boycott is a time honored method which was the catalyst that ended legal segregation in the United States. Boycott is the primary tool of those engaged in nonviolent resistance to systematic injustice.
Boycott targets unjust policies. It is not about 'the right to exist'; Everyone has the right to 'exist'. Rather, boycott is a tool that focuses on the right to live a life free from a policy of land seizure, internal transfer, administrative detention and other forms of violent and harmful actions levied against people who do not want to give up their land.
I want to explain my personal reasons for supporting the decision of the Co-op not to limit their boycott to the West Bank.
I believe that the articulation of a position that there is a line that separates products 'made in the West Bank' and those 'made in Israel' is difficult to stand by if you look deeply at the issue.
1) The mechanics of occupation is not limited to the West Bank. I'm sure you've all heard about the 300 bedouin Palestinians made homeless two days ago, in the Negev settlement known as al-Araqib, homes destroyed by the way with a Caterpillar bulldozer flying an Israeli flag. This is an ongoing reality of Palestinian life under occupation, that is, the loss of land. Now, almost 80% of of West Bank land is considered Israeli State land. Palestinian families are continually being driven from their homes.
Furthermore, Israel inside the green line is the agency of occupation and conducts, plans, prepares and executes aspects of the occupation from inside the green line.
2) Israel prevents Palestinian exports from reaching their destination all the time. Trying to sell West Bank products in Israel or abroad is a seriously challenging issue. Bottles are smashed, fruit is left to rot, clothes are ruined. This happens in the intersection of borders. Palestinians and their products have no right to any border passage. All movement of people and goods is controlled by Israel.
3) Lest we forget Gaza and the closure. 60% of Gazans suffer food insecurity. That is truly a stunning number. 90% of the products sold in Gaza come from Israel. Why? No manufacture is allowed in Gaza due to shortages of materials. Farmers are shoot dead in their fields all the time. Fisherman are prevented from fishing. The closure has not been lifted. Hence, the application of boycott until such time as the borders are
open and people and goods can come and go according to international standards of passage.
4) While I believe we must be understanding, compassionate, gracious and clear in the use of our language when engaging with those who do not support nonviolent means of conflict transformation such
as boycott, BDS is really about focusing on Israel's occupation of Palestinian towns, villages and farm land including East Jerusalem, the Negev, the Galilee, Ramlah, Jaffo, Lod, Nazereth, Acco and the West Bank. The BDS movement has been very clear about including Palestinians living inside Israel as part of the educational effort around human rights issues facing the Palestinian community inside the green line.
5) All use of anti-Semitic language or rhetoric, or the slandering of others as anti-Semites or self-hating Jews must be opposed. Our common ground, support of those who suffer indignities, should be the focus.
Supporters of boycott are asking people to shift loyalties from partisan support of one side or the other to positions based on universal standards of human rights. Those who support boycott are creating a broad based multifaith and multicultural coalition that crosses boundaries and unites people based on what kinds of behavior should not be tolerated by nation states according to principles of international law.
My own activism includes standards of food justice based on access and human rights in the United States as well as other countries. I do not buy a range of products based on human rights standards.
The Food Co-op shares this ethic. Fair Trade standards underly their decision.
My support for the Olympia Food Co-op is for these reasons. Groups that are limiting their boycott to 'Israeli settlement products' , or to corporations that profit from occupation (such as the JVP campaign)
can still reach out in support of those who have taken a broader stance. This is a movement issue.
Finally, there is the matter of Rachel Corrie. Like Rachel, those who decided to boycott Israeli products have taken a meaningful action that supports their desire to end occupation. They are moved to action
from on the ground experiences. As a forty year veteran of this issue, I, too have witnessed what is happening on the ground and I am moved to be part of the effort to change Israeli policy. I do this from a love
of people. I believe that Jewish tradition stands with me. Not profiting or benefiting from the fruits of violence is a central tenet of a life committed to nonviolence. Since the Jewish state is acting in my name,
I am forced to withdraw support for Israeli food products until the closure is lifted, the policy of land seizure ends and negotiations are taken up in a meaningful way. This does not mean I am cutting off my
relationships to the people I love on both sides. May all efforts to construct peace continue. Meaningful nonviolent resistance to injustice is part of the equation.
The Food Co-op community went beyond endless discussions of exactly how one should act to resolve conflict, and they acted. Whether people agree or disagree with the particulars of any given action, at least support the courage of people who are willing to act in behalf of those who are suffering on a daily basis. May the process of reparative justice truly begin.
L'shalom,
Lynn Gottlieb
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Our silence now is an act of betrayal to the values we purport to live by and to the words of the prophet we read every Yom Kippur:
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Do not forget. Deuteronomy 25: 17-19
The winter weather and gray skies deepened the chill of the broken stones
we sat upon, the remains of a house destroyed in Hebron. I sat in silent mourning with a Muslim family whose father had been murdered by Barukh Goldstein on Purim, 1994. Goldstein believed he was fulfilling the mitzvah to eradicate the name of Amalek which he identified as Palestinian Muslims praying in the mosque of our common ancestor Abraham, buy meridia from canada. Goldstein believed the Lord's 'war with Amalek from generation to generation' (Ex.15:17) commanded him to kill an entire people. While costumed Jewish children took their plastic Purim hammers to the street, playfully bopping people on the head on their way to hear the megillah, I sat amidst the rubble of a former home facing people who, unknown to them, were cast into the role of villains in an ancient story and forced to endure a plot line which targeted them for destruction. 1994 changed forever, the way I celebrated Purim with my congregation. From that time forward, the passages of revenge were expunged from the text. Buy meridia from canada, Along with our revamped feminist versions of the Purim tale in which Vashti was restored to her former glory and the women of the harem were given their freedom, my congregation elected to offer Haman community service and diversity training. The resolution of the story in my Albuquerque community came to reflect the ideas of restorative justice so dear to us, rather than revenge justice which had no place in our communal life.
As a shomeret shalom, a Jewish person who observes The Torah of Nonviolence, the enactment of Purim poses many challenges, the most difficult of which is the revenge aspects associated with resolution of the conflict in the story of Esther and the reading of the maftir passage about Amalek on Shabbat Zachor.
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But the weekend gathering wasn’t all about looking back.
Co-directors Rick and Kitty Ufford-Chase — who arrived at the financially troubled center in August 2008 — outlined plans for the “fifth generation” of Stony Point, designed to revitalize the storied center just north of New York City.
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Residents will move into the three houses that will comprise the community in January, said Kitty Ufford-Chase.
“We’ve asked them to do a very different thing,” Rick Ufford-Chase said. “You may not have noticed, but Stony Point is a very Presbyterian place,” he joked. Meridia no prescription, But Stony Point has also long been a place willing to push boundaries, he said, adding that there is both anxiety and excitement about the changes.
The Community of Living Traditions will offer workshops, camps and internships focusing on interfaith traditions and nonviolence.
Leaders of the Jewish and Muslim leaders of the new community spoke to those who attended the homecoming and anniversary celebration.
Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb
Gottlieb is a founder of the Shomer Shalom Institute for Jewish Nonviolence, a group committed to nonviolence based on Jewish principles of religious engagement. The organization also provides educational and liturgical resources and conducts workshops and retreats.
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Stony Point is a shelter for peace in the world, Gottlieb said, adding that she hopes the community will bring acculturation “in which people can live with all the tensions which come from being different.”
The “radical hospitality” that is a key part of Stony Point is known in the Jewish tradition as the welcoming of guests, Gottlieb said. To be truly welcoming in the context of nonviolence, people must be aware of the systems of power in the world, she said, and where they stand or the role they play in such systems.
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Jews carry the wounds of the Holocaust and other world events with them today, Gottlieb said. Sometimes wounds can make people afraid and leave them wondering how to heal. But such healing is necessary, she said.
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To heal a wound, one must first understand it, Gottlieb said. People must live with their differences and go to the hardest places, the deepest wounds. The community at Stony Point will provide a space for that and will also allow people to raise questions.
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Mohammad was a master of nonviolence, Harris said. His message had three characteristics: absolute servanthood, all-encompassing perfection and the preference for God’s preference.
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The Muslim Peace Fellowship views all modern weapons as weapons of mass destruction, and therefore as religiously unlawful, Harris said. Only one form of fighting is religiously lawful — unarmed struggle.
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Harris is excited about the community at Stony Point. Living together “is more than worth trying,” she said.
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