Appeal by American Jews to the Green Party of Germany

Thu May 13 13:19:54 CEST 1999

>Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 15:04:27
>From: Mitchel Cohen <mitchelcohen at mindspring.com>
>Subject: Appeal by American Jews
>
>Would you be so kind as to circulate this at the meeting Thursday in
>Bielefeld, and wherever else you think is appropriate?
>Thank you.
>
>An Appeal from American Jews
> to the Green Party of Germany
>
>We are Jewish Americans who are deeply concerned that
>the memory and tragedy of the Holocaust is being invoked in
>order to justify an unjust bombing campaign against the civilian
>population of Yugoslavia. Many of us have friends who lost
>family members in the Holocaust, or have lost relatives ourselves. We
>are deeply aware of our own history and the need for the world
>community to intervene in situations where there is a threat of
>genocide, in order to prevent it. However, this is clearly not
>what is happening in Yugoslavia today.
>
>We do not believe that our government's war against
>Yugoslavia is motivated by humanitarian concerns. This is
>evidenced by their refusal to airlift food and water to
>desperate refugees within Kosovo, as well as the paltry sums
>allocated for refugee relief as compared to the billions of dollars spent on
>the bombing. The Clinton Administration's great reluctance to pursue
>a negotiated solution to the conflict also indicates that this
>intervention is mainly about power: showing the world that the
>United States (and NATO, which it largely controls) is the self-
>appointed international policeman, and stands above
>international law and the United Nations. They are waging their
>war against civilians, destroying the Yugoslav economy and
>killing hundreds of innocent people, in order to demonstrate and
>consolidate their power.
>
>Many supporters of the bombing have drawn analogies to
>the Holocaust, arguing that the world cannot simply stand by in
>the face of ethnic cleansing in Kosovo. But the bombing has greatly
>worsened the situation of the Kosovar Albanians, as is now
>universally recognized. It has also destroyed the pro-democracy
>movement within Yugoslavia, and is destabilizing neighboring
>countries.
>
>We urge you to reject these false and exaggerated analogies
>to the Holocaust and World War II, which are being used to
>garner support for a bombing campaign that is intensifying the
>suffering of all nationalities in Yugoslavia. We appeal to the Green
>Party of Germany to oppose this war, and to support a negotiated
>solution of the conflict.
>
>(Signers -- Organizations listed for identification only.)
>
>Mitchel Cohen
>Brooklyn Greens, Green Party of NY,
>Greens / Green Party USA
>
>Michael Ratner
>Center for Constitutional Rights
>
>Vivian Stromberg
>Executive Director, MADRE
>
>Marcus Raskin
>Co-founder, Institute for Policy Studies
>
>Saul Landau
>Fellow, Institute for Policy Studies
>Hugh O. LaBounty Chair of Interdisciplinary Applied Knowledge,
>California State Polytechnic University
>
>Noam Chomsky
>Institute Professor of Linguistics
>Massachusetts Institute of Technology
>
>Edward S. Herman
>Professor Emeritus, Wharton School,
>University of Pennsylvania
>
>Howard Zinn,
>Historian, Author, "People's History of the United States"
>
>Jeff Cohen,
>Author, founder of FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting)
>
>Rebecca Golden
>Director, Ben & Jerry's Foundation
>
>Simona Sharoni
>Professor of Peace and Conflict Resolution, American University
>
>David J Cohen
>International Representative,
>United Electrical, Radio & Machine Workers of America (UE)
>
>James Weinstein
>Editor, In These Times
>
>Robert Weissman
>Editor, Multinational Monitor
>
>Seth Ackerman
>Media Analyst
>Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting
>
>Michael Albert
>Z Magazine/Znet
>
>Mark Weisbrot
>Research Director, Preamble Center
>
>Dean Baker
>Senior Research Fellow, Preamble Center
>
>Robert Naiman
>Research Associate, Preamble Center
>
>Scott Nova
>Director, Citizens Trade Campaign
>
>Jared Bernstein
>Economist, Economic Policy Institute, Washington DC
>
>Ken Silverstein
>Journalist
>
>Jaron Bourke
>Policy Activist, Washington, DC
>
>Norman Finkelstein
>Hunter College
>
>Joel Beinin
>Professor of Middle East History
>Stanford University
>
>Stephen Myer Kretzmann
>Campaigns Coordinator, Project Underground
>
>Rachel Rubin, M.D., M.P.H.
>Division Chair, Occupational and Environmental Medicine
>Cook County Hospital; University of Illinois, Chicago
>
>Michael Brun
>Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences
>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>
>Joshua Karliner
>Transnational Resource & Action Center, San Francisco
>
>Mark Solomon
>Prof. Emeritus of History
>Simmons College, Boston
>
>Peter Dorman
>Faculty of Political Economy
>The Evergreen State College
>Olympia, WA
>
>Don Barry,
>past Harlan J. Smith Fellow of Astrophysics
>The University of Texas at Austin
>
>Michael Eisenscher
>Lead Organizer, Project for Labor Renewal,
>Berkeley, California
>
>Jacqueline Cabasso
>Executive Director, Western States Legal Foundation
>
>Andrew Lichterman
>Attorney, Western States Legal Foundation
>
>Jay Levin
>Founder L.A Weekly newspaper
>
>Glenn Rubenstein
>Park Slope Greens, Green Party of New York
>
>Diane Swords
>Jewish Peace Fellowship of Central New York
>
>Alan Stoleroff
>Department of Sociology
>Instituto Superior de Ciencias do Trabalho e Empresa, Lisbon
>
>Luca Zampieri
>Department of Physics
>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>
>Eli C. Messinger, M.D.
>Green Party of New York
>Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry,
>New York Medical College
>
>Steve Welzer
>Green Party of New Jersey
>
>Carl Lesnor
>Manhattan Greens, Green Party of New York
>
>Dr. Nancy Goldner
>Brooklyn Greens, Green Party of New York
>
>Alan Schrift
>Professor of Philosophy, Grinnell College
>
>Rochelle Pudlowski Eissenstat, M.D
>Sinai-Samaritan Medical Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
>
>Robert Pollin
>Professor of Economics
>University of Massachusetts-Amherst
>
>Brian Tokar
>Institute for Social Ecology, Plainfield, Vermont
>
>Rabbi David Osachy
>Philadelphia, PA
>
>Rich Plevin,
>Economic Justice Now, Oakland, California
>
>Dennis Fischman
>Former President, Temple B'nai Brith,
>Somerville, Massachusetts
>
>Raven B. Earlygrow
>Former Mayor, City of Point Arena, California
>
>Andy Mager
>Jewish Peace Fellowship, Syracuse chapter
>
>Saul Bitran
>First violinist, Cuarteto Latinoamericano,
>Boca Raton, Florida
>
>Erick Brownstein
>Rainforest Action Network,
>San Francisco, California
>
>Irene Harris
>Former Publisher, Nassau Star (Long Beach, New York),
>Tarzana, California
>
>Tom Mayer
>Professor, Department of Sociology,
>University of Colorado
>
>Paul Worthman
>Director of Organizing & Research
>American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA)
>
>Nicole Barchilon Frank
>Past Board Member & Administrator at Temple Beth El
>Eureka, California
>
>Steve Rhodes
>Paper Tiger TV, Berkeley, California
>
>Ben Newman
>Rabbinical Student
>Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, Wyncote, PA
>
>Ann Fox, MSS, LSW
>Wyncote, PA
>
>Craig Gordon
>Social Studies and Media Studies Teacher
>Oakland Education Association Site Representative
>Fremont High School, Oakland, California
>
>David Utzschneider, MD, PhD
>Specialist in Internal Medicine,
>Baltimore, Maryland
>
>Nancy Rost
>Journalist
>Madison, Wisconsin
>
>Ken Cornet
>Green Party of Connecticut
>
>Philip Y. Blue,
>Senior Law Librarian
>New York State Supreme Court
>New York, New York
>
>Alexander Blum, M.D.
>Physician, Glen Ellen, California
>
>Dr. Alfred Bloch
>Professor of Political Science and East European History
>(Retired)
>New Paltz, New York
>
>Mahir Saul
>Associate Professor of Anthropology
>University of Illinois
>
>Zoltan Grossman
>Co-founder, Midwest Treaty Network (a Native American support
>group)
>Madison, Wisconsin
>
>Allan Solomonow,
>Regional Director, Peace Education Program
>American Friends Service Committee,
>San Francisco, California
>
>Randy Baker
>Co-Producer, "Fear and Favor in the Newsroom"
>
>Naomi Steinberg
>Student Rabbi, B'nai Ha-Aretz (Children of the Earth),
>Redway, California
>
>Julie Light
>Editor, Corporate Watch,
>San Francisco, California
>
>Richard Schmitt
>Department of Philosophy, Brown University
>
>Paula Friedman
>Editor/Publicist, Richmond, California
>
>Derek Wright
>United Faculty and Academic Staff, AFT Local 223, UW
>Madison, Wisconsin
>
>Frances Goldin, Mayer Vishner, Elizabeth Frankenberger
>The Frances Goldin Literary Agency, New York
>
>Dr. Phillip Moskoff, D.D.S
>Grass Valley, California
>
>Bob Auerbach,
>National Committee, Greens / Green Party USA
>Jewish Peace Fellowship
>Greenback, Maryland
>
>Boris Kogan
>Professor of Computer Science, University of California,
>Los Angeles
>
>Roman Mordechai,
>System Analyst, Parallax Microsystems,
>Cleveland, Ohio
>
>Bert Garskof
>Professor of Psychology, Quinnipiac College
>Hamden, Connecticut
>
>Jane Angus
>Writer, Henderson, Nevada
>
>Ashley Marcus
>Student, University of Virginia
>
>Brian Harvey
>Lecturer, Computer Science Division,
>University of California at Berkeley
>
>Ruslan Karapatnitski
>President, RIK Enterprises, Inc., Phoenix, AZ
>
>Ross Bauer
>Department of Music, University of California, Davis
>
>Cory Campbell
>Undergraduate, Reed College
>
>Aletha Stahl
>Department of Languages and Literatures, Earlham College,
>Richmond, Indiana
>
>David Applefield
>Association Frank, Paris
>
>Professor Douglas Allen
>Chair, Department of Philosophy, University of Maine
>Education Coordinator, Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine
>
>Katha Pollitt
>columnist, The Nation, New York
>
>Bruce Shapiro
>Columnist, The Nation
>
>Rebecca Welty
>Graduate Student, Electrical Engineering,
>University of California at San Diego
>
>Ryan Titchenell
>City Councilman, Trinidad, California
>
>Samuel Farber
>Professor of Political Science, Brooklyn College
>
>Kristin Weeks
>Student, University of Virginia
>
>Scott Rubel
>Facilities department, Carnegie Observatories,
>Pasadena, California
>
>Judy Samuels
>Africa-America Institute, New York
>
>Seth Farber, Ph.D.
>Network Against Coercive Psychiatry
>
>Harvey Karp, MD
>Assistant Professor of Pediatrics,
>UCLA School of Medicine
>
>Phyllis Olin
>President of the Board,
>Western States Legal Foundation
>
>Dr. Justin K. Schwartz
>Attorney, Chicago, Illinois
>
>Devva Kasnitz, PhD
>Research Director, Research and Training Center on Independent
>Living and Disability Policy
>World Institute on Disability, Oakland, California
>
>Paula Gutlove and Gordon Thompson
>Institute for Resource and Security Studies,
>Cambridge, Massachusetts
>
>John Burdick
>Associate Professor of Anthropology,
>Syracuse University
>
>Zeljko Boskovic
>Professor, Department of Linguistics,
>University of Connecticut
>
>Jorge Liderman
>Professor of Music, UC Berkeley
>
>Sergei Babko,
>Senior Process Engineer, MSE TA,Inc.,
>Butte, Montana
>
>Olga Babko,
>Graduate Student, Rutgers University
>
>Mira Cantrell, MD
>UCLA School of Medicine,
>Los Angeles, California
>
>Jennifer Malvin
>Piano Teacher, Los Angeles, California
>
>Fred Shapiro
>Associate Director, Yale University Law School Library
>
>Bernie Tuchman,
>Dept. of Environmental Protection,  New York, N.Y.
>
>Judith Ward
>Professor of History, New York, N.Y.
>
>Don Obers
>Social Worker, Patchogue, New York
>
>David Comeaux
>Green Party of New York, Rochester, NY
>
>William Muraskin
>Professor of Urban Studies, Queens College,
>City University of New York
>
>Dr. Ilan Kogus
>Senior Associate, The Adizes Institute for Organizational
>Transformation, Santa Barbara, California
>
>Albina Leibman-Klix
>Ph.D. student in Comparative Literature and Philosophy,
>Binghamton University, New York
>
>Jodie Evans,
>Director, We The People, Oakland California
>
>Albert Febbo
>Artist, Las Vegas, Nevada
>
>David Atias
>Genesee Valley/Rochester Greens, Green Party of New York State,
>Green Party USA
>
>Diana F. Cramer
>Librarian, Onondaga County Public Library, Syracuse, NY
>
>Laura A. Zimmerman
>Student, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College, Wyncote, PA
>
>Morten Krogh
>Student, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
>
>Douglas Mattern
>President, Association of World Citizens,
>San Francisco, CA
>
>Seth Kulick
>Graduate Student, University of Pennsylvania
>
>Naomi Smith, Ellen Meltzer, Miriam Chesman
>New York City, New York
>
>Shirley Cohen and Bernie Levin
>San Jose, California
>
>Richard and Carol Weinstock
>Ventura, California
>
>Ben Markeson
>Orlando Coalition to Stop the War; Socialist Party U.S.A.,
>Orlando, Florida
>
>Andrew Schneider
>Wanaque, New Jersey
>
>Herbert Brun
>Emeritus Professor of Music, University of Illinois
>
>Mark Epstein
>Professor, Dept. of Modern Languages, College of New Jersey
>
>Josh Raufman
>President, Middlebury College Chapter of Hillel,
>Member, Democratic Socialists of America
>
>Dr. Benjamin Robinson
>Post-Doctoral Fellow, Area One Program, German Studies,
>Stanford University
>
>E.M. Daniel
>Research Assistant/Graduate Student
>San Francisco State University
>
>Jack Kurzweil
>Electrical Engineering Department
>San Jose State University
>
>Mark Jacobs
>Director of WESPAC (Westchester People's Action Coalition),
>New York
>
>Dennis P. Geller
>Congregation Kahal B'raira, Massachusetts
>
>Abram Stern
>Student, Cresskill, New Jersey
>
>Robert Jensen
>Associate Professor, Department of Journalism,
>University of Texas at Austin
>
>Boris A.Kupershmidt
>Professor of Mathematics,
>The University of Tennessee Space Institute
>
>Dan Merkle
>Attorney at Law, Seattle, Washington
>
>Jonathan Rosen
>Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
>
>Tim Wise
>Director, Association for White Anti-Racist Education (AWARE),
>Nashville, Tennessee
>
>Christopher Bierman
>English Language Institute
>Wayne State University
>
>Dan Brook
>Instructor, University of California, Davis;
>Member, Editorial Collective of Socialist Review
>Davis, California
>
>Julie Brook
>Editor, Davis, California
>
>Norbert Hornstein, Professor
>Linguistics, University of Maryland/College Park
>
>Dan Nissenbaum
>Software Engineer, Amherst, MA
>
>Michael N. Nagler
>Professor emeritus of Classics & Comparative Literature
>Chair of Peace and Conflict Studies,
>UC Berkeley, Tomales, California
>
>David G. Kern, M.D.
>Associate Professor of Medicine
>Brown University School of Medicine
>
>Stephen D. Shenfield
>Watson Institute for International Studies
>Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
>
>Elaine Bernard
>Director, Harvard University Trade Union Program,
>Cambridge, MA
>
>Hank Bromley
>Assistant Professor, Dept of Educational Leadership and Policy,
>State University of New York at Buffalo
>
>David Ozonoff, MD, MPH
>Professor and Chair, Dept. of Environmental Health,
>Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, MA
>
>Marguerite Rosenthal, Ph.D.
>School of Social Work, Salem State College, Salem, MA
>
>Dan Bahcall
>Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
>Member Princeton Jewish Center, Princeton, NJ
>
>Bob Jiggins
>Co-ordinator, Network for Peace in the Balkans
>
>Mark Haim
>Mid-Missouri PeaceWorks
>
>David Gottfried
>Westsiders Against the War, New York City
>
>David N. Gibbs
>Associate Professor of Political Science,
>University of Arizona
>
>Lew Pepper, MD, MPH
>Asst Professor, Environmental Health Program
>Boston University School of Public Health
>
>Alan Meyers
>Associate Professor of Pediatrics
>Boston University School of Medicine
>
>Matthew Smith
>UE Local 150 - N. Carolina Public Service Workers Union
>
>Ichak Adizes, Ph.D
>President Adizes Institute, Santa Barbara, California
>
>Robert J.S. Ross
>Professor of Sociology, Clark University, Worcester, MA
>
>Debbie Applefield Milley
>Marketing Manager, Guidebooks Houghton Mifflin Company
>Boston, Massachusetts
>
>Lisa Zimmerman
>National Co-Coordinator, Nicaragua Network, Washington, DC
>
>Dan Tenenbaum
>Software design engineer, Writer
>Seattle, WA
>
>David Kaplowitz
>Prison Radio, San Francisco
>
>Alan and Ruth Barnett
>Mill Valley, CA
>
>Barry Deutsch
>Student, Portland State University
>
>Gwynne Sigel
>Member, Congress of Secular Jewish Organizations;
>New Jewish Voice; Graduate student, University of Pennsylvania,
>Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
>
>Daniel Ellsberg
>Peace Activist, Author
>
>Matthew Wright
>Programmer/Analyst, U.C. Berkeley Center for New Music and Audio
>Technology, Berkeley, California
>
>Daniel Weiskopf
>Graduate Student, Department of Philosophy
>Brown University
>
>Snezana Landau, translator
>Neil Landau, nuclear engineer
>El Cerrito, California
>
>Robert Plummer
>Impact Sports, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
>
>Jim Rissman
>Beth Israel Synagogue, Verona, Wisconsin
>
>Adam Kessel
>Environmental Activist, Center for Neighborhood Technology
>Chicago, Illinois
>
>Joe Mabel
>Seattle Peace Heathens, Seattle, Washington
>
>Stephen E. Berk,
>Professor of History, California State University, Long Beach
>
>Ariel Reinheimer
>Student, Brooklyn Law School
>Executive Board member, New Party of Long Island, New York
>
>Jesse Lemisch
>John Jay College of Criminal Justice,
>City University of New York
>
>Naomi Weisstein
>State University of New York at Buffalo
>
>Moshe Broudo, Engineer, Canon Information Systems
>Cupertino, California
>
>Esher Broudo, Homemaker,
>Cupertino, California
>
>Netta Broudo & Michal Broudo
>Students, Cupertino, California
>
>Bruce E. Bernstein
>President, New York Software Industry Association, Inc.
>New York City
>
>Julie Spriggs
>Business Owner, New York City
>
>Andrew Bateman,
>President, Political Science Association,
>Metropolitan State College of Denver, Colorado
>
>Nathan Kauffman
>Philosophy student, Millersville University,
>Lancaster, Pennsylvania
>
>Barbara Ogur, M.D.
>Instructor in Medicine
>Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts
>
>Greg Grant, PhD.
>postdoctoral researcher in Genetics
>University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
>
>Howard Schreiber
>Filmmaker, Ashland, Oregon
>
>Susan Nossal
>Atmospheric Physicist, University of Wisconsin
>Madison, Wisconsin
>
>Sara Sutler-Cohen
>Graduate Department of Sociology
>Humboldt State University, Arcata, California
>
>Dana H. Brooks
>Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering,
>Northeastern University
>Steering Committee Member, Workmen's Circle Shule,
>Brookline Massachusetts
>Co-Chair, Visions of Peace with Justice in Israel/Palestine,
>Boston, Massachusetts
>
>Sam Krasnow
>Managment Consultant,
>Cambridge, Massachusetts
>
>Rumeli Snyder
>Oakland, California
>
>Diane Reiner
>Music Teacher, Berkeley, California
>
>Ephraim Sinowitz
>Computer Programmer
>New York City
>
>Jerold M. Starr
>Professor of Sociology West Virginia University
>Director, Center for Social Studies Education,
>Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
>
>Shelly A. Erickson
>Undergraduate, Christopher Newport University
>Newport News, Virginia
>
>Wendy Linick
>Senior Technical Writer, Nortel Networks
>Los Angeles, California
>
>Daniel Bowman
>UCSC Student,
>Santa Cruz, California
>
>Eliza Sulzbacher
>Student, Whitman College,
>Walla Walla, Washington
>
>Danny Fox
>Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows
>
>Sylvia Zisman
>N.J. Hiroshima Day Remembrance Committee
>Member, Council of Secular Jewish Organizations
>Springfield, New Jersey
>
>Matt Goldberg
>Graduate student, JFK School of Government, Harvard
>Somerville, Massachusetts
>
>David Rabin,
>Radio Editor, Member, Jews United for Justice,
>Washington, DC
>
>Vera D. Cecilio, M.D.
>Member, Temple Judea
>Sherman Oaks, California
>
>Stephen R. Shalom
>William Paterson University, New Jersey
>
>Sarah Wiseman
>Musician, Urbana, Illinois
>
>Jon Nissenbaum
>Department of Linguistics, MIT
>Cambridge, MA
>
>Silja J.A. Talvi
>Journalist
>Seattle, Washington
>
>Martin Gorfinkel
>Los Altos, California
>
>Lee Kershner
>Las Cruces, NM
>
>David Loeb
>Guatemala News & Information Bureau
>
>Carole Resnick & Debra Lee Gertz
>Jewish Peace Fellowship of Central New York
>
>Dustin M. Wax
>Graduate Student, New School for Social Research
>Exhibition Assistant, The Jewish Museum, New York
>
>Benjamin Davis
>Teacher, Temple Israel of Hollywood Day School
>
>Janet Weil
>Teacher, Berkeley, California
>
>John Exdell
>Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy
>Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas
>
>Gregory Sechuga
>Project Manager, Beacon Consulting Group,
>Carmel, Indiana
>
>Dr. James M. Blaut
>Professor of Geography and Anthropology
>University of Illinois at Chicago
>
>Robin Cohen
>Migrant Education, Monterey County, California
>
>Walter Miale
>Green World Center
>Richford, Vermont
>
>Ronit Avni
>Student, Vassar College
>
>Larisa Goldmints
>Graduate student, Department of Civil and Environmental
>Engineering,
>Carnegie Mellon University
>
>Dr. Peter D. Lichtenstein
>New Paltz Acupuncture and Chiropractic Center
>New Paltz, New York
>
>Jon Ball
>Northeastern Univ. Dept. of Mathematics,
>Boston, Massachusetts
>
>Joseph Levine
>Professor of Philosophy
>North Carolina State University
>
>Jeff Grabelsky
>Senior Extension Associate
>Cornell University, NYSSILR
>
>Burt Wartell, President
>Greater Portland Federated Labor Council, AFL-CIO,
>Portland, Maine
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