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Carol O'Reilly, Founder of Redwood & Co explores innovative L&D and shares her thoughts on "creating a culture of curiosity" and "achieving agility through experimentation."
Lets start with an introduction to who Redwood & Co are and what they do?
Redwood is a collective of consultants who have come together out of a passion for crafting creative learning environments. The ethos really is that there are lots of independent consultants out there who have lots of talents and to bring them together to offer something new and innovative to the corporate world in the context of learning and development. The world keeps changing and learning & development needs to keep changing with it. So in terms of bringing a new dimension to learning & development we are questioning "how do we make L&D more impactful and more felt, as opposed to an activity that gets done?" "How do we bring together a lot of the models and the theories out there, and get people emotionally connected to them, so as to actually drive different types of outputs and resultants that are measurable and tangible? For us the approach is very much about a whole 'head, heart and hand' connection.
Could you share a line or two from Redwood's founding myth?
Learning, I believe, is like an experiment where 'mistakes and next takes' are part of the journey.
Experimentation, especially when it has elements of fun and engaging interactivity built into it, enables agility and adaptability. Some of the critical components of experimentation includes mixing things up, doing new and different things, involving different people and perspectives… Redwood's founding myth revolves around these core elements, where the hosting of open and innovative environments enables both individual and collective experimentation and through which the resultant learning leads to focused action.
It links back to our tag line 'wired to make the energy within groups and leaders flow,' I think energy comes from things like experimenting, having fun and taking it seriously but maybe through different means – through means that allow creativity and potential to really come out.
Can you capture as a picture, a vision of Redwood's dream of "creatively crafted" learning environments?
The vision is that it is boundary-less. The solar system works as a good metaphor- the sun sits in the middle with fire and energy inside of it, you have all sorts of different planets that have different conditions- different skills, knowledge bases, partners, and all are pulled by gravity into coherence, and it's in that holistic gesture of them coming together as a system that they can create something that sustains life and energy.
To me this boundary-less-ness is about no element being bounded by its beliefs, its skills, its attitude… anything. This is key to learning. And I think that the gravity comes from the leaders who actually have to host that boundaryless space- they have to create it but everyone then has their own energy that they can bring to the context; the leader's give the stars the opportunity to constellate and for the components in the system to come into gravitational alignment.
So a vision for our learning environments is that they are a context for that solar system dynamic to be discovered and enacted by our clients.
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From your experience, what you do believe are some of the core competencies that leaders need to exhibit to enable people in an organisation to come into alignment?
Empowerment and Engagement- which link very nicely back to learning as an experiment. If leaders in the business are encouraging their people to engage, to try things, to work with each other, with their partners, then the leaders empower their team to see things as an experiment where everybody learns. I think that is where alignment happens- where the realisation of 'this is what we can achieve together' is encountered. And it's that co-creativity- the collective acknowledgement that "it's okay to take risks" and the collective dialogue along the way around 'what is risk in this context' – that cultivates resilience and agility.
Curiosity is another core competency, and something I once read as being a gateway competency, which I loved the notion of, because it is through curiosity that one takes time to pause and truly observe things and see other peoples' perspectives. In doing this, one ultimately challenges their own thinking and learnings to date.. and that makes one richer in their own being going forward.
I often wonder "how do you create a culture of curiosity" and what I have found thus far is that this again links back to experimentation… curiosity is a mechanism, wherein by introducing new perspectives, methodologies and approaches – be they from the arts, science, etc. – one sparks creativity and imagination – and leaders of today need not only be curious themselves, they need to empower and engage the curiosity of those they lead.
Using your phone, can you take 6 pictures which tell a story of Redwood and where it is going…
Coffee Cup: This is about building environments that have that "coffee cup culture" quality where people can come and have relaxed, rich conversations with a definitive taste- like coffee.
Cocoon: This is about going into that silent space of reflection and deeper meaning, wherein we might first encourage clients to expand themselves but then to come back in and allow a focus as well.
A Redwood Tree: this captures the importance of grounding and safety. The redwood trees have such a warm and rich environment and because they are so tall they allow light through but they also shelter, so that idea of learning that allows so many new ideas to emerge and be explored, but safely. Their roots are very strong but they are not that deeply grounded to be stuck, and also at the core of the tree is the ability for it to constantly grow each year at rate- that significant growth, that height that it can get to, is magnificent yet it remains so grounded as well… so for Redwood&Co we want to continue to ask "what do businesses need" and "how can we keep that offering grounded?" "How do we take what a client is looking for and help them ground it in the context for their people, for their values and their 'why' in the world?"
Children: this speaks to the playfulness, the openness to experimenting and keeping that at the core of what we do.
Leading to Hope Way: the reason I took this picture was the 'leading to" aspect: we are helping to lead a way forward for organisations; we don't necessarily provide the hope but we do open up to whatever hope looks like for the people in the organisations we work with. That idea of hope to me is around possibility… but it also has belief built in behind it, so it doesn't finish at possibility. What we give to people is the idea of discovering their potential and then actually doing something with it. So hope is actually linked not just to the possibility but to the actualisation of it – that it is possible!
Connectedness: getting people to be curious about connectedness as a way of learning. To me constellations might be a good image here- you wouldn't necessarily recognise a constellation at first seeing a series of stars in the night's sky… and yet once someone has made that connection for you, the notion of Orion, Libra, Ursa Major, etc., between certain stars means you can see them too- and for other stars that aren't so obviously connected or currently known there is still so much potential for the possibility of defining new constellations according to the different connections that can be drawn.
Finally, is there anything else you would like to share?
I love the idea of the ripple effect- seeing how far something can spread, acknowledging and allowing the ripple's own power, knowing that every time you throw a stone into the pond you don't know how many ripples you are going to get- that is up to that particular stone to determine in alignment and unison with the particular dimensions and attributes of the water in which it was thrown… I always think that's quite fascinating, where people are the stones and the water beds are the organisations into which we throw ourselves and our efforts, we don't know what effect our specific interactions will have… we just need to keep throwing ourselves in, experimenting and allowing our ripples to spread!
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India, China and peace
JAYAPRAKASH NARAYAN's article is the text of his inaugural address to the Sixth Sarvodaya Conference for Madras State last year.
THERE WERE FOURTEEN YEARS in which to resolve peacefully the dispute between India and Portugal over Goa. Both countries are members of the United Nations. But there was no solution. Then India acted unilaterally and started military operations. At that time all of us---or most of us-became narrow-minded nationalists and forgot that no such nationalism can be tolerated today if it imperils the peace of the world. If there was any voice raised in India against the Goan action, it was that of the Sarvodaya movement.
I think it is the same in the case of the Sino-Indian conflict. As early as December 1960, at the conference of the War Resisters International at Gandhigram, it was left to me, speaking for the Sarvodaya movement, seriously to put forward the proposal that the border dispute between India and China was a fit case to be settled by arbitration. I was roundly denounced in the ·press and by political leaders in the country for my foolhardy suggestion. The Prime Minister was put a question in the Parliament about it. He just brushed it aside. I repeated my proposal, as President of the All-India Sarvodaya Conference at Unguturu, because it was not only my personal opinion but also the view of the Sarvodaya movement. This time I seem to have created some impression on the minds of our leaders. Some months later, when the Prime Minister was again asked in Parliament, he said he agreed in principle with the idea of arbitration, but did not see it anywhere on the horizon.
I regret that we did not pursue the idea of arbitration as persistently as perhaps we could have. We should not be satisfied merely to place a suggestion before the people. We could have pursued it in co-operation with peace movements in other parts of the world. We could have pursued it with our own government, perhaps discussed this question with the Prime Minister. Vinobaji could have taken it up with him, examined it and placed it before the Chinese leaders, perhaps in a form they could have considered if not accepted.
The idea of arbitration has been explicitly stated in the U.N. Charter. In the Bandung Declaration it says that when there is a dispute the first step toward its settlement should be bilateral talks, failing which there should be mediation, good offices, adjudication and finally arbitration. Are there other peaceful ways of settling disputes ?
Last December the suggestion was made for an international group of pacifists, votaries of non-violence, to undertake a friendship march from somewhere in India to somewhere in China, so that an effort should be made to stop the war that stands between the peoples of India and China. It was hoped that some kind of slender bridge be established, some sort of dialogue made possible between the peoples of India and China, a dialogue in which representatives of the Gandhian movement and non-violent movements all over the world could participate.
That suggestion was accepted by the Sarva Seva Sangh and Shanti Sena Mandal, and the Friendship March started from the Mahatma Gandhi memorial in New Delhi on March 1st. This is, of course, a small effort compared to the task that faces us. Many wise people made similar jokes about the Dand March. Manufacturing contraband salt and trying to overthrow the British government in India: these seemed such incongruous things. Yet history shows what happened.
People have raised the question of whether the message of peace and love has at all to be preached to the Indian people. It has been said that if the Marchers really wish to bring about friendship between India and China, they should go right away to Peking and start preaching to the Chinese people. because it is assumed that the Indian people are overflowing with the milk of friendship and love. I do not know how much has been appearing in the papers about black flag demonstrations, hostile slogans, debates in Assemblies or remarks of Ministers. Let me assure you of one thing: that wherever the Marchers have really met the people, talked to them, answered their questions, opened their hearts and shared their thoughts as friends and equals, they have made an impression which is difficult to describe. If this question between India and China is settled peacefully, this March will have made a contribution to the settlement beyond all proportion.
The trouble with all these professions and declarations about peaceful settlement of disputes which we hear today is that at the same time everybody prepares for a violent settlement also. Everywhere this is going on: armies are multiplying, weapons are being manufactured, more and more dangerous weapons every day—and yet everyone talks of peaceful settlement. It passes one's understanding how a peaceful settlement could come out of a situation such as this. If ever a peaceful settlement is possible, it will be possible only in an atmosphere such as is being created by this Friendship March.
I think one of the proofs of the success of the Friendship March, one indication that it is on the right track, is that it has been attacked not only in India but even more violently in China. Just as we are Indian nationalists here, they are also Chinese nationalists there. This lens of nationalism distorts reality. The world has become too interdependent for these nationalisms.
If India wishes to create a military power in this country equivalent to Chinese power, it will be a gigantic task. Last year we spent four hundred crores (four billion rupees, one U.S. dollar equals about 4.76 rupees) on our army and this year we are going to spend nearly 900 crores. We are trying to beg, borrow and buy whatever arms we can get from anywhere in the world.
Why are we doing all this ? Do we, after full consideration, really believe that by raising an army as big as that of the Chinese army we can settle this question with China ? We are setting ourselves against the lesson which history has taught us, the history of thousands of years. It is necessary for us to see this as clearly as the sun in the sky.
We should go to the people, as friends, and tell them as openly, as unhesitatingly as possible, the foolishness, the absurdity of what is being done. First of all, I think it is necessary for us to understand and make the people understand. the price that will have to be paid by us for the adequate militarization of this country. The price will be sacrifice not only in terms of hard work but in the values of our life. the foundation on which the Indian culture has stood all these years.
It is easy to see that this is going to set into motion between India and China perhaps one of the biggest armaments races the world has seen, the end of which is difficult to see, an endless waste of human resources. This race is confined not only to the so-called conventional weapons. We know that the Chinese are very actively trying to manufacture their own atom bomb. It will not take longer than two years, maybe less, to test their own bomb.
For the present the Prime Minister's policy is not to use atomic energy for destructive purposes. The Indian Atomic Energy Commission is working to develop that energy for peaceful uses. After China has publicly tested her bomb. I doubt very much if it will be possible for Mr. Nehru to persist in this policy. The logic of the armaments race, the very logic of not being left behind by our enemy, would force him or his successor to reverse this policy. India would also be launched on this path of a race not only in conventional arms but in nuclear weapons also.
The cost of that in material, cultural and spiritual terms can easily be imagined. I doubt very much whether this country would be able to bear that cost. I doubt very much whether we could do all that and preserve our democratic ways of life, our democratic institutions. I doubt very much whether we could do all that and preserve our essential humanity. The gigantic effort it would require—and it might end in complete disaster—would brutalize all of us.
There is much talk of offensive and defensive war. Every self-righteous Indian says he cannot imagine that his country would think of starting an offensive war against anybody. All these preparations are only for defence. Even a child today knows there is no difference left between an offensive and a defensive war. The histories of war teach that it is difficult to find out how a war starts, it is difficult to lay a finger exactly at the cause of war. This distinction between an offensive and a defensive war is merely an academic distinction.
Every Indian youth today talks about taking back every inch of Indian territory which the Chinese have now occupied by force. Now suppose the Chinese sit tight on what they have occupied and the flag of China flies over the Aksaichin, what is Indian going to do about that? How is it going to fight a defensive war? India is committed to take back every inch of Indian territory. As India builds great military forces for herself, there will be this logical pressure behind it and sooner or later there will have to be a conflict. Then who shot the first bullet will mean nothing at all. The fact is there will be a situation in which a war becomes inevitable, and each side will blame· the other.
We had one little war lasting an interval of a few weeks and we were exhausted in that war. Now every Indian wants to wash off the blot, the shame involved in it. Suppose that after India prepares for this second engagement with China, India wins and the Chinese flag is removed from the Aksia-chin and· the Indian flag flies there. Is there anyone so foolish as to think that will settle the dispute with China forever? That one war will not lead to another?
Even if you could isolate China and India, it will be an unending process which will mean the ruination of both India and China. Every war cannot necessarily remain a localised war. If it becomes a global war, where is your security then? Where is your defence? Where is protection of the national interest?
Where leads, then, this question of settling the border dispute by military preparations, by military means? These are questions that face every one of us today. They are questions we the people must answer, and not only the government, What can the government do? What can Mr. Nehru do? He represents us, the people. If we want him to have the biggest army in the world, he will be forced to act.
It is therefore for us, the people, for us the Sarvodaya workers, to go to the people and explain to them. It is for them to decide whether they will commit suicide and fall into the ditch. But at least let us place before them all the facts we can, and let the people judge for themselves.
The people might ask: what is the alternative? Is Jayaprakash Narayan and the Sarvodaya movement preaching cowardice, submission to aggression, meek acceptance of injustice? No one should feel that those who believe in nonviolence would for a single moment be prepared to make any kind of compromise with cowardice. If cowardice, submission or moral degradation were the only alternative to military preparations, even to destruction, I would not, with full sense of responsibility, be preaching the renunciation of war.
It is because we could not have forgotten so soon what Mahatma Gandhi taught us and taught the whole world : that there is an alternative, not only an alternative but the only alternative. He has shown us that war leads us into more wars, and then into complete destruction. This alternative of nonviolence is the only answer to the situation the world is facing today.
Such means as peaceful settlement, negotiations across a table, good offices, adjudication, arbitration, friendship marches—they may succeed, they may fail. But there is no failure for a people who have accepted nonviolence and have prepared themselves to resist whatever evil might come. The alternative to armament is disarmament, the disarmament of violence and the taking up of the armour of nonviolence. If we were to completely and unilaterally disarm our selves, demobilise the Indian army and take up in place of violent arms and weapons of nonviolence—that would be a real alternative.
What would be the meaning of nonviolent armour? It would mean we have shed our fears. The Indian people should fear neither China nor Russia, nor America, nor all of them put together. We have determined not to bow our heads before any aggressor, before anyone who wants to impose his will over us. We have resolved to resist all injustice, not to bow the knee to any conqueror. If we have done this fearlessly and understandingly, not all the nuclear weapons of Russia and America put together could equal the power of such a preparation.
Acceptance of nonviolence would not only mean giving up military preparation. It would also mean a radical transformation in our own lives, a transformation of our social and economic institutions. A nonviolent India which has disarmed herself would be a very different India from what we see today: an India of exploitation, of inequality, of all kinds of social injustices, untouchability, caste system, high and low, rich and poor and all these. It is not as if the acceptance of nonviolence is a mechanical thing, throwing away the gun from our hand and for the rest remaining as we are. An India which deliberately accepted nonviolence would go through a complete transformation of life and of society.
If the Indian people accepted nonviolence, how would they then face aggression?
First of all, I do not think that a country which has adopted nonviolence will have many disputes with other countries. Even if it has disputes, perhaps it will be much easier to settle them than when that country has an army. It is because the parties concerned both try to negotiate on the basis of what they call strength, which ultimately means military strength, that settlement becomes difficult.
Second, if this dispute continues and is not settled even after India has disarmed, and the Chinese army marches into Indian territory, what will the people do?
We have all the experience under British rule when we fought for our freedom. We have forgotten that experience, or are inclined to brush it aside by saying the conditions are entirely different, etc., etc. Suppose the Chinese army marches, and the Indian people have no arms; there is no army, only Shanti Sainiks working amongst the people as their nonviolent guards, helping them—what then?
The people would say to the invader that if he come as a friend, he would be welcome; he would be given the place of honour in this country. But because he has come as an invader and aggressor, he may expect no co-operation, no Indian will help him in any way whatsoever, not a grain, not a pie (smallest Indian coin), not a word for the aggressor on the road, in the train, in the shop. No one will give him information. Complete non-violent non-co-operation will be offered the aggressor, and along with it complete preparedness to suffer the consequences that follow. The people would say they are prepared to die.
We must make the people understand that no matter what the degree and quality of their military preparedness might be, in modern war it is not only armies that fight and die. The people also die, and therefore they should never be misguided into thinking they will not be called upon to lay down their lives while they are working in their fields, factories, homes, hospitals and schools. Bombs will be dropped all over and the people will have to die in any case. But this death leads to further death, ultimately to complete annihilation. There is no end to it.
A people committed to non-violence will say: "Not a single shot will be fired on our side, you go on killing, we are prepared to die, we will not submit, but we will not accept your rule, we wilt not bow down before you, we will not co-operate with you." This is the best method for meeting Chinese aggression, or any other.
Then it is said in retort: "If a country does that, the Chinese will be quite happy because it will be like running a knife through butter. They will march from the Himalayas to the Kanyakurnari, Nobody will stop them. Advocates of non-violence are merely preaching the complete decimation of the people of this country, and the complete conquest of India by China." What is the answer to that?
I do not think that any army, made up as it is of human beings, would be able to do this. When an army is faced with another army, and there is killing on both sides, then each army is concerned only with the question of how to kill the largest number of the enemy. No question of conscience arises. The Chinese want to kill as many Indians as possible and vice versa. And they glory in that accomplishment.
If one side is killing but from the other side there is complete passive resistance, not a stone being thrown, not a word of abuse being uttered, then I do not think this invading army, which as I have said is made up of human beings, will go on killing people and killing people day after day after day. If an army were made up of animals (lions, tigers) which kill human beings, this could be possible. But the Chinese are human; the Indians are also human. From the very moment when the first Chinese fires the first bullet, the question will arise in his mind: "What kind of war am I fighting?" He will ask his officer, who in turn will ask his superior officer, and finally the question will go to Peking. It will go to Washington, to New York, to Paris and London and Moscow and Berlin. The whole world will be asking: what kind of war is this? No fighting from one side, killing from the other.
In all sincerity, I do not think such a war can last longer than a week.
Bloody wars can last I don't know how many years. There have been wars in history which were never formally ended. But such a war cannot go on because we are human beings, and there is a God who created human beings; there is an element of godliness in every person. If you do not have faith in human nature, in humanity; or in this Creation, this all-pervading Consciousness, then all right. Then you may be cynical and may say that Jayaprakash Narayan is dreaming. Such a thing will never happen. The Chinese are not ordinary human beings, they are cruel. The whole of the Mongolian race, I have been told, is a cruel race. Well, I do not know. We are not in any way less cruel in our own country, with our murders and our riots.
Wisdom and good sense will dawn, the war will come to an end, and no party will be the vanquished party. That is the beauty of it. That war will not lead to another war and yet another. A new situation will arise in the relations between India and China.
This has never happened in history. It had also never happened before that when the viceroy of a ruling party was leaving he was greeted with the slogan "Lord Mountbatten Ki Jai" (Hail to Lord Mountbatten). When Lord Cornwallis left America, the thirteen united colonies which had fought British colonial power did not shout "Lord Cornwallis Ki Jai."
This is the way for India, if the people of India are brave enough, wise enough. All the sacrifices demanded for the military way, in terms of money and of spirit, will be unnecessary. All this energy can be used for the development of this country, for the eradication of poverty, injustice and inequality. As human beings we can all rise higher, in such a climate of non-violence, and become better.
Perhaps India can show a way to Russia and America, to East and West, which are today at each other's throats, in spite of the Geneva conference that goes on and on endlessly. Maybe India can show the way that peace can be established on this earth.
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At least one car flipped and another rolled onto its side in the 6:30 a.m. accident caused by a drunken driver, near 188th St. in Jamaica Estates, police said.
Cops arrested Andrew Shakespeare, 33, of New Jersey. Shakespeare caused the fatal crash when he tried to speed past another car in his westbound 2014 BMW SUV and lost control, according to authorities.
Shakespeare's SUV flew across three lanes, smashed into the guardrail and rolled over into the eastbound lanes, cops said.
Charges against him include Shakespeare was charged with manslaughter, vehicular manslaughter, aggravated vehicular homicide, driving while intoxicated, reckless endangerment and reckless driving.
Akeam Grant, 16, died at the scene after he was thrown from the backseat, police said. The front-seat passenger, 34-year-old Layon Campbell, died at Elmhurst Hospital Center two hours later.
The seven people who were hurt went to nearby hospitals with minor injuries, cops said.
Twelve hours earlier in Staten Island, cops arrested the driver of a white Hyundai who hit a woman and 4-year-old twins as they crossed a street, police said.
Elizabeth Johnson, 56, hit the 25-year-old woman and the kids, a boy and a girl, at Vanderbilt Ave. and Osgood Ave. in Fox Hills just before 6:30 p.m. Saturday, cops said. EMS workers took the victims to Staten Island University Hospital in stable condition. The little girl suffered a head injury and the boy and the woman had cuts on their faces and legs, cops said.
The victims have the same last name, but their exact relationship could not be determined.
Johnson, who lives in Staten Island, was charged with failure to yield to pedestrians and failure to exercise due care.
There have been 14 motorist fatalities this year through Thursday, a 41% drop from last year when there were 24 for the same period, according to police statistics. There also have been 51 pedestrian fatalities, which represents a 27% decrease from last year's 70.
Overall, a total of 102 people have died in collisions this year through Thursday, including motorcyclists, bicyclists and passengers. That figure represents an 18% decrease from the same period last year, when 125 people died in accidents.


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UCCF blogger gives Carte Blanche to 'Israeli Apartheid Guide'
The Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship (UCCF) blogger Daniel Blanche reviews Ben White's new book at Shiny Ginger Thoughts:
So, my friend Ben wrote a book. As a result of writing this book, and of the other work he does, my friend Ben was denounced as an antisemite and a holocaust denier. To reassure you, he is certainly neither of those things. But he has written a controversial book.
Ben White was not 'denounced as an antisemite and a holocaust denier' as a result of writing this book. Back in 2002, White wrote that he does not consider himself an antisemite, but he understands why some are. In 2006, White argued that Ahmadinejad wasn't really denying the Holocaust when he called the Holocaust a 'myth'. Following widespread public criticism of White's book, White condemned Holocaust denial and antisemitism, although in his book, White recommended the writings of French Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy.
I finished reading this a couple of days ago, but I need to put some thinking time in before I reviewed it. I can see why people are angry about it. I can see why it has attracted a lot of negative press. But I think you should read it. I really do.
Ben takes us through three broad sections. The first relates the history of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. It tells the story of the rise of Israel, and the subsequent displacement of the Palestinian people. It is a powerful story, powerfully told, using quotations from early Israeli leaders and interviews with Palestinians affected.
These quotations, however, include doctored quotations, such as the fake quote that Ben Gurion said "We must expel the Arabs and take their places", when he actually said ""We do not wish and do not need to expel Arabs and take their places."
What comes across most clearly is the awareness that the Zionist project would require the eviction of the Palestinian people if it was to succeed – and great lengths were gone to in order to ensure that it did succeed. At the end of the section, I was angry. Very angry.
The second section has to do with the current apparatus of Israeli apartheid.
Here Blanche casually uses the term 'Israeli apartheid' as if it were a factual description. Yet the term is historically, morally and intellectually flawed. The South African anti-Zionism movement and its use of the apartheid analogy has itself been critiqued in detail.
Ben talks us through the situation on the ground for Arabs within Israel and those in the OPT, again drawing on a wide range of sources. It is painful reading. When I got to the end of this section, I felt more or less despair. How could anything change such a system?
This 'wide range of sources' includes Ilan Pappe, Uri Davis, Charles D Smith, Tom Segev, Tanya Reinhart, Jeff Halper, Hussein and McKay, and Maxime Rodinson. White's use of sources is successfully critiqued here. One wonders how much attention Blanche has really paid to White's historiography?
And so the third section, which outlined action that I could take, was great. Ben refuses to allow us to walk away because the situation is too complex, or the solutions too distant. We must do something; I must do something. Ask me in a few months what I've done – I know that I am too prone to laziness, and am likely to let this challenge pass me by.
What does White challenge Blanche to do? Boycott Israel, divest from Israeli companies and 'international companies that are profiting from doing business with apartheid', campaign for EU and international sanctions against Israel. White's calls for boycotts have influenced churchmen as high profile as Brian McLaren. For many, such calls appear to be an extension of his Israeli Apartheid Gospel, deeply rooted in what seems to many as racist theology. One wonders whether Blanche subscribes to the same theology, namely that Jews cannot have a state because God doesn't like them anymore?
After the final section is an excellent FAQ, which helped to answer some questions I had about the topic, and should probably be made available online if at all possible. It would by itself lend a lot of clarity to discussions of the issue.
Ben has been criticised for writing a one-sided story. It does come across as one-sided. But then, it seems pretty clear that the reality of the situation is also one-sided.
So the children of Sderot, for example, have been invented as Zionist propaganda?
The book does acknowledge Palestinian violence, and perhaps is not as clear in denouncing it as some would like. But the picture here is of an occupied people fighting against their occupiers – is that really so clear cut, so obviously morally wrong? I suspect that only those who have never experienced the situation could say so.
Does Blanche differentiate between Palestinian violence which is self-defense, violence which is directed against soldiers, and violence expressed as suicide bombs in Israeli cafes, restaurants and nightclubs? The difference should indeed be clear cut and obvious for all.
Ben has also been criticised for quoting innacurately. I don't know whether that's true or not; Ben has defended himself here. But it doesn't ultimately matter all that much.
Well, isn't this a revealing paragraph? Blanche claims that it does not matter whether White has been quoting inaccurately in his book. I would suggest that Blanche, who argues that there is a difference between 'fact' and 'value', reconsider some facts about this book and how it was promoted and launched.
Because the reason people are so angry at this book is because it makes the one critique of Israeli policy that is worth making, and that goes to the heart of the issue. Israel defines itself as a Jewish state. In other words, it defines itself in ethno-religious terms. Only Jews can be Israeli nationals; all Jews are welcome in Israel. Imagine if someone suggested that Britain should define itself in terms of a particular ethnic identity! Oh, wait, that would be the BNP – and we don't like them, right?
By Blanche's definition, the 57 states which identify as Islamic along ethno-religious lines would also be racist, BNP-like states. Yet Israel is one of the most ethnically diverse countries in the world, with approximately 1 in 6 citizens being Arabs, and Jewish citizens from all corners of the globe, including Ethiopia, Morocco, India and Iraq. One wonders why the Jewish character of the state of Israel is more offensive to Blanche and White than the Islamic character of the 57 Muslim states?
Ultimately, Ben argues that Israel/Palestine must be a place where Jews and Palestinians are equal under the law, and a state which exists for the good of all its citizens. This is much more radical than the two-state solution, much more difficult to move towards than even that mirage. But anything else enshrines racism as a successful nation building strategy.
The world really doesn't want to go there.
Any serious attempt at anti-racism in Israel/Palestine has to tackle the expressedly racist and genocidal aims of the likes of Hamas and Hezbollah, drawn from religious jihadist ideas, and deny them a platform. Ben White has, ironically, attempted to downplay the jihadist nature of Hezbollah, and praised Christians who are involved in Islamic 'resistance' against Israelis. The ruling party in Gaza, Hamas, incidentally, remains a Nazi organisation.
I would assume that if there were a person preaching a similar worldview against Palestinians as Ben White does against Israelis, Blanche would condemn him forcefully, wouldn't he?
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Dr Harry Hagopian recommends Ben White book at Ekklesia
According to his website, Dr Harry Hagopian 'is a qualified lawyer who holds a Doctorate in Public International Law and an LL.M in Alternative Dispute (Conflict) Resolution. He is also the Middle East Consultant for the Catholic Bishops' Conference in England & Wales, as well as Ecumenical, Legal and Political Consultant to the Armenian Apostolic Church.'
Harry works closely with the Vatican, Lambeth Palace, Majlis El-Hassan and the Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies in Jordan, Minority Rights Group International in England, as well as with think tanks, universities and institutes across Europe and North America.'
Dr Hagopian is well-respected and listened to by many influential people. It is therefore disconcerting that Dr Hagopian should choose to write in an article on Israeli-Palestine at Ekklesia in which he cites Ben White's new book:
The British journalist Ben White writes in his new book Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner's Guide, that the problems of occupation and violence are deeply rooted in the essence of Zionism and Israeli policies of colonisation in Palestine.
But why of all books has Hagopian chosen to recommend Ben White's book to understand 'the essence of Zionism'?
In order to introduce readers to 'the essence of Zionism', one of the sources Ben White draws on and recommends is Holocaust-denier Roger Garaudy.
White's Israeli Apartheid Guide contains false quotes, poor historiography and what appears to many as an endorsement of racist theology.
White's sensitivity towards Jews (and in one instance towards Palestinians) has been repeatedly called into question, not least due to his writing: 'I do not consider myself an anti-Semite, yet I can also understand why some are', and his claim that the arrest of antisemites plotting to blow up a synagogue was a 'threat to our freedoms'.
In his Ekklesia article, Dr Hagopian invokes the memory of Dr Martin Luther King Jr:
. If Martin Luther King, Jr, were able to stand up and deliver another sermon at the Riverside Drive Church today, he would surely call it Beyond Occupation!
If using the name of Dr Martin Luther King is designed to conjure up images of the civil rights struggle and the need to combat racism, then it is important to remember that Dr King would be equally concerned about anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish racism as he would about anti-Palestinian and anti-Arab racism.
With this in mind, one wonders why Christians who invoke King's memory would in the next breath recommend a writer who espouses such appalling untruths about Israel and ascribes the very worst motives to the Jewish desire for a homeland.
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War on Want a.k.a. War on Israel
Carol Gould writes about War on Want's disgraceful ban on Jonathan Hoffman:
I will pause here and say it was a blessing in disguise that I delayed by a week or so writing up this story. It has now become an international issue because Ronald Lauder, president of the World Jewish Congress, has made it known to the British Charity Commission that he wants War on Want investigated for breach of its guidelines[…]
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Israel is not Apartheid
A simple letter in the Belfast Telegraph worth reading:
David Morrison's comparison between sport in Israel and apartheid South Africa (Writeback July 20) was shown up by events at the Oval on Wednesday night when Glentoran took on Israeli side Maccabi Haifa.
The Israeli team was multi-ethnic, multi-religious and multi-racial.
I spoke to a young black Ethiopian member of the Maccabi Haifa squad at half-time. He assured me of his full Israeli citizenship, that he was enjoying life in Israel, and excited about his sporting future there. Apartheid South Africa? Somehow, I don't think so.
Andrew J Shaw
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The Theology Behind the 'Israeli Apartheid' Gospel
Petra Marquardt-Bigman has an excellent post at her 'Warped Mirror' blog about Ben White and his new book, which she terms as the "Israeli apartheid gospel." How true that really is. Whilst current reviewers of Ben White's book have looked at fake quotes, dubious sources, and the ethics of recommending Holocaust deniers to beginners, one subject left mostly untouched is the theology which Ben White employs.
It is rumoured that Ben White is writing a book on 'justice and mission' for YTC Press, to be published at a later date. Ben White has revealed his interest in theology through a public letter published on the 60th anniversary of the birth of the state of Israel, which you can read here. White and his fellow blogger Philip Rizk end the letter thus:
We therefore urge all those working for peace and justice in Israel/Palestine to consider that any lasting solution must be built on the foundation of justice, which is rooted in the very character of God. After all, it is justice that "will produce lasting peace and security" (Isaiah 32:17). Let us commit ourselves in prophetic word and practical deed to a courageous settlement whose details will honour both peoples' shared love for the land, and protect the individual and collective rights of Jews and Palestinians in the Holy Land.
"Everyone will sit under their own vine and under their own fig tree, and no one will make them afraid" (Micah 4:4)
In April 2008, Ben White published on The Guardian's Comment Is Free, tellingly titled 'The Other Evangelicals.' Having mentioned the predominance of Christian Zionists and pro-Israel evangelicals amongst American Christians, White writes about those 'other evangelicals'. White reassures us that 'already by the mid-1980s there were signs of dissent,' hailing the creation of the group Evangelicals for Middle East Understanding, and celebrating the 'alternative theology' on Israel:
In the 1990s, Don Wagner (one of the key figures behind EMEU) published Anxious for Armageddon, and the British author and scholar Colin Chapman wrote Whose Promised Land?, a title later reissued during the second intifada and considered a go-to text for western Christians seeking to get to grips with the conflict for the first time.
More recently, US evangelical scholar Gary Burge has written Whose Land? Whose Promise?, which again combines theology with the experiences of Christian Palestinians under Israeli occupation. Another crucial British contribution has come from Stephen Sizer, who in three years has written two critical studies, Christian Zionism and Zion's Christian Soldiers?
To many people, the names listed here by White do not conjure up images of Martin Luther King Jrs or William Wilberforces, but instead men who are feeding negative stereotypes about Jews into Christian minds whilst claiming to inform them about the Middle East conflict.
Take Colin Chapman. Many have criticised Chapman's 1983 book Whose Promised Land? for, in their view, pushing an anti-Jewish and anti-Judaic form of Christian theology. For Chapman, Jewish statehood in itself presents a problem, rather than necessarily the actions of said Jewish state, writing in his book:
What is the whole enterprise of settling Jews in the land and setting up a Jewish state doing to the soul of Judaism? Did God really intend that they should be 'a peculiar people' for ever and ever? Is there no alternative to the choice between traditional orthodox Judaism, assimilation and Zionism? Is there no other way by which the Jews can live securely among the nations without ceasing to be Jews?
Ben White also recommends Stephen Sizer, whose political opposition to Israel is at least supported by his theological ideas about Israel being a 'rejected vineyard,' as you can hear in this sermon. Sizer has also said he 'fears another exile' for Jews in Israel. His book Christian Zionism alleges Israeli complicity in 9/11.
According to Sizer, Palestine must be liberated from the Jews, He has forwarded emails from Holocaust deniers and Christian antisemites, given interviews to and promoted the work of those on the American Far Right, and shared a platform with various Islamists and antisemites.
It is extremely revealing that for Ben White, the alternative to the Christian Zionists, and the apocalyptic overtures associated with Tim LaHaye and John Hagee, are the Christian anti-Zionists. In other words, the best option for Christians who want peace and justice in the Middle East is to take the polar opposite position to John Hagee. If John Hagee's a Zionist, then the alternative is anti-Zionism.
Yet if Christian Zionism encourages the idea that the Jewish state should be as strong as possible due to God's covenant with Israel, Christian anti-Zionism encourages the idea that no Jewish state should exist because God has broken his covenant with Israel.
This would also explain why, whilst Christian Zionists are proud of Jewish influence in politics, Christian anti-Zionists appear deeply fearful and cynical about the 'Jewish lobby' or 'the Zionist lobby'. Sizer has complained about the Jewish lobby before, whilst Chapman appears positively paranoid about Jewish power, writing in Whose Promised Land?:
"Six million Jews in the USA have an influence that is out of all proportion to their numbers in the total population of 281 million. Through wealth, education, skill and single-mindedness over many years they have gained positions of power in government, business and the media. It is widely recognised, for example, that no one could ever win the presidential race without the votes and the financial support of substantial sections of the Jewish community."
In 'Israeli Apartheid': A Beginners' Guide, Ben White cites Chapman's book Whose Holy City? in order to cite claims about East Jerusalem, yet Chapman as a source is far from authoritative. White's book comes with glowing recommendations from other prominent Christians, including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who likewise believes the Jewish lobby is 'powerful, very powerful' in America, and Garth Hewitt, the Anglican canon who came up with the idea to re-write Christmas carols as anti-Zionist hymns – a spiritual accompaniement to the 'Israeli Apartheid' Gospel if ever there was one.
Additionally, there is a commendation from Nur Masalha, prompting one observer to write:
[Ben White's] latest book/pamphlet, aimed at a mass market, attempts to spread a gospel of Zionism as an essentially predatory evil, with Zionist Jews as predatory colonial dispossessors/crucifiers of innocent Palestinian Muslims and Christians.
Nur Masalha's commendation is interesting because he was highly influenced by his mentor, Michael Prior, who concocted a Palestinian Christian (and, by extension, Muslim) liberation theology, which held Modern Zionist, Palestinian or Israeli Jews had expelled Palestinian Christians and Muslims, just like the ancient Israelites expelled the Canaanites. And there was more than a nasty hint that they were crucifying (Palestinian) Christ, all over again.
It was a deadly concuction of ancient genocide and cosmically criminal crucifixion conflated with modern ethnic cleansing. I am not saying White expresses (at least, not overtly), but it is interesting, as I said, that on Amazon, Nur Masalha's is the first and most glowing commendation.
In raising awareness of his 'Israeli Apartheid' Gospel, White is positively evangelistic. Here he is preaching faith-with-action in the Church Times in early 2009:
More than ever, Christian leaders and Churches need to stand up and be counted. This could mean many things: pilgrimages that show solid arity with Palestinians; targeted boycotts of Israeli products; writing to MPs; inviting Palestinian speakers; twinning; film screenings; selling Palestinian-made goods.
This, White has reasoned elsewhere, is popular struggle, which:
'"like violent resistance, is not an end in and of itself; it is a method, a strategy. It is the end goal, decolonization and liberation from occupation and Zionist apartheid, that is ferociously opposed by the self-declared international guardians of the "peace process" and their friends in the Palestinian elite. The rest is just smoke and mirrors."
Indeed, whilst White encourages anti-Israel boycotts in the West, he writes glowingly of Palestinian Christians who have taken part in violent activities against Israel.
Ben White wrote an article in the Al Aqsa journal (edited by Islamist antisemite Ismail Patel, who shares with Ben White an apparent admiration for French Holocaust denier Roger Garaudy), entitled 'Palestinian-Christian/Muslim Relations: Myths, Propaganda and Realities.'
What is most interesting is that White frames Muslim-Christian co-operation amongst Palestinians by focusing on their response to Zionism, writing:
'I will look at how Christian and Muslim Palestinians have traditionally lived and worked alongside each other, with a focus on their united front against the Zionist movement.'
White informs readers that:
'From the Arab Revolt in 1936, to the flourishing of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) in the mid-1960s, Christian Palestinians played a significant role in the resistance to Israel.'
White even quotes the founder of the Islamic Jihad movement as having said:
'in our movement we accept the participation of our Christian brothers in our struggle without them having to change their religious beliefs.'
White, seeking to break down 'Zionist propaganda' that Palestinian Muslims persecute Palestinian Christians, even lays the blame with Israel for inter-Palestinian honour killings, writing:
'Israel's territorial fragmentation of Palestine has always threatened to affect Palestinian society on a wider-level and indeed, there are worrying signs that the "sociocide" being practised by Israel has gradually pressurized Palestinian society to breaking point. One such indication is the increase in so-called 'honour killings' in recent years, a phenomenon that has sometimes been presented as part of a Muslim-Christian conflict within Palestine.'
The impression gained by these articles is that Ben White defines his form of Christianity as a response to Zionism. Just as the virtue and earnestness of American evangelicals can be judged according to their opposition to Zionism, as we saw in White's piece from The Guardian, so too can the legitimate Palestinian credentials of Palestinian Christians can be judged by their participation in 'resistance' against Zionism.
We see here how the 'Israeli Apartheid' Gospel inspires Christians in the West to be free of Zionism and colonalism, whilst inspiring Palestinian Christians to be authentically Palestinian. For Ben White, to be Palestinian is to 'resist' Zionism (consider, lest we forget, what White has to say about Palestinians who pursue peace with Israel).
Perhaps the most ironic aspect of the Israeli Apartheid Gospel is that, for those who genuinely believe in it, it needs Israel to survive.
Without Israel, what would become of Palestinian-Christian/Muslim relations, previously held together by a united fight against Zionism? And how else could Western Christians prove their commitment to peace and justice without Israel to boycott?
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Ben White recommends Roger Garaudy essay in 'Israeli Apartheid Guide'
Ben White writes on Liberal Conspiracy:
'A favourite tactic of die-hard defenders of Israel is to smear critics of the country's policies through guilt by association, lies, and decontextualised quotations.'
White's article is analysed by Modernity here. White draws attention to a letter he put together with Philip Rizk on Israel's 60th birthday, which contained the admirable sentiment:
'We recognise that today, millions of Israelis and Jews around the world will joyfully mark the 60th anniversary of the establishment of the state of Israel (Yom Ha'atzmaut). For many, this landmark powerfully symbolises the Jewish people's ability to defy the power of hatred so destructively embodied in the Nazi Holocaust.'
The letter is nicely put together and rightly calls for Christians to consider Palestinians as well as Israelis, concluding:
'We therefore urge all those working for peace and justice in Israel/Palestine to consider that any lasting solution must be built on the foundation of justice, which is rooted in the very character of God. After all, it is justice that "will produce lasting peace and security" (Isaiah 32:17). Let us commit ourselves in prophetic word and practical deed to a courageous settlement whose details will honour both peoples' shared love for the land, and protect the individual and collective rights of Jews and Palestinians in the Holy Land.'
Distancing himself from an essay written on Counterpunch as a teenager in which he claimed to understand antisemitism, White protests:
'The article was trying to look at causes for contemporary anti-semitism. Funnily enough, whenever the smear-merchants cite this piece, they miss out one of the reasons I propose, namely the "history of anti-Semitism" in European culture "that has been, and probably still is, embedded in collective consciousness". I note that "its roots can be traced, at least to some extent, to the shameful teachings of many in the Church".'
Yet White himself has celebrated those Christians who seem to propagate such shameful teachings. White published an article on Electronic Intifada in praise of the theology of Donald Wagner, Stephen Sizer, Gary Burge and Colin Chapman. Whilst the anti-Zionism of these Christian teachers may be attractive to some who consider themselves left-wing, what is perhaps less well known is the theology which leads to such anti-Zionism. Burge links the Jewish right to a homeland with obedience to Torah. Chapman argued in his 1983 book Whose Promised Land? that, as Jewish people on the whole do not believe that Jesus is Messiah, they have lost all national privileges, including the right to self-determination.
Such Christians oppose Israel theologically, as they see it as the direct result of Jewish nationalism, and therefore disobedience to God (other states and nationalisms are curiously not condemned). You can hear a particularly vitriolic example of this amongst the archives of Stephen Sizer's sermons: "I am the Vine, You are the branches".
Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner's Guide comes with commendations from Stephen Sizer, Garth Hewitt (who apparently came up with the idea to re-write Christmas carols with anti-Zionist lyrics), Alex Awad, who alongside Sizer shared a platform with Holocaust denier Frederick Tobin to denounce Israel, and Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who thinks the Jewish lobby in America is "powerful, very powerful." Whilst Desmond Tutu clearly has a good record on South African human rights, he clearly falls short on Israel/Jews .
If Ben White can make distinction between South African apartheid and 'Israeli apartheid' as he claims, can he not also differentiate between Tutu's attitudes towards South Africans/South Africa and his attitudes towards Jews/Israel? Doesn't this weaken his argument? Whilst Ben White denounces Church antisemitism as shameful, he is praised by those within the church who seem to project negative theological stereotypes of Jews and the Jewish nation. When that theology feeds directly into Israel-Palestine, it is legitimate to have concerns about antisemitism. (Imagine, for example, a book on contemporary African history and politics which cited Christian preachers who believe black people shouldn't be allowed to run countries for theological reasons).
White also refers to a Christian peace organisation based in Leicester, the Leicestershire Holy Land Appeal, on page 99. White last accessed its website in November 2008. By that time, the website had a cartoon competition for English and Palestinian children comparing the Israeli security fence to a dragon.
Writing about Popular Committees Against the Wall, White remarks:
In the village of Budrus, the first Committee was formed in the autumn months of 2003, quickly formulating rules for the organised protests against the Wall.*18 *18 See, for example Aboud village, where the Committee was formed in 2005, http://leicester-holyland.org.uk/18th%20%20November%202005.htm (last accessed 5 November 2008)
From the webpage cited, we read:
'Sheikh [Taisir] Tamimi and Father [Atallah] Hanna said that the Palestinian People are determined to resist the Wall "which annexes the Palestinian orchards, and separates the people".'
Hanna is the Greek Orthodox priest forced to step down in 2002 for alleged support of Palestinian suicide bombings against Israelis.
Thus the Christian leaders whom we read about and are referred to in Israeli Apartheid Guide are surely some cause for concern.
White also tackles another objection to his writings:
'The second claim made against me is that I have defended Ahmadinejad's Holocaust denial. This is again based on one article, written in January 2006. The piece was critiquing the mainstream analysis of some recent remarks by Ahmadinejad, and the politicised context in which they were being framed. But I make no bones about it – Ahmadinejad is either a Holocaust denier himself, or cowardly encourages those who are (and probably both). As Dana Goldstein observed earlier this year, Ahmadinejad wraps "his Holocaust-denial in a series of legitimate criticisms of present-day Israeli policy", a disturbing "mixing of fiction and fact". Ahmadinejad's anti-semitism is morally despicable, intellectually vacuous, and of no benefit to the people he purports to be supporting (or rather, exploiting), the Palestinians. He is also, of course, ruthless in his approach to dissent, and has the blood of his own people on his hands (as I noted in both that 2006 article, and more recently, this interview with an Iranian journalist).'
White here provides admirable condemnation of Ahmadinejad, which you won't find in his original article. As White points out, he wrote the article in January 2006 – the same month that Iran announced plans for a Holocaust review conference (this news, ironically, came 15th January four days after White's article was published). Days later, Iran's NEDA Institute approached Robert Faurisson for asssistance with Holocaust denial material.
In Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner's Guide, on page 73 White cites the Lawrence of Cyberia blog for a narrative about the Israeli 'Separation Wall.' Yet as late as July 2008, Lawrence of Cyberia was still arguing that Ahmadinejad was not a Holocaust denier. Which begs the question, if Ben White is clear about Ahmadinejad's Holocaust denial, why trust a blogger who isn't clear on this as a reliable source?
Finally, and most seriously, Ben White includes a Roger Garaudy essay on Zionism in his 'select bibliography' (p.162) of Israeli Apartheid Guide. Garaudy was convicted of Holocaust denial in France in 1998 under France's Gaysott Law.
The essay White recommends is 'Religious and Historical Precepts of Zionism', from Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. VI, No. 2, Winter 1977. There is no Holocaust denial in this essay, in fact Garaudy sees Zionists as having taken their blueprint from Hitler and the Nazis, inverting antisemitism and the Nuremberg laws to create a Jewish state. Garaudy, in the essay that White recommends, cites Koestler (who in 1976 published the theory that Jews are really Khazars) and Israel Shahak's writings on Zionism.
However, it is no longer 1977, but 2009, and Garaudy's Holocaust denial should mean that White does not treat Garaudy as a serious author, any more than White would respect Ahmadinejad as a serious commentator in the light of Ahmadinejad's Holocaust denial and antisemitism. Given that Ben White claims that his book is a "beginner's guide", is it really appropriate to present Holocaust deniers as legitimate historians and commentators to newcomers to the Israel-Palestine debate? And given White's forceful and welcome condemnation of Ahmadinejad's mixture of 'fact and fiction', will there be a similar condemnation of Garaudy's?
Ben White complains about censorship on Philip Weiss' blog
So here's the story. Jonathan Hoffman is the Vice-President of the Zionist Federation in the UK. Last month he wrote on Harry's Place of his experiences at Ben White's book launch in the Houses of Parliament. At the event, Hoffman noted that his friend with a Jewish name had been roundly booed, and he was told that the Nazis 'should have finished the job.' In addition, Jonathan Hoffman wrote a review on the American Jewish Committee's blog Z-Word, in which he took White to task for, among other things, including doctored Ben Gurion quotes and ignoring Nelson Mandela's own rejection of the Israel-South Africa apartheid analogy.
Ben White had another book launch promoted by War on Want last week. War on Want banned Hoffman from the meeting, which turned out to be a rather depressing affair.
Seemingly affected by the criticism of the negative book review, Ben White posted a response to Hoffman on his blog, and brought it to the attention of ModernityBlog and Z-Word. Z-Word refused to publish his comment, with Ben Cohen explaining:
'White needs to understand that the ban on Jonathan Hoffman attending the launch of his ridiculous excuse for a book means that he is, as a direct consequence, not welcome here.'
Anti-Zionist blogger Philip Weiss then complained that 'American Jewish C'tee enjoys slagging off critics, then refusing them a platform to respond.' Weiss included a comment from Ben White in the main body of the article, complaining:
'So the 'range of comments' includes the claim that I am the 'reincarnation of Goebbels', but not my link to a response piece which points out that Z-Word have published untruths about a published work. '
Jonathan Hoffman has since published a response to White on Z-Word, noting:
'Turning to White's comments on my review, there are several points which he concedes, either explicitly or implicitly.'
But let's ignore that for now. According to Ben White and Philip Weiss, the AJC refuses its critics 'a platform to respond.' You'd think, judging by that, that Ben White's blog would be an ocean of free speech. Not exactly. You will notice that comments are off.
Ben White received plenty of negative comments for a blog post in which he claimed that the arrest of antisemites in New York threatening to blow up a synagogue was 'a fully controlled threat to our freedoms.' Ben White, who claims to understand why some people are antisemites, could not understand why the U.S. government would want to arrest antisemites planning antisemitic terrorist attacks. I took him to task for this on Harry's Place, prompting people to leave comments on his blog. White refused to answer questions about this, with one commenter asking him to specify the freedoms threatened by these arrests. White didn't respond.
A few weeks later, on his blog, White criticised a Harry's Place article on antisemitism at UNISON. (Like the NYC synagogue piece, White was criticising those who falsely cry 'antisemitism'. One wonders if White is capable of writing about antisemitism without claiming to understand it or denying clear examples of its outworkings.) As you can see by the comments on both Ben White's blog and Harry's Place under those articles, White deleted, edited and restored comments from his critics, whilst failing to respond the questions asked of him and his ethics. A few weeks later, White turned off the comments option on his blog pieces.
A commenter at Harry's Place recently noted:
Getting back on topic…
Ben White is the administrator for the "Israeli Apartheid: A Beginner's Guide" Facebook group at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=99988957924
Until about 15 minutes ao it was an open group which anybody could join, so I did. I took the liberty of posting links to Jonathan's article on each of the threads on the site. Within minutes, my posts had been deleted, I had been expelled from the group, and it is now a closed group.
I have requested to join the group and await Ben's response with interest!
Last week, White had an article at The Guardian's Comment Is Free (also published in the Tehran Times) in which he argued that the Israeli security fence (or as he prefers "Israel's separation wall") should be dismantled (not, interestingly, moved back to the Green Line, as most critics of the fence would prefer). As Modernity noted twice, many critical comments on Ben White's article were censored for no good reason. We heard no complaint from Ben White.
So to summarise: Ben White has edited, deleted, and then restored comments on his own blog. He has turned comments off for his own blog. If you leave a critical comment on one of his articles on Comment Is Free, it may go into moderation and/or be deleted. And now he is complaining on Philip Weiss' blog about other people censoring his comments!
Perhaps Philip Weiss was unaware of Ben White's own censoring of comments, which would explain the Mondoweiss article accusing the AJC of censorship. Otherwise, what point was Weiss really trying to make?
Filed under apartheid analogy, censorship
Jonathan Hoffman writes about Ben White's 'Israeli Apartheid Guide'
Jonathan Hoffman has a new guest post at Z-Word which deserves to be read.
Ben White replies
Modernity notes that Ben White has responded to Jonathan Hoffman's book review. Following the Sookhdeo-White debacle earlier this year, Ben White interestingly finds himself on the other side of the fence, this time having to defend his writings in a public book review spat.
Anyway, if Ben White's going to write a response to every negative book review he gets, looks like he's got his work cut out for him.
Plus we're still waiting for a response as to whether White continues to understand antisemitism, and whether he still thinks that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Holocaust denial is really a form of anti-imperialism.
Now of course, no-one here's saying Israel's perfect, however it's not apartheid. Here's a cool video from South Africa's Board of Jewish Deputies, which White and some of his fans could do with watching:
Haaretz on Ben White and War on Want
Well done to Haaretz, who are covering the story of War On Want's shameful exclusion of Jonathan Hoffman, Vice-Chair of the Zionist Federation. Cnaan Lipshitz writes of Ben White:
'Author Ben White has argued that Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad did not deny the Holocaust. In 2002, White published an article in which he wrote that he can "understand" why some people are anti-Semitic, though he himself was not.
War on Want praised his new book as an "information-packed, highly readable introduction to understanding the origins of the conflict and how apartheid applies to Palestine."
"We didn't call the police," said John Hilary, War on Want executive director. "Organizers of past events told us Mr. Hoffman would create a disturbance and we don't want such people to attend." But Sacerdoti says that "anyone who knows Jonathan Hoffman knows this claim is nonsense."
This may well be the end of Ben White posting articles from Haaretz, which is now quite clearly a biased liberal Zionist propaganda rag that dares besmirch White's name.
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Revolution & Founding
Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 1 (1774-1779): the American Crisis
Thomas Paine, Moncure Daniel Conway
My Bondage and My Freedom
The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America 1638-1870
W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois
Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; or, the escape of William and Ellen Craft from slavery
Ellen Craft, William Craft
Harriet, the Moses of Her People
Sarah Hopkins Bradford
The War of Independence
Thirty Years a Slave From Bondage to Freedom: The Institution of Slavery as Seen on the Plantation and in the Home of the Planter: Autobiography of Louis Hughes
Louis Hughes
The Fathers of the Constitution; a chronicle of the establishment of the Union
Max Farrand, Allen Johnson
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 1
United States. Work Projects Administration
The Life of George Washington, Vol. 1 Commander in Chief of the American Forces During the War which Established the Independence of his Country and First President of the United States
Kibbles and Bits
Dani Haviland
Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1
Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson Randolph
John Marshall and the Constitution; a chronicle of the Supreme court
Edward Samuel Corwin, Allen Johnson
Washington's Masonic Correspondence As Found among the Washington Papers in the Library of Congress
The Critical Period of American History
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Tennessee Narratives
Walker's Appeal, with a Brief Sketch of His Life And Also Garnet's Address to the Slaves of the United States of America
David Walker, Henry Highland Garnet
The War With the United States : A Chronicle of 1812
William Charles Henry Wood, George McKinnon Wrong, H. H. (Hugh Hornby) Langton


This was a successful case of cold emailing.
One of my email campaigns caught the attention of Dr. Anita Mills Stanley and Robin Stanley, directors at Yoani Yappaville.
Yoani Yappaville is not only a farm but also pet's paradise If you feel your pet need some time off or a holiday this is the place to take them.
From numerous email exchanges we had, they were not happy with their website, host, and developer.
Unable to update the website – The website back-end was complex, they had no idea how to update it.
Unreliable hosting – According to their explanation their website was on/off and during their peak period when the website was much needed, it could not work.
Non-Mobile friendly – The website was not mobile friendly.
Obsolete – The website was done years back, it looked old therefore a fresh new look was required.
Immediately I got their inquiry email below, I went through their website and social media to understand what they do.
This step is very important, it helps in coming up with the best layout for the client.
I am an online freelancer with very little face to face communication.
To some client, this is a challenge when it comes to paying a deposit to start work.
Anita was not an exception, she was not sure if I was the right person for the job and seemed hesitant.
I don't start any project without a deposit but based on prior communications I can identify serious clients from 'jokers'.
Anita had proven they were serious about this project and ready to start as soon as possible BUT I had not earned her trust yet, which i totally understood.
I quickly created a simple proposal which they liked.
The proposal proved that I can deliver and a basic trust established. They signed the quote, contract and cleared deposit invoice.
Luckily during this period, my table was not full, as soon as I got the deposit I began working on the website.
Having understood their business and what they required, putting together the website was a piece of cake.
After few days, I was ready to share the new look website with them.
If you are looking for someone with imagination and flair in website development, Ben is your man!! His work is inspiring and he clearly has a passion for what he does. We asked Ben for a 'taster' of a Home Page based on our previous website and a short explanation of what we do, before we contracted his services. Within a day Ben presented us with something that we could not refuse – it radiated creativity showing us that he had done his research and had grasped exactly what our company was about. From the word 'go', Ben was professional, efficient, easy to work with remotely through emails (considering the numerous changes we needed on an hourly basis) and very understanding of our requirements. Development of the website was extremely quick – all the while being updated on what was happening. Once completed, Ben made time to travel out to our business location (out of town) and spent a day 'training' us how to manage the new website. He continues to follow up on a regular basis and is very happy to help with answering questions and making changes. We are delighted with our new website – and have had many positive reports from our clientele. Thank you Ben.
As I always do with my website projects, I usually check-in every day to make sure the website in online and ensure it is running on the latest software for security purposes.
The website has been online 24/7 even during their peak period.


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Avon Grove Charter School » About Us
Avon Grove Charter School is a public, college-preparatory charter school for grades K-12. Opened in 2002, it is located in the small town of West Grove, in Chester County, Pennsylvania. AGCS is independent of the district and is governed by its own Board of Directors, who are held directly accountable for the goals outlined in its charter.
AGCS offers an academically challenging curriculum in a small school setting with individualized learning plans for each student. Ours is a nurturing environment, where every child is well known and cared for by our staff.
2019-2020 Avon Grove Charter School Theme
Each year, AGCS selects an unique theme for the year. This year is all about Diversity - "I AM". Watch this remarkable video about how each of us in the AGCS Community is unique, with things that make us special!
Charter Renewed
In April of 2017, the Avon Grove School District Board of Directors held a public meeting and renewed our Charter for the next five years. Kristen Bishop, our Head of School and C.E.O., presented information about our school and our expansion plans. Please download the
2017 Charter Renewal Presentation to see what she discussed and to learn more about AGCS!
Charter Schools and Funding
If you'd like to learn more about Charter Schools and how they're funded, please watch our YouTube Charter School Funding video. There's a lot of great information in it, so we hope you'll take a few minutes to check it out!
The presentation highlights:
Why are there Charter Schools?
Facts vs. Fiction
You can download the following documents for further information:
Charter School Act 22 of 1997
Public Charter Schools - Fact vs Fiction
Charter School Funding PDE-363 Form
Charter School Funding Law 24 PS 17-1725-A


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Home Fundraisers Australia Day Concert
January 1, 2021 January 10, 2021 Fundraisers
With the cancellation the fireworks this Australia Day, the Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay has chosen it as a perfect day to organise a fundraising concert, to fund its many worthy community and youth projects.
Where better to have such a concert than at Woodbridge House, a beautiful historic, fully restored National Trust homestead in Guildford, nestled between the Swan river, Guildford Grammar and Governor Stirling Senior High School where there will be ample parking.
To emphasise the Australiana theme, the Freeze Frame Opera truck will be used as a stage, as the concert will be family-friendly picnic style, outdoors with BYO blanket, chairs (preferably low), food and drink.
The concert will commence at 5.00 pm, after the heat of the day, and conclude by 7.00 pm to not make it a late night for those who work the following day.
Tickets are available online.
The concert will be first class with outstanding performers.
Repertoire will be light classical, well known and loved music, along with some music theatre, finishing off with a bracket of Australiana favourites.
An electronic theatre organ has been arranged for "Wunderkind" Alessandro Pittorino, the only Australian to graduate in Organ from the Julliard School of Music in New York to entertain all with his amazing skills on the organ.
Other highlights are WAAPA graduates who have worked and trained internationally:
Daniella Sicari, listed as one of the top 20 finest young singers by the Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge Bel Canto Award and Foundation,
Caitlin Cassidy, winner of the first Julie Michael Prize presented by the Government House Foundation, and
Brett Peart, who recently performed in a production of Mozart's The magic Flute, along with our Raising Stars Beth Redwood and Olivia Ferguson, who both completed second year classical voice at WAAPA in 2020.
All of these wonderful artists will be accompanied by the well-known and highly skilled Caroline Badnall on keyboard.
Rising Stars Beth and Olivia have a connection with the Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay. Beth, who attended Newman College, was sponsored to attend the ConocPhillips Science Experience in Yr. 10, followed by the National Youth Science Forum in Canberra at the beginning of Yr. 12. Here Beth stood out so visibly she was invited to return as a 'Staffie' the following year, and was one of only six 'Senior Staffies' in 2020. Both Beth and Olivia have been sponsored by Freshwater Bay to attend the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards Camp from 4-10th January 2021.
Don't miss this outstanding opportunity to celebrate Australia day by attending this memorable event.
Book your tickets online.
Festive Season Break
Meetings Resume Jan 13th


Is the Emerging Church movement a God-led force "whose time has come," or a subtle device from our ancient enemy (see Revelation 12:9) strategically designed to influence millions to "depart from the faith"? (1 Timothy 4:1). This pocketbook by Steve Wohlberg explores the issues fairly, and sounds a sober warning.
The Emerging Church movement has recognized leaders (such as Brian McLaren, Doug Pagitt, Rob Bell, Dallas Willard, and Leonard Sweet), is interdenominational, ecumenical, inter-spiritual (seeking camaraderie with non-Christian religions), mystical and global. When many Christians today look at their own churches, they see them as dry, boring, and out-of-touch with 21st-century trends. Unfortunately, this is often the case. For many, Emerging Church concepts and "ancient spiritual disciplines" seem like a God-led breath of fresh air. Especially to young people. Are they really? Are they safe? While containing some positive features, is it possible that the Emerging Church ideas and mystical practices really lead to invasion by "deceiving spirits" and being duped by "doctrines of demons"? (read 1 Timothy 4:1).
This pocketbook by Steve Wohlberg explores the issues fairly, and sounds a sober warning.


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