Eric Rozenman repeated, with two letters picked for publication (second letter pasted immediately below), his 2003 rhetorical use of
Turning Tragedy Into Propaganda: [FINAL Edition]
The Washington Post; Washington, D.C. [Washington, D.C]03 May 2003: A21.
In "Misrepresenting Rachel Corrie" [Free for All, April 26], Robert Myers and Adam Shapiro criticize my letter, "Last E-Mails of an Indoctrinated Activist" [Free for All, April 19], about the late Corrie.
Myers alleges that "an Israeli bulldozer ran over an unarmed young woman without a moment's pause. No warnings, no efforts to have someone pull her out of the way."
The preliminary Israeli Defense Forces investigation concludes that Corrie was not visible to the driver, who worked inside a shielded cab, but was obscured by a mound of rubble. Israeli military bulldozers had interrupted efforts to detonate explosives reportedly planted by Palestinian terrorists in the Egypt-Gaza Strip border area for three hours earlier that day.
They did so to avoid potential accidents involving Corrie and other recruits from Shapiro's "International Solidarity Movement" who repeatedly tried to obstruct them.
Shapiro implies that the passage of time negates the legitimacy of Israel's continued presence in the disputed territories, the result of successful self-defense in the 1967 Six-Day War. U.S. troops remain in South Korea 50 years after the Korean War to defend Seoul from possible aggression; Israel remains in territories next door to defend itself against actual aggression repeatedly launched by Palestinian Arabs who have repeatedly refused offers of a peaceful compromise.
Attempts by Shapiro -- himself a former "human shield" for the godfather of international terrorism, Yasser Arafat -- and Myers to add the tragedy of Rachel Corrie to propagandistic Palestinian martyrology are the real misrepresentation.
-- Eric Rozenman
The writer is Washington
director of the Committee
for Accuracy in Middle East
Reporting in America.
guilt by association tactics to single out and demonize individuals (supporters of Rachel Corrie and her motivations) and groups (International Solidarity Movement) to delegitimize their influence on others by associating the person to person and group influence with what he defines as anti-semitism. More accurately Rozenman is opposing equality for all people, regardless of faith, on land where Israel controls freedom of movement of people and goods (military occupation's meaning 'in a nutshell'). The Washington Post's letter selectors in 2003 showed their 'pro-Israel,' actually 'support the policies of the current Israeli government' bias by giving Rozenman two replies, on April 19 and May 3, 2003 and 2 Corrie supporters only one each on April 26, 2003.
By use of analogies of friends meeting to drink tea together Eric Rozenman in 2006 conflated political agreement on goals and tactics, violent and non-violent, to reach the goals with social relationships including food and drink hospitality.
How Rachel Corrie Died: [FINAL Edition]
The Washington Post; Washington, D.C. [Washington, D.C]13 May 2006: A15.
Five weeks later, after taking tea with ISM members [bold emphasis added] in Gaza and visiting the group's office there, two suicide bombers murdered three people and wounded more than 50 in a Tel Aviv cafe. ISM leaders have termed such crimes "resistance" and have supported nonviolence as a public relations supplement to terrorism.
In 2017 Eric Rozenman repeats the reference to 'meeting for tea'
Un-teachable moment: leftist anti-Semitism
August 9, 2017 By Eric Rozenman
The anti-Zionist anti-Semitism infesting Great Britain’s Labour Party has been oft-reported. A Jewish Labour parliamentarian required a bodyguard in the performance of her duties. Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has hosted Hamas representatives to tea [bold emphasis added] at Parliament.
as a recycling of the same tired, tendentious zionist propaganda (hasbara) that delegitimizes a Palestinian state's right to exist either as part of a negotiated two state solution or one democratic state providing civil legal equality for all people, regardless of religion, on land where the Jewish, and currently undemocratic, state of Israel controls freedom of movement of people and goods.
At least Eric Rozenman is sustainable, or green, in his writing of 'Israel advocacy' as part of 'fighting media bias' throughout his writing career spanning the Washington Jewish Week, Bnai Brith International Jewish Monthly, Camera.org and the Jewish Policy Center. When viewed from a long term perspective, Rozenman's writing, regardless of distributor, supports the zionists in Israel, and their USA-based and global supporters, who were racist since before they were 'called out' in 1975 UNGA resolution 3379 repealed in 1991 with gratitude from Israel's government to the USA government after 16 years of lobbying.
The 2001 Durban anti discrimination conference, reviewed in 2009 and 2011, were later attempts to correctly attribute blame for the Israel-Palestine situation to extremism and rejectionism on both sides while the 'pro-Israel community' has always minimized the extremism and rejectionism on one side while maximizing it on another side.
The end goal for which Eric Rozenman's current writing distributor JPC
is what the Middle East Forum, Knesset Israel Victory Caucus and Republican-only Israel Victory Caucus in the USA Congress have begun working for.
The RJC and JPC were overseen by the same executive director, Matthew Brooks, as recently as 2014 as the screen shot of the last paragraph of the left column of text shows.
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| last paragraph of left column of text notes Matt[hew] Brooks' role as executive director of both the RJC and JPC in 2014 |
The JPC, in addition to normalizing the current occupation with pretexts of security for one side, may also be replicating a Republican voter organizing drive among the historically Democratic-voting USA Jewish community according to the letter (image below) entitled "Partisan Propaganda" by Stephan Arkan of Wilkes-Barre, PA.
The links reporting corruption in PM Benjamin Netanyahu's coalition government may be what Rozenman's 2017 repeat conflation of people sharing food and drink hospitality with agreement on using violent tactics to achieve political goals is part of a distraction from. As well, Rozenman's repeat of bad analogies could serve as part of USA and global support of a pre-emptive attempt by the far-right Israeli political parties to gain a political advantage in case corruption scandals 'create political chaos' with an end the current Israeli Knesset coalition government with a call for new elections.
