Tag: palestinians

“People that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims…but accomplices.” — George Orwell

Greetings Bog Readers! We wanted to be sure that you are aware of our June 7th Barrio Hollywood Open Mic, (there will not be music in July). We will have a special commemoration for our dear friend, musician, artist, and Barrio Hollywood organizer Ray Armstrong, who initiated these Open Mics and whose spirit fills all our endeavors in providing musical opportunities by and for our community.

As always, we hold these free events at El Rio Golf Course’s “Corbett’s Cantina” starting at 6pm. We hope you can make it…(see last page of Bog News for info.).

DEMOCRATS SELL US OUT AGAIN

Democratic Governor Katie Hobbs with the support of local Democrats (and Republicans) has signed legislation for Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) without any of the protections pushed by neighborhood activists to forbid absentee landlord owners using the “casitas” for vacation rentals, allowing real estate grifters to have virtually limitless options to turn whole neighborhoods into vacation rental zones. (Bog News has previously reported on this in the town of Bisbee, where practically no locals now reside in downtown.) ADUs can be done right, but neither local or state-wide politicians seem to listen to anyone but the Airbnb and other lobbyists.

This latest sell-out doesn’t really affect the City of Tucson, where our own local sell-out Democrats already allow their business lackeys free reign to destroy our neighborhoods for private profiteering. As Scottsdale Mayor Ortega commented: “the stated intent behind this measure is to address the affordable housing crisis, but this will not make a dent in the problem.”

Scottsdale obviously has a more progressive pro-neighborhood Mayor than Tucson under la Reina de Regina. Of course, that doesn’t take much.

Of particular note is Arizona State Senator Anna Hernandez who was quoted as saying that “ADUs have wide support across political spectrum and support across all kinds of communities.” No it doesn’t, and certainly not the way these laws are designed. Who the hell is she talking to?

As one Bog reader noted:

“The bills are as bad as ever. One allows 2 casitas; one attached to
the structure and the other free-standing. There are no requirements
that the new addition match the original construction. The other measure will allow townhouses, duplexes, triplexes and quadplexes in all single-family zoned areas. The only compromise they made was that it was only within a mile of the central business district. Given how Tucson just expanded its Central Business District, this will definitely impact Menlo Park and will push into the Barrios toward the south.”

This is exactly what the Barrio Neighborhood Coalition fought against (unsuccessfully) with our Mayor and Council, and now it looks like it will become a statewide disaster. Remember this at election time folks.

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ARE THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL PULLING ANOTHER FAST ONE?

As observers of city shenanigans know, there has been much discussion about the City of Tucson pulling out of the NEXT RTA boondoggle (probably for May 2025) and since it looks like Tucson cannot achieve any agreement with the rest of Pima County jurisdictions, it is surmised that they will likely go it alone for a new sales tax for transportation. Considering the dismally dangerous conditions of our streets any improvements cannot come soon enough. But based on the most recent council meeting, it looks like they want the new tax to prop up the General Fund instead of being earmarked for transportation. This means our money — an estimated 40 million — will be flowing down a black hole for them to use as they choose.

It may be putting the cart before the horse, but they have already to the budget

“added capacity for a potential voter approved sales tax increase of $40 million.” Page 2

This is based on their assumption that the Tucson voters will approve a new sales tax. This fight has not even begun, but it is something we all need to keep an eye on. To get ready, look up how sales taxes disproportionally hurt the poor.

The council has approved a “tentative” budget of a whopping $2.4 BILLION which is a $140 million increase from last year, although actual spending could jump an extra $300 million more when they are done goosing the hell out of it. The final budget adoption will be next month. Pima County also has major budget problems. Stay tuned…

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DÉJÀ VU ALL OVER AGAIN

In April of 1968 I was a 15-year-old “runaway” living wherever I could find a place for me and my trusty sleeping bag in my home town of New Hyde Park, Long Island, a comfortable middle-class suburb only a few blocks from the New Your City border in Queens. Living mostly on the street, I was often welcomed to stay over at friend’s houses when the parents approved, and this was often in Great Neck, where I went to High School and where those permissive parents (as I recall) were always Jewish and liberal (and very generous and welcoming). The school’s overwhelming majority of students were Jewish and staying in their homes opened up a beautiful culture to a rather cloistered Irish-American Catholic boy. I have stayed in touch with a number of those friends all through the years, and still treasure their friendships. The recent student demonstrations that started with the occupation at Columbia University had me flashing back to those times and my own participation in the Columbia occupation back then.

As I recall, I was camping out in one of my hidden camp sites right on the soupy shore of the very aptly named “Lake Success,” as I often did with a few friends, all of whom had homes to go to but preferred the adventure of illegal camping with “the Egan kid.” I certainly welcomed their company, as poverty tends to be very lonely. It was such friendships that kept me sane and often fed (i.e., alive). One night as we “hung out” by a small campfire, we had the transistor radio tuned to the only station young rebels would listen to back then: WBAI — 99.5 FM. And it was then we heard the call of the comrades at Columbia University who had taken over campus buildings and were calling on others to help with the barricades. We doused the campfire, grabbed our back packs, and headed for “the City.”

The strike at Columbia back then started as opposition to the University’s plans to intrude into into the mostly African-American community without consulting those most affected, and evolved into a large Anti-Vietnam War protest.

Five buildings were occupied for a week. All I remember is the building we barricaded ourselves in had a new computer system that took up the top floor (computers were HUGE back then) that we threatened to blow it up if the police attacked.

I don’t remember how long we stayed, but I know I left before the police stormed the place. The organizers asked everyone to make a choice to voluntarily get arrested or leave before the caca hit the fan. I knew if I stayed and was arrested I would be sent home — which I was running from and was the last place I wanted to be. When we left the building, we took boxes full of computer cards and showered them like confetti on the cops who lined our exit. The police attack then commenced and hundreds of students were beaten and around 700 were arrested. It was my first dangerous political protest.

I cannot think of the hundreds of campuses in protest today without thinking about Columbia in 1968. But there is a big difference: we were protesting (among other things) the U.S. war of aggression against Vietnam not only because we thought it was wrong, but because our own asses could be shipped over there to be killed, maimed, imprisoned, tortured, or psychologically damaged for life. The kids these days are confronting injustice for OTHERS: specifically, the tragically oppressed Palestinian people. It is a much more selfless struggle, and they face much more sophisticated and dangerous adversaries.

But the students are sophisticated as well. In 1968 we had Pacifica radio at WBAI to give us alternative news. Now there are scores of social media sites to draw from and utilize, which is the main reason why the U.S. government wants to ban Tik-Tok. They want to control the info we get. In the meantime, it does this old radical heart well to see hundreds of college campuses throughout the country rise up in support of a permanent ceasefire against the barbarism unleashed by the U.S. and Israeli governments against Palestinians. Kudos.

Importantly, today’s students wisely call for a full disclosure of university financial dealings in support of divestment from Israel. Follow the money brothers and sisters! These rightful demands for transparency have lead to full- scale violent attacks against peaceful protesters by police and security forces, along with what can only be described as ultra-Zionist vigilante squads operating with the complicity of university and metro police departments. In one organized and extremely violent attack against peaceful students at UCLA, the cops looked on for over three hours as students were beaten to the ground with metal pipes and assaulted with chemical sprays. As reporter Max Blumenthal noted, at least in the old days the Pinkerton thugs were hired by the bosses to beat the workers, now it is our own tax money that pays for this abuse. And even though a number of these hoodlums have been identified (by CNN and others), there have been no arrests of them — only peaceful protesters.

Besides the violent attacks, there has been a purposeful and contrived ideological effort to portray peaceful demonstrators as terrorist sympathizers, just as past striking students or workers were labeled commies The slanders are always used for the same reason: to justify the use of violence and repression against the people exercising their rights. Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu, believing — with some good reason — that he is in charge in the U.S., has called all U.S. protesters “anti-Semitic” and supports the repression of Americans (just as he does his own Israeli citizens). Can you imagine any other world leader telling the U.S. government to repress protesting Americans? And still get away with it? So far he has, because there is no limit to U.S. support.

I have attended four demonstrations in Tucson since October 7th and I have not seen or heard any anti-semitic remarks being chanted or anti-Jewish sentiments expressed by anyone, just the opposite. In fact, the last protest I attended (May 18th at Armory Park), I listened to an articulate anti-Zionist Jewish youth speak affectionately about Palestinian rights and he then shared a Kaddish prayer. This is the case in many — if not all — of the demonstrations, where multi- religious youth, including those of the Jewish and Muslim faith, join in solidarity, even celebrating Sabbath together (and being beaten and arrested together).

There is, of course, much clamor about the dangerously serious problem of “anti-semitism” in this country. The term itself has been used to weaponize attacks against those who are pro-Palestinian, suggesting an anti-Jewish bias to the peace activists. But the term itself can be problematic. For example, a dictionary definition of “Semitic” is a “family of languages that includes Hebrew, Arabic, and Aramaic… constituting the main subgroup of the Afro-Asiatic family.” This obviously includes Palestinians, but as was recently pointed out to me, “semitic” does not always include all Jews.

The Ashkenazi, who make up way over half of all Jewish people, are genetically considered European as opposed to Jewish people whose ancestry originated from the Middle East. This is a problem for some Zionists who claim the land is theirs based on living in the region 2,000 years ago (not that this assertion is any justification for massive indigenous displacement since 1948). This is what makes the accusation of “anti-semitism” against the protesters very problematic, as Palestinians are a semitic people, whereas technically, many Jews are not. Besides that inconvenient truth, here is another: MANY of the pro-Palestinian demonstrators, including many organizers, are Jewish: are they all supposed to be anti-semitic Jews? Absurd. These Jewish students just don’t want ethnic cleansing to be done in their name (or with their tax dollars).

As reported recently in The Guardian:

“Hundreds of Jewish anti-war demonstrators have been arrested during a Passover seder that doubled as a protest in New York, as they shut down a major thoroughfare to pray for a ceasefire…The 300 or so arrests took place … where thousands of mostly Jewish New Yorkers gathered for the seder, a ritual that marked the second night of the holiday celebrated as a festival of freedom by Jews worldwide… just before the US Senate resoundingly passed a military package that includes $26b for Israel.”

As the organizer pronounced: “We as American Jews will not be used, we will not be complicit and we will not be silent. Judaism is a beautiful, thousands- year-old tradition, and Israel is a 76-year-old colonial apartheid state… this is the Passover that we take our exodus from Zionism. Not in our name. Let Gaza live.”


In an interesting article this month, Peter Singer takes issue with Netanyahu’s vicious contention that the anti-genocide protests are “anti-Semitic,” stating:

“Israel’s Law of Return gives me the right to become a citizen of Israel, even though I am an atheist, have never observed Jewish religious laws, learned Hebrew, or had a bar mitzvah. But the fact that my maternal grandmother was Jewish is enough for me to have the right to “return” to Israel. That does seem uncomfortably close to a racist criterion for deciding who has the right to become a citizen of Israel.”

YES, there IS a real problem with Anti-semitism in our country: a serious threat to those “Semitic” peoples — Arab and Jew alike — who oppose apartheid and genocide. They are under severe threat by the U.S. Government and university administrators who want to repress their free speech, even if it means the use of rubber bullets, pepper spray, and tear gas. These protesters are the people who need protection from the use of all the weapons of the state being fired at them, who face expulsion from the educational institutions they have invested in, and evictions from the dormitories for which they have already paid. They even risk being blacklisted from future employment. They are under extreme threat from this “nuevo” McCarthyism: “Red” then now = “Hamas.”

The ones who DON’T need protection are the snowflakes who feel “intimidated” by a slogan they hear or a flag they don’t like to look at. As George Orwell said: freedom is the right to say what people don’t want to hear. These “sensitive” people — whether Jewish or Ultra Christian Evangelical — don’t need special laws or protection. They need a good course on the 1st Amendment. Instead, our country is going in the opposite direction, with a new law being proposed by Congress that will make it illegal to utter words deemed inappropriate by Big Brother.

The bill, already passed by the House and expected to be approved by the Senate and ratified by Genocide Joe, would codify (i.e. weaponize) a specific definition of “antisemitism” to use in order to inflict even more repression against peace activists. The wording is nothing short of ominous. For example, it defines anti-semitism as anyone who is caught “accusing Jews as a people being responsible for real or imagined wrongdoing…” Yes, even REAL wrongdoing! So if someone says they think it is wrong for the Jewish state to indiscriminately carpet bomb civilians, that constitutes anti-semitism? Yup.

The new legally binding definition also includes “denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination.” How about denying the Palestinians that right? Since they are “semites,” is denying their rights anti-semitic too? Likewise, American citizens are to be prosecuted if any of us opine that “Israel’s existence is a racist endeavor.” If someone thinks that a “Jewish state only for a Jewish people” is wrong, they could be convicted of a felony. Also banned from public speech will be any comparison between current Israeli policy and the Nazis. I can think of a half dozen comparisons off the top of my head. I am clearly already guilty, (but often feel like I was born that way)..

The bill would also instruct the Department of Education to investigate anything that might be considered “hate speech” occurring on campuses under the threat of having their federal funds withheld. Talk about trashing the First Amendment rights! Remember people: “hate” speech (whatever the hell that is and defined by whom-ever-the-fug will determine this) is still supposed to be protected speech (as long as it doesn’t incite violence). Will such laws someday ban, say, hatred of Anglo-Saxons? We don’t need Trump to institute an authoritarian hell-hole, the duopoly-Party honchos are doing it right now.

The sponsor of the bill claims: “We cannot stand idly by as protesters call for the death of Jews on college campuses and across the country.” Yet the only known case of anyone shouting “Kill the Jews” was a pro-Israeli provocateur who infiltrated the protesters at Boston’s Northeastern University, and which was used as an excuse by security forces to repress peaceful pro-Palestinian demonstrators.

In response to the provocateur (who was never charged with inciting violence, of course), it was the 100 peaceful protesters who actually booed the man’s racist rant who were the ones arrested! Yeah, students are being busted because of the “antisemitic slurs” used by an anti-Palestinian provocateur against them! In fact, the entire encampment was removed because “of the presence of hate speech at the site,” according to the university’s administration, done without them identifying who used such speech, but clear on who they wanted to prosecute.

In the meantime, our local politicians in both the City of Tucson and Pima County are looking at very troubling budgets, while refusing to condemn genocide or speak to the transfer of billions of our national treasure for war.
The city is looking at a shortfall this year of about $26 million. Pima County is looking at a shortfall of $43 million. Homeless encampments are being dismantled, yet affordable housing is non-existent. The drug crisis worsens day by day, especially affecting our working class barrios, but there is never proper funding to deal with it. Our streets, full of cracks and craters everywhere, are like driving on an obstacle course. Our increasingly polluted water availability is under threat, but there are no funds for the needed infrastructure projects. There are never enough cops to deal with anything and we are told “community policing” costs too much. The border — whether you think we need bigger walls or more resources to process asylum seekers — needs millions more to fix, but our leaders are more concerned with other nations’ borders (like the Russian/Ukrainian one).

But never fear: there is always more money for war: either against the Russians, the Chinese, the Iranians, the Afghans, or whoever else can be used to scare us in order to fill the insatiable appetite of Raytheon and their ilk. After watching our nation treasures diverted away from our own needs at home, is it really any wonder why our youth rebel? The real question is, why doesn’t everyone?

PHOENIX: NO IDF POLICE TRAINING

In Phoenix: people have called for the immediate halt to any partnerships with the Israel because “high ranking American officers train with the very same Israeli agencies who carry out the country’s policies of occupation and apartheid via control, shoot to kill policies, surveillance, racial discrimination, restrictions of movement, repression of social movements, torture, excessive force, child kidnappings, and more.”

We should be banning the same here in Tucson/Pima County. Why are we not? 

Similarly, the US-Mexico border has an “eerie parallel” to Israel-Gaza as “US officers are learning from a regime accused of using iron-fisted security tactics to enforce a system of racial oppression.”

In fact, “hacked police files show US law enforcement agencies for decades received analysis of incidents in the Israel-Palestine conflict directly from the Israeli Defense Forces and Israeli think tanks, training on domestic ‘Muslim extremists’ from pro-Israel non-profits, and surveilled social media accounts of pro-Palestine activists in the US.” [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/ dec/08/us-police-agencies-idf-files-blueleaks]

The report “Deadly Exchange; The Dangerous Consequences of US-Israel Law Enforcement Exchanges” (see References at end) documents thousands of American officials who have been trained by the Israeli police and military (including from Tucson). As Stefanie Fox with Jewish Voices for Peace stated:

“American police already have a terrible track record on civil rights and racism – and then they go to Israel and train with Israeli police and security agencies that are documented human rights violators. We should be investing in our communities, not militarizing our police.”

So our solidarity with the people of Palestine may be more than just ideological. We may be facing a repressive police force here in Tucson trained by the very murderers who have killed over 35,000 people including 14,500 children and 9,500 women, with another 10,000 missing and probably dead. Feel secure?

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“The state of Israel will prove itself not by material wealth, not by military might or technical achievement, but by its moral character and human values.”

— David Ben-Gurion (Israel’s first Prime Minister)

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Yes, this is a real advertisement sent to a Jewish friend of mine to encourage more occupation and settler colonization. Nuseirat is not only a resort and casino, it is also the location of a Palestinian refugee camp located in the middle of the Gaza Strip which had a refugee population of over 50,000 which has been greatly reduced as the Nuseirat refugee camp has been bombed repeatedly since the start of the Israel-Hamas war. The Grand Nuseirat Mosque settlers were encouraged to visit “before its destruction” was bombed destroyed by Israeli airstrikes in October.

But hey, that shouldn’t discourage anyone from enjoying themselves at the casino, no? Maybe Jared Kushner — who has advocated plans to turn Gaza into a resort for the rich — may be there to greet you himself. After the rubble and dead babies are removed, of course.

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RECENT LETTERS TO THE ADS

(My letter cut down to fit the Star’s word limit, but most of it got in!):

No matter what side you may fall on with regards to the Israeli vs. Palestinian conflict, the use of chemical weapons and rubber bullets against UA protesters should raise public concern for all Tucson citizens. Someone could get killed.

I have been shot at by wooden bullets and tear gassed years ago when defending the miners strike in Clifton and Morenci, and I have been gassed, beaten and fired at with rubber and plastic bullets by soldiers in Belfast during a peaceful march. At that demonstration, where a large contingent of Americans watched our national flag run over by British army saracens, a once healthy 32 year old man named Sean Downes died when a plastic bullet was fired into his chest. He had only been married a year, leaving his wife and baby girl behind. Here in the U.S. over 115 head injuries were reported across the U.S. by people hit by rubber bullets during peaceful protests over the death of George Floyd. [This was cut due to word limit].

Plastic and rubber bullets, technically called “kinetic impact projectiles” or KIPs, are lethal weapons. They were used extensively by the Brits in occupied Ireland and now by the Israeli Defense Forces in occupied Palestine. To be hit by one can cause blindness, brain damage, or death. Amnesty International reports that police routinely misuse them against peaceful protesters. The ACLU has also condemned their use, clearly stating that they “are not an appropriate weapon for crowd management.” The Physicians for Human Rights has declared that “at close range, level of lethality and patterns of injury of some KIPs become similar to those of live ammunition.”

KIPs were recently used at UCLA and now they are being used here in Tucson against protesters. The use of KIPs by the Tucson Police Department and other law enforcement authorities must be stopped by the Mayor and Council. We should also cease all coordination between local law enforcement and the Israeli Defense Forces as has been done in the City of Durham, North Carolina, Northampton, Massachusetts, and Washington DC. There should be no place in Tucson for the use of lethal force against anyone for simply exercising their 1st Amendment rights.

Sincerely, Scott D. Egan

*** My letter followed up after by Professor Smith (who I don’t know)…

Use of rubber bullets – Israeli training of US police

As an emeritus professor of Middle East history at UA and author of “Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict,” now in 10th edition, I have viewed with alarm reports of police using rubber bullets to break up student demonstrations nationwide, including here on the UA campus.

A recent letter by Scott Egan (5/12) noted that they are lethal. Aimed at the head they can kill at short distances. At least 1,000 American police departments have sent members to be trained in Israel on Israeli methods to crush Palestinian nonviolent demonstrations.

Local police use of rubber bullets suggests the Tucson PD may have received such training. Such brutal police assaults on nonviolent protests have no place in our society. That they have occurred because of guidance by the military of a foreign country using tactics imposed on Palestinians, not on fellow Israelis, is disturbing and should be strongly challenged, not least because here the methods are used against fellow citizens gathering in support of Palestinians. Is this a coincidence?

Charles Smith

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REFERENCES
City Budget: https://www.tucsonaz.gov/Departments/Business-Services-

Department/Budget/Adopted-Budget-Fiscal-Year-2025

ADS on City Budget: https://www.kold.com/2024/05/22/tucson-moves- forward-with-its-2024-2025-tentative-budget/

Mayor and Council meeting on Budget:

http:www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNe6IyypOiM

Democratic Sell-Out on ADUs:

https://tucson.com/news/local/subscriber/arizona-govkatiehobbs-legislature- housing-affordability-casitas-short-term-vacation-rentals/ article_68ec29ba-1935-11ef-afca-339dc0873ebf.html

Deadly Exchange: https://deadlyexchange.org/deadly-exchange-research- report/

Phoenix says no to IDF: [https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/end-all-phoenix- police-training-programs-with-israel]

Tucson Law Enforcement and Israeli: https://azjewishpost.com/2017/tucson- peace-officers-trip-bolsters-regional-bond-with-israel/

Gaza and Mexican Border: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/ americas/us-police-israel-training-hamas-b2454442.html

Provocateurs: https://www.yahoo.com/news/pro-israel-agitator-shouts- kill-163956737.html

Askenazi Jews Are Genetically European “Live Science” https://www.livescience.com/40247-ashkenazi-jews-have-european-genes.html

Jews, Semites, and Antisemitism: https://divinity.uchicago.edu/sightings/ articles/jews-semites-and-antisemitism

Israel Police Arrest U.S. Jews, Trying to Bring Aid Into Gaza:

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-04-27/ty-article/.premium/israel- police-arrest-seven-including-five-u-s-jews-trying-to-bring-aid-into-gaza/ 0000018f-1e6d-dc45-a78f-1e6de0940000

Hate Speech Bill: https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/ 2024-05-07/explainer-the-controversy-surrounding-the-antisemitism-bill

Peter Singer on anti-semitism: (https://www.project-syndicate.org/ commentary/are-us-anti-israel-protesters-anti-semitic-by-peter-singer-2024-05)

Not like other Passovers: Jewish Demonstrators arrested at NY seder:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/24/not-like-other-passovers- hundreds-of-jewish-demonstrators-arrested-after-new-york-protest-seder

WBAI Pacifica broadcasts the 1968 Columbia University Student Strike:

https://archive.org/details/ FromTheVault1021968ColumbiaUniversityStudentStrike

Juan Gonzales reflects on Columbia 68:

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/4/23/antiwar_protests_gaza

College Students threatened: https://www.yahoo.com/news/college- students-across-the-us-have-been-arrested-and-threatened-with-suspension- over-pro-palestinian-protests-but-what-legal-rights-do-they- have-150447931.html

Unmasking counterprotesters who attacked UCLA’s pro-Palestine encampment: https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/16/us/ucla-student-protests- counterprotesters-invs/index.html

U.A. Under attack: the case of Faculty Senate Chair Leila Hudson: https:// tucson.com/news/local/education/college/university-arizona-jewish-council- faculty-senate-chair-antisemitism-resolution-deferred/ article_abfc051a-0e34-11ef-bc34-ff694d16c7a9.html

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