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Preliminary Planning for DAAT -The Day Against Anti-semitism and Terrorism

edit secondgenerationradical 2009-02-06 22:37 UTC 2 comments

Preliminary plans call for marches in the major cities of the United States and Canada.

This will depend in part on finding committed organizers in each city who can establish the local organization with the help of our senior organizers.

At this time we are hoping to have marches in the following cities:

Canada -

Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary, Vancouver

United States -

Washington, New York, Chicago, South Florida, Los Angeles

This is our minimum goal, and hope to add further locations if possible.   We are still studying the idea of doing marches in Europe.  Our fear is that it may be too late to do peaceful protests in Europe as the number of people hostile to Jews and attracted to terrorism and Islamofascism may prevent marches there being peaceful.

We are now seeking nominations for local organizing chairpeople for those locations.  Advertisements will soon appear in local publications to seek such people.

This is a broad-based grassroots protest march and is not beholden to any one organization.   There are so many people who want to express their opposition to terrorism and anti-Semitism and the ideological confusion that is sweeping the West as to how to deal with these evils.  It is time that we call them "evils" and it is time to hit the streets.

Just one reason to support DAAT on April 19th

edit secondgenerationradical 2009-02-05 19:31 UTC 1  comment  ·

This incident is from last year.   It is one of the reasons we have to take to the streets on April 19th.   A world that is not terribly bothered by Hamas inciting and praising this type of incident, but reserves all its condemnation for the IDF when it, despite enormous measures to the contrary, kills Hamas supporting civilians, is clearly immoral.

Bradley Burston writes for Israel's left wing newspaper Ha'aretz.  Left wing and right wing are agreed on this.

 
Palestinian terrorism as a natural act
By Bradley Burston
Tags: bulldozer, terror 

Click here for more from Bradley Burston

JERUSALEM - What, exactly, is a decent person supposed to think?

On a quiet and clear morning in Jerusalem, a woman is driving toward the heart of the city, her infant with her in the car. There is nothing to fear.
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It is not a military area, it is not a sector of occupation, it is not a settlement - Jews have lived and worked here for more than a century. Jewish doctors and nurses were treating Arab infants, women, the elderly and the infirm here as early as 1902, when Shaare Tzedek Hospital opened across the street.

There is nothing to fear.

Except for the man behind the wheel of a bulldozer, who has taken it upon himself to kill Jews. Not Israeli security force personnel, not occupation troops, not the Shin Bet. Jews. Women and children and the elderly and the infirm. Jews who may be in favor of an independent Palestinian state. Jews who have nothing against Arabs. Jews who may work to end the occupation. Jews.

When the killing starts, the woman behind the wheel does what Jews have learned to do since the Holocaust, and for 2,000 years before that: Save your child. Whatever it takes.

She manages to throw her infant out the side window and clear of the car before the Hero of Palestine steers the massive earth mover toward her car for a second time and crushes it flat.

It doesn't take long, after the he has finished overturning buses full of Jews - and Arabs as well - and driving over other cars, even backing up to crush one twice, before the public relations and marketing department of Hamas had formulated its praise for the attack.

"We consider it as a natural reaction to the daily aggression and crimes committed against our people in the West Bank and all over the occupied lands," Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri told the press.

Natural. Only natural.

The Islamic Jihad's armed wing could not have agreed more."The Jerusalem Brigades bless the heroic operation in Jerusalem as the natural reaction to the crimes of the occupation," it announced.

The attack came after the latest in a series of attempts by groups in the states, some of them atheist/anarchist, some of them Muslim, some of them Jewish, to lobby Prostestant churches and respected universities to divest from Caterpillar, because the IDF uses its bulldozers to demolish Palestinian homes.

I would like to hear them now. Just once. I would like them to divest from terrorism. Not understand it as the natural outgrowth of the crimes of occupation. For once, I would like my sisters and brothers on the left to be every bit as hard on their comrades the Palestinians for taking a bulldozer and crushing Jews, as they are on Israel for bulldozing homes.

Write a letter to Ismail Haniyeh, to Mahmoud Zahar, to Sami Anu Zuhri. Protest in your own communities, for once, calling terrorism what it is. Intentional, brutal, premeditated, immoral. Murder.

What's a decent person supposed to think?

That it's all right to launch rockets against residential areas during a cease-fire, because the occupation is still going on? That it's all right to crush Jewish civilians, because the occupation has not been halted and settlers continue to build homes?

What's a decent person to think when Palestinian groups fall over one another trying to claim the bulldozer attack? And when one of the groups is the Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade?

What's a decent person to think when the man who drove the bulldozer was himself the father of two, a construction worker from East Jerusalem, whose desire to kill Jews - and, in so doing, further soil and damage the cause and name of Palestine - was greater than his feeling for the mother who had to throw her baby from a car to save it?

I, for one, would like to ask for proof of what it is that Palestinians really want. I no longer believe that it's as simple as wanting statehood.

This is what I don't yet want to admit: that for all these years, in 2008 no less than in 1902, what a critical mass of Palestinians want most, perhaps even more than statehood, may be as simple as the vile thrill of vengeance, as straightforward as nothing more than seeing Jews dead and gone.

Daat - the website is now up

edit secondgenerationradical 2009-02-04 23:16 UTC 1  comment

Our web address is:

http://www.daatapril19.com/index.html

our email address is:

DAATApril19@gmail.com

Daat means knowledge in Hebrew.  In Kabbalah, it means so much more.

Daat is the bridge between intellect and emotion.

We need both.

We need you.

DAAT - in your heart and your mind, you know it is time

edit secondgenerationradical 2009-02-04 20:20 UTC 109 comments

In Kabbalah -

Da'at -is Knowledge, the bridge between the intellect and emotion

The Da'at is the mystical state of unity of the 10 Sephiroth, also called the Tree of Life.

The Sefirot in Jewish Kabbalah

Keter Binah Chokhmah Da'at Gevurah Chesed Tiferet Hod Netzach Yesod Malkuth The Sefirot in Jewish Kabbalah

DAAT is also the Day Against Anti-Semitism and Terrorism

We shall march.

We shall be non-violent.

We shall, we must, believe that knowledge and goodness will prevail over ignorance and hate.

Da'at is the bridge between intellect and emotion.

In your mind and in your heart, you know it is time to march against anti-Semitism and Terrorism.  This is our opportunity to spread knowledge and goodness.

April 19, 2009.