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“Struggle for the Land: Zionism and the Repression of Anti-Colonial Movements,” will focus on Zionism as a colonial-settlement project in Palestine, and its role inside the U.S. and other countries.
NECDP cofounder Amer Jubran, now living in Jordan [Bridge file photo]
In the 1980s, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) branch in San Francisco hired an intelligence agent to infiltrate a wide range of left-wing groups and gather information on activists.
Pro-Palestinian activists were a primary target, but people working against Apartheid in South Africa were also a focus. Information about anti-Apartheid activists was supplied to South African intelligence. One of these activists was assassinated upon his return home.
Why would the ADL gather intelligence on anti-Apartheid activists? Contrary to its stated mission, the overwhelming record of its activities shows that the primary mission of the ADL is to defend Israel and its interests within the United States.
By the 1980s, Israel had become a major supplier of weapons, advisors and repressive technology to colonial regimes and oppressive dictatorships.
Apartheid-era South Africa was a major ally of Israel. Rhodesia had been too, until it became Zimbabwe in 1980. All three were white colonial settler-states pursuing similar policies to maintain power. Other clients included Iran under the Shah, Pinochet’s Chile, El Salvador, Guatemala and many more.
The ADL spying case is one of many topics that will be discussed at an education and strategy conference that the New England Committee to Defend Palestine (NECDP) will present on April 12 and 13.
The conference, called “Struggle for the Land: Zionism and the Repression of Anti-Colonial Movements,” will focus on Zionism as a colonial-settlement project in Palestine, and its role inside the U.S. and other countries.
The conference will make the case that confronting Zionism is crucial to any movement forward against militarism and internal oppression.
The combination of Israeli political ties to imperialist policies abroad and Zionist opposition to anti-colonial liberation movements here involves collaboration between Zionist political organizations, Israeli and U.S. police and intelligence forces, mercenaries, and corporations in the private security sector.
Confirmed speakers include
• Amer Jubran (Palestinian activist, co-founder of NECDP and former political detainee)
• Saja Raoof (Iraqi anti-war activist)
• Kali Akuno (Director of the People’s Hurricane Relief Fund in New Orleans and National Organizer for the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement)
• Marta Rodriguez (Puerto Rican independence activist)
• Ward Churchill (American Indian Movement activist and author)
• Dara Bayer (Palestine solidarity activist)
• Jeffrey Blankfort (Anti-Zionist journalist and activist, and co-plaintiff in a successful lawsuit against the ADL)
The conference will take place over April 12-13. But NECDP has been forced to change the planned location from Encuentro 5, in Boston's Chinatown.
For information, and to pre-register, http://www.onepalestine.org