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  Wednesday  May 6  2009    10: 36 PM

israel/palestine

Mondoweiss has become the place for me to keep up on the shift happening in the Jewish world as more Jews become anti-Zionist or post-Zionist. Phil Weiss and Adam Horowitz make up Mondoweiss and they are currently posting from the annual AIPAC conference. Check out all their posts.

Dragged out of AIPAC conference, a Jewish protester aches for the song to part that sea of fear

"This past Monday morning as I walked briskly with a mass of well-dressed, mostly Jewish people headed into a huge auditorium room, I felt as if I could have been one of a horde of Jews rushing to get into our synagogue to pray on Rosh Hashanah. On any other day, I may in fact have seen the same people at synagogue, but on Monday, we were headed somewhere very different: The 2009 AIPAC (American Israeli Public Affairs Committee) Policy Conference at the Washington Convention Center. Once inside the big room the synagogue-going feeling disintegrated. Here, humble prayer was replaced with hubristic preaching, the kind of gospel you might see on a televangelical TV show deterring worshipers from choosing the "unholy" paths of homosexuality, interracial marriage, or abortion. Only here at AIPAC, the sinful acts we were to abstain from included diplomacy, trust, and turning a critical eye towards a particular government's use of military force. Instead, we were instructed to advocate for weapons, sanctions, and unwavering nationalism. "