"If a white man wants to lynch me, that's his problem. If he's got the power to lynch me, that's my problem." I
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The reason I've been talking about the Australian Israel lobby so much lately is because it has made itself my problem. Kwame Ture said "If a white man wants to lynch me, that's his problem. If he's got the power to lynch me, that's my problem." I find his logic sound.
The Israel lobby in Australia has shown it has the power to successfully pressure governments to advance laws and policies which threaten the speech of people like myself who speak critically of the state of Israel. That makes them my problem.
There are more important and urgent things going on in the world than the lobbying efforts of an apartheid state in a peripheral nation of the imperial core, to be sure. I'd rather be writing about those matters. But the Australian Israel lobby has made itself my problem, so I need to mention its abusive behaviors from time to time.
I know my name has appeared on lists. I know I've been the subject of private discussion among people I'd have preferred not to receive attention from. I know I share a country with people who would openly celebrate if I was imprisoned for the things I have said about Israel and Zionism. So I've got a vested interest in calling attention to the forces that are working to assault the civil rights of people like myself, and to my government's inexcusable advancement of those agendas.
And all decent Australians have that same vested interest, to be clear. Every person of conscience who wishes to be able to speak out against their government's facilitation of mass murder and abuse has a personal stake in this debate. Because we've each got a target on our voice box now. We all need to speak out while we still can.
posted by Satish Sharma at
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