I met with anti-Zionist Israeli activists in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, all of whom I informed, as an example of the sorry state of affairs on this side of the water, about the subject of your upcoming [Oakland "Anti-Semitism"] Conference on what is alleged to be anti-semitism on the part of what passes for the left in the United States.

Nearly 1000 Israelis have been killed since Yassir Arafat launched his intifada instead of signing a peace treaty with Israel. For every person killed, a dozen others are wounded. Here are three recent cases of a bombing that took place at a checkpoint near Jerusalem. These three men were only wounded and not killed. As you read these three accounts, remember to muliply the suffering by 10,000 and perhaps you will have some emphathy for what the Jewish people are going through. These accounts are from www.standwithus.com

Pam Africa will be appearing at the Socialist Action Bookstore in SF at 10:30 AM Saturday August 21, 2004.

This article understates the human rights disaster occurring right now in Sudan. An estimated 1000 people A DAY are dying. Huge concentration camps have been set up where Sudanese are not allowed to leave but where they have no food, clean water, shelter, or medicine. Men who try to leave are shot on the spot. The women who try to leave are raped. The 350,000 that the Seattle Intelligencer editorial board fear might die this year without intervention is a low-ball figure. Others have estimated that as many as a million people may be dead by the end of the year if the international community doesn't intervene right now. Look at the pathetic response so far from the United Nations. They are still "considering" sanctions. In the USA, neither George W. Bush NOR Colin Powell will call the disaster by its proper name: Genocide. By contrast, Democratic presidential candidate, John Kerry called it genocide last April. Also, locally, I note that the Resource Center for Nonviolence does not have a single mention of Sudan on its website.

Statement of the Israeli Communist Forum (5.8.2004)

A call for Unity in the Struggle Against the Occupation and for a Just Peace