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October
7, 2002
The
ADL Smear Campaign Against Me
I Will Not Resign, I Will Not Apologize
by AMIRI BARAKA
The recent dishonest, consciously distorted and
insulting non-interpretation of my poem, "Somebody Blew
Up America" by the "Anti-Defamation" League, is
fundamentally an attempt to defame me. And with that, an attempt
to repress and stigmatize independent thinkers everywhere.
This trashy propaganda is characteristic
of right-wing zealots who are interested only in slander and
character assassination of those whose views or philosophies
differ from or are in contradiction to theirs.
First, the poem underlying theme focuses
on how Black Americans have suffered from domestic terrorism
since being kidnapped into US chattel slavery, e.g., by Slave
Owners, US & State Laws, Klan, Skin Heads, Domestic Nazis,
Lynching, denial of rights, national oppression, racism, character
assassination, historically, and at this very minute throughout
the US. The relevance of this to Bush call for a "War on
Terrorism", is that Black people feel we have always been
victims of terror, governmental and general, so we cannot get
as frenzied and hysterical as the people who while asking us
to dismiss our history and contemporary reality to join them,
in the name of a shallow "patriotism" in attacking
the majority of people in the world, especially people of color
and in the third world.
This is said to us, even as this counterfeit
president has legalized the Confederate Flag in Mississippi.
Could the victims of European Fascism be as frantically loyal
to a regime that would fly a Nazi Swastika over their homes?
So we cannot, in good conscience, celebrate what seems to us
an international crusade to set up a military dictatorship over
the world, legitimatized at base, by white supremacy, carried
out, no matter the crude lies, as the most terrifying form of
Imperialism and its attendant national oppression. All of it
designed to drain super profits bluntly from the colored peoples
of the world, but as well, from the majority of the peoples in
the world. For all the frantic condemnations of Terror by Bush
&c, as the single International Super Power, they are the
most dangerous terrorists in the world!
Actually, in my focus on various forces
of terror Afro Americans and other oppressed people of the world
have suffered, slavery, colonialism, Imperialism, Neo neo-colonialism,
National Oppression, the ADL disingenuously makes no mention
of my probing into the creators of the holocaust, e.g., "who
put the Jews in ovens, / and who helped them do it, / Who said
"America First"/ and Ok'd the yellow stars", which
of course is a reference to America's domestic fascists just
before World War @ and the Nazi Holocaust.
Nor do these ADL purveyors of falsehood
mention the poem's listing of some of the Jews across the world,
oppressed, imprisoned, murdered by actual Anti- Semitic forces,
open or disguised. The poem asks "Who killed Rosa Luxembourg,
Liebnecht/Who murdered the Rosenbergs/ And all the good people
iced, tortured, assassinate, vanished".
The ADL apparently is not outraged by
McCarthy era frame-up and execution of the Rosenbergs, nor the
assassination of German Jewish Communist leaders like Liebnecht,
Luxembourg. The ADL leaves these things out to try to make their
lies more believable, and also because these victims of imperialism
were on the Left
Happily the Star Ledger published the
entire poem, though including in a box, supposedly identifying
the offending phrases, my question, "Who Blew Up The Reichstag?"
as if the ADL had also claimed that the poem was inferring that
Jews did it. When it was Hitler's destruction of the Reichstag,
that provided the pretext for the general imprisonment of Jews,
after incarcerating Communists, Social Democrats and Trade Unionists.
Why this was done one can only speculate, but this is the kind
of sloppy or intentionally slanderous journalism one can often
find in the media. It also reflects the kind of unprincipled
attack that characterizes ADL press release.
The Reichstag fire, parallels the 911
Attack, in that after that "mysterious act of terrorism",
which Hitler blamed on Jews and Communists, the Nazis passed
a law The Reichstag Enablement Act, that gave the Nazis much
the same carte blanche as the Bush administration used the 911
tragedy to pass the wholly undemocratic Patriot Bill and begin
rounding up suspects, even without identifying them. Of course
the actual arsonists of the Reichstag terror were never found,
though most scholars are certain it was the Nazis themselves.
Of the other lines of the poem, which
the ADL termed an example of the Hitlerian "Big Lie",
and the poet's "spewing Anti-Semitic venom". The lines,
"Who knew the World Trade Center was gonna get/bombed?"
Well now, certainly, even the Democratic Party has affirmed that
the Bush Administration knew. I agree with this, and it is everywhere
on the Internet that not only was the US warned repeatedly by
Germany, France, Russia, England but also Israel. Michael Ruppert
of the Green Party has issued a video stating clearly, "Israeli
security issued urgent warnings to the CIA of large-scale terror
attacks. ...And that the Israeli Mossad knew that the attacks
were going to take place...they knew that the World Trade Center
were the targets. This is from British newspaper the "Telegraph".
(Copies of these documents available with this statement.)
In addition there are articles in all
forms of media and of course the Internet confirming or suggesting
that the entire Imperialist world knew and had warned the US
CIA in advance, but no action was taken. WHY. They say they "couldn't
connect the dots". The FBI agents in Minnesota and Arizona
who sd that FBI received a report in 1998 that a terrorist organization
...planned to bring people to the US to enroll in flight schools.
Zacharias Moussoui, now charged with conspiring in the Sept 11
attacks, was arrested by the Minnesota agents of the FBI in August
2001 but FBI HQ denied agents request to seek a warrant even
to search his computer. And in a prepared statement by a Minnesota
FBI agent, he blamed legal restrictions but principally FBI headquarters
for impeding a more aggressive investigation of this man. As
for the other agent's attempt to warn the FBI HQ of these attacks,
he was rebuffed when he made the report, but now FBI HQ says
it has not record of such warning. (See <Truthout.org/docs>)
There are other incredible dots on the
media, for instance the stockholders of American Airlines and
United, which were the carriers highjacked to commit the terror
began withdrawing stock from these companies in August before
the attacks.
The most offensive phrase in the poem
to my various attackers is, "Who told 4000 Israeli workers
at the Twin Towers / to stay home that day/ Why did Sharon stay
away?" To infer that I am accusing Israel of committing
the atrocity is disingenuous slander and character assassination.
But I do believe, as I stated about England, Germany, France,
Russia, that the Israeli government, certainly it's security
force, SHABAK knew about the attack in advance.
My sources were, "Ha'aretz"
and "Yadiot Ahranot" (two Israeli newspapers) "Al
Watan" (a Jordanian newspaper), "Manar" -TV and
the website of the Israeli security force SHABAK. There are myriad
references to this in Reuters, Der Spiegel.
The Israeli newspaper Yadiot Ahranot
lst revealed that SHABAK had canceled Sharon's appearance in
New York City that day, Sept 11, where he was supposed to speak
at an "Israel Day" celebration. This was also mentioned
in the Star Ledger, to the effect that Sharon was supposed to
visit the US, but no dates were mentioned.
It is the Green Party's Ruppert who makes
the most effective case for the 4000 Israeli workers (Not Jewish
Workers!) but Israeli nationals. He says in his video, "if
what I am showing you is know overtly although the media, how
much more does our thirty billion dollar intelligence community
know"/
He goes on, and this seems true to me,
It is "Nonsense" to say the Israelis did it They were
warning the U.S. hand over fist..." Ruppert speculates further
1. The US did not listen 2. They needed the attacks" which
I leave to time, as Malcolm X sd, Time will tell.
But the most stunning revelation is this,
again Ruppert, "We reviewed the list of former tenants of
the World Trade Center at the on-line Wall St Journal site. And
there's the website. It is an alphabetical list of tenants. Scroll
to the very bottom and notice the moving date for the office
of Zim American-Israeli Shipping to Norfolk Virginia. They were
in the World Trade Center. They must have had Mossad" (or
Shabak- AB) input because they vacated one week before September
and they broke their lease. The Israelis didn't pull the attack,
but they were smart enough to get their people out of the way.
How come our government didn't do the same thing for us."
(Statement & Quote by George DeCarlo, Coordinator of Union
County Greens, Co Founder of the NJ Lavender Greens- included
in media pkg.)
The poem was never saying anything else,
i.e., why didn't the other slaughtered Americans know? I WAS
NOT SAYING ISRAEL WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ATTACK, BUT THAT THEY
KNEW AND OUR OWN COUNTERFEIT PRESIDENT DID TOO!
There is other disturbing facts surround
the hideous 911 attacks, which my family and I could see from
the third floor bathroom window of our homes! And certainly one
day all this will be thoroughly investigated. The poem says "Who
know why Five Israelis was filming the explosion/ And cracking
they sides at the notion." I got this story from The Star
Ledger, where it appeared twice, and The New York Times.
The reference to "cracking they
sides" or laughing uproariously while filming the 911 attack,
apparently on the top of a truck from the Jersey side is a direct
paraphrase of the Ledger articles. In fact, the State Police,
who arrested them, stated that that is one of the reasons they
did arrest them, because they were laughing.
Again, these were Israeli Nationals,
persons holding Israeli passports. The Times article even reported
on what their lives were like in Jail. And implied they would
be deported. So this reference is not more of the ADL's "Anti-Semitic
venom" but arrived at merely from studying the US media.
Why those five Israelis were there filming
and laughing I do not claim know. That's why the poem here and
throughout continuously chants the question WHO WHO WHO? That
is, who is responsible for this horrible crime and WHY? It is
a poem that aims to probe and disturb, but there is not the slightest
evidence of Anti-Semitism, as anyone who reads it without some
insidious bias would have to agree.
Why the ADL would do this, I can only
speculate.
I wish they and other concerned pundits
would speculate on how an Airplane flying in America, where the
pilot has to file a flight plan before taking off, how can such
a plane or two or three of them file such a route in which they
would travel, and in the case of the planes leaving Boston make
45 degree turns south and fly 54 minutes to the World Trade Center
and 90 minutes to the Pentagon and not be challenged by US Air
Defense Fighters, or brought down by ground to air missiles?
Having been in the Air Force I know those
ADC fighters would normally confront such "rogue" aircraft
within a few minutes! Why was this not done? Let the ADL and
the media investigating me, investigate that!
We should know that Bush and his Right
Wing crew want War against all the forces of their so called
"Axis of Evil" What a not so wild coincidence that
the path of this Axis parallels the route of the proposed US
oil corporations- pipe line from Saudi to the far east, apparently
to oppose the spiraling economic growth and influence of China.
They scream "Bin Laden" and "Taliban" and
destroy Afghanistan, install a puppet president and a shadow
occupation force.
Next in the Axis is Iraq, we should have
known that. With no real proof at all again the people of the
US outraged and frightened by the Reichstag of 911 are hyped
with chants of "Regime Change" and "Saddam Hussein".
No longer is the madness of crowds being aroused by the "Anti
-Terrorist" campaign and Bin Laden as the Devil figure used
to rouse the people to a patriotic frenzy, now it is Saddam Hussein.
So forget last month's war and get ready for this month's.
Bush says he wants "regime change"
in Palestine, he wants to oust Arafat, now in Iraq, and he wants
to oust Saddam. The Axis projects Iran next and then North Korea.
What is this an updated version of 1984 or an American version
of Hitler's and Bush 1's) New World Order?
Regime Change, why? Because these regimes
are anti democratic or terrorists or in the case of Saddam, they
have "weapons of mass destruction".
Well if being anti democratic were a
good rationalization for foreign invasions of countries then
the United States better watch out because the Florida coup,
which tricked the American people into accepting Bush as President
is anything but democratic. Should we let foreign countries invade
us to get rid of Bush? What would be the American People's reaction
to such Third Reich replay?
And as for Saddam having "weapons
of mass destruction" (or mass diversion as some critics
say) The US has these weapons. So do Israel, South Africa, Germany,
France, Italy, England, Russia, and now China, India, Pakistan.
How is it the US and its allies (except the Chinese) can have
such weapons, but no one else can. The answer to that, of course,
is White Supremacy and Imperialism. And what should be the growing
understanding by the American people and the democratic people
of the world, is what the far right Bush coven wants is a military
dictatorship of the world.
The ADL, by attacking me by distorting
what my poem is saying, is doing its usual ugly, as a well known
running dog of imperialism, particularly by attacking anyone
who takes an independent position or is critical of Israeli Imperialism
and its attendant ideology political Zionism. As they are attempting
with me the ADL slanders anyone who is not happy with Israel's
ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians
As Anti Semitic, when lst of all Israel
and its guiding philosophy have nothing to do, as categories,
with Jews. (See "Zionism in the Age of the Dictators",
Brenner
But this is the trick such demagogues
as the ADL use to hide the crimes of Imperialist Israel. When
we criticize US imperialism does that make us enemies of Christianity,
maybe only to Jerry Falwell and such Right wing Christian Zealots,
perhaps Asscraft But neither Israel nor Zionism is the same as
Judaism. (Op cit Brenner; also "The Dilemma of the Modern
Jew, Prinz".) But this is the trick the Israeli's and their
sympathizers use to hide behind Judaism. Israel (and it's political
Zionism) has as much to do with Judaism, as the US has to do
with Christianity.
In the US our constitution makes clear
that this is a secular nation and by law theoretically enforces
separation of church and state, tho Mr. Bush and Mr. Asscraft
have demonstrated they disagree, and Israel outright says it
is a "Jewish State" but if that is so then that explains
why it can discriminate against its Arab people living inside
Israel and make them 2nd class citizens, in much the same way
that South Africa, a close friend did under Apartheid. (See "The
Crisis of Black Jewish Relations", Brenner & Bloom;
"Israel and South Africa", Stevens & Ellmessi;
The "Arabs in Israel" by Sabri Jiryis, foreword by
Noam Chomsky)
The ADL attacks so it can confuse people
and show me as just another Anti- Semitic attacker of their absolutely
false depictions of Israel as a victim of Palestinian Terrorism.
This is absolutely in tune with the Bush administrations
Frenzied "destroy Iraq regime change
"Jones" (a street word for narcotics addiction) that
the administration is chanting around us like cheer leaders at
a football game! So that US imperialism can transform the whole
of the Middle East, the Arab world into a gas station (See "Bushwacked:
A Counterfeit President for a Fake Democracy", Baraka)
So that we are supposed to believe that
if a little girl blows herself up in a Israeli Pizza Parlor,
she is a terrorist, but when Israeli Jets, made in the USA, destroy
whole sections of Palestinian cities, bulldoze neighborhoods,
all but destroy the Palestinian Center of Governance, with its
President, Yasser Arafat, inside sitting in the dark, it is the
Israelis who are victims and the little Palestinian girl or boy
or young man or young woman or even elder, they are the terrorists.
We are supposed to be intimidated by demagogues like the Anti
Defamation League (who shd be called the Anti Anti Defamation
League) so that Israel as a jr. partner of the Bush led US goosestep
to world military domination can commit ethnic cleansing of the
Palestinians in the name of fighting terrorism.
It is the ADL, which is actually guilty
of what its leader, Abraham Foxman calls the Hitlerian "Big
Lie", and ironically it is the ADL, which is "spewing
anti-Semitic venom". The same ADL which became aware of
"Black Anti Semitism", which it had earlier said has
never been a threat, until Stokely Carmichael and SNCC began
to support the PLO and the Palestinian Struggle as a Liberation
Struggle and condemn Israeli Imperialism and Zionism. That is
when, as Stokeley Carmichael says in the APRP's "Smash Zionism"
the ADL smashed SNCC instead.
As Israel drew closer to South Africa,
politically, economically, militarily in the 60's (Op Cit, above
& others) the Black Liberation Movement and African Nations
became more and more guilty, according to the ADL, of "Black
Anti-Semitism".
This is the same ADL who opposed Affirmative
Action, even though many Jews benefited by the Civil Rights Struggle,
and the most notable white comrades in that struggle were young
Jews. The same ADL that filed an Amicus Curiae (friend of the
court brief) in the historic and reactionary Baake Decision which
challenged & defeated the University of California's affirmative
action as "racist" and was explained by the ADL as
its opposition to quotas. So that the university's could now
enforce a quota on Black students of none!
This is the same ADL, which in league
with the American Israel Political Action Committee, just a few
weeks ago sent millions of dollars into Atlanta, Georgia to defeat
progressive Black Congress woman Cynthia McKinney, because she
called for a more balance American view of the Palestinian -Israeli
Conflict.
These same forces defeated in Alabama,
another progressive Black incumbent Congressman, because he too
dared to support the Palestinians. (See New York Times), Amsterdam
News, Star Ledger).
Very much like the way Bush touts "Regime
Change," recently even hinting at an attempted Assassination
of Saddam Hussein, if the American People rise up and force our
congress to deny the Bush juggernaut of terror to attack Iraq.
ADL and their " bagman" AIPAC didn't like these black
politicians stance on Israel, so in a minute and a few million
dollars, they are gone!
So now, it's my turn. Using my poem,
Somebody Blew Up America" they are
Going to spread the Big Lie, distort
what poem says. Cover the fact that this poem actually is an
attack on Imperialism, National Oppression, Monopoly Capitalism,
Racism, Anti-Semitism. I challenge ADL to show anywhere in this
poem that is Anti-Semitic in the least. In their press release
they say talk about "Jews being scapegoated throughout history...'
then "conspiracy mongers of the Arab world...have taken
Anti-Israel propaganda to a new level " (Mr. Foxman, what
is the Arab World? Alan Dershowitz in his "Chutzpah"
says the basis of bigotry is "overgeneralization,"
so where is the "Arab World"? Is Detroit included?
Asscraft thinks so.
Earlier the press release mentions "the
Muslim World" does that include Lyons Ave, Newark? But then
from "Anti-Semitism" the release goes to Israel, not
Jews, and Israeli Mossad as those victimized. So they fight Anti
Semitism
Mainly by "defending" Israel.
In fact they defend Israel like Joe McCarthy "defended"
the US against Communism. Included in my package is a communique
from an Israeli Peace Organization ": Gush Shalom",
"Israeli Peace Block (see Defamation from the Anti Defamation
League Answered" (<info@gush-shalom.org>) This was
first published 7/11/2000 as a press release. "In the past
24 hours, an attack is being mounted against Gush Shalom. Knesset
Member Collette Avital (Labor) has actually lodge a complaint
with the police, claiming that cartoons presented on our website
constitute "incitement". And the powerful American
Jewish organization Anti -Defamation League found time, even
on election day, over there, to disseminate a message of defamation
against "Gush Shalom", which already resulted in hate
e mails being sent our address"
In a following message signed by Adam
Keller Gush, Shalom Spokesperson. The organization defends itself
from an ADL pres release s "expressing outrage at Gush Shalom's
portrayal of Prime Minster Barak as a killer of Palestinian children
in a caricature on its web site, stating that the image of Barak
standing on the bleeding bullet ridden body of a Palestinian
child is abhorrent."
Gush Shalom replies, "Still after
consulting with my fellow activists I am in a position to make
an offer. Should a complete week - seven days pass in which not
a single unarmed Palestinian is killed by the Israeli armed forces
which are answerable to Mr. Barak, we would remove the above
mentioned cartoon from our website.
The Gush Shalom statement ends "As
for the ADL- an organization which claims to "counter hatred
prejudice and bigotry" can you truly find no other places
to search for such, with Israeli society in its present condition,
except at our modest website. Was the ADL attacking these Israelis
for being Anti Semitic or criticizing rather forcefully the continuous
murder of the Palestinians. So in Israel itself, ADL is still
covering for and attacking anyone, even Israeli citizens themselves
who oppose the Bush Zionist Plan to de-Palestinianize Palestine!
Another communication from Israel (<robertoj69@yahoo.com>).
This signed by 95 Israeli Academics (copy included in pkg), Sept
23, 2002 that begins "URGENT WARNING: THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT
MAY BE CONTEMPLATING CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY" It goes on,
"We members of the Israeli academe are horrified by US buildup
of aggression towards Iraq and by the Israeli political leadership's
enthusiastic support of it. We are deeply worried by indications
that the "fog of war" could be exploited by the Israeli
government to commit further crimes against the Palestinian people,
up to full-fledged ethnic cleansing."
One striking description of the Israeli
Military by these professors is that in an interview found in
Ha'aretz Sept 19, 2002, Israeli Chief of Staff Moshe Ya'alon
describe the Palestinians as a "cancerous manifestation"
and equated the military actions in the Occupied territories
with "chemotherapy"
Certainly the ADL will have to go after
these "Anti Semites" using the "Big Lie"
and "Spewing Anti-Semitic Venom"! And the growing list
of progressive democratic people around the world who will have
opinions about Israel and Political Zionism independent of the
ADL, the ADL will have to attack and slander them as well
I challenge the ADL to set up a national
television program so that we might debate this issue. We can
project the poem on a wall and go down line by new and discuss
it. If not that then why not a forum or debate some place like
NYC Town Hall or at Symphony Hall in Newark.
Why not take a survey of those who heard
the poem at the Dodge Festival? Those who registered and the
students brought by schools could be contacted and a survey taken
to reflect just the majority of people hearing the poem thought,
not just some shadowy surrogates of Imperialism who are trying
to convince people that I and my poem are the enemy not US and
Israeli Imperialism.
I have already gotten a great many communications
praising the poem. A great many E-mail letters and phone calls
not only praising the poem, and the poet for writing it, but
also opposing the attempt to violate my first amendment rights
by this oft repeated ADL skin game of calling critics of imperialism
Anti Semites.
I have already said, in answer to what
Governor McGreevey is quoted as demanding that I apologize and
that I resign as NJ Poet Laureate. And I have said repeatedly
that I will do neither. It is unfortunate that Governor McGreevey
has been stampeded by paid liars, and apologists for ethnic cleansing
and white supremacy, bourgeois nationalists and the dangerously
ignorant, to be panicked into joining in the ADL's slander, belittling
my intelligence, and insulting not only my person, my family,
my fellow artists and activists who know all this is just the
feces of a very small cow. But they are also attacking my work
in the arts and my social political views. By demanding that
I apologize to Evil and Submit to some fundamentally racist and
politically motivated call for me to resign as New Jersey's Poet
Laureate, he is insulting the broad group of people who know
he is incorrect and who have read and celebrated and valued my
work. And that is a grave mistake, one I am hoping he will correct.
"Somebody Blew Up America!"
was written Oct 1, 2001. A month after the terror attack. Almost
immediately I circulated it around the world on the Internet.
In addition, I have read this poem in
Spain, Portugal, Africa, Switzerland, Italy, Finland and it was
translated into German and read on German radio, at Universities
and other venues across this country. It has become one of the
most circulated of my poems.
Yet it was not until I read the poem
at the Dodge Poetry Festival that I got negative response from
three people that I know of. The overwhelming response was an
almost thunderous applause. I even had to come out and take a
second bow at one performance. So why now and Who, as the poem
asks, is behind it? Perhaps the forces which have dishonestly
tried to characterize the poem as "venom" or merely
"a harangue" (just as they called John Coltrane's music
"Barbaric Yawps") are simply, the Charlie McCarthy
voices for Bush & Sharon's Edgar Bergen's. Empty-headed devilish
dummies constructed of wood and painted and costumed to look
like it is real people speaking, when all the time it is imperialism
is the ventriloquist speaking through their mouths,
NO, I WILL NOT APOLOGIZE, I WILL NOT
RESIGN. In fact I will continue to do what I have appointed to
do but still have not been paid to do. Publicize and Popularize
poetry and poets throughout this state. To set up new venues
and new networks for poetry reading and workshops, in the state's
libraries and schools and other institutions. Hopefully initiated
and given paradigm right here in the Newark Public Library, its
branches and throughout the school system. Therefore giving more
of our citizens access to poetry, involving poets of all nationalities,
both male and female, of diverse experience and styles. I have
already begun to enlist coordinators of poetry programs throughout
the state, so that we can network a tour of poets, hopefully
beginning in January, throughout the state.
To do this I will be approaching local,
county, state, federal and private funding. And expand our budget
with the cooperation of these other existing programs. We will
ask that poets POET-ON! That they begin to produce at least one
poem or publish a poem monthly, in the most modest forms, Kinko
style, and give them away if they have to. That they begin to
set up readings not only in the places we mentioned but also
in parks and restaurants and in neighborhoods.
We say this because we feel that this
state and indeed this nation and this world is desperately in
need of the deepest and most profound human values that poetry
can teach. That is what Keats and Du Bois called for the poet
to do, to bring Truth and Beauty. To be like the most ancient
paradigmythic image of the poet. To be like Osiris and Orpheus,
whose job it was to raise the Sun each morning with song and
story. To illuminate the human mind, and bring light into the
world. POET ON!
Amiri Baraka
is the poet laureat of New Jersey. Visit his website at: http://www.amiribaraka.com/
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