In Whose Name?
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If someone wants to have a “peace” rally, it’s fine with us. Sunday was a nice day for it, and there may well have been many peaceful souls among the thousands gathered yesterday. But anti-Semitism was running so thick at the rally that it didn’t take the intern we sent up there to cover the event more than a few minutes to find protesters readily referring to the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. So it’s worth having a quick look at who is actually behind the “peace” movement. Yesterday’s rally was organized by something called the “Not in Our Name” project, which began with a March 7 letter signed by, among others, Mary Lou Greenberg of the “Revolutionary Communist Party, NY Branch.” It was the Communists, of course, who were responsible for some of the bloodiest atrocities of the 20th century. Among those who have signed the “Not in Our Name” “statement of consience” are Ramsey Clark, the former attorney general who is now an apologist for some of the most violent terrorists and war criminals around, from Muammar Gadhafi to Slobodan Milosevic. There is also Edward Said, the Columbia professor last seen hurling rocks at Israel from Southern Lebanon. Their “pledge” to “resist the machinery of war and repression,” given their own records, rings of hypocrisy. At some point the decent people, and we’ve no doubt there are many, who are simply worried about the war are going to have to stand up and ask of the people who are spouting the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and other classical anti-Semitic formulations in their midst, “in whose name, indeed?”