...The July 27 Hannity & Colmes show on Fox captioned their story, "Jewish man harassed at pro-Hizbollah protest" over a jumpy video clip. The clip was filmed by one Seva Brodsky, who claimed that he had been assaulted and his life threatened.

This story was rapidly disseminated to websites and newspapers all over the world. There were at least fifteen pages of links to it on the Google search engine.

Also shown was a small sign in support of Hizbollah, held by David Rolde, whom Brodsky pointedly identified as "a key member of the Green-Rainbow party."

Hannity commented sternly, "I can only hope that our government identified those people holding up their pro-terrorist signs that are in the United States of America."

Rolde, who also works on this newspaper, is pleased with his appearance on Fox TV. "Hizbollah are defending the people of Lebanon and Palestine against US-sponsored Israeli aggression. It is good for TV viewers to see that some Americans praise Hizbollah just like millions of people all over the world are doing."...

...Brodsky told his TV audience that he attended the Lebanon rally almost out of curiosity, after seeing a story in the paper.

In fact Brodsky was identified by legal observers as one of a pair of "professional provocateurs" at the rally, "trained in inciting violence, with the intention of getting members of our communities in trouble with the police." ...

...I also got on the stack when discussion of prop 190 came up [Prop 190 is the Green's Divest from Israel proposal]. I got up to read Owens Stament, which I had printed out copies of and I put them on a literature table. While I was wafting on line in the stack one woman cut in front of me but I did not want to fight with her. She addressed the floor in front of me> She said that she had been watching fox news and that she saw the green-rainbow party at a demonstration in Boston on the national news program. She said that someone (ok it was Dave,) had a sign that said victory to Hezbollash on it, this apparently was not non-violent of acceptable to her and then her time ran out. I got to the mic and told her that she should not watch fox news and I read as much of Owens statement as I could and directed folks to our state website it they had any questions on out state parties stance...

17.3 Proposal K: Support Divestment from "Israel"

David: we are considering only 3 points from the proposal

one: "The GRP State Committee asks our slate-of-candidates to make Palestine a campaign issue, e.g., by putting a line on their flyers saying 'Divest from Israel, not from Sudan' "

two: "The GRP will ask the GPUS to take a position recognizing the recent history of US imperialist intervention in Sudan and opposing divestment from Sudan and opposing expanded foreign military intervention in Sudan, i.e., something similar to the GRP position."

three: "GRP requires all candidates endorsed by GRP to agree with our statement on Palestine (just like we require them to support equal marriage, they should also be opposed to Israeli apartheid in Palestine.)"

Elie want to change #3 to require candidates to "support" our statement rather than agree with it.

David accepts this from Elie as friendly

Gary says that Zionists are behind the anti-Sudan activism

There are no concerns about points two and three so those are adopted

Grace is concerned about putting Palestine on every general flyer

Bill suggests a special piece of literature rather than putting Sudan in every piece of literature.

someone points out that point one asks rather than requires candidates to make Palestine a campaign issue.

Grace stands aside on her concern

Lisa is concerned that anti-zionist activists will be too visible at campaign events if we adopt point one

David replies that anti-zionist activism is already ok at campaign events since the party has anti-zionist positions.

Lisa stands aside

Elie asks that point one be modified to ask candidates to include Lebanon as well as Palestine in their campaign issues.

David accepts Elie's addition as a friendly amendment since the proposal also includes requiring the candidates to support our Palestine statement.

At this point there are no outstanding concerns so Point One is adopted as well

Wording:

" The GRP State Committee asks our slate-of-candidates to make Palestine and Lebanon campaign issues, e.g., by putting a line on their flyers saying 'Divest from Israel, not from Sudan'

The GRP will ask the GPUS to take a position recognizing the recent history of US imperialist intervention in Sudan and opposing divestment from Sudan and opposing expanded foreign military intervention in Sudan, i.e., something similar to the GRP position.

GRP requires all candidates endorsed by GRP to support our statement on Palestine (just like we require them to support equal marriage, they should also be opposed to Israeli apartheid in Palestine.)"