Bill Fletcher, Jr. is a long-time international and labor writer and activist.
We on the Left need to be clear as to what is at stake in the on-going, and fairly vicious, controversy surrounding the publication of President Jimmy Carter’s Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid. The question is not about Carter’s policies as President of the United States. The question is not about whether Carter used the right maps. The question is not even about whether Carter sufficiently acknowledged the Jewish Holocaust. The question is whether or not the Palestinians are being destroyed as a nation. Carter, in a manner that will surprise many people, comes down firmly on the side of affirming that this destruction is taking place.
Carter, the former President of the USA, is being vilified for having called into question the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories and the manner in…
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