When approached by a student who attacked Zionism, Dr. King responded: “When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You're talking anti-Semitism.”
Source: Seymour Martin Lipset, “The Socialism of Fools—The Left, the Jews and Israel,” Encounter, (December 1969), p. 24.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Quote/king.html
I just caught the video below at Elder Of Ziyon.
My heart is breaking; but I do not mind.
For one thing, as soon as I wrote those words I was able to weep, which I had not been able to do since learning of the attack by armed Israeli commandos on defenseless peace activists carrying aid to Gaza who tried to fend them off using chairs and sticks. I am thankful to know what it means to be good; I know that the people of the Freedom Flotilla are/were, in some cases, some of the best people on earth.
An excerpt from an article by Alice Walker who ends with a call to support Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alice-walker/supporting-bds-boycott-di_b_603840.html
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