Zogby Speaks
Last week we stirred up the pot with a posting about who exactly was behind the Save Darfur rally of ten days ago. I had taken some plinks at the lefty Monthly Review online edition for its editor's denunciation of "establishment Jews and some Evangelicals" exercising too much (conservative) influence in the movement.
I wrote that this was excessive concentration on Bush politics and not enough on the real-life conditions of the people in Darfur who were actually doing the dying.
Now, we hear directly from James Zogby, one of the speakers at the rally. And as a founder of the Palestine Human Rights Campaign and current president of the Arab America Institute, he was the only Arab on the podium. Zogby was fully aware of who had organized the rally and has absolutely no regrets. Read his entire piece here. Here's a key excerpt:
... there were questions raised by the composition of the coalition itself and the views of some of the speakers who were to participate in the Washington mobilization. It is a fact that a number Evangelical Christian organizations who had been engaged in controversial missionary/conversion efforts in Darfur were involved, as were some Jewish groups who had a history of using Sudan as an issue to drive a wedge between Arabs and Africans.
Some of the rhetoric in the US about Darfur has been shaped by these groups and their perspectives. In some articles, the conflict is presented as an "Arab-led genocide against black Africans," others have either mistakenly or deliberately conflated their oversimplified view of the Southern Sudan-Khartoum conflict with Darfur and have, therefore, portrayed Darfur as if it were an "Muslim assault on Christian and animist Africans!"
With no other Arab speaker on the program, I understood what might be interpreted either by my absence or my presence at the rally. After consultations with several Arab friends and a number of experts on African affairs, I resolved to participate.
It was important that Arab Americans make clear our deep concern with the humanitarian crisis in Darfur. Our presence in this multi-ethnic multi-religious coalition sends this message.
And while we may have had questions about some of the groups involved in the Save Darfur effort, the coalition included significant respected US and international organizations as well. The International Crisis Group, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, Amnesty International, the AFL-CIO/Solidarity Center and a number of US Muslim groups had signed on as sponsors. My presence, I hoped, would give voice to our concern and help provide some balance in the day's discussions.
This is a straightforward statement of what I call the real art of politics: the art of building coalitiions. The opposite of purification purges.
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May 8th, 2006 at 1:34 pm
Bush’s waning popularity–verging on irrelevance–may provide an opportunity to get something done to help the people in need of help in Sudan. I think Bush and his evangelical Christian allies are looking to prove (1) they can actually accomplish something; (2) they don’t hate all black people; and (3) that, unlike Christians, Muslims do hate starving black people. We can build a coalition with people who are motivated by these concerns. Plus, don’t forget that most of the people we disagree with share the same fundamental human feelings that we do. i believe we are judged by how we respond to pleas to provide basic human needs, whether people are deprived of them by natural or political disasters.
Ted Kennedy appeared recently on Larry King, and demonstrated why he is such a successful senator even when Dems are in the minority. He works with Republicans, even the most conservative ones…he allows others to claim credit for work and ideas provided by his staff…and he never, ever gets personal in his opposition to another senator’s idea. When King tried to get Kennedy to question the competence of Rumsfeld and the administration, Ted just said quietly that he disagreed with their ideas.
Kennedy is the Great Compromiser of his generation of legislators. He also understands coalition-building. I hope that unlike Clinton the next Democratic candidate/President listens well to his counsel.
May 8th, 2006 at 2:26 pm
“what I call the real art of politics: the art of building coalitiions. The opposite of purification purges.”
Well said! I’ll keep an eye out for your coalition-building post with groups like ANSWER regarding immigration, and then another post about coalition-building with Pat Buchanan regarding Iraq and Middle East policy. If not, then I guess I’d have to conclude you’re really just a purificationist after all.
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Just to clarify, there were at least two Muslim speakers at the rally - one a woman introduced as representing a “progressive Islamic organization”. Perhaps they were not ethnically Arab, but they did broadly represent Islamic communities. Zogby’s comments could be interpreted as his being the only person on the podium with any ethnic or religious links to the non-Jewish or non-Christian communities or to the Middle East in general. And, of course - to make thinking about the stereotypical implications of “Arab” ethnicity a bit more interesting - Zogby comes from a Lebanese Catholic family.
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I’m glad Zogby mentioned Israel/Palestine. When a similar speaker said the same thing at the Toronto rally, he was hissed.
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