Additional Information on the National Council of Arab Americans

Additional Information on the National Council of Arab Americans

Additional Information on the National Council of Arab Americans

Overview


On September 13, 2005, NCA co-sponsored (along with the International Socialist ReviewThe Nation Institute, and the Traprock Peace Center, among others) a Boston appearance by British Member of Parliament George Galloway, who, in the course of his address, condemned American support for Israel; praised antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan; charged that U.S. policies had “created the swamp of radical Islam” wherein the 9/11 attackers and “hundreds of thousands” of other “new terrorists” had been created; and accused the U.S. of “going around the world occupying countries and stealing their things.”

Other speakers at that event included:

  •  NCA member Naseer Aruri, who alleged that the existence of Israel, coupled with America’s staunch support for the Jewish state, had created the “so-called terrorists” of the Muslim world;
  • socialist professor William Keach of Brown University, who urged the crowd to confront the “war criminals in the Oval Office”;
  • counter-recruitment activist Eriko Nagai, who said that both race and class had played a major role in determining the fate of people in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans;
  • Boston city councilman Chuck Turner, who said that “the soul of America … is covered in militarism, economic exploitation and racism”; and
  • International Socialist Organization member Annie Zirin, who made a similar charge.
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