re: #10 Bob Levin

Please don’t take this question the wrong way. If the Zionist organizations are out of the mainstream, what exactly do you do? I don’t understand the concept. (And, by the way, thank you for not calling our house a 7pm to ask for money.)

We counterprotest anti-Israel activists in the Bay Area. Our local movement grew out of a response to the anti-Israel, anti-Semitic rhetoric on display during the big ‘anti-war’ demos at the beginning of the Iraq war. We turn out with signs and flags. We protest speakers like Gilad Atzmon. We send letters. On Saturday we will be at the Israel Independence Day Community event, making sure that protestors don’t block the entrances. We give people resources and information. We organize people to call and tell the LGBT film festival not to give back the Israeli consulate’s sponsorship.

That kind of thing.

And we suck at fundraising, so don’t worry about that 7 PM call.