Comments on Divest This!: National Lawyer's Guild - Take 2

the kind of illegitimate husk that remains of an o...

2009-10-30T10:41:35.829-04:00

the kind of illegitimate husk that remains of an organization once the cancer of divestment has spread completely through it

Please return to this issue again and again. You are absolutely right that once BDS enters a movement, its only real interest is the total miopic manipulation of the movement into the most radical anti-Israel activity. BDS has absolutely no interest in the organization's stated mission, and if it achieves domination, that stated mission dissolves in the general apathy of the BDS leadership to all things non-Israel, driving away the membership. It is important to flesh this point out, repeatedly and in detail.

While I don't know the full history of the Lawyer'...

2009-10-27T21:24:42.808-04:00

While I don't know the full history of the Lawyer's Guild, my suspicion is that it is neither the Light Unto the Legal Profession that it professes to be, nor is it the Marxist front group described by its harsher critics. Given it's origins in the 1930s, I suspect it's one of many left-leaning organizations of that period which went into business hanging a "Please Infiltrate Me" sign on its front door.

The broadening of its membership to an amorphous category of "legal workers" probably opened it up to the current crop of infiltrators with an anti-Israel bent, but the organization clearly lacks the anti-bodies to resist being infected by viruses like divestment, to the point where the organization is now little more than a rotting corpse with people like Charlotte Kates trying to work it's dead skull like a hand-puppet.

Shame.

"The landscape is littered with organizations that...

2009-10-27T18:27:25.972-04:00

"The landscape is littered with organizations that have gone down the tubes clutching onto their anti-Israel animus as their head goes under for the third time"

Interesting observation. The Guild has become so saturated with anti-Israel sentiment, and this has proved so divisive, that some members have speculated that this discussion is a government conspiracy meant to fracture the Guild and reduce its effectiveness.

Um...I'm not sure what effectiveness they might be referring to.

Interestingly enough, the Guild is more just lawyers- it includes legal workers, and that definition has expanded to include those who organize and work with mass movements. This no doubt contributes to the proliferation of anti-Israel memos, referendum and activities.

Several years ago, the Guild sent a delegation to Egypt to meet with the Muslim Brotherhood, and came back with a glowing report. That when I gave up on the NLG.