Tikkun A.N.S.W.E.R.s back

national | miscellaneous | news report Tuesday February 18, 2003 18:34 by Daithi

The very public dispute between left-wing rabbi Michael Lerner from "Tikkun" (a progressive Jewish community in SF) and anti-war organisers from A.N.S.W.E.R. (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism - associated with the Workers World party) continued right up to Saturday's day of action. Read the links if you are interested; in short, Lerner, a long-time anti-war activist and critic of Israel wanted to speak at a Feb 15th rally, but claims that he was prevented from doing so; ANSWER's response is that he publicily criticised ANSWER in the media and thus violated a prior agreement. His criticism was that ANSWER was linking the Iraq issue to an extreme anti-Israel position.

http://www.internationalanswer.org/news/update/021103lerner.html
http://www.tikkun.org/index.cfm/action/current/article/151.html