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Candidate for governor declares she is against discrimination

By adamg on Thu, 09/21/2006 - 2:05pm

Grace Ross, the Green Party's candidate for governor, wants her black and female opponents (OK, and that white guy) to join her in speaking out against discrimination against blacks and women.

Israeli citizens, however, are fair game.

The Massachusetts Green-Rainbow Party's state convention last week tabled a motion to amend its current position in favor of the destruction of the state of Israel with a new platform calling for the right of Israelis to stay in Palestine after Israel is dismantled. The measure would also have directed party members to stop referring to Israel as "a merely fictitous place."

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By Lyss on Thu, 09/21/2006 - 9:20pm.

Sounds like consistancy is not their strong suit

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By Truthteller on Mon, 09/25/2006 - 6:04pm.

Nothing within any GRP statement calls for the destruction of Israel, and nothing within any GRP statement calls for Israeli citizens to be expelled.

You folks know this and are therefore liars.

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By adamg on Mon, 09/25/2006 - 7:00pm.

Here's one of the more moderate statements on the GRP Web site:

The Green-Rainbow Party of Massachusetts rejects all apartheid-based governmental systems and calls for a secular, democratic governing entity for all people in the geographic region of historic Palestine (today referred to by some people as Israel, the West Bank and Gaza). We support a democratic system with equal rights for all in which the peoples of the region democratically decide their future.

Sounds like the end of the state of Israel to me. Greenies can't even refer to Israel without quotation marks around the name.

Here's Annie Butler, co-chair of the party, writing that an article that seeks to condemn Israel for alleged terrorism is a bad one because

this article assumes that israel has a right to exist. our party does not.

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