Fwd: URGENT:re: Malcolm Hoenlein & Jonathan Pollard

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From: Buddy Macy <vegibud@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 9:29 AM
Subject: URGENT: My Previous Email, re: Malcolm Hoenlein & Jonathan Pollard
To: Buddy Macy <vegibud@gmail.com>


Please send a brief note to Malcolm Hoenlein, Alan Solow & Richard Stone - malcolm@conferenceofpresidents.org,alan@conferenceofpresidents.org,rstone@law.columbia.edu - urging them to take critical action to gain Jonathan Pollard's freedom by the time President Obama visits Israel next month. Feel free to Bcc: vegibud@gmail.com to your email. Also, please forward this message to all activists on your list(s). Thank you so much.

Happy Purim (a very appropriate day for Jonathan's release!),

Buddy

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From: Buddy Macy <vegibud@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 2:31 PM
Subject: Malcolm, re: YOUR QUOTE in the Times of Israel re: Jonathan Pollard
To: Malcolm Hoenlein iduartegray@jcrc.org

The following is an excerpt from this past Sunday's Times of Israel article:

Obviously, Israel could and should utilize its freedom of speech, and "people can call for the release of [jailed spy for Israel] Jonathan Pollard." But "do it respectfully," he [Malcolm Hoenlein] urged. "The American people don't like to see their president dissed. They don't want to see disrespect."

Malcolm, I'm so glad you have granted me and others permission to call for the freedom of a man who remains imprisoned solely because he is Jewish and the other country involved is Israel. However, I am curious: Why are you not leading the call? And, I find it especially troubling that you think the battle against vile anti-Semitism needs to be waged "respectfully", and that you felt obliged to issue a preemptive strike – in the form of a stern warning – against any one who would consider protesting Jonathan's continued cruel, sadistic treatment.

Yes, "do(ing) it respectfully" has worked wonders during the past 28 years for a heroic Jew who continues to sit in his cell in Butner, North Carolina, as his body withers away. If that's the best you've got, Malcolm, then we need someone else to lead the charge...a woman or man who embraces reality and understands that trying the same (safe!) thing over and over again will produce the same empty, agonizing results. 

 

Either, put your heart into it as you did in the Struggle for Soviet Jewry, or step aside, NOW!

 

Again, I urge the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations to implement the strategy, below. Buddy

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From: Buddy Macy <vegibud@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 6:25 PM
Subject: Malcolm - URGENT
To: Malcolm Hoenlein <malcolm@conferenceofpresidents.org>
Cc: alan@conferenceofpresidents.org, rstone@law.columbia.edu, Pesach Lerner <plerner@youngisrael.org>

Dear Malcolm, 

On December 10, 2012, the Conference of Presidents issued a press release in support of the Congressional appeal for the release of Jonathan Pollard. I urge you - in the strongest of terms - to follow through with that effort by devoting all of the resources of the Conference and its member organizations and ensure that President Obama takes Jonathan with him when he visits Israel next month.

Jonathan Pollard's continued incarceration in Butner, NC under the watch of numerous Administrations is a vile demonstration of anti-Semitism by the leaders of America. It is painfully obvious that the only reasons Jonathan has been in prison far longer than any other perpetrator of similar acts in American history are because: 1) he is Jewish; and 2) he was convicted of spying for Israel. This obscene and grossly inequitable treatment must be ended immediately!

You are known to have been a strong fighter for the rights of Soviet Jews a generation ago. I urge you to exert that same passion and effort in obtaining the release of Jonathan Pollard. Please do not respond internally by arguing that things must be done quietly: Jonathan's continued incarceration - for 28 brutal and gruesome years - has proved that that strategy has been a dismal failure. As you know, Jonathan is in extremely ill health. There is no more time for "behind the scenes" efforts on his behalf.

Requested action 

Issue an immediate, URGENT alert to all 51 member organizations urging their membership to rally outside the White House a week before President Obama is to leave for Israel. American Jewry must express our pain and demonstrate to President Obama that we care deeply about the welfare of all of our fellow Jews, and about the State of Israel. Half a million people outside the President's home demanding freedom for one of our own should make a huge impression on the President, and it should achieve the desired result.

Please advise me as to your progress in this endeavor and let me know how I may assist you in obtaining Jonathan's freedom.

Most sincerely,

Buddy Macy

973-256-3661

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Robin Ticker
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