In North Carolina, municipal workers are planning to celebrate Martin Luther King’s birthday with calls for “action” on workers’ rights, and union dues, and-affordable housing and — how could we forget? — the need to denounce the settler-colonial-apartheid state of Israel. It seems that nowadays everyone wants to get into the act of declaring their solidarity with the Palestinians, despite, or perhaps because of, the atrocities committed by Hamas on October 7. Nothing makes some people angrier than to think that anyone would be sympathetic to Israel just because Hamas, in carrying out its “resistance,” beheaded babies, burned children alive, gang-raped, tortured, and murdered girls, sliced the breasts off women, gouged out the eyes and cut off the genitalia of men, murdered parents in front of their children and children in front of their parents, and proudly videotaped their exploits to show family and friends in Gaza. And let’s not forget that at least one excited Hamas murderer phoned home to tell his mother, knowing how proud she would be, “Mom, I killed ten Jews with my own hands.”
Here is what those municipal workers have planned to honor Dr. King on MLK Day:
Honor Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday
January 13-16, 2024
Week of WORKERS Action
“NC Public Service Workers Union, UE Local 150, is calling all workers, allies and particularly our UE 150 chapters to join us in planning political direct actions, workers’ rights petition signing efforts, press conferences, action events, teach-ins, sing-ins for justice, etc.
“Remembering and honoring Dr. King’s stand for workers’ rights, union organizing and against unjust wars in the 1960s is critically important today. Misleaders and myth makers don’t want us to learn why King supported workers’ struggles for our rights and unions like the 1968 Memphis, TN sanitation workers and 1967 Charleston, SC hospital workers. They don’t want us to be reminded that in 1967-68 King said “War is the enemy of the poor and workers”. King called for an end to the billions of dollars of military spending abroad and the need to shift our spending on human needs like healthcare for all, affordable housing, living wage jobs at home.
“Did you know that North Carolina workers alone send over $91 million [sic – the real figure is about $10 million] every year to fund Israel’s military?
And do the workers of North Carolina know that just since 2021, the American government has given the Palestinian Authority one billion dollars, even though the PA continues to provide generous lifetime subsidies to imprisoned terrorists and the families of dead terrorists, with its infamous “Pay-For-Slay” policy? Do those workers in the Tar Heel State know that America is the largest contributor to UNRWA, the UN agency that serves exclusively Palestinian “refugees”? And shouldn’t those workers in sunny North Carolina be told about the eighty billion dollars in military and economic aid that American taxpayers have provided to Egypt? Or the twenty billion dollars that the American government has given to Jordan? And won’t they want to know about the $75 billion in aid Washington has already given to Ukraine, with another $68 billion to be delivered when the latest foreign military aid bill passes Congress? Why complain only about aid to the tiny Jewish state and ignore all the other recipients? That aid to Israel provides three benefits to America. First, Israel is required to spend almost all of that aid on American weapons. Second, Israeli scientists and engineers have made valuable improvements to some of those weapons, and of course shared those improvements with the American defense industry. Third, the Israelis put those American weapons to brilliant use in actual combat, thus proving their worth, so that other countries will want to buy them.
But let’s return to those workers in North Carolina:
Today, many city, state, federal and corporate officials who oppose workers’ rights and unions as they support the United States spending billions of dollars for the Zionist bombing of Palestinians in Gaza, truly don’t stand up for King’s legacy! What Hippocrates [sic], mythmakers and liars they are!!! Our opposition just wants us to do community service or “pick up trash”. They don’t want us to “pick up King’s true legacy and stand up” by engaging in direct political action for workers’ rights, Black liberation and end unjust wars!. They don’t want us joining in the struggle for workers’ rights, union organizing and international solidarity for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza!…
So don’t forget: black liberation and a permanent ceasefire in Gaza! Workers’ rights, and a permanent ceasefire in Gaza! Union organizing, and a permanent ceasefire in Gaza! A $25/hour minimum wage, and a permanent ceasefire in Gaza!
Well, you get the idea. Political Action, Workers’ Rights, $25 Minimum Wage. Affordable Housing and…..CEASEFIRE IN GAZA NOW!!!!
Since this anti-Israel malevolence appears as part of “action” in the guise of honoring Martin Luther King, why don’t we remind the municipal workers in North Carolina what King thought of Israel? Throughout his life, King was a staunch supporter of the land and people of Israel. Whenever he was confronted by those who denounced Israel, he would unequivocally stand up for the Jewish state and recommit himself to the Zionist cause.
In 1968, two weeks before his assassination, King said in a speech to the Rabbinical Assembly: “Peace for Israel means security, and we must stand with all our might to protect its right to exist…I see Israel as one of the great outposts of democracy in the world, and a marvelous example of what can be done, how desert land can be transformed into an oasis of brotherhood and democracy. Peace for Israel means security and that security must be a reality.”
King attended a dinner in Cambridge, Massachusetts on October 27, 1967. According to Professor Seymour Martin Lipset, who was present at that dinner, an African-American student made a statement sharply critical of Zionists at the dinner and King replied: “Don’t talk like that. When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You’re talking antisemitism.” John Lewis recalled that King, whom he wrote “had a special bond with Israel,” repeated that observation many times in his presence.
There are many such remarks by King on the subject of Israel. Martin Luther King never wavered in his support. And he never once mentioned “the Palestinians.” Something to think about, municipal workers of the Tar Heel State. Food for thought.
Edward A.Brandwein says
Martin Luther King must be surely turning in his grave while hearing this
tgusa says
Black North Carolina union workers are being replaced by border jumpers but shshsh, dont tell them. It is not so much the content of their character that democrats oppose it is the color of their skin. When you jump all in for rape torture murder you lose any sympathy people might have shown you. Lets celebrate MLKs birthday by supporting the rapists torturers and murderers of Israelis. Good lord, it doesn’t get any dumber than that.
Hoi Polloi says
Just looked; most posts on their site involve Durham (home of Duke, of the undealt with antisemitism discussed here recently and which encountered fierce opposition from donors when it tried to broadcast the islamic call from its chapel tower) and Charlotte. Both Durham and Charlotte made a lot of sanctuary city noise, probably not coincidentally.
puzzled says
When you are ignorant, nothing matters.
Kenneth Johnson says
And they call themselvers Americans. KEN
Gourdhead says
The ethic makeup tells it all.