MISSION STATEMENT
The Committee for the Open Discussion of Zionism (CODZ) was formed in September, 2007, in response to the efforts of certain Zionist organizations in the United States to suppress criticism of Israel and /or Zionism. These efforts, often successful, have included: pressuring academic institutions to deny tenure to faculty who have criticized Israeli policy; demanding the dismissal or suspension of pro-Palestinian teachers and administrators; instigating the denial of lecture and performance venues to critics of Israeli policy; and attempting to suppress distribution of books critical of Israel or Zionism.
CODZ panel discussion presented at the Left Forum in New York
Thu, 03/20/2008 - 20:42 — codzThe Backlash Against Dissent on Israel – Strategies for Response
On Saturday, March 15, 2008, at the annual Left Forum held at Cooper Union in New York, the Committee for Open Discussion of Zionism presented a panel of five individuals who spoke of their experiences with Zionist suppression of criticism of Zionism or Israeli government policy.and Zionist incited harassment of perceived enemies of Israel.
Israeli pianist Barenboim takes Palestinian passport
Tue, 01/15/2008 - 11:01 — codzSource: Reuters, 13 Jan 2008
RAMALLAH, West Bank, Jan 13 - Daniel Barenboim, the world renowned Israeli pianist and conductor, has taken Palestinian citizenship and said he believed his rare new status could serve a model for peace between the two peoples.
Israel Lobby Unrelenting in Efforts to Stifle Speech
Tue, 01/15/2008 - 10:49 — codzIsrael Lobby Unrelenting in Efforts to Stifle Speech It Doesn’t Want Americans to Hear
By Ron David
On a global scale, it makes sense to focus on the Israel Lobby’s impact on U.S. foreign policy. When it comes to the everyday lives and freedoms of Americans, however, the Lobby’s greatest threat is its ravaging of our domestic institutions. Three almost simultaneous assaults on academic freedom—at DePaul University, St. Thomas University and the University of Michigan—make that point inescapably clear.
Democracy: an existential threat?
Wed, 01/02/2008 - 12:01 — codzDemocracy: an existential threat?
Ali Abunimah and Omar Barghouti
Guardian Unlimited, December 30, 2007 10:00 AM
As two of the authors of a recent document advocating a one-state solution to the Arab-Israeli colonial conflict, we intended to generate debate. Predictably, Zionists decried the proclamation as yet another proof of the unwavering devotion of Palestinian - and some radical Israeli - intellectuals to the "destruction of Israel". Some pro-Palestinian activists accused us of forsaking immediate and critical Palestinian rights in the quest of a "utopian" dream.
New Attack on Kovel Book
Mon, 12/17/2007 - 13:09 — codzU-M Press' Folly
By: Robert Sklar (from Detroit Jewish News)
More and more of the Jewish community is mobilizing against the University of Michigan Press' troubling relationship as U.S. distributor for a London-based publisher of a highly controversial book that essentially advocates doing away with the State of Israel in favor of a single secular democratic state with no ties to the Jewish people.
