@Judes: "That does create a chill where alot of people are afraid to raise questions or say what they think."

Are you kidding me? Do you not think circumscribing a purported debate by the massively loaded and unmistakable term "apartheid" intimates and forecloses debate. As I've said, if the goal is to intimidate while inciting the anger of single minded converts, it's a great choice. We the Left should be able to make our case without incendiary discourse and without recourse to intimidation. I don't deny the atrocities of the occupation, the wretchedness of the wall. I just don't agree that hatred is the best means towards transforming the world and achieving justice for all.

BTW I'm reminded of the CUPE 3903 strike at York that I fully supported some 10 years back. I recall attending feeding frenzies which we called AGM's. First, most people with a dissenting opinion would not even be able to muster the courage to attend such meeting, and whenever some courageous soul would not speak in lock step, he or she would be roundly discarded faster than a New York minute. Without hospitality, without compassion, without love though you may gain the world you have nothing. I'm with Saul/Paul and Gandhi on this one.