United for Peace and Justice is a coalition of more than 1400 local and national groups throughout the United States who have joined together to protest the immoral and disastrous Iraq War and oppose our government's policy of permanent warfare and empire-building.

Less well known is UFPJ's campaign on Palestine.

Last week, Mark Elf of Jews sans frontieres reported this latest development in the boycott and divestment effort against Israel until it provides a fair and just settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Of late, this has meant creating a sovereign contiguous independent Palestinian nation (as Bush declared in January, 2008), and dealing fairly with all of the associated issues.

So the peace effort continues with nonviolent protests on the ground in occupied Palestine, and around the world activity to divest/boycott Israel among other actions.

Phil Green (Gregory Peck) is a magazine writer assigned to do a story about anti-Semitism. He poses as a Jew and faces discrimination in all walks of life.

This diary is not about anti-Semitism or Gregory Peck. It is about Obama and features an article by Bruce Dixon titled: Obama (and Big Media) Turn Blind Eye to Israeli Apartheid. Bruce Dixon is the Managing Editor of the Black Agenda Report. He wrote this story after he became somewhat miffed by Obama's and Big Media's elective ignorance of Israel's Apartheid style of government during Obama's recent trip to the Middle East. We are immediately reminded here of Reagan's support for South Africa's Apartheid government in the 1980s. Reagan of course did not win over all Americans to his anti-Black views and eventually, South African Apartheid was taken down. By whom? By us, you, and people who were incapable of tolerating racial injustice of the likes meted out by the Afrikaners.

Today it is the right wing Israeli Zionists who have taken up that role, and it is actually South Africans (like Mandela, Tutu, Kasrils, and others) who are speaking out loudly against apartheid practices in Israel.

So where the hell was Obama regarding this matter during his recent Israel trip? Listen to Bruce Dixon and learn a bit about political make-believe: the "don't ask, don't tell" policy with which politicians like Obama and the mainstream media treat Israel.

Haven't seen anything like this since Selma, 1964.