A dovish editor and rabbi is being prevented from speaking at an anti-war rally planned for Saturday in San Francisco. Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun Magazine and a frequent critic of Israeli policy, was barred from the rally by one of the sponsors, known by the initials A.N.S.W.E.R., because Lerner has criticized the way the group used past rallies to put forward anti-Israel propaganda.
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