Andrew Mark Bennett has a searing piece in the Forward detailing Jewish Voice for Peace's antisemitic obsession with Jewish power. One striking aspect of it is that it self-consciously does not focus on BDS. JVP has plenty of other sins that can be hung on its head, and Bennett does a good job detailing many of them.
Let me put it this way: reading this article made me want a cigarette. And I don't smoke. That's how good it felt.
This is a very timely post for me as I apparently know a JVPer who is arguing we're all acting in bad faith against JVP.
ReplyDeleteMarni S, you might refer your friend to this blog's posts about Alison Weir. You wouldn't expect a non-antisemitic group to associate with her in the first place, but JVP has had a lengthy on-again, off-again relationship with this "notorious antisemite" who not only lectures JVP about "Zionists ", but also regularly appears (appeared?) at racist venues like White supremacist radio shows and antisemitic newspapers.
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