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The Jewish community excommunicates Jews who support Palestinian freedom

[email protected] April 6, 2021 Alissa Wise, anti-Zionism, BDS, If Not Now, Jeffrey Goldberg, Jewish Currents, jewish voice for peace

For supporting Palestinian human rights, Rabbi Alissa Wise received ‘vitriolic hatred’ from the Jewish community: ‘death threats, sexually threatening emails, voicemails and even letters delivered to my home.’ After 20 years, she’s decided to stop her humanitarian work ‘for the sake of my children being Jewish.’ She’s now ‘decided to dedicate my life to the Jewish people.’ A leading Zionist writer says 97 percent of Jews worldwide support Zionism…

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Rima Najjar: Rebecca Vilkomerson of JVP, can we talk?

[email protected] February 7, 2020 Alissa Wise, analysis, Check Point Software, jewish voice for peace, jvp, Phyllis Bennis, Rebecca Vilkomerson, Rima Najjar, Stefanie Fox, US Campaign

Upon learning that Vilkomerson’s spouse works for an Israeli company (‘Check Point’ that has close ties to the IDF), Najjar writes: ‘I was deeply shocked because, despite everything, I trusted Rebecca and JVP to do the right thing. To me, the matter is one of personal integrity…”When I say I trusted JVP ‘despite everything’, I am referring to the agonizingly long wait we Palestinians have had to endure before JVP officially rejected Zionism, condemned Israel’s Zionist settler-colonial regime and embraced BDS”… Vilkomerson headed JVP for 10 years.

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