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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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Anti-Semitism Envoy Elan Carr puts Israel (not Jews) front and center

[email protected] December 17, 2019 ADL, Anti-Defamation League, anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, colonialism, Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, jewish voice for peace, jvp, neturei karta, racism, settler colonialism, special envoy anti semitism, us department of education, zionism

Trump’s anti-Semitism envoy boldly equates anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism, & considers Israel “a central tenet” of Judaism – despite the many voices within the global Jewish community, including within Israel itself, critical of Israel. Carr demands: Every law enforcement office and every prosecutorial agency must force everybody who has even a hint of antisemitism to undergo a tolerance program.

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Mondoweiss: ‘Shocking report’ on Jewish efforts to defeat Rashida Tlaib

[email protected] August 12, 2019 2020 congressional elections, alana alpert, analysis, detroit, Ilhan Omar, Jewish Federation, jvp, lara friedman, Rashida Tlaib, ron kampeas, the squad

In a discussion tinged with racism, Jewish power brokers in Detroit have vowed to get Rep Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) out of office at any cost – “for Jewish reasons.”

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BDS victory: 2 U.S. Police Departments Drop Out of Training Program With Israel

[email protected] December 2, 2018 ADL, BDS, boston police, boycott, IDF, jvp, militarized police, northampton MA, vermont state police

As a result of public pressure, the Vermont State Police and the police department for Northampton Massachusetts have decided to pull out of the ADL-sponsored, all-expenses-paid “Resiliency and Counterterrorism” program in Israel. The seminar highlights methods Israel uses to “thwart terrorism within its framework of a democratic and multicultural nation.”

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Two Leading U.S. Human Rights Activists Refused Entry to Israel, One for BDS Ties

[email protected] May 4, 2018 BDS, bds blacklist, ben gurion airport, J Street, jvp, katherine franke, tamika mallory, vincent warren

Columbia University law professor Katherine Franke, and executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights Vincent Warren, say they were questioned by Israeli security at Ben Gurion Airport, detained 14 hours, and accused of lying before being flown back to New York Monday.

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Giraldi: What’s Wrong with Liberal Jews? Progressive except for Palestine

[email protected] January 16, 2018 adelson, https://iakn.wpmudev.host/category/pep/, J Street, Jerry Seinfeld, jvp, schumer, Vilkomerson

Philip Giraldi discusses the central role of Jewish Americans in the US-Israel relationship and analyzes the actions of some individuals, including Jerry Seinfeld, Chuck Schumer, Rebecca Vilkomerson, etc….

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Electronic Intifada: Israeli soldiers harass students during SJP event on US campus

[email protected] June 20, 2017 BDS, irvine, jvp, sjp

UC Irvine’s Students for Justice in Palestine group were harassed and intimidated during their anti-Zionism week events by Israel supporters. The campus has been a focal point for Israel advocacy groups seeking to conflate Palestinian rights with anti-Semitism.

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