at
Ithaca. She was also a
on
Facebook: “After reading, be sure to click on the
link ‘political show trial that was denounced by
international observers.’ That is, if you want some
context beyond what the NYT [New York Times] thinks
you should have.”
Malinowitz’s Facebook post linked to an opinion
piece
in
the New York Times by Marwan Barghouti about the
2017 Palestinian prisoner hunger strike.
Comparing
Zionism to Nazism
On August 14, 2017, days after the white
supremacist “
Unite
the Right” rally in Charlottesville, VA,
Malinowtiz
wrote on
Facebook: “As I read about Charlottesville, I
wonder why there isn’t more commentary about the
‘blood and soil’ declarations, other than to link
them to Nazism. Yes, the Nazis definitely used
this concept...but so have ...the Jewish state of
Israel, and many others. The use of this term
stood out to me this weekend because I’ve been
writing about it lately in my endless
work-in-progress on Zionism and propaganda.”
Blood and Soil is an English variation of a
popular Nazi-era German
chant “blut
und boden.”
In her Facebook post, Malinowitz also
suggested that
Zionism was appropriating “a fantasy to justify a
claim that otherwise rests on no foundation.”
On September 28, 2017, Malinowitz
shared to
Facebook an article from the anti-Israel
publication
Electronic
Intifada (EI), by EI’s co-founder and
anti-Israel activist,
Ali
Abunimah. The article was
titled:
“Germany’s new Nazis see Israel as role model.”
The Abunimah article that Malinowitz shared
talked about
the then-recent election victory in Germany of an
“extreme nationalist party,” stating: “While
Germany needs no lessons in how to be racist, this
catastrophe can in part be attributed to leaders
in Israel and their fanatical supporters: for
years they have made common cause with Europe’s
far right, demonizing Muslims as alien invaders
who must be rejected and even expelled to maintain
a mythical European purity.”
The article
continued:
“It can also be attributed to German leaders who
for decades have strengthened this racist Israel
by financing Israel’s military occupation and
oppression of Palestinians. What happened in
Germany is another facet of the white
supremacist-Zionist alliance…”
On July 11, 2015, Malinowitz
shared a
piece by anti-Israel activist
Mark
Braverman from the anti-Israel
publication
Mondoweiss.
Braverman’s piece
compared Jewish
support of Israel today to German support of the
Nazi Regime during the Third Reich. The piece also
compared Israel to Apartheid-era South Africa.
Demonizing
Israel
On March 23, 2016, the day after a major terror
attack in
Belgium, Malinowitz
shared to
Facebook a graphic that
said:
“My heart truly BLEEDS for what happened in
Belgium, BUT PALESTINIANS HAVE FACED ATTACKS FOR
ALMOST 70 YEARS FROM ISRAELI TERRORISTS AND THE
WORLD IS SILENT.”
ISIS terrorists
claimed responsibility
for the March 22, 2016, attack in Brussels,
Belgium, where three bombs were
detonated,
two at the airport and one at a metro station.
Thirty two people, as well as the five attackers,
were
killed and
340 were reported injured in the attacks.
On July 19, 2016, days after the Bastille Day
terror
attack in France, Malinowitz
shared to
Facebook an article from EI, written by Abunimah.
Abunimah’s article that Malinowitz shared
claimed:
“Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other
officials have repeatedly exploited acts of
violence in France,” in order to coerce them to
leave France and move to Israel: ‘despite the fact
that a disproportionate number of those killed in
Nice – one third – were Muslims.’”
On July 14, 2016, a large truck
plowed into
crowds in Nice, France celebrating Bastille Day.
The driver of the truck, who was
claimed by
the Islamic State as one of their own, also fired
on the crowds. 86 people were killed, including 10
minors and over 300 were injured.
On January 12, 2015, Malinowitz
shared to
Facebook an article from Mondoweiss
titled:
“Media obsesses over ‘free speech’ in Charlie
Hebdo case while ignoring Israeli targeting of
journalists.”
The article
lamented that
the terror attack at “Charlie Hebdo, a satirical
French publication with a history of racist,
anti-Muslim caricatures” caused “...the press and
popular culture [to] continue to ignore August
2014 UN documents that inculpate Israel for
engaging in very similar acts of terror.”
On January 7, 2015, two terrorists broke into the
offices of French newspaper
Charlie
Hebdo in Paris, killing 12 and
injuring 11. The terrorists
identified as
being a part of
Al-Qaeda
in the Arabian Peninsula.
Anti-Israel
Conspiracy Theories
On February 12, 2019, Malinowitz
shared to
Facebook a
link to
the anti-Israel documentary: “The Lobby,” from
EI.
Malinowitz also
wrote that
by watching the film: “Among other things, you'll
find that AIPAC [American Israel Public Affairs
Committee] is just one dimension of it all; the
parts about The Israel Project and other groups
foisting intimidation on pro-BDS campus activists
will be of interest to many of you academically
inclined folks, I'm sure.”
Authors John
Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt's 2007 book, "The
Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy,"
invokes the
conspiracy theory of Israeli and Jewish control
over the U.S. government.
Proponents of
the theory decry the negative effects on
American interests, particularly in foreign
policy.
On October 20, 2017, Malinowitz
shared to
Facebook a petition by the anti-Israel
Jewish
Voice for Peace (JVP),
titled:
“End the Deadly Exchange” and
wrote:
“Especially recommended for those who feel the ADL
[Anti-Defamation League] and Trumpian fascism are
entirely different things, and that the first
might be a solution to the second.”
In 2017, JVP
launched the “
Deadly
Exchange” (DX) campaign,
accusing American Jewish organizations of
promoting human rights abuses by coordinating
exchange programs between American and Israeli
security personnel to advance “worst practices"
and racist policies. The campaign
blamed [00:04:04]
Jewish organizations for
violence against
Black and Brown communities, immigrants and
activists in the U.S.
On October 12, 2017, Malinowitz
shared to
Facebook an EI article
titled:
“Vindicated in UK, Al Jazeera to reveal secrets
of US Israel lobby.”
On April 3, 2016, Malinowitz
shared to
Facebook an article from Alternet,
titled:
“How Israel’s Media Propaganda Dominates the
American Mind.”
The article Malinowitz shared
said that
“Israeli dominance” and “supremacy in the U.S.
news media...In combination with aggressive
lobbying efforts on Capitol Hill...has been
amazingly effective at undermining an open
debate in the United States.”
Glorifying
Anti-Israel Agitators
On February 12, 2019, Malinowitz
wrote on
Facebook: “Here it is in hard, cold Benjamins.
Note that Beto O'Rourke tops the list; that
Republicans do not at all leave Democrats in the
dust; and that herein may lie the reason so many
Democrats are so panicked about one in their
midst brazenly naming this reality.”
Malinowitz’s Facebook post included a link from
the
research
group OpenSecrets.org, that
showed “Pro-Israel:
Money to Congress,” for 2018.
Ilhan
Omar was
elected to
the U.S. Congress in 2018. In February 2019,
top Congressional leaders
denounced Omar
for tweeting anti-Semitic remarks.Omar has
demonized Israel
and
endorsed BDS.
In July 2019, Omar
introduced a
pro-BDS resolution in the U.S. Congress, which
she
described as
“an opportunity for us to explain why it is we
support…the BDS movement.”
Also on February 12, 2019, Malinowitz
shared to
Facebook a piece
titled:
“No, Ilhan Omar Is Not Anti-Semitic For Calling
Out AIPAC.”
On March 4, 2019, Malinowitz
shared to
Facebook a piece from the Guardian in support of
British politician Jeremy Corbyn,
titled:
“Siding with the Palestinian struggle is not
antisemitic.”
Jeremy
Corbyn, a British politician and leader
of the Labour Party, has repeatedly referenced
terror organizations Hamas and Hezbollah as
“friends,” shared platforms with extremists
and anti-Semites and compared Israel’s
government to ISIS.
On December 1, 2018, Malinowitz
wrote on
Facebook: “TWO PETITIONS TO CNN YOU CAN SIGN TO
SUPPORT MARC LAMONT HILL:” and shared two
petitions demanding that CNN reinstateMarc
Lamont Hill.
In November
2018,
Marc
Lamont Hill was
fired from
his position as a contributor to CNN (Cable
News Network)
following controversial
comments he made during a meeting held at the
United Nations for an “International Day of
Solidarity with the Palestinian People.”
During the meeting, Hill
reportedly whitewashed
Palestinian violence and accused Israel of
“state violence and ethnic cleansing.” He also
called for
a “free Palestine from the river to the sea.”
In September 2018, during a U.S. Campaign for
Palestinian Rights (USCPR) conference, Hill
insinuated [00:31:01]
that Israel poisons Palestinian water and
seemingly
approved [00:30:34] of
violence against Israelis.
On January 5, 2018, Malinowitz
wrote on
Facebook: “Excellent and infuriating article.
..... I guess the guy who videotaped Rodney
King's beating is lucky he wasn't Israeli, or
he'd be in jail, too” and shared a JVP Facebook
post claiming “that under Israeli rule,
Palestinians have no free speech, especially in
the digital world” and
whitewashing Nariman
Tamimi’s anti-Israel incitement.
Nariman Tamimi is a
prolific promoter
of terror. In 2015, she
shared a
Facebook post providing graphic instructions on
where to aim a knife to kill an Israeli. In
2016, Nariman
shared her
approval of a teenage Palestinian terrorist who
killed a
13-year-old Israeli girl sleeping in her bed.
Nariman Tamimi has, for years,
groomed children
as props in violent anti-Israel demonstrations
and,
together with
her husband Bassem Tamimi,
groomed their
daughter,
Ahed, to be a
propaganda
tool.
Also on January 5, 2018, Malinowitz
shared to
Facebook an article defending Nariman Tamimi’s
daughter, Ahed Tamimi, titled: “Everything wrong
with the reaction to Ahed Tamimi's prosecution
for slapping an Israeli soldier.”
Ahed Tamimi was
detained after
she was filmed
punching and
kicking Israeli soldiers. She has a long
history of
physically attacking Israeli soldiers.
Tamimi is the daughter of Bassem and Nariman
Tamimi, who are
known for
exploiting young children as political props in
staged confrontations with Israeli soldiers. In
2011, Bassem was
jailed for
organizing violent rallies and inciting minors
to commit violent crimes such as
rock-throwing.
On November 2, 2017, Malinowitz
wrote on
Facebook: “Over the past few years, Yousef
Munayyer has become one of my favorite
writers/speakers. I'm glad that the Forward
chose to publish his very apt correction of a
piece of history usually (superficially,
propagandistically) presented as liberatory...”
Yousef
Munayyer served from 2015 to
2020 as
Executive
Director of the
U.S.
Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR),
formerly the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli
Occupation (ETO).
Malinowitz’s Facebook post also included a USCPR
Facebook post promoting and
quoting Munayyer’s
piece: “USCPR Executive Director Yousef Munayyer
on the 100th anniversary of the Balfour
Declaration: “‘By both giving Jews a place to go
and a place to leave, Zionism seemingly solved
two problems at once, in Balfour’s mind. In
other words, his support of Zionism was
motivated to an extent by his desire to protect
Britain from the negative effects, the
'miseries,' of having Jews in its midst. Rather
than protecting the rights of one of its
minorities, Britain could simply export them, or
at least, not import any more.’”
Formerly known as the U.S. Campaign to End the
Occupation,
USCPR is
a coalition of American-based anti-Israel
organizations that
lobbies the
United States Congress to adopt anti-Israel
policies and end government support for Israel.
On March 2,
2017, Malinowitz
wrote that
she donated to the Rachel Corrie Foundation
(RCF): “Honor Rachel Corrie in March, the 14th
anniversary of her killing by an Israeli
bulldozer. I just did.”
RCF was created to honor the memory of Rachel
Corrie, a former
International
Solidarity Movement (ISM) member
who was accidentally killed while interfering
with an Israeli military operation in 2003
during the
Second
Intifada. A wrongful death suit brought by
Corrie’s family was dismissed when the judge
ruled that
Corrie unreasonably chose to put her own life in
danger.
On February 12, 2015, Malinowitz
wrote on
Facebook: “The Corrie family is ‘disappointed
but not surprised’ at the Israeli Supreme
Court's dismissal of their appeal in the
wrongful death of Rachel Corrie. (see press
release, below). Time to renew our vows to
support BDS once again. (and again and
again....).”
Spreading
Hatred of Israel
On August 8, 2018, Malinowitz
shared an
article
published by
the anti-Israel publication,
Mondoweiss,
on her Facebook page. The article charged that
“Israel is killling Palestinian children at
record rates.”
On July 20, 2018, Malinowitz
shared an
article to Facebook
titled:
“After Warning of 'Large and Painful Military
Operation,' Israel Begins Massive Bombing of
Gaza.” Along with the article, Malinowitz wrote:
“It’s Started Again.”
In July 2018, Israeli
conducted airstrikes
on Hamas targets in Gaza after Hamas
launched hundreds
of rockets and other projectiles at Israeli
civilians in the previous days.
In response to a comment on her post, about
missiles being
fired into
Israel earlier that month, Malinowitz
said:
“Really? Why don't you post a news account of
those ‘terrorists’ who have been ‘firing
missiles’ into Israel? I'd like to see that.”
On March 27, 2018, Malinowitz
published an
article in Mondoweiss, titled: “The Problem with
Passover.”
In her article, Malinowitz
described the
Jewish exodus from Egypt, celebrated on
Passover,
as being achieved through “ethnic cleansing and
genocide” and “a ‘liberation’ story that is only
made possible by racism and genocide, which we
deplore”
One year later, Malinowitz
reposted her
article on her Facebook page and wrote: “still
wonder how all the progressives I know -
including from Jewish Voice for Peace -
reconcile the ‘liberation’ celebrated by seders
with the genocide that accompanied it.”
On April 30, 2016, Malinowitz
shared to
Facebook a post from anti-Israel activist
Rema
Najjar. Najjar has
defended the
murder of Jews,
spread incitement
to terrorism,
justified Hamas,
spread anti-Semitism
and
suggested Israeli
Jews are Nazis.
The Facebook post that Malinowitz shared
featured a
2013 cartoon by the 2006 International Holocaust
Cartoon Contest
winner Carlos
Latuff that said: “...- Ongoing Jewish
colonization...- Ongoing massacres and siege -
Ongoing denial of Palestinian refugees' right of
return - Ongoing extra-judicial executions -
Ongoing Apartheid against the non-Jewish
Palestinian Arab population - Ongoing support by
Western colonial powers for the Jewish entity
#Nakba, #Nakba68, #OngoingNakba,
#Visualize
Return,
#FreePalestine, #RightOfReturn.”
In
fact, there is no Palestinian
Right of Return under
international law — instead, international law
gives each country the right to decide for
itself to whom it will give citizenship.
The
term “Nakba” is generally translated as
“catastrophe” in Arabic, referring to
the outcome of the 1948
Arab-Israeli War. It is a term often
used to delegitimize the creation of the State
of Israel by defining it as a catastrophe.
Latuff’s cartoon
featured an
elderly Palestinian woman, holding a key
symbolizing the Right of Return in one and and
in the other holding an outline of the State of
Israel with the words “Ongoing Nakba.”
Carlos
Latuff is a Brazilian
political cartoonist who has
equated Israel
and
America with
Nazi Germany and
promoted violence.
In 2006, he won second prize at Iran’s “
International
Holocaust Cartoon Competition” for a
cartoon that compared Israel’s security
barrier to
Nazi concentration camps.
On October 21, 2015, during the “Knife
Intifada,” Malinowitz
shared to
Facebook an article
titled:
“IDF Kills Hebron Peace Activist, Hashem Azzeh.”
Malinowitz also glorified Azzeh in her post.
In
October 2015, there was an upsurge in violence across
Israel incited by Palestinian political and religious leaders.
The wave of stabbings, known as the “Knife
Intifada,” was characterized by young
Palestinians throughout the country stabbing and
attempting to stab Israeli civilians.
The death of
54-year-old Palestinian agitator Hashem Azzeh
was falsely blamed on Israel. Azzeh died from a
heart attack following a long history of
cardiac
illness, yet anti-Israel activists claimed
that Azzeh was killed by tear gas thrown by
Israeli soldiers.
An International Solidarity Movement
report on
Azzeh’s death belied that claim, making no
mention whatsoever of tear gas.
On October 14, 2015, Malinowitz
shared to
Facebook a video that JVP “collaborated” on,
titled: “When I See Them I See Us.”
The 2015
video featured
BDS founder
Omar
Barghouti and terrorist
Rasmea
Odeh. The video also demonizes both
American law enforcement and Israeli security
agencies.
On December 31, 2014, Malinowitz shared to
Facebook a
fundraiser for
the anti-Israel organization JVP and
wrote:
“Just want to mention: I'm NOT inspired by
‘Jewish tradition,’ and you don't have to be,
either, to support this fantastic organization
that plays a vital role in bringing justice to
Palestine and of which I'm a member. (And JVP is
a ‘voice’ for a lot more than ‘peace.’ I mean,
peace is great, but as we know, it's not enough.
There is nothing trite or compromising about
JVP. They're one of the few groups that dazzle
me.) Please support them!”
On July 21, 2014, during
Operation
Protective Edge (OPE) Malinowitz
changed her
Facebook profile picture to an image of
Holocaust victim, Anne Frank, wearing a Keffiah
(Palestinian scarf).
Israel commenced OPE in July 2014 to stop
rocket
fire targeting Israeli
civilians and
to destroy Hamas
attack
tunnels.
Supporting
BDS
On April 11, 2019, Malinowitz
shared an
article to Facebook which reported that BDS
leader,
Omar
Barghouti, had been denied entry into the
United States and
wrote:
“Well damn, damn, damn them. (That is, the US
and Israel both - is there a difference?) All
the more reason to renew BDS efforts across the
board.”
On January 30, 2019, Malinowitz
shared to
Facebook a JVP letter for Members of Congress,
against S.1
and wrote: “This site makes it so easy to tell
your senators what you think about this
disgusting vote that anybody will have enough
time to do it. Please find out how your senators
voted on a crucial free speech issue and
register your view for future reference.
Personally, I'm impressed that Gillibrand voted
‘no’ with the dissenting minority - and
completely unsurprised that the putative
‘liberal’ Chuck Schumer voted ‘yes’ with the
craven and hypocritical majority. Another day in
the life of America.”
U.S. Senate
bill:
S.1 - Strengthening America's Security in the
Middle East Act of 2019, which “allows states to
divest from entities boycotting Israel.”
On January 7, 2019, Malinowitz shared another
petition to Facebook
against S.1
and
said:
“...As I said to the aide who answered my call
to Chuck Schumer's office, ‘With Democrats like
these, who needs Republicans?’ (Schumer is sure
to enthusiastically vote yes. May he and his
neoliberal, Zionist minions be voted out of
office asap and give way to progressive
Democrats.)”
On February 18, 2018, Malinowitz
wrote on
Facebook: “And good bye [sic] to the MLA from
me, too” and shared a piece from anti-Israel
activist and professor
David
Palumbo-Liu that
criticized the
Modern
Language Association (MLA) for
failing to join the academic boycott of Israel
and saying that this is the reason he “resigned”
from the MLA’s Executive Council.
In 2016, Malinowitz
signed an
open letter calling for the academic boycott of
Israel.
The open letter was
addressed to
the
Modern
Language Association (MLA), “calling on
the association to pass a resolution endorsing
the boycott of Israeli academic institutions.”
In January 2017, the MLA Delegate Assembly
approved a
resolution (2017-1) acknowledging “the
Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and
Cultural Boycott of Israel contradicts the
MLA’s purpose” and conflicted with another
resolution (2002-1), that condemned boycotts
against scholars. Therefore, the Assembly
“resolved that the MLA refrain from endorsing
the boycott.”
On November 10, 2015, Malinowitz
shared on
Facebook an article
published on
the BDS Movement website, titled: “Brazilian
star Caetano Veloso announces he will never go
back to Israel.” Malinowitz commented then:
“Well, yay Caetano. But couldn't you have
gleaned some of this helpful information BEFORE
your concert? ...”
On June 16, 2015, Malinowitz
wrote on
Facebook: “Really informative article,
especially for those concerned about
efficacy/ethics of BDS:” and shared an article
from +972 Magazine,
titled:
“How every Israeli profits from the occupation.”
Malinowitz
signed a
change.org petition
published on
July 22, 2014 and headlined: “Jews Say: End the
War on Gaza — No Aid to Apartheid Israel! BDS!
(With 200 initial signers).”
The petition
charged Israel
with “more than a century of Zionist
colonialism, dispossession, ethnic cleaning,
racism, and genocide” and claimed “Israel uses
resistance to such policies as an excuse to
terrorize and collectively punish the indigenous
population for its very existence.”
Malinowitz
signed a
petition published on March 7, 2014, that
condemned what signatories alleged was “the
Israeli government’s attempts to stifle debate
and academic freedom at universities all over
the planet” and demanded protection for
individuals supporting BDS.
Malinowitz
signed a
petition posted on October 20, 2012, calling for
the cancellation of an Israeli Philharmonic
Orchestra’s (IPO) performance at Carnegie Hall.
The petition
described the
IPO as “an organization that whitewashes
Israel’s ethnic cleansing of indigenous
Palestinians” and stated that “The IPO...is
actively complicit in whitewashing Israeli human
rights abuses, apartheid, and occupation of
Palestinian land.”
Condemning
Birthright
On July 5, 2018, Malinowitz
shared to
Facebook an
article headlined
“Birthright dissident calls on 1000s of Jews
doing trip to ‘make Birthright uncomfortable,’”
chronicling a campaign condemning Birthright
Israel.
Birthright
Israel is a heritage trip to
Israel for Jewish young adults from across the
world.
In her Facebook post, Malinowitz
praised a
“student in SJP-Ithaca,” who had given a
presentation condemning Birthright. Malinowitz
then
wrote “I
hope more Birthright participants will use the
trip as an opportunity to expose this
well-funded propaganda for what it is.”
On March 21, 2018, Malinowitz
shared an
event on her Facebook page, hosted by the Ithaca
College chapter of
Students
for Justice in Palestine (SJP), titled:
“Birth Wrong.”
Birthwrong
is a parody of the Birthright heritage
trips to Israel. Organized by some British
Jews calling themselves "Jewdas,"
Birthwrong urges Jewish students to idealize
the Diaspora and to celebrate communism.
SJP
SJP
is a student organization engaged in
anti-Israel activity on North American college
and university campuses.
The
first chapter of SJP was founded in
2001 at the University of California at
Berkeley by Professor Hatem
Bazian. Bazian has spread classic
anti-Semitism, reportedly promoted
religious anti-Semitism and defended the Hamas terror
group. In 2004, Bazian called for
“intifada” in America.
SJP organizes anti-Israel campaigns,
including running annual Israel
Apartheid Weeks, often in collaboration with Jewish
Voice for Peace (JVP) and Muslim
Students Association (MSA) campus
chapters.
SJP
has been a major
force in pushing the
anti-Semitic Boycott,
Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement
on campuses. Chapters have initiated dozens of
BDS resolutions in student governments, which
have been proposed on
or around Jewish holidays, a time when many
Jewish students are off-campus.
SJP
activists have reportedly physically
assaulted, intimidated and harassed Jewish
students, disrupted pro-Israel
campus events and demonized pro-Israel
campus organizations.
Chapters
have often endorsed and campaigned for
numerous terrorists and whitewashed terrorism.
JVP
JVP
was founded in Berkeley, California in 1996,
as an activist group with an emphasis on the
“Jewish tradition” of peace, social justice
and human rights. The organization is
currently led by Rebecca
Vilkomerson and its board
members include Israel
critics Naomi Klein, Judith
Butler, Noam Chomsky and Tony Kushner.
JVP,
which generally employs civil disobedience
tactics to disrupt pro-Israel
speakers and events, consists of American Jews
and non-Jewish “allies” highly critical of
Israeli policies. A staunch supporter of
the BDS movement, JVP claims to aim its
campaigns at companies that either support the
Israeli military (Hewlett-Packard)
or are active in the West Bank (SodaStream).
Although
several Jewish groups critical of Israeli
policies, like J Street and Partners for a
Progressive Israel, make efforts to operate
within the mainstream American Jewish
community, JVP functions outside. The group is
often criticized for
serving as a tokenized Jewish voice for the
pro-Palestinian camp and is widely regarded as
the BDS movement’s “Jewish wing.”
JVP denies the
notion of “Jewish peoplehood” and has even
gone so far as to refer to
its own Ashkenazi (Jews who spent the Diaspora
in European countries) leadership as “white
supremacy inside of JVP.”
The
Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has accused JVP
of being “the largest and most influential
Jewish anti-Zionist group in the United
States,” and said the group “exploits Jewish
culture and rituals to reassure its own
supporters that opposition to Israel not only
does not contradict, but is actually
consistent with, Jewish value.”
The
ADL also claimed that “JVP consistently
co-sponsors rallies to oppose Israeli military
policy that are marked by signs and slogans
comparing Israel to Nazi Germany, demonizing
Jews and voicing support for groups like Hamas
and Hezbollah.”
According
to the ADL website,
JVP “uses its Jewish identity to shield the
anti-Israel movement from allegations of
anti-Semitism and provide it with a greater
degree of legitimacy and credibility.”
BDS
The
Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement
was founded by Omar
Barghouti in 2005 to challenge “international
support for Israeli apartheid and
settler-colonialism.” BDS is an allegedly “Palestinian-led
movement,” although leading BDS activists have admitted [00:01:01]
this is not true.
One of the demands of BDS includes [point
3] what is generally known as the “right of
return,” a demand discredited as
a way to eliminate Israel. Barghouti said the
“right of return” is a means to “end Israel’s
existence as a Jewish state.”
Barghouti has said that
BDS “aims to turn Israel into a pariah state,
as South Africa once was.”
In his activism, Barghouti has also said [00:05:55]
regarding Israel: “Definitely, most
definitely, we oppose a Jewish state in any
part of Palestine. No…rational Palestinian,
not a sellout Palestinian, will ever accept a
Jewish state in Palestine.”
The movement has been linked to
numerous terrorist organizations and received
a public endorsement from Hamas in
2017.
BDS initiatives include calling
on institutions and
individuals to divest from Israeli-affiliated
companies, promoting academic
and cultural boycotts of Israel, and organizing anti-Israel
rallies, protests and campaigns.
The movement’s most notable achievement has
been the infiltration of university campuses
through lobbying for
“BDS resolutions.” In these cases, student
governments and student groups,
backed by their own anti-Israel members and affiliates,
have proposed resolutions
on some form of boycott of, or divestment
from, Israel and Israeli-affiliated entities.
Boycott resolutions,
although non-binding, have been passed by
student governments on numerous North American
campuses.
BDS activity is
often aggressive and disruptive.
It has been noted that
universities that pass BDS resolutions see a
marked increase in anti-Semitic incidents on
campus. On one campus, when the student
government debated a BDS resolution, reports
emerged of violent
threats against those
opposing it.
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