Book Signing this Thursday at the Inquiring Mind Bookstore in Saugerties

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Thursday, March 19, 2026, at 6 PM at the Inquiring Mind Bookstore & Cafe, 200 Main St. Saugerties. Interview and book signing for “Selling Israel” by Harriet Malinowitz, local American scholar specializing in women's, gender, sexuality and Palestinian studies. Free admission and community discussion. Cosponsored by: Middle East Crisis Response mideastcrisis.org, Veterans For Peace, and Women In Black - New Paltz. Contact: me...@mideastcrisis.org or 845 876-7906

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Just a review of the writer - https://canarymission.org/professor/Harriet_Malinowitz

For the curious ones, there are similar propagandists in over supply in USA: https://canarymission.org/individual/Risa_Nagel

Harriet Malinowitz

Overview

Harriet Malinowitz has expressed support for terrorists, compared Zionism to Nazism and demonized Israel. She has also spread anti-Israel conspiracy theories, glorified anti-Israel agitators and spread hatred of Israel.

Malinowitz is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement and has condemned the Birthright Israel heritage trip.

As of April 2020, Malinowitz was a lecturer in the Department of Writingat Ithaca College (Ithaca) and the faculty advisor for Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) at Ithaca. She was also a member of Jewish Voices for Peace (JVP), since 2014. 

Supporting Terrorists

On April 18, 2017, Malinowitz wrote 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 published in the New York Times by Marwan Barghouti about the 2017 Palestinian prisoner hunger strike.

Terrorist Marwan Barghouti was sentenced to five consecutive life terms for some of his crimes, including his role in the Sbarro Cafe bombing. In 2017, he initiated the hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners known as the “Dignity Strike.” He headed the Palestinian Authority (PA) terrorist Tanzim force and founded the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, which carried out many terror attacks against Israeli civilians.

On May 17, 2017, Malinowitz shared to Facebook a statement, which was organized by “the Jews of Color and Sephardi/Mizrahi Caucus organized in partnership” with JVP, in support of Palestinian convicts then participating in 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, #VisualizeReturn, #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.


Social Media and Weblinks

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Infamous Quotes

“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...”
“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”
“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....).”
“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.”
“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!”
“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.”
“I hope more Birthright participants will use the trip as an opportunity to expose this well-funded propaganda for what it is.”
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