This is the Forward’s coverage of Jewish Voice for Peace, an American anti-Zionist group which advocates for Palestinians and supports a boycott of Israel over its role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Opinion We’re Nobody’s ‘Jew-Washing’ Pawns
In his latest column, Philologos correctly parses the linguistic problems with Yitzhak Santis and Gerald M. Steinberg’s invented term, “Jew-washing.” His political analysis, alas, fails miserably. Philologos has it completely wrong when he speaks of the “anti-Semitism in boycotts of Israel.” To begin with, Santis and Steinberg did not use the term “Jew-washing” in reference…
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Life Jewish Voice for Peace vs. Susan Sarandon (and Alan Dershowitz)
The New York Post’s Page Six reports: Susan Sarandon outraged the Jewish Voice for Peace group when she crossed its picket line to attend a cocktail party last month in the new Madison Avenue jewelry store of Lev Leviev, a diamond-dealing real-estate mogul who owns the former New York Times building and the Apthorp building…
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Life Michael Lerner Says ‘I’m Sorry’ (in 1,800 Words)
Rabbi Michael Lerner is sorry. The Tikkun magazine editor recently issued an apology to three groups that are fiercely critical of Israel — Jewish Voice for Peace, United for Peace and Justice and the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. (UFPJ and the U.S. Campaign are organizing a mass mobilization next month in Washington…
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