We appreciate the ADL’s recognition of our growing strength, especially among younger Jews. However, we question the right of the ADL to declare a monopoly on Jewish values. We are most proud to be a home for the growing number of Jewish Americans who subscribe to JVP’s principles, inspired by Jewish tradition, of supporting equality, human rights and freedom for all the people of Israel and Palestine. We believe that BDS campaigns are one of the effective strategies toward that goal. As such we are proud to support student and church efforts to divest from companies that profit from the occupation, and of our own role in founding the “We Divest” campaign to urge TIAA-CREF to divest from these companies as well, in addition to the wide array of other activities we engage in in pursuit of our goals. As an organization that has a history of fomenting Islamophobia, spying on leftist and human rights groups, denying the Armenian genocide, and surveillance and infiltration against Arab American activists, the ADL has long proven that it is willing to stoop to all kinds of nefarious activities in its self-proclaimed defense of Israel. It is thus not a surprise, and even a badge of honor, that the ADL would attack us on the basis of our identification with anti-apartheid and civil rights struggles.
Posted on: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 10:55:15 +0000
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