Last spring, former Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) spokesperson Rashid Khalidi spoke at Washington, DC’s Politics and Prose bookstore. “Attendees included well-known, interrelated activists from the capital’s anti-Zionist scene, including Shelley Cohen-Fudge from the fringe organization Jewish Voice for Peace.” The PLO was created for the purpose of liquidating Israel, so Jewish Voice for Peace is aiding the jihad terrorist PLO in the name of “peace.”
Inviting Rashida Tlaib, who advocates for a one-state solution (that is, the obliteration of Israel), and Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (the delegitimization and economic destruction of Israel), is much in keeping with the JVP’s attendance at Khalidi’s event. Tlaib also said in the past that she would vote against military assistance for Israel.
Marc Lamont Hill is another antisemitism panelist for JVP. He once “called for ‘a free Palestine from the river to the sea‘”; which also means the obliteration of Israel, from the river (Jordan) to the sea (Mediterranean).
In line with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s efforts to shut down the freedom of speech and criminalize speech that is offensive to Islam, JVP has also been fighting against “Islamophobia.”
“Rashida Tlaib, BDS supporter, to speak on JVP antisemitism panel,” by Eve Young, Jerusalem Post, November 21, 2020:
After an announcement that US Congresswoman Rep. Rashida Tlaib will participate in a panel on antisemitism along with others previously accused of antisemitic or anti-Israel statements, event host Jewish Voice for Peace is drawing criticism for their selection of speakers.
In addition to concerns over previous statements made by the participants, critics are concerned by the identity of the speakers, only one of whom is Jewish.
Tlaib, a Palestinian-American politician who has faced accusations of antisemitism and is known as a fierce critic of Israel and supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement, was strongly criticized on social media after tweeting a statement on Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom Hashoah) that failed to mention Jews.
Marc Lamont Hill, also a panelist, has been accused of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish statements when he called for “a free Palestine from the river to the sea” in 2018 and described Mizrahi Jews as an “identity category” that had been detached “from Palestinian identity” in 2019….