New report highlights ties between IfNotNow and anti-Semitic pro-Palestinian group

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(July 30, 2019 / JNS) The progressive Jewish activist group IfNotNow has generated several headlines in the past year by challenging mainstream American Jewish organizations on its support for Israel, and more recently, for its campaign to bait 2020 Democratic presidential candidates to condemn the so-called “occupation” of the disputed territories by Israel.

While these moves may seem outside of the mainstream consensus on Israel, more troubling evidence has emerged on the group’s ties with the virulently anti-Semitic organization American Muslims for Palestine (AMP).

The Investigative organization Canary Mission recently launched a campaign and report revealing a strategic partnership between IfNotNow and AMP, a group that has incited and celebrated violence against Israelis, denied Jewish peoplehood and mocked the Holocaust on social media.

“The Jewish community should find the AMP and IfNotNow partnership particularly worrying,” according to Canary Mission. “IfNotNow is not a youthful Jewish organization, but in fact, it’s “a well-trained, radical fringe group that has no qualms about partnering with anti-Semites.”



New report highlights ties between IfNotNow and anti-Semitic pro-Palestinian group (jns.org)

 

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Canary Mission is an Israeli propaganda organization.
Nothing they report should be taken seriously.

Canary Mission - JVP

Jewish Voice for Peace unequivocally condemns Canary Mission, a malicious website that seeks to vilify principled activists for Palestinian human rights with targeted campaigns of misinformation, bigotry and slander.

jewishvoiceforpeace.org

Revealed: Canary Mission blacklist is secretly bankrolled by major Jewish Federation

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www.haaretz.com

 

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franky once again siting sources that defends terrorists and anti-semitism


UPDATE (September 10, 2021): Lest there be any remaining doubt about the extremist, anti-Jewish bigotry of the inaptly named “Jewish Voice for Peace” group, their recent Instagram messages should put that to rest. Beyond messages celebrating the escape of Palestinian terrorists from Israeli jails as “self-liberation,” a recent message equates terrorists who escaped from prison while serving life sentences for the murders of Jews, with those who managed to escape the Nazi genocide of Jews during the Holocaust.

UPDATED: “Jewish Voice for Peace” (JVP): What the Media is Concealing | CAMERA


none of these alliances are quite as surprising as the organization’s association with white supremacists, when it suits them.

Former Executive Director Rebecca Vilkomerson – on two separate occasions – partnered with America Free Press, an anti-Semitic media outlet founded by a Holocaust denying, white supremacist (Willis Carto) to vilify Israel and support her anti-Zionist organization.


Former Executive Director Rebecca Vilkomerson – on two separate occasions – partnered with America Free Press, an anti-Semitic media outlet founded by a Holocaust denying, white supremacist (Willis Carto) to vilify Israel and support her anti-Zionist organization.

In 2010 and 2012 podcasts, she chatted with host Dave Gahary, a conspiracy theorist who obsessively demonizes the Jewish state and has in the past publicly referred to black people as “animals”. While the first broadcast apparently evaded much notice or pushback, JVP was called out after Vilkomerson’s second broadcast with the white supremacist media outlet. In response, JVP released a disclaimer stating the interview was obtained under false premises. In JVP’s press release, Vilkomerson expressed “heartsickness” that her interview somehow “ended up” on a white supremacist website. Of course, she made sure not to mention her previous 30-minute-anti-Israel screed on the same show with the same interviewer on the same media outlet less than two years earlier.

Holocaust Denial
While JVP tries to cover up its association with white supremacists and Holocaust deniers, additional examples have nonetheless come to light.

David Collier, a London-based activist combating antisemitism, exposed the membership of JVP leaders and members in the ‘secret’ (participants must be invited and the page cannot be found on a regular Facebook search) Holocaust denying, antisemitic Facebook group, “Palestine Link” created in 2013 by anti-Zionist activist Elleanne Green.
Posters on the Facebook page have shared the notorious anti-Semitic hoax Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion; cartoons and articles denying the Holocaust; links to a “holocaust deprogramming course;” Holocaust denial by David Duke, the neo-Nazi, former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan; anti-Jewish conspiracy theories and material from a wide variety of neo-Nazi, white supremacist sites like Rense, Stormfront, Daily Stormer and Whiteresister. Collier documented 64% of nearly 800 posts over two weeks that shared such hard-core antisemitic ideology and Holocaust denial.

Yet former JVP director Vilkomerson was a member of this noxious group, and she is not the only one.

Others from JVP also joined the secret group, including Board of Trustee members Phyllis Bennis, Beth Harris, Seth Morrison, Eran Efrati; academic council member Mark LeVine; and rabbinical council member David Mivasair, among others.

Through the secret group, they gained access to and affiliate themselves with historical revisionists, Holocaust deniers, white supremacists and other antisemites willing to sign their pernicious petitions to protect antisemitism and against mainstream Jewish groups. (David Collier, March 2018 and 2019 reports – Antisemitism Inside Palestine Live, Parts I and II)


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franky once again siting sources that defends terrorists and anti-semitism

I'm citing Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, B'tselem, Yesh Din and the UN.

Amnesty International describes Israel as an apartheid state in new report

‘The purpose of this report is to eliminate the State of Israel as a nation-state of the Jewish people,’ Israel’s foreign ministry says.

forward.com

Stop defending apartheid.

 

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Canary Mission is an Israeli propaganda organization.
Nothing they report should be taken seriously.
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But your constant propaganda sources should? Makes sense when you can't argue facts.

 

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But your constant propaganda sources should? Makes sense when you can't argue facts.

Yes, when you call Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, B'tselem, the UN and Yesh Din 'propaganda sources' you absolutely know you can't argue the facts.

The fact is Israel is apartheid and you're still defending it.

 

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Yes, when you call Amnesty, Human Rights Watch, B'tselem, the UN and Yesh Din 'propaganda sources' you absolutely know you can't argue the facts.

The fact is Israel is apartheid and you're still defending it.

You blatantly using a double standard and applaud them when they criticize one side and ignore them when they criticize the other shows you think they're not truly trustworthy.

 

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It's usually what you find when you dig deep enough.

 

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It's usually what you find when you dig deep enough.

I thought you've been backing the anti-Soros crowd here for years?
Is that what you mean?

 

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I thought you've been backing the anti-Soros crowd here for years?
Is that what you mean?

Where did I mention Soros?

 

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Where did I mention Soros?

That's usually what the trump crowd talks about when they get into funding conspiracy.
You don't mean you don't believe that?

 

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That's usually what the trump crowd talks about when they get into funding conspiracy.
You don't mean you don't believe that?

See post #8

 

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See post #8

How Donald Trump will try to scapegoat George Soros to win re-election

As Donald Trump’s re-election looks in doubt, supporters of the U.S. president will amp up conspiracy theories about billionaire George Soros.

theconversation.com

 

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I thought you've been backing the anti-Soros crowd here for years?
Is that what you mean?

So your defense for people on the left promoting anti-semitic tropes is to point out people on the right use anti-semitic tropes?

 

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So your defense for people on the left promoting anti-semitic tropes is to point out people on the right use anti-semitic tropes?

What anti-semitic trope do you think I used?
Is it like your trope where you claim criticism of Israel is anti-semitic?

If you're going to accuse me, be specific and prove it.

 

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What anti-semitic trope do you think I used?
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Can you not read? I didn't accuse you of antisemitic tropes in this instance. I said you defend groups using anti-semitic tropes while condemning the right for doing the same thing.

You have complained about Israeli control of US policy several times and excused Ilhan Omar's comments about Jews and money even after she apologized for them but those are different topics (and the exact same as the right's demonization of Soros' control).

 

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Can you not read? I didn't accuse you of antisemitic tropes in this instance. I said you defend groups using anti-semitic tropes while condemning the right for doing the same thing.

You have complained about Israeli control of US policy several times and excused Ilhan Omar's comments about Jews and money even after she apologized for them but those are different topics (and the exact same as the right's demonization of Soros' control).

The only thing I've complained about is the success of AIPAC, which should be listed as a foreign lobbying group.
But that's not a trope, that's an established lobbying group for Israel.

Really though, its just time for you to figure out if you're going to keep defending apartheid or not.

‘Apartheid state’: Israel’s fears over image in US are coming to pass

The likening of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians to white-ruled South Africa is growing more widespread in the US mainstream

www.theguardian.com

 

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I do not understand why everyone here makes this a black and white issue. Truth is, it’s complicated and grey.

Yes, Palestinians deserve freedom, rights, and safety as much as you or I do.

No, Hamas using paramilitary tactics killing civilians is not only wrong, it’s counterproductive.

neither side is victimless or blameless.

 

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I do not understand why everyone here makes this a black and white issue. Truth is, it’s complicated and grey.

Yes, Palestinians deserve freedom, rights, and safety as much as you or I do.

No, Hamas using paramilitary tactics killing civilians is not only wrong, it’s counterproductive.

neither side is victimless or blameless.

Agreed, both sides deserve blame.
But, one side is being occupied by the other so saying its victimless is wrong.

I'm just curious how you end apartheid and the occupation.
Since Israel and its defenders won't, it looks like it'll have to be a South Africa type international campaign.

 

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The only thing I've complained about is the success of AIPAC, which should be listed as a foreign lobbying group.
But that's not a trope, that's an established lobbying group for Israel.
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You're right. Accusing American Jews of working against their own government isn't a trope, it's outright antisemitism.

And it doesn't change that you were incapable of reading what I posted about the way you condemn right wing anti-semitism but go soft or even agree with left wing antisemitism and antisemitism from Muslims.