Seattle “Jewish” group attacks Israel at Pike Place Market
Tourists and shopkeepers stood jaws agape as a group of about twenty protesters from Jewish Voice for Peace, many ensconced in bizarre gray boxes appropriated the cobblestone street in front of Seattle’s iconic Pike Place Market this past Wednesday evening.
Jewish Voice for Peace Co-Director of Organizing, Stefanie Fox led the activists in a bit of Street theater, shouting through a megaphone that “Israel’s attack on Gaza is a one sided war of destruction fueled by Israel’s machine of war and occupation!”. The protesters urged a boycott of companies they say support Israel, including Boeing, Hewlett Packard and Motorola.
As Ms. Fox recited names of Gazans killed in the Hamas instigated conflict, protesters with targets taped to their chests collapsed on the pavement. Hand drawn neon signs proclaimed “Killing children in Gaza will not bring peace.”
Stefanie Fox with Megaphone. JVP’s stated purpose is to create “a wedge” within the American Jewish community to generate the impression of polarization over Israel.”
We are willing to make public asses of ourselves if it harms Israel.
Well known and extensively criticized by Jewish civil rights organizations like NGO Monitor and the Anti-Defamation League; JVP’s primary mission is to serve as Jewish cover for the activities of radical anti-Israel and often anti-Semitic organizations. For the past several years ADL has placed JVP on their list of the top ten anti-Israel organizations in the country.
JVP has had a strong Seattle presence for the past decade, repeatedly agitating against Israel and the organized Jewish community. In 2013 JVP played a pivotal role in persuading the Seattle City Council Human Rights Commission to cancel a reception for a visiting Israeli civil rights delegation. That same year the group was co-sponsor of a film screening in Seattle in which several pro-Israel attendees were accosted. JVP provided extensive support towards the effort to pass a BDS resolution against Israel at the University of Washington earlier this year.
Active on the national scene as well, Reform Movement leader, Rabbi Eric Yoffie declared that JVP was pivotal in providing the needed “Jewish cover” to allow the Presbyterian Church USA to pass a divestment resolution against Israel this past May.
Despite JVP’s animus towards the Jewish state, Seattle’s organized Jewish community has failed to distance themselves from the organization. Just this past June 23rd, the group was invited to send a delegation to a meeting of young Jewish leaders at UW Hillel. The event was facilitated by Jewish Federation president Keith Dvorchik.
JVP exploiting Palestinian and Israeli suffering to further their anti-Israel agenda.
JVP has been given free print space in Seattle’s Jewish Federation owned newspaper, JTNews to further their anti-Israel agenda. Additionally the group is consistently included among the mainstream Jewish groups and organizations in the JTNews’ annual Guide to Jewish Washington. In a highly sanitized description of their activities and agenda, JTNews describes JVP in their guide as working “to achieve a lasting peace that recognizes both Israelis and Palestinians”.
As salmon was flying to the serenade of JVP activists screaming “Stop the Israel war machine, war profiteering is obscene!”, one couldn’t help but wonder if the true obscenity might not lie elsewhere.
Maybe they don’t realize we are tired of seeing their Palestinian flags and hearing their obnoxious chants.
Yup.
I just love assimilated, confused fat white people who don’t know anything about Arabs, the Levant, nor it’s cultures..
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Can ANYONE explain WHY the anti violence/war crowd is ALWAYS violent????
Even if not always violent, always angry, threatening, never satisfied, never looking at themselves or how they may be making it worse. They do not seem “pro” anything, and the hate they show seems targeted not only toward Israel.
learn something – pick one video (or all) and see some objective info, not from Israelis:
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Thanks for sharing!
Of course, these “humanitarians” are not for the Palestinian people, but something else.
Nor would they give up the Israeli technology that benefits themselves.
A recent post worth reading offers a perspective about opposition to Israel militarism. It is:
“an outlet for the expression of a general feeling of fury and exhaustion with everything – with Western society, modernity, nationalism, militarism, humanity. Israel has been turned into a conduit for the expression of Western self-loathing, Western colonial guilt, Western self-doubt. It has been elevated into the most explicit expression of what are now considered to be the outdated Western values of militaristic self-preservation and progressive nationhood, and it is railed against and beaten down for embodying those values. It is held responsible, not simply for repressing the Palestinian desire for statehood, but for continuing to pursue virtues that we sensible folk in the rest of the West have apparently outgrown and for consequently being the source of war and terrorism not only in the Middle East but pretty much everywhere.”
http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/theres-something-very-ugly-in-this-rage-against-israel/15400
JVP’s notion of peace seems a deception because its notion conforms to the Palestinian narrative that leads to war.
Was that mope Richard Silverstein out there?
I did not see him, but he rarely ever leaves his basement.
You mean – rarely leaves his basement in daylight, I assume 😉