{"id":55916,"date":"2017-09-13T17:05:26","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T15:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=55916"},"modified":"2017-09-13T07:45:33","modified_gmt":"2017-09-13T05:45:33","slug":"19-05-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=55916","title":{"rendered":"Jewish Voice for Peace Ramps Up Attacks on Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.algemeiner.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reunion68.com\/Biuletyn\/img\/times.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"25%\" \/><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000080;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.algemeiner.com\/2017\/09\/12\/jewish-voice-for-peace-ramps-up-attacks-on-israel-with-support-of-rockefeller-brothers-fund\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jewish Voice for Peace Ramps Up Attacks on Israel With Support of Rockefeller Brothers Fund<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Shiri Moshe<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"background: #d0e6fa; width: 710px; height: 15px;\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/49yzp92imhtx8radn224z7y1-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/21016075_10155553975949871_83031640375033734_o.jpg\" width=\"100%\" \/><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>A group of young adults on a Taglit-Birthright trip to Israel visit the Bah\u00e1\u2019\u00ed Gardens in Haifa. Photo: Facebook<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Two efforts to erode American support for Israel have been launched over the last six months by the anti-Zionist group Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) with financial backing from the prominent Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF), The Algemeiner has learned.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Through its new #ReturnTheBirthright campaign, JVP is urging Jewish young adults to forgo a free, 10-day educational tour of Israel with Taglit-Birthright, \u201cbecause it is fundamentally unjust that we are given a free trip to Israel, while Palestinian refugees are barred from returning to their homes.\u201d Since its inception in 1999, Birthright has sent some 500,000 Jewish youths to Israel, with support from the Israeli government, the Jewish Federations of North America, and individual donors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">JVP\u2019s latest initiative \u2014 kicked off as college students started their fall semester and registration opened for Birthright\u2019s winter tours \u2014 came not long after the group rolled out its controversial \u201cDeadly Exchange\u201d effort in April. That campaign partially blamed cooperation between American and Israeli law enforcement officials for \u201cdiscriminatory and repressive policing\u201d against people of color in both countries, and condemned \u201cUS-based Jewish organizations\u201d for \u201cmaking this deadly exchange possible.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The charge was strongly denounced by the Anti-Defamation League, a prominent Jewish civil rights group that sends senior US security officials to Israel for counter-terrorism training. The ADL noted that JVP used \u201clanguage to describe American Jewish organizations that veers uncomfortably close to age-old antisemitic canards about Jews using their influence to undermine the societies of the countries in which they live.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">While JVP is not transparent about its funding network, the watchdog group NGO Monitor found that its biggest donor is the RBF, which began backing JVP in 2015 with a two-year, $140,000 grant. The fund awarded JVP a similar two-year grant for \u201cpeacebuilding\u201d in June of this year, less than three months after JVP introduced its \u201cDeadly Exchange\u201d campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201cRecent JVP campaigns have morphed into direct and unmistakable antisemitism, which should lead funders like Rockefeller Brothers Fund to cease any contacts or support,\u201d NGO Monitor president Professor Gerald Steinberg told The Algemeiner.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Ambassador Dani Dayan, Israel\u2019s consul general in New York, tweeted on Sunday that he showed Stephen B. Heintz, the president of RBF, evidence that \u201cthey fund NGOs that condone terror &amp; deny Israel\u2019s right to exist. He couldn\u2019t care less.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201cAn organization that truly promotes peace and justice cannot keep the company of apologists and enablers of terrorism,\u201d Dayan told The Algemeiner on Tuesday. \u201cWhen the Rockefeller Brothers Fund promotes radical, fringe groups in the US and abroad, they become the problem they seek to fix.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201cJVP and Grassroots Jerusalem, among a number of other groups supported by the Fund, mask their violent and undemocratic goals in the language of social justice,\u201d he added. \u201cPromoting violence against Israelis, applauding those who commit acts of terror such as Rasmea Odeh (a Palestinian terrorist who helped plant a bomb in a Jerusalem market in 1969), and actively seeking the dissolution of our democratic state will achieve nothing but the continuation of the conflict.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Repeated requests for comment from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund were unanswered by press time.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"background: #d0e6fa; width: 710px; height: 15px;\" \/>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\" content-alignment&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt; \">\n<div id=\"watch-description\" class=\"yt-uix-button-panel\">\n<div id=\"watch-description-text\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"> twoje uwagi, linki, wlasne artykuly, lub wiadomosci przeslij do: <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"mailto:webmaster@reunion68.com\">webmaster@reunion68.com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 710px;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jewish Voice for Peace Ramps Up Attacks on Israel With Support of Rockefeller Brothers Fund Shiri Moshe A group of young adults on a Taglit-Birthright trip to Israel visit the Bah\u00e1\u2019\u00ed Gardens in Haifa. 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