22 may 2018
Fox Keller: Israel makes me ashamed of being a Jew
One of the winners of the 2018 Dan David Prize (prestigious Israeli award) decided to give the prize money to three Israeli human rights organizations defending the rights of the Palestinians.
82-year-old American Jewish professor Evelyn Fox Keller, one of nine people who received the award at Tel Aviv University Sunday night, told Haaretz newspaper she would give the money to B’Tselem, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel and Physicians for Human Rights.
According to Haaretz, the scientist and feminist thinker said “the moment she found out she had won the prize, she decided she could accept it only if she gave the money to organizations combating Israel’s policies toward the Palestinians.”
Asked why she did not just refuse the prize, since it is granted by an Israeli university which is part of the Israeli political system, she replied, “I didn’t see it that way. I am accepting the prize in support of people who resist the system. I didn’t see what would be served by turning it down. As a political statement, it is stronger if I take the prize and give it away.”
The interview with Fox Keller took place last Thursday, less than 24 hours after she landed in Israel.
She also told Haaretz that 10 years ago when she visited Israel she had said then that Israeli violations against the Palestinians made her feel ashamed of being Jewish.
“I said [then that] Israel makes me ashamed of being a Jew,” she added. “Yes, I feel the same today.”
One of the winners of the 2018 Dan David Prize (prestigious Israeli award) decided to give the prize money to three Israeli human rights organizations defending the rights of the Palestinians.
82-year-old American Jewish professor Evelyn Fox Keller, one of nine people who received the award at Tel Aviv University Sunday night, told Haaretz newspaper she would give the money to B’Tselem, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel and Physicians for Human Rights.
According to Haaretz, the scientist and feminist thinker said “the moment she found out she had won the prize, she decided she could accept it only if she gave the money to organizations combating Israel’s policies toward the Palestinians.”
Asked why she did not just refuse the prize, since it is granted by an Israeli university which is part of the Israeli political system, she replied, “I didn’t see it that way. I am accepting the prize in support of people who resist the system. I didn’t see what would be served by turning it down. As a political statement, it is stronger if I take the prize and give it away.”
The interview with Fox Keller took place last Thursday, less than 24 hours after she landed in Israel.
She also told Haaretz that 10 years ago when she visited Israel she had said then that Israeli violations against the Palestinians made her feel ashamed of being Jewish.
“I said [then that] Israel makes me ashamed of being a Jew,” she added. “Yes, I feel the same today.”
18 may 2018
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Activists from Jewish Voice for Peace NYC and Jews Say No! held a Gaza solidarity protest outside the office of Senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, condemning US support for Israel’s massacre of Palestinian protesters – Ben Norton reports.
TRNN video & transcript: BEN NORTON: Activists from the progressive organizations, Jewish Voice for Peace New York City and Jews Say No, gathered in the rain outside the offices of New York senators Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand on Wednesday, May 16. The demonstrators expressed solidarity with the unarmed Palestinian protesters being massacred by the Israeli military in Gaza. |
They demanded that politicians speak out and stop U.S. support for the bloodshed.
SPEAKER ONE: We are here as Jewish New Yorkers. We are with organizations, Jewish Voice for Peace and Jews Say No. And we are here to say to our senators, Senator Gillibrand and Senator Schumer, that they have to condemn the killing of protesters in Gaza and they have to support the right of Palestinians to live in freedom and to go back to their homes. Palestinians in Gaza have been protesting for the past six weeks against this siege that lays on Gaza and demanding the right of return that they deserve.
And seventy percent of the population of Gaza are refugees or descendants of refugees. Israel has reacted to these demonstrations by killing and unarmed protesters. And we’re here to tell our senators that they must condemn these killings and must support the Palestinian right of return.
SPEAKER TWO AND DEMONSTRATORS: Palestinians have the right to live in freedom, the right to return home. We have been so inspired by the unbelievable organizing coming out of Gaza.
SPEAKER THREE AND DEMONSTRATORS: To campaigns. To show how you can support Palestinian rights, whether you’re a teacher, you’re a doctor, you work at a coffee shop, there are ways you can contribute to the BDS movement.
SPEAKER FOUR AND DEMONSTRATORS: Ahmed Rashid was a freedom fighter and he taught us how to fight. We’re gonna fight all day and night until we get it right. Which side are you on, Chuck Schumer, which side are you on, Gillibrand? Which side are you on, Chuck Schumer, which side are you on, Gillibrand?
SPEAKER FIVE: We’re here because we are enraged, and we are sad, and we are determined to stand with Palestinians, especially in this historic and very tragic week and six weeks of massacres of Gazans near the fence that the Israelis put up. The systematic sniping and killing of mostly unarmed protesters is unspeakable, and it’s also- frankly, I’m a political scientist and a student of international law.
It’s a violation of international law. As the entire boycott and siege on Gaza for the last eleven and more years has been a violation of international law. Gazans were protesting, in part, because of the anniversary of the Nakba, The Catastrophe, which was the years of 1947-49, when there were massive expulsions Palestinians from their ancestral homes and villages, seven hundred and fifty thousand Palestinians expelled.
Most of those living in Gaza are refugees from that time, or their descendants. Fifty percent of them are children, so, living in conditions where the water is absolutely undrinkable- so they’re being poisoned by the water in the ground. They’re being bombarded systematically and periodically, and so munitions are poisoning their environment. They are not allowed out of Gaza.
Gaza is strip of land with two million people compressed there. Many people often use the phrase, “it’s an open-air prison.” I actually think it’s more like a concentration camp. And the right to protest those conditions is absolutely a human right. So, to kill people who are peacefully- and very much unarmed- nonviolently protesting those conditions and also calling attention to the expulsion of Palestinians seventy years ago, and ongoing to this day, is a human right.
So, we’re from Jewish Voice for Peace. We stand with Palestinians, we stand with human rights, and we want the senators, who work in this building and supposedly represent us, to hear our voices and to speak out, as- just as humane, ethical people, if not in their politics. They’re more worried about getting reelected. They’re more worried- but they have to listen up, because the times are changing.
Not all Jews, and not even the majority of Jews, support these policies of the Israeli government. And even in New York City, we’re here to say, “We are Jews, we are New Yorkers, and we will not vote for you if you do not speak out against these atrocities.”.
BEN NORTON: Reporting for The Real News, I’m Ben Norton.
05/18/19 UN Human Rights Body Calls for International Inquiry on Jerusalem, West Bank and Gaza
SPEAKER ONE: We are here as Jewish New Yorkers. We are with organizations, Jewish Voice for Peace and Jews Say No. And we are here to say to our senators, Senator Gillibrand and Senator Schumer, that they have to condemn the killing of protesters in Gaza and they have to support the right of Palestinians to live in freedom and to go back to their homes. Palestinians in Gaza have been protesting for the past six weeks against this siege that lays on Gaza and demanding the right of return that they deserve.
And seventy percent of the population of Gaza are refugees or descendants of refugees. Israel has reacted to these demonstrations by killing and unarmed protesters. And we’re here to tell our senators that they must condemn these killings and must support the Palestinian right of return.
SPEAKER TWO AND DEMONSTRATORS: Palestinians have the right to live in freedom, the right to return home. We have been so inspired by the unbelievable organizing coming out of Gaza.
SPEAKER THREE AND DEMONSTRATORS: To campaigns. To show how you can support Palestinian rights, whether you’re a teacher, you’re a doctor, you work at a coffee shop, there are ways you can contribute to the BDS movement.
SPEAKER FOUR AND DEMONSTRATORS: Ahmed Rashid was a freedom fighter and he taught us how to fight. We’re gonna fight all day and night until we get it right. Which side are you on, Chuck Schumer, which side are you on, Gillibrand? Which side are you on, Chuck Schumer, which side are you on, Gillibrand?
SPEAKER FIVE: We’re here because we are enraged, and we are sad, and we are determined to stand with Palestinians, especially in this historic and very tragic week and six weeks of massacres of Gazans near the fence that the Israelis put up. The systematic sniping and killing of mostly unarmed protesters is unspeakable, and it’s also- frankly, I’m a political scientist and a student of international law.
It’s a violation of international law. As the entire boycott and siege on Gaza for the last eleven and more years has been a violation of international law. Gazans were protesting, in part, because of the anniversary of the Nakba, The Catastrophe, which was the years of 1947-49, when there were massive expulsions Palestinians from their ancestral homes and villages, seven hundred and fifty thousand Palestinians expelled.
Most of those living in Gaza are refugees from that time, or their descendants. Fifty percent of them are children, so, living in conditions where the water is absolutely undrinkable- so they’re being poisoned by the water in the ground. They’re being bombarded systematically and periodically, and so munitions are poisoning their environment. They are not allowed out of Gaza.
Gaza is strip of land with two million people compressed there. Many people often use the phrase, “it’s an open-air prison.” I actually think it’s more like a concentration camp. And the right to protest those conditions is absolutely a human right. So, to kill people who are peacefully- and very much unarmed- nonviolently protesting those conditions and also calling attention to the expulsion of Palestinians seventy years ago, and ongoing to this day, is a human right.
So, we’re from Jewish Voice for Peace. We stand with Palestinians, we stand with human rights, and we want the senators, who work in this building and supposedly represent us, to hear our voices and to speak out, as- just as humane, ethical people, if not in their politics. They’re more worried about getting reelected. They’re more worried- but they have to listen up, because the times are changing.
Not all Jews, and not even the majority of Jews, support these policies of the Israeli government. And even in New York City, we’re here to say, “We are Jews, we are New Yorkers, and we will not vote for you if you do not speak out against these atrocities.”.
BEN NORTON: Reporting for The Real News, I’m Ben Norton.
05/18/19 UN Human Rights Body Calls for International Inquiry on Jerusalem, West Bank and Gaza
11 apr 2018
Eight American Jews from the “If Not Now Movement” were arrested in front of US Senator Chuck Schumer’s office in Manhattan, on Monday.
The activists were chanting, “How many more Chuck?” referring to the number of Palestinian protesters killed at the Gaza Border.
The New York senator has not bothered to shake his head at the Israeli government’s reaction to protesters, let alone speak out against the violence. Though not surprising to Palestinian-Americans, American Jews are appalled at the senator’s silence.
After If Not Now, activists requested the senator’s office to release a statement condemning Israel’s use of live fire during the Gaza border protests, which have left more than 30 Palestinians dead and thousands wounded. Senator Schumer’s staff rebuked the protester’s request, sparking a blockade to his office on Monday.
The members of If Not Now gathered in front of Schumer’s office protesting his silence, standing in solidarity with Palestinian protesters and reciting the Qaddish, a Jewish prayer for the souls of the dead, the families that mourn, and the call for universal peace.
Last week, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont was quick to criticize the Israeli government, stating that he believed they “overreacted”. Sanders’ counterpart in Vermont, Senator Patrick Leahy, has also voiced his skepticism of the Israeli government’s motives.
An aid from his office stated that Israel’s actions in Gaza should be considered as a violation of the “Leahy Law,” a US law that prohibits aid to foreign military units that engage in human rights violations.
After statements made by Senator Sanders and Senator Leahy’s office, representatives Betty McCollum of Minnesota and Barbara Lee of California also tweeted their concern and called on the international community to do more to end the violence and resolve the conflict.
Even so, Senator Schumer has remained silent to what the US would consider a blatant violation of the first amendment which gives ensures the, “right of the people peaceably to assemble.”
In related news, the Israeli government recently barred Dublin Lord Mayor Mícheál Mac Donncha from entering Israel because of his support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.
According to Haaretz newspaper, the Israeli Strategic Affairs Ministry, the organization in charge of fighting delegitimization of Israel, said that the reason for the decision was was Donncha’s ties with the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign, which promotes boycotts of Israeli companies and international companies who work in Israel.
According to the ministry, the mayor promoted the IPSC’s ideas through the city council and publicly expressed support for them.
Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan said , “The policy I set is clear: He who works consistently to boycott Israel will not enter here.”
In January, Israel summoned the Irish ambassador in Israel for clarification and to express dissatisfaction in light of a proposed bill in Ireland’s national parliament calling for a boycott of Israeli settlements.
The activists were chanting, “How many more Chuck?” referring to the number of Palestinian protesters killed at the Gaza Border.
The New York senator has not bothered to shake his head at the Israeli government’s reaction to protesters, let alone speak out against the violence. Though not surprising to Palestinian-Americans, American Jews are appalled at the senator’s silence.
After If Not Now, activists requested the senator’s office to release a statement condemning Israel’s use of live fire during the Gaza border protests, which have left more than 30 Palestinians dead and thousands wounded. Senator Schumer’s staff rebuked the protester’s request, sparking a blockade to his office on Monday.
The members of If Not Now gathered in front of Schumer’s office protesting his silence, standing in solidarity with Palestinian protesters and reciting the Qaddish, a Jewish prayer for the souls of the dead, the families that mourn, and the call for universal peace.
Last week, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont was quick to criticize the Israeli government, stating that he believed they “overreacted”. Sanders’ counterpart in Vermont, Senator Patrick Leahy, has also voiced his skepticism of the Israeli government’s motives.
An aid from his office stated that Israel’s actions in Gaza should be considered as a violation of the “Leahy Law,” a US law that prohibits aid to foreign military units that engage in human rights violations.
After statements made by Senator Sanders and Senator Leahy’s office, representatives Betty McCollum of Minnesota and Barbara Lee of California also tweeted their concern and called on the international community to do more to end the violence and resolve the conflict.
Even so, Senator Schumer has remained silent to what the US would consider a blatant violation of the first amendment which gives ensures the, “right of the people peaceably to assemble.”
In related news, the Israeli government recently barred Dublin Lord Mayor Mícheál Mac Donncha from entering Israel because of his support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.
According to Haaretz newspaper, the Israeli Strategic Affairs Ministry, the organization in charge of fighting delegitimization of Israel, said that the reason for the decision was was Donncha’s ties with the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign, which promotes boycotts of Israeli companies and international companies who work in Israel.
According to the ministry, the mayor promoted the IPSC’s ideas through the city council and publicly expressed support for them.
Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan said , “The policy I set is clear: He who works consistently to boycott Israel will not enter here.”
In January, Israel summoned the Irish ambassador in Israel for clarification and to express dissatisfaction in light of a proposed bill in Ireland’s national parliament calling for a boycott of Israeli settlements.
4 feb 2018
When former Labour Mayor of London Ken Livingstone was asked by a BBC interviewer if what Hitler did was legal, his response included the historical facts about a deal between the Nazis and the German Zionist movement. Coming as it did at the height of the 2016 “Labour anti-Semitism” crisis concocted by the media, his comments caused outrage. He was suspended from the Labour Party, and remains so to this day.
Livingstone was referring to the 1933 Haavara agreement, between the German Zionist movement and the Nazi government. The agreement facilitated the emigration to Palestine of some Jews with their wealth in return for the World Zionist Movement calling off its boycott of Germany. The removal of Jews from Europe, of course, was a common aim of both Zionists and the Nazis.
In arguing that the Nazi expulsion of Jews from Germany was, in effect if not intention, supportive of Zionist aims, Livingstone was invoking uncontroversial historical fact. Nevertheless, right-wing Labour MP and Israel supporter John Mann stalked Livingstone with a Channel 4 News crew and slandered him as a “Nazi apologist” and a Holocaust denier in front of the cameras.
Livingstone has since been persona non grata in the Labour Party, with even former allies distancing themselves from him. He may be guilty of being a loudmouth and not knowing when to hold his peace, but he is not guilty of anti-Semitism.
It is worth comparing the fury of pro-Israel lobbyists and supporters over Ken Livingstone with their silence or active defence of Israel’s modern day alliance with fascists and neo-Nazis. It’s important to defend Livingstone’s right to talk about the historical facts relating to extreme right-Zionist collaboration, not least because an alliance with anti-Semites has been a crucial strategy of Zionist ideology ever since the late 19th century. It started with anti-Semitic Protestant Christian Zionists and later expanded to the Nazis.
Today, Israel is a key part of the global extreme-right alliance. Its greatest friend is the Trump administration, which has openly embraced the white supremacist “alt right” and staffed the White House with Nazi sympathisers. Even the leader of the Israeli Labour Party welcomed Trump’s ascension to the White House.
Most of the extreme-right groups in the world today are supporters of Israel, while the government of Israel is in cahoots with its right-wing counterparts in Poland and Hungary, which have encouraged Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism.
Despite Israel’s claim to be a bulwark against anti-Semites, the historical and current reality is that the Zionist regime has never cared about anti-Semitism globally. Or more accurately, it actually encourages and benefits from anti-Semitism. When there were anti-Jewish attacks in France, Netanyahu visited the country, claimed to be the Prime Minister of all Jews and called for French Jews to “come home” to Israel. The Jews in the synagogue where he was speaking responded by singing the French national anthem. Netanyahu, it seemed, apparently wanted the “Islamic State” fanatics responsible for the anti-Semitic attacks to succeed in their aims of ridding France of its Jewish citizens.
The Jews of Iraq, who mostly left in 1950, claim that attacks on their community were actually a plot by Israeli agents to drive them out of the country and head for Israel. Iraqi-born Israeli historian Avi Shlaim once recounted that, despite the fact that he’s yet to find evidence in the state archives for this, all of his Iraqi relatives believe that the bombings were carried out by Zionist agents, not Iraqi Arabs. Whoever was behind the bombing campaign, Israel certainly benefited from it.
The anti-Semitic tendency stretches all the way back to the origins of Zionism. As Theodor Herzl himself predicted, “The anti-Semites will become our most dependable friends, the anti-Semitic countries our allies.” He could have been talking about the situation today.
Moreover, Israeli moves extend this trend. As writer Natasha Roth put it in +972 Magazine recently, the Israeli government’s blacklist banning 20 activist and human rights groups which support BDS, the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, means that Israel has banned Jewish leftists, while welcoming Nazi groups.
“While Jews who support the boycott movement are now barred from visiting the country,” she wrote, “members of Nazi-allied organisations and anti-Semitic political parties continue to be allowed into Israel — including at the invitation of government officials.”
Sebastian Gorka is one example; a sworn member of a Hungarian fascist organisation which was allied with the Nazis during the war, and a former Trump advisor, he was a keynote speaker at an “anti-terror” conference in Israel last year. He is only one of many such right-wingers welcomed to the Zionist state.
These right-wing groups have not let go of their anti-Semitism, but are generally friendly towards Israel, because the existence of a “Jewish state” means that the Jews native to their own countries can be sent there, away from them.
The BDS movement, on the other hand, has made it clear that it is an anti-racist movement, opposed to all forms of bigotry, including anti-Semitism. That is why there are so many Jews in the movement, and why it continues to attract support, much to the chagrin of Israel and its right-wing support base.
- Asa Winstanley is an investigative journalist living in London who writes about Palestine and the Middle East. He writes a weekly column for the Middle East Monitor.
Livingstone was referring to the 1933 Haavara agreement, between the German Zionist movement and the Nazi government. The agreement facilitated the emigration to Palestine of some Jews with their wealth in return for the World Zionist Movement calling off its boycott of Germany. The removal of Jews from Europe, of course, was a common aim of both Zionists and the Nazis.
In arguing that the Nazi expulsion of Jews from Germany was, in effect if not intention, supportive of Zionist aims, Livingstone was invoking uncontroversial historical fact. Nevertheless, right-wing Labour MP and Israel supporter John Mann stalked Livingstone with a Channel 4 News crew and slandered him as a “Nazi apologist” and a Holocaust denier in front of the cameras.
Livingstone has since been persona non grata in the Labour Party, with even former allies distancing themselves from him. He may be guilty of being a loudmouth and not knowing when to hold his peace, but he is not guilty of anti-Semitism.
It is worth comparing the fury of pro-Israel lobbyists and supporters over Ken Livingstone with their silence or active defence of Israel’s modern day alliance with fascists and neo-Nazis. It’s important to defend Livingstone’s right to talk about the historical facts relating to extreme right-Zionist collaboration, not least because an alliance with anti-Semites has been a crucial strategy of Zionist ideology ever since the late 19th century. It started with anti-Semitic Protestant Christian Zionists and later expanded to the Nazis.
Today, Israel is a key part of the global extreme-right alliance. Its greatest friend is the Trump administration, which has openly embraced the white supremacist “alt right” and staffed the White House with Nazi sympathisers. Even the leader of the Israeli Labour Party welcomed Trump’s ascension to the White House.
Most of the extreme-right groups in the world today are supporters of Israel, while the government of Israel is in cahoots with its right-wing counterparts in Poland and Hungary, which have encouraged Holocaust denial and anti-Semitism.
Despite Israel’s claim to be a bulwark against anti-Semites, the historical and current reality is that the Zionist regime has never cared about anti-Semitism globally. Or more accurately, it actually encourages and benefits from anti-Semitism. When there were anti-Jewish attacks in France, Netanyahu visited the country, claimed to be the Prime Minister of all Jews and called for French Jews to “come home” to Israel. The Jews in the synagogue where he was speaking responded by singing the French national anthem. Netanyahu, it seemed, apparently wanted the “Islamic State” fanatics responsible for the anti-Semitic attacks to succeed in their aims of ridding France of its Jewish citizens.
The Jews of Iraq, who mostly left in 1950, claim that attacks on their community were actually a plot by Israeli agents to drive them out of the country and head for Israel. Iraqi-born Israeli historian Avi Shlaim once recounted that, despite the fact that he’s yet to find evidence in the state archives for this, all of his Iraqi relatives believe that the bombings were carried out by Zionist agents, not Iraqi Arabs. Whoever was behind the bombing campaign, Israel certainly benefited from it.
The anti-Semitic tendency stretches all the way back to the origins of Zionism. As Theodor Herzl himself predicted, “The anti-Semites will become our most dependable friends, the anti-Semitic countries our allies.” He could have been talking about the situation today.
Moreover, Israeli moves extend this trend. As writer Natasha Roth put it in +972 Magazine recently, the Israeli government’s blacklist banning 20 activist and human rights groups which support BDS, the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, means that Israel has banned Jewish leftists, while welcoming Nazi groups.
“While Jews who support the boycott movement are now barred from visiting the country,” she wrote, “members of Nazi-allied organisations and anti-Semitic political parties continue to be allowed into Israel — including at the invitation of government officials.”
Sebastian Gorka is one example; a sworn member of a Hungarian fascist organisation which was allied with the Nazis during the war, and a former Trump advisor, he was a keynote speaker at an “anti-terror” conference in Israel last year. He is only one of many such right-wingers welcomed to the Zionist state.
These right-wing groups have not let go of their anti-Semitism, but are generally friendly towards Israel, because the existence of a “Jewish state” means that the Jews native to their own countries can be sent there, away from them.
The BDS movement, on the other hand, has made it clear that it is an anti-racist movement, opposed to all forms of bigotry, including anti-Semitism. That is why there are so many Jews in the movement, and why it continues to attract support, much to the chagrin of Israel and its right-wing support base.
- Asa Winstanley is an investigative journalist living in London who writes about Palestine and the Middle East. He writes a weekly column for the Middle East Monitor.
7 jan 2018
The left-wing organization Jewish Voice for Peace has been placed on a BDS blacklist compiled by Israel, Haaretz Hebrew newspaper quoted the Israeli Strategic Affairs Ministry as saying.
The ministry has been compiling a list of 20 organizations whose members will not be allowed to enter Israel due to their support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS) against Israel.
According to the paper, the Israeli ministry has refused to name the other organizations that are on the list.
The list, which is expected to be compiled in March, will then be passed on to the Interior Ministry, which will be responsible for implementing it.
Jewish Voice For Peace Executive Director Rebecca Vilkomerson said that "Israel’s decision to specifically ban JVP leaders from entry is disconcerting but not surprising, given the consistent erosion of democratic norms as well as increasing fear of the BDS movement in Israel. JVP members are now joining Palestinians, Muslims from around the world, people of color and other activists who are often barred from entry."
The ministry has been compiling a list of 20 organizations whose members will not be allowed to enter Israel due to their support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS) against Israel.
According to the paper, the Israeli ministry has refused to name the other organizations that are on the list.
The list, which is expected to be compiled in March, will then be passed on to the Interior Ministry, which will be responsible for implementing it.
Jewish Voice For Peace Executive Director Rebecca Vilkomerson said that "Israel’s decision to specifically ban JVP leaders from entry is disconcerting but not surprising, given the consistent erosion of democratic norms as well as increasing fear of the BDS movement in Israel. JVP members are now joining Palestinians, Muslims from around the world, people of color and other activists who are often barred from entry."
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