Left-wing Critics of Israel Launch Blog To Combat Alleged Intimidation

[Purveyor]

In the wake of an increasing flurry of attacks leveled against left-wing Jewish groups by their right-wing counterparts, one dovish group is fighting back.

Jewish Voice for Peace, a San Francisco-based organization, recently launched a blog to track what it describes as a growing epidemic of intimidation and harassment from fellow Jews seeking to stifle open debate over America’s policy on Israel. The inception of the daily blog, MuzzleWatch.com, comes as one influential centrist organization, the American Jewish Committee, is facing fierce criticism for publishing an essay charging that Jews on the left, with their vocal criticisms of Israel, are helping to breed a virulent new form of antisemitism.

“As we’ve become more effective and more visible, there’s definitely been an increase in the backlash,” said Cecilie Surasky, communications director of Jewish Voice for Peace, which in the last year has grown from a local Bay Area group into a national organization with five chapters in major cities, including Boston and Washington. “Groups aren’t fighting fair,” she said.

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Privately, left-wing Jewish activists say they have been the targets of acts designed to intimidate them. Tikun Olam, a liberal Jewish blog, reported that an anonymous e-mail message was sent last spring to Adam Horowitz, an employee of the American Friends Service Committee — which has strongly condemned Israeli policy — with the subject line “Why do you hate being a Jew, why are you in favor of murdering Jews?” According to the blog, Horowitz discovered that the e-mail had been sent by Allyson Rowen Taylor, who is the new associate director of Stand With Us, a pro-Israel advocacy organization active on California campuses. At the time that the message was sent, Taylor was an assistant regional director at the West Coast office of the AJCongress.

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http://www.forward.com/articles/left-wing-critics-of-israel-launch-blog-to-combat/

[Howardx]

1. interesting

thanks for posting

[Tom Joad]

2. Thanks for posting this.

[USA_1]

3. "Anti-Semite"

The term is used every day even against Jews who dare to oppose Zionism.

On other web sites I have indicated that my ancestry is Jewish and I oppose Zionism on biblical* as well as moral grounds.But this has not kept what appear to be paid critics from accusing me of hating my own blood! RIDICULOUS!



* http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/scriptures/index.cfm

(There are also numerous lines in the New Testament which also show that Zionism is totally against Abrahamic religions.)

[Lurking Dem]

4. .

(There are also numerous lines in the New Testament which also show that Zionism is totally against Abrahamic religions.)

I'd just like to point out that arguing against Zionism on the basis on the Christian Bible is a little.........weird.

[USA_1]

5. Not Really

Since the overall concept behind our religions and their mutuality is called Judeo-Christian tradition.

[Tom Joad]

6. I've read the New Testament, i really don't know where that comes from either.

It is weird.

[USA_1]

7. Galatians 3:26-29

The Promised Land was pledged to Abraham and his seed {that is, all 12 tribes, not one to the exclusion of all others} in the Old Testament. On that point, I believe, we all agree.

In the New Testament we are told that all who are "baptized into Christ Jesus ... {are} children of God by faith ... there is neither Greek {Gentile} or Jew {Israelite} ... if ye be Christ's then ye are heirs according to the Promise".

Interestingly, since Muslims are also Christian {Koran, Sura 5, Line 155 + 168} this means they, too, are heirs to the Promised Land.