Sign the Petition for an Open Jewish Voice for Peace!

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NOTE: Okay; this is not just funny. But it is. It's also very true and needs your support. 

While Elder of Ziyon beat me to this particular gag, I realized that the wholeOpen Hillel tactic provided me the means to accomplish something I’ve been tempted to do for a while: continue my anti-BDS work as a member of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP).

When I originally looked into what this might involve, I ran into the fact that JVP requires anyone joining their organization to sign a loyalty oath that commits them to supporting the organization’s pro-BDS agenda.  And since it would be dishonorable to sign up as a member with the specific intention of subverting their mission (even if such a move would reflect the true values of JVP), I decided to simply invest the $60 I would have spent on JVP membership dues into the sole proprietorship that is Divest This!.

But then the Open Hillel program, supported by Jewish Voice for Peace, demonstrated that an organization’s mission should in no way prevent those who oppose that mission from joining and doing whatever they like once inside the tent. So, in the spirit of openness, justice, fairness, inclusiveness, dialog and all kinds of other words with positive connotation, I present a humble petition in support of an Open JVP:

KEEP READING AND SIGN!

Jewish Voice for Peace Support Michigan BDS. On false premise and very sad, old, wrong rhetoric

NOTE: We've all been wrong from time to time. That's life! Live and learn! But just look at this article and the list of supportive folks. Makes you wonder if they actually read what is being written in their names. And if so, how could such people be so utterly wrong? They have eyes but they cannot see. (Ps 135). This won't be the last we hear from Michigan BDS or JVP. Once again we are left asking, "What is wrong with these people?"

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some quotes from the letter:

The Israeli occupation destroys Palestinian homes; depletes aquifers essential to family 
farming in a fragile ecosystem; seizes sleeping children from their beds in the middle of the 
night for throwing stones at armor-plated bulldozers that rip their centuries-old olive trees from 
their family orchards before their eyes; and has forced women in labor to give birth on the 
ground at checkpoints, even in winter, causing the deaths of women and infants, in arbitrary 
exercises of total power and control over a captive population.

The resolution that should be before the Assembly 
seeks equality and fairness and is neither racist nor discriminatory; it is a demand for an end to 
oppression. The target is not the “Jewish people,” but official misconduct by the State of Israel.