#nothing worse than spending 2 hours writing and sourcing smthn

[gaphic]

Either you literally did not read this, or you are spreading malicious disinformation. I am going to be unbelievably generous and assume the former, even though 'JVP isn't Jewish' is some absolutely inexcusable race-traitor bullshit. The founders and advisory board are demonstrably Jewish.

Now, to your source.

First of all, the author works full-time sucking IDF cock. He shamelessly supports the murder of Palestinians and spreads pro-Israel disinformation. He is fucking evil.

Now I'll move through the the actual substance of this miserable shitstain's garbage paper, point by point.

Bernstein cites Wikipedia as 'a comprehensive history of Zionism,' but you can't click the link, you have to type out EVERY source url manually. This is middle school shit, but ok. I can't even copy-paste the text into this post to criticize it, for some reason.

The first two examples of JVP being Bad And Evil are anecdotes relayed to Bernstein by personal friends with no attempt at supporting documentation whatsoever. Immediately following is a link to the AMCHA Initiative's 'incidents' page, filtered for mentions of JVP. You may note that there are a total of 42 incidents listed. You may also note that, despite claiming to be neutral on Israel, AMCHA considers 'thinking about criticizing Israel' an 'antisemitic incident' (admittedly applying a more even hand than Bernstein, who calls them 'attacks')

This is cartoonishly malicious. And yes, they are all like this.

Despite describing AMCHA as a 'comprehensive' list, they don't seem to make any mention of the next example in Bernstein's paper, where JVP 'infiltrated' and 'attacked' a youth pride event in June 2017. How odd. Here is every single source Bernstein cites for this event. Now, most of these sort of give the impression that this was a pride event- it was not. It was members of a pride organization participating in the Celebrate Israel Parade, a nasty little event if ever there was one. Here are a couple of pictures of JVP's protest.

Yeah, queer Jews at the queer Jew parade saying 'no genocide in our name' is very homophobic /s.

Next Bernstein targets JVP's Twitter presence. He claims that JVP failing to delete a comment on their posts is equivalent to wholeheartedly endorsing that comment. Self-evidently absurd. He accuses them of endorsing blood libel because they shared art by @saraqaed which depicted (among many other things) IDF soldiers, surrounded by slaughtered Palestinians, cheerfully celebrating with glasses of 'wine' (appearing to be blood from the aforementioned slaughtered Palestinians). Iffy? Yeah. I can definitely see interpreting this as blood libel, but the artist is very specifically depicting IDF soldiers. Bernstein also claims that a picture of Uncle Sam throwing money at an IDF soldier with Palestinian blood on their hands is a 'greedy Jew' stereotype when it is fucking obviously not.

As I said, I cannot copy-paste from this document, but I absolutely had to include this passage verbatim:

JVP PSU's self-proclaimed 'anti-zionist propaganda' is appalling on many levels. The shirts and buttons are clearly meant to intimidate. The dismissal of Israel as a 'garbage country that's only loved by garbage people' echoes the Third Reich's mission to consign world Jewry to 'the ash heap of history.' The phrase 'It (Israel) was founded on ethnic cleansing, apartheid, and settler-colonialism' is a slanderous diatribe with no factual nor historical truth.'

Are You Fucking Kidding Me.

Here is the terrifying t-shirt, by the way.

Next Bernstein refers to a couple of tweets from @JVPlive criticizing the Israeli government for fabricating holidays designed to support the state. This is unfortunately something I don't know enough about to speak on confidently, but here is the thread. Regardless, I cannot conceive of an interpretation that would justify Bernstein's accusation of 'spreading lies and hatred of Jews.'

It is also objectively not Holocaust denialism, which he also claims.

The claims just keep getting bolder, because next Bernstein wants us to believe that the Mapping Project is not only tantamount to a Jewish civilian hitlist for terrorists, but also specifically encourages 'the stalking of children and disabled individuals.' "Does BDS Boston and JVP have precise knowledge of how every single individual at each of these Jewish spaces thinks about Gaza? No." Well, they don't claim to. The Mapping Project is about institutional support for the colonization of Palestine. The 'schools where children play' that Bernstein refers to are nowhere I can find.

Next he says that JVP is functionally equivalent to fucking Stormfront because they both posted this image, which he claims originated from Stormfront:

Left is the original image. Right is the crop our friend Arnie uses in his paper. Notice the difference?

He removed the source.

His final example of JVP's eeeevil antisemitic ways is to claim that using the phrase 'Jewish supremacy' ever in any context makes them David Duke.

There are no words to express my disdain for this man, this document, these arguments. You should be fucking ashamed of yourself.

if you live in the us and have literally 2 minutes to spare go fill out the form here -- it will give you a script and also prompt a phone call that will patch you through the the office of your district's representative. specify that you will not consider voting for them again, or for any elected officials, if they don't call for an immediate ceasefire and end to us funding of genocide. jewish voice for peace has a lot of other action items, most of which can be done from home if you aren't able to attend a protest.