New Jersey Palestine solidarity organizations are calling on state legislators to reject new resolution to adopt the IHRA definition of antisemitism.
In response to Jonathan Greenblatt’s recent attack on the Palestinian rights movement, over 30 organizations declare “ADL: your lies will never silence the movement for Palestinian liberation!”
A progressive Jewish group calls on congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to stand by her support for Palestinian human rights. Under intense backlash, Ocasio-Cortez has “walked back” her stand, saying she had not used “the right words” in calling out Israeli occupation, and endorsing Israel’s “right to exist.”
On October 10, 2016, the Jerusalem Post published an article by anti-Palestinian propagandist Benjamin Weinthal under the screaming headline, “‘Antisemitic’ German teacher posed as a Jew to push anti-Israel agenda.” The designated target is Christoph Glanz, German activist, teacher, lifelong anti-fascist, and self-described former liberal Zionist. This is at least the seventh time in 2016 that Weinthal has falsely accused Glanz of anti-Semitism, and reflects a pattern of such smears by Weinthal against numerous other Palestinian rights advocates.
Jews for Palestinian right of return celebrate Movement for Black Lives: Your internationalism echoes Malcolm X, SNCC, the Black Panther Party, Muhammad Ali, and other freedom fighters of the 1960s who stood in solidarity with Palestine. It recalls Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s opposition to the Vietnam war