Jewish Voice for Peace BDS Boot camp

A group shot from last week's Jewish Voice for Peace  sponsored BDS boot camp.

Jewish voice for Peace BDS Boot camp 2013

Attending were Sydney Levy, Dalit Baum,  Roya Naderi, Basil Farraj, Nashiha Alam, Areej Hamdan, Taher Herzallah, Gabriella Kaiyal-Smith, Sofie Ghitman, Amina Maameri, Yasmeen Hamdoun, Lauren Ballester,   Ramah Kudaimi, Jonathan Tollefson, Jennifer Bing, Danny Kaplan, Liza Behrendt, Moira Geary, Hoda Mitwally, Neal Spitzer Feldman,  Agatha Palma  Julia Wedgle, Danya Al-Zaytawy, Tory Smith, Zoe Zeno, Samantha Partenopea and Fadi Disouqui.

From the Times of Israel,  an article by Yitzhak Santis on the BDS boot camp:
Anti-Israel summer camp gets underway: Burgers, Boating and BDS:

The joint JVP-AFSC BDS Summer Institute is an implementation of the Durban strategy. It is a five day “intensive program for campus BDS organizers – those with campaigns already running and those hoping to get one launched in the 2013-2014 school year.” It is set to take place beginning July 28 at the bucolic Presbyterian Church’s Stony Point Center, in New York. JVP and AFSC also ran a BDS camp last summer. 

The camp offered Ramadan meal accommodations, but not kosher food. You can see why.  JVP isn't taking advantage of a split in the Jewish community- they are trying to create the illusion of a split when the realty is quite different.  The self-described “Jewish wing” of the Palestinian solidarity movement with its nebulous funding and decided non-Jewish participants provides a fig-leaf of cover to those seeking the destruction of Israel as the state of the Jewish people.

The article continues:

Speaking at Stanford in May 2013, JVP’s executive director said,

"I think part of our job as the Jewish wing of the [Palestinian solidarity] movement, is to facilitate conversations inside the Jewish community… So, I think it’s very important to think sort of how we plan a wedge. So, I think that the more and more we can sort of put that wedge in, saying the Jewish community’s not agreeing on these issues, the more we’ll make progress.”

 In plain words, JVP seeks to divide American Jews on behalf of Israel’s enemies. To this end, JVP projects itself as a legitimate “mainstream” Jewish organization so as to gain a seat at the Jewish communal table.

 There are often sharp differences at this communal table over how to arrive at a final peace settlement with the Palestinians. Nonetheless, the right of Israel to exist as a Jewish and democratic state within secure and recognized borders in the framework of a two-state solution is the wall-to-wall consensus in this broad communal tent .

Having failed to destroy Israel through endless wars and acts of unrelenting terror, BDS is the current tactic of choice. The final goal of BDS is not a just peace in the region, with the national aspirations of the Jewish people and the Palestinian people realized. The final goal of the BDS movement is the end of Israel, and JVP is a willing accomplice.