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Following an announcement that US Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib will participate in a panel on anti-Semitism alongside others previously accused of anti-Semitic or anti-Israel statements, the host of the Jewish Voice for Peace event is drawing criticism for the selection of speakers.
Honestly asking, how would you react to a panel with the headline “dismantle racism”, when most of the panelists are not POC, are not academics on the subject, and publicly display different levels of dog whistling / anti-Semitism?
– Ashager Araro (@AshagerAraro) November 21, 2020
In addition to concerns about previous statements made by participants, critics are concerned about the identity of the speakers, only one of whom is Jewish.
Do you want to know how to dismantle anti-Semitism? Start by not talking about Jews about what anti-Semitism is.– Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) November 21, 2020
Tlaib, a Palestinian-American politician who has faced accusations of anti-Semitism and is known as a fierce critic of Israel and a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement, was heavily criticized on social media after tweeting a statement on the Holocaust Remembrance Day. (Yom Hashoah) who did not mention the Jews.
– Congressman Rashida Tlaib (@RepRashida) April 21, 2020
Marc Lamont Hill, also a panelist, has been accused of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish statements when he called for “a free Palestine from the river to the sea” in 2018 and described the Jews of Mizrahi as a “category of identity” that had been separated “from identity. Palestine ”in 2019.
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if (window.location.pathname.indexOf (“647856”)! = -1) {console.log (“hedva connatix”); document.getElementsByClassName (“divConnatix”)[0].style.display = “none”;}Another panel participant, Peter Beinart, has said that he is willing to abandon the idea of a Jewish state, but says the new country could still be a “Jewish home.” Beinart also wrote a column titled “Debunking the Myth that Anti-Zionism is Anti-Semitic” in the guardian in 2019. Barbara Ransby, historian, writer, activist and fourth panelist endorsed the BDS movement in a column in colored lines. Jerusalem Post, JTA staff contributed to this report.
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