A friend notes I don’t fit well into either the Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) or the BDS (boycott-divestment-sanctions) boxes. So be it. For an anti- or non-Zionist Jew with an interest in Jewish identity (admittedly weak in my case), JVP is the place to be. Trouble is, anti-Zionism is impossible politics in the present, in the U.S. The same goes for BDS, with which I have no ethical issues. The associated attacks on random, innocent Israelis are troublesome, but after all, it is non-violent and look at what it is up against.
I ambivalate on JStreet. Are they playing the inside game to JVP's outside game? If so, I'm with them. Or have they been neutered by respectability politics? We need something spikier than a loyal opposition to AIPAC, which has become the Republican Party with a yarmulke.
I ambivalate on JStreet. Are they playing the inside game to JVP's outside game? If so, I'm with them. Or have they been neutered by respectability politics? We need something spikier than a loyal opposition to AIPAC, which has become the Republican Party with a yarmulke.