ALGEMEINER
When the Jewish Left Had Integrity
by Mitchell Bard
October 19, 2017
…After Ferguson, we saw that students supporting BLM [Black Lives Matter] had begun to incorporate the anti-Israel propaganda spewed by groups such as JVP [Jewish Voice for Peace] and Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) into their protests. I initially thought that Israel might have a bit of a honeymoon on campus this year, because students would be focusing their ire on Donald Trump, but instead, the Israel-haters are seeking to glom onto these protests. At Tufts University, for example, left-wing students disseminated a “Disorientation Guide” that attacked Hillel for supporting “a white supremacist state.” Hillel was also accused of exploiting “black voices for their own pro-Israel agenda” because, three years earlier, the parents of Trayvon Martin, the black teenager shot in Florida, were invited to speak about gun violence. READ MORE