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In reply to the discussion: WTF are people protesting outside the DNC??? [View all]Celerity
(46,154 posts)81. Wikipedia is in error, as I showed. It's source article is incorrect. I even posted a much older
article from the same paper that shows that is was the 3 young women named at Cal Berkeley who started in 1996 at the uni. I provided other documentation as well. Chomsky is just one of many famous people on their advisory board. He certainly does not run it, it is not 'his group' as you have been incorrectly framing it.
Here is more on the founders showing that I am right (and this is from their own website):
https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/faq/
https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/faq/
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Here is their 2015 advisory board list:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150905134531/https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/people/
Udi Aloni
Filmmaker, writer, and visual artist, Freedom Theater of the Jenin refugee camp
Ed Asner
Actor and Emmy award winner
Rabbi Buzz Bogage
Director of Jewish Life, Depauw University
Daniel Boyarin
Professor of Talmudic Studies, UC Berkeley
Judith Butler
Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley
Debra Chasnoff
Academy Award winning documentary maker
Sami Chetrit
Film producer, poet, professor of Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley
Noam Chomsky
Linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, political activist, author and lecturer
Rami Elhanan
Member of Israeli-Palestinian Parents Forum; lost daughter to a suicide bombing
Eve Ensler
Obie Award winning playwright, performer, and feminist activist
Ronnie Gilbert
Actress, singer, former member of the Weavers
Goapele
Musician & performer
Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb
Co-founder of Shomer Shalom Network for Jewish Nonviolence and The Community of Living Traditions at Stony Point
Adam Hochschild
Author and journalist
Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz
Author, scholar, founding director of Jews for Racial & Economic Justice
Naomi Klein
Journalist, syndicated columnist, author and activist
Tony Kushner
Playwright, Pulitzer Prize winner
George Lakoff
Professor of cognitive linguistics, UC Berkeley
Aurora Levins-Morales
Poet, essayist, historian
Rela Mazali
Writer and Co-founder of Israels New Profile
Robert Meeropol
Younger son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, founder and Executive Director of Rosenberg Fund for Children
Michael Ratner
Academic, activist, attorney, author and President of the Center for Constitutional Rights
Adrienne Rich ז״ל
Poet and writer, Winner National Book Award
Sarah Schulman
Writer, playwright and historian. Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at the City University of New York
Wallace Shawn
Actor and playwright
Michael Shimkin
Microcredit, community organizing and development activist. Founder, the Shimkin Foundation.
Avi Shlaim
Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford
Rabbi Laurie Zimmerman
Congregation Shaarei Shamayim in Madison, Wisconsin
Howard Zinn ז״ל
Author and historian
https://web.archive.org/web/20150905134531/https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/people/
Udi Aloni
Filmmaker, writer, and visual artist, Freedom Theater of the Jenin refugee camp
Ed Asner
Actor and Emmy award winner
Rabbi Buzz Bogage
Director of Jewish Life, Depauw University
Daniel Boyarin
Professor of Talmudic Studies, UC Berkeley
Judith Butler
Maxine Elliot Professor of Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley
Debra Chasnoff
Academy Award winning documentary maker
Sami Chetrit
Film producer, poet, professor of Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley
Noam Chomsky
Linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, political activist, author and lecturer
Rami Elhanan
Member of Israeli-Palestinian Parents Forum; lost daughter to a suicide bombing
Eve Ensler
Obie Award winning playwright, performer, and feminist activist
Ronnie Gilbert
Actress, singer, former member of the Weavers
Goapele
Musician & performer
Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb
Co-founder of Shomer Shalom Network for Jewish Nonviolence and The Community of Living Traditions at Stony Point
Adam Hochschild
Author and journalist
Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz
Author, scholar, founding director of Jews for Racial & Economic Justice
Naomi Klein
Journalist, syndicated columnist, author and activist
Tony Kushner
Playwright, Pulitzer Prize winner
George Lakoff
Professor of cognitive linguistics, UC Berkeley
Aurora Levins-Morales
Poet, essayist, historian
Rela Mazali
Writer and Co-founder of Israels New Profile
Robert Meeropol
Younger son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, founder and Executive Director of Rosenberg Fund for Children
Michael Ratner
Academic, activist, attorney, author and President of the Center for Constitutional Rights
Adrienne Rich ז״ל
Poet and writer, Winner National Book Award
Sarah Schulman
Writer, playwright and historian. Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at the City University of New York
Wallace Shawn
Actor and playwright
Michael Shimkin
Microcredit, community organizing and development activist. Founder, the Shimkin Foundation.
Avi Shlaim
Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford
Rabbi Laurie Zimmerman
Congregation Shaarei Shamayim in Madison, Wisconsin
Howard Zinn ז״ל
Author and historian
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The effect of your posts, for all practical purposes, is to have wave away the violence as someone else's doing.
Jedi Guy
Nov 2023
#111
Unless I'm misunderstanding what you're saying, which is entirely possible...
Jedi Guy
Nov 2023
#115
Sherman has been problematic with his constant equating of all protests against mass slaughter of civilians with being
Celerity
Nov 2023
#49
How, then, would you describe the chanting of " from the river to the sea?"
question everything
Nov 2023
#52
They sure are. They may not have started out that way, but this is what they have evolved into:
JohnSJ
Nov 2023
#103
the Daily Mail (we call it the Daily Heil in the UK) is a RW accelerationist, anti-left hype-hype shit rag
Celerity
Nov 2023
#42
O geez during Vietnam, we had people bombing universities in the name of peace
LeftInTX
Nov 2023
#76
I don't automatically think it's pro Hamas but this ceasefire would be one sided. Hamas would not abide.
GuppyGal
Nov 2023
#95
Chomsky was not the founder. Jewish Voice for Peace was founded by Julia Caplan, Julie Iny, and Rachel Eisner in 1996 in
Celerity
Nov 2023
#63
Wikipedia is in error, as I showed. It's source article is incorrect. I even posted a much older
Celerity
Nov 2023
#81
Because they like to be thorns in people's sides. Now they can try to get Democrats to support their "martyrdom"
LeftInTX
Nov 2023
#44
🚨NEW: A large group of violent anti-Israel protestors have stormed the headquarters of the DNC tonight, demanding "Ceas
riversedge
Nov 2023
#31
Probably believe Democrats can put pressure on President Biden to convince Israel to call a cease fire
MichMan
Nov 2023
#43
Congress and state legislatures need to codify in law what lawful protest is,...
Mark.b2
Nov 2023
#65