Let's examine how they crafted this statement:
As U.S.-based rabbis, we are watching the crisis unfold, grieving so many hundreds of lives lost. We decry the senseless killing of hundreds of Israelis by fighters from Gaza on Simhat Torah, a traditional, Jewish day of rejoicing. The killing of civilians is always a war crime. We grieve Palestinian lives lost, in these days, and in the previous 75 years, during the ongoing destruction of Palestinian land by the Israeli military and government. And this case is no different. We call for an immediate end to the violence.
They don't mention Hamas. They don't mention what, exactly, Hamas did to those civilians beyond merely "killing." And without even being able to have a single paragraph that says killing Jews is bad, they have to "all lives matter" the slaughter of Jews. To do that, they expand the universe of Israeli crimes to condemn 75 years of Israeli actions.
Why not mention over 100 years of Palestinian Arab attacks on Jews?
Because they want to minimize what Hamas did and then expand on the evil that Israeli Jews do.
The next three paragraphs condemn Israel, the Biden administration, and the American Jewish community for supporting Israel.They really want to distract you from Hamas terror outrages and war crimes!
But the letter circles back to mention antisemitism. And this is where JVP's immorality is incontrovertible:
We grieve the decades of killing and displacement of Palestinians. We grieve the centuries of antisemitism and violence against Jews that fuel many’s belief that perpetrating this kind of violence is the only way to secure our people’s safety.
So that's the problem with antisemitism - not that Islamists and Nazis and JVP's fellow socialist groups like the PFLP actually murder Jews because they are Jews, but because antisemitism provides an excuse for Jews to be violent towards their murderers!
The "Jewish Voice for Peace" is a pro-Hamas propaganda outlet that supports neither Jews nor peace.
