http://blogs.jta.org/ENTRY_PERMALINK_HERE/sf-federation-to-step-up-monitoring-of-grantees/ After months of deliberation, the San Francisco-based Jewish Community Federation has passed a resolution requiring it to take greater steps to make sure grantees are not endorsing or promoting anti-Semitism, actively seeking to proselytize Jews away from Judaism or undermining the legitimacy of Israel as a secure, independent, democratic Jewish state. en-us aeden@jta.org Copyright 2010 2010-02-23T;19:15:00-05:00 MichaelLevin11@mac.com Also see: “San Francisco Jewish Federation officially excommunicates large swath of Jewish population,” Cecilie Surasky, MuzzleWatch, 3/3/10. [Excerpt] “The San Francisco Bay Area’s Jewish Federation has made it official. Here in one of the most cosmopolitan, diversity-friendly and culture-loving places on earth, there is a new litmus test for Jewish identity and it has absolutely nothing to do with religious practice, cultural expression, personal history or the values you embrace. Membership in the Jewish community has been officially reduced to one and only one question- do you UNCONDITIONALLY love Israel? Do you love Israel so much that you are willing to stand by and do nothing as it destroys itself and everyone it controls by repeatedly violating international law, sending its youngest citizens to enforce the 43-year occupation of another people, imprisoning them, killing them with impunity, denying them the right to health and education and work and claiming it’s all in the name of security while taking more Palestinian land and water and trees each day. In other words, are you willing to love Israel to death? If the answer is YES, you’re in! If the answer is NO, and you have the chutzpah to embrace the principled, creative, peaceful methods of Martin Luther King, Cesar Chavez, and Gandhi as a way to pressure Israel to help provide true democracy for all Israelis and Palestinians, then you’re out!” http://www.muzzlewatch.com/2010/03/03/san-francisco-jewish-federation-officially-excommunicates-large-swath-of-jewish-population/ Also see: “San Francisco Jewish Federation officially excommunicates large swath of Jewish population,” Cecilie Surasky, MuzzleWatch, 3/3/10. [Excerpt] “The San Francisco Bay Area’s Jewish Federation has made it official. Here in one of the most cosmopolitan, diversity-friendly and culture-loving places on earth, there is a new litmus test for Jewish identity and it has absolutely nothing to do with religious practice, cultural expression, personal history or the values you embrace. Membership in the Jewish community has been officially reduced to one and only one question- do you UNCONDITIONALLY love Israel?
Do you love Israel so much that you are willing to stand by and do nothing as it destroys itself and everyone it controls by repeatedly violating international law, sending its youngest citizens to enforce the 43-year occupation of another people, imprisoning them, killing them with impunity, denying them the right to health and education and work and claiming it’s all in the name of security while taking more Palestinian land and water and trees each day. In other words, are you willing to love Israel to death? If the answer is YES, you’re in! If the answer is NO, and you have the chutzpah to embrace the principled, creative, peaceful methods of Martin Luther King, Cesar Chavez, and Gandhi as a way to pressure Israel to help provide true democracy for all Israelis and Palestinians, then you’re out!” http://www.muzzlewatch.com/2010/03/03/san-francisco-jewish-federation-officially-excommunicates-large-swath-of-jewish-population/

]]> 2011-02-25T;01:28:00-05:00 MichaelLevin11@mac.com Also see: “Attempt to ban dissent in the Bay Area Jewish community will likely have the opposite effect,” Cecilie Surasky, Mondoweiss, 11/16/09. [Excerpt} “You, Jewish leaders, have left us no choice. You started the BDS movement. Only you can stop it. Trying to ban free speech and free thought; trying to ignore Israel’s continued egregious violations of human rights and its march towards the right; trying to fight any and all forms of criticism and truth-telling only sends more people to the other side. When will you understand that? Instead, consider choosing to build a world in which both Palestinians and Israelis have the same rights and opportunities. That would be, without doubt, good for the Jews..” http://mondoweiss.net/2009/11/attempt-to-ban-dissent-in-the-bay-area-jewish-community-will-likely-have-the-opposite-effect.html // http://www.muzzlewatch.com/2009/11/16/san-francisco-jewish-federation-about-to-drive-more-people-into-the-arms-of-bds-boycotts-divestment-and-sanction-judith-butler-ronnie-gilbert-and-aurora-levins-morales-reply/ Also see: “Attempt to ban dissent in the Bay Area Jewish community will likely have the opposite effect,” Cecilie Surasky, Mondoweiss, 11/16/09. [Excerpt} “You, Jewish leaders, have left us no choice. You started the BDS movement. Only you can stop it. Trying to ban free speech and free thought; trying to ignore Israel’s continued egregious violations of human rights and its march towards the right; trying to fight any and all forms of criticism and truth-telling only sends more people to the other side. When will you understand that? Instead, consider choosing to build a world in which both Palestinians and Israelis have the same rights and opportunities. That would be, without doubt, good for the Jews..” http://mondoweiss.net/2009/11/attempt-to-ban-dissent-in-the-bay-area-jewish-community-will-likely-have-the-opposite-effect.html // http://www.muzzlewatch.com/2009/11/16/san-francisco-jewish-federation-about-to-drive-more-people-into-the-arms-of-bds-boycotts-divestment-and-sanction-judith-butler-ronnie-gilbert-and-aurora-levins-morales-reply/

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