An "anti-Zionist" hit list
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This got some media attention when it emerged a few weeks ago, but not as much as it deserved (or would have gotten had it been, say, the Proud Boys behind it):
A new website that claims to show the ties between various Massachusetts institutions and “support for the colonization of Palestine” has raised alarms over its dangerous targeting of the Jewish community.
The map, published earlier this month by anonymous supporters of the BDS movement, is being promoted by anti-Israel groups such as Boston BDS and the left-wing nonprofit Massachusetts Peace Action. It claims to illustrate organizations and institutions in Massachusetts that they say are responsible for harm against Palestinians.
Using a series of dots and lines in different colors, it not only connects pro-Israel groups but other Jewish institutions, including a high school, a center for people with disabilities, student groups, synagogues, newspapers, Jewish-run charities, and even a center for Jewish arts.
However, the graphic is not only limited to Jewish institutions, but also private corporations, politicians, police departments, finance groups, universities, and health care companies.
The Mapping Project has been denounced by elected officials and community leaders from across the political and denominational spectrum as antisemitic. The FBI has also announced that it is aware of the website and looking to identify additional information on it.
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Today many Jewish institutions have increasingly become targets and have invested heavily in increasing security and awareness. Synagogues have become fortified, and Jewish schools have armed protection. According to AJC’s State of Antisemitism in America 2020 report, 56% of Jewish institutions have increased security since the Tree of Life synagogue shooting.
Robert Leikind, Director of AJC New England, said that the Jewish community is feeling unsettled by this map.
“Whatever the intention of the people who wrote this. It is self-evident that the language can be interpreted in a variety of ways. Someone could see that as a license to carry out violence.”
“This brings home the idea that the world is becoming a more dangerous environment for Jews.”
Among the targets of the Mapping Project is the ACLU. Seriously. (No link because fuck these guys, but the website URL is in the image above. Along with my bookmarks bar. Yes, I still have an active Yahoo! email account.)
The ACLU's refusal to defend Palestinian activists, its failure to honor the Palestinian call to BDS, as well as its support for policing and surveillance (prettied up with liberal NGO window dressing) can be at least partially explained by where the ACLU gets its funding. In fiscal years 2018 and 2019 alone, Combined Jewish Philanthropies funneled $20,894,295 from its donors to the ACLU Foundation and the ACLU Foundation of Massachusetts. Combined Jewish Philanthropies (CJP) is a donor advised fund (DAF) which receives large donations from Zionist donors, which CJP funnels into countless organizations that promote Israel's colonial subjugation of Palestinians and theft of Palestinian land and resources (see entries on Combined Jewish Philanthropies, Klarman Family Foundation, Ruderman Family Foundation, Kraft Family Philanthropies, Joseph and Rae Gann Charitable Foundation, Krupp Family Foundation, Paul and Joanne Egerman Family Charitable Foundation, Susan and Barry Tatelman Foundation, and Jonathan and Jeannie Lavine). Similarly, in fiscal years 2019 and 2020 alone, Fidelity Charitable funneled $63,517,690 from its donors to the ACLU Foundation, as well as $2,880,788 to the ACLU Foundation of Massachusetts. Like CJP, Fidelity Charitable receives large donations from pro-Israel donors which Fidelity funnels into organizations that promote Israel's colonial subjugation of Palestinians and theft of Palestinian land and resources (see entries on Fidelity Charitable and Jonathan and Jeannie Lavine).
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Accordingly, while we in the public are kept in the dark as to who is behind the $20,894,295 the ACLU received from CJP in FY18-19 and the $63,517,690 the ACLU received from Fidelity Charitable in FY19-20, we can be sure that CJP and Fidelity Charitable made the ACLU fully aware of exactly where these funds came from. While many ACLU employees and interns have agitated for the organization to support Palestinian, Black, Brown, and Indigenous demands for radical change, the ACLU has not changed its fundamentally reformist, often directly harmful practices. Perhaps this is because the ACLU is beholden to the donations from multi-millionaires who support the status quo of Zionist colonization, policing, and other interlocking systems of oppression. In this way, the ACLU can be seen as controlled resistance that fails to reckon with the demands of grassroots organizers.
You can tell it’s an extreme-left project because the writing style makes me want to fall to my knees and beg the Lord for illiteracy. Time Cube is more readable.
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