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Charlottesville, Anti-Semitism, Israel, the BDS Movement, and the Jewish Voice for Peace

The video below comes from the Facebook site of Jewish Voice for Peace. 

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Judith Butler takes on Richard Spencer and white supremacist support for Israel while unraveling the dangerous mislabeling of BDS activism as antisemitic

"If the sign of antisemitism, the proof of antisemitism is a willingness to be critical of the State of Israel, then the historical and contemporary meaning of antisemitism has become highly reduced in the service of defending the State of Israel."

Judith Butler (UC Berkeley professor and JVP advisor)

The website of Jewish Voice for Peace is here.

The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement

(also known as BDS and the BDS Movement)

Charlottesville attack: What, where, and who?
Read about Israel's secret blacklists of BDS supporters here