“This organization, which brings together progressive Jews by the dozens to combat the sinister machinations of millions of Zionist settler colonialists, will call out such tokenism wherever it occurs.”
Berkeley, March 4 – Jews who oppose the manifestation of Jewish sovereignty in the ancient Jewish homeland, who represent a small percentage of Jews worldwide, but who hold a prominent place in public campaigns against Israel to lend Jewish legitimacy to anti-Israel efforts, lambasted the phenomenon of amplifying the small percentage of Muslims who support Israel, calling such amplification a dishonest representation of what Muslims believe and support.
A group of activists from If Not Now, Jewish Voice for Peace, and other movements touting their nominal Jewishness while denouncing support for the world’s only Jewish State, deemed the use of Muslim voices in pro-Israel rhetoric “tokenism,” in which the minority voice appears to carry the same weight as the much more numerous majority attitude among the demographic, and compared it to pro-slavery African-Americans or pro-Trump undocumented immigrants. Jews active in If Not Now, Jewish Voice for Peace, and other anti-Zionist movements represent no more than 5% of all Jews, according to demographic researchers.
“We condemn efforts to present the opinions of Zionist Muslims as anything more than tokenism,” declared G. Willigers, chapter head of Jewish Voice for Peace at several institutions of higher learning in the San Francisco Bay area. “It in no way reflects the opinions of the Muslim world at large, and we cannot allow Zionist propagandists to thus create the impression that support for Israel is in any way a legitimate Muslim position. This organization, which brings together progressive Jews by the dozens to combat the sinister machinations of millions of Zionist settler colonialists, will call out such tokenism wherever it occurs.”
If Not Now representative Mitt Bollel observed that such dishonest rhetorical tactics have characterized Zionist propaganda for decades. “They trot out such figures as Bedouin soldiers in the IDF, and point to the ones who have been decorated over the decades,” he sneered. “But those people are a tiny fraction of the country’s Muslims, let alone the Muslims of the region or the world. You can’t honestly claim that a position held by such a minuscule proportion of the population in question should be given the same attention, or even legitimacy, as the overwhelming majority.”
Bollel noted that while some detractors – probably bankrolled by the Israeli government, because no one would oppose them based on reason or principles alone – accuse his and similar organizations of serving as token Jews in a largely non-Jewish, even anti-Jewish, movement, the joke is on the detractors. “In fact most of us aren’t even Jewish, so that doesn’t apply.”
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