Normally, when a national organization brings thousands of people to our city, it serves as a point of civic pride. However, the upcoming national membership meeting of the anti-Zionist organization Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) in Baltimore this weekend raises deep concerns for Maryland’s Jewish community.
Jewish Voice for Peace is an extremist group that manipulates the Jewish identity of some of its members to support terror, disrupt public life, and undermine the very essence of Jewish faith, identity and tradition.
JVP hides behind a façade of “peace,” but their own statements expose their support for violence. In the immediate aftermath of Hamas’ brutal Oct. 7 attacks on Israel — when over 1,200 people were murdered and 250 taken hostage — JVP’s George Washington University chapter declared, “our solidarity with Palestine must encompass any and all modes of resistance,” and the Columbia University chapter stated, “We stand in full solidarity with Palestinian resistance.”
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