Rabbi Dobrusin Hijacks Religious Freedom Day Panel Sensing a setup, twelve members and supporters of Jewish Witnesses for Peace and Friends attended a panel discussion on Religious Freedom Day. And while some of us, including this writer, anticipated that panelist Rabbi Rob Dobrusin would merely hint at our vigils in front of his synagogue, we […]

JWPF Welcomes New Year Jewish Witnesses for Peace and Friends welcomed in the new year by placing nine dedicated peace activists at our non-violent, silent vigils in front of Beth Israel Congregation, one of the local centers of nationalist support of the state of Israel. We note two other active street protest groups and hope […]

AAPER Rhymes with Vapor Vigil Supporter R writes that he planned to assist the American Association for Palestinian Equal Rights (AAPER) in setting up a chapter in his home state. This announcement set our WOLZA (Watch Out! Liberal Zionist Ahead) antennae a-quivering, and we sent R some literature from AAPER’s own website: specifically, that we […]

Jewish Onslaught in Seattle As we again borrow the title of Tony Martin’s book and his accurate portrayal of attack by the Jewish community of Boston, Massachusetts, our west coast ambassador turns our attention to a similar Jewish onslaught in Seattle, Washington. The Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign (SMAC) had contracted with the King County Metro […]

Access Denied Names have been changed to protect the decent, but here’s a short story of how one local faith-based organization self-capitulated to potential threats and demands. We asked Alfred, head of the social justice organization in his local church, to have his group host a panel of Vigilers. Alfred brought up our request at […]

Anti-Zionist Anna Baltzer Tabbed as National Organizer This week the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation (ETO) announced the hiring of Anna Baltzer as National Organizer. We feel that the addition of an anti-Zionist bodes well in shifting ETO in a new direction, since previously it has seemed that ETO toed a Left Zionist, […]

Jewish Federation Bans Peace Activists In a replay of the Maccabean civil war that gave rise to Hanukkah, David Shtulman, Executive Director of the local Jewish Federation, mustered up his inner thug to write: It is my position that no person who harasses the Jewish community through picketing with hateful signs outside a Jewish house […]