The Lebanese Army and UN Peacekeepers Provide Cover for Hizballah in Southern Lebanon
Thirteen years after the Second Lebanon War began.
July 9, 2019
Under the cover of a “Jewish” organization.
Beginning in 2017, Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP)—an anti-Israel group that is neither for peace nor especially Jewish in its membership—launched its “Deadly Exchange” campaign, which takes the fact that some American police departments have visited Israel to meet with law-enforcement agents there as evidence that Israelis are training U.S. police officers to commit unnecessary shootings and other abuses, especially against racial minorities. In reality, these visits, many of which are arranged by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), are used to study Israeli strategies for dealing with terrorism and mass-casualty situations. Miriam Elman describes JVP’s insidious logic:
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Login or SubscribeThirteen years after the Second Lebanon War began.
The more complicated Israel becomes, the less it is understood by American Jews.
Under the cover of a “Jewish” organization.
Nachman Blumental.
The first of its kind to be discovered.