JVP does not act in good faith. The Jewish-in-name-only JVP is not Jewish, nor is it peace-seeking; JVP is as opportunistically "Jew-ish" as
George Santos and as peaceful as the fiery Black Lives Matter protests.
"Deploying its 'Jewish' identity in attacking Israel is JVP's métier, one might say its purpose. The cutting edge of this work [...] is to deflect accusations of anti-Semitism..." Commentary contributor Joshua Muravchik explains in
a deep-dive on JVP's duplicitous nature. "Were it not for the strategic advantage of speaking 'as Jews,' it is likely that some of the self-described 'progressive and leftist' activists who constitute JVP's membership would have little interest in belonging to a Jewish organization." Indeed, some JVP's members are not Jews. Rather, it's a collection of radical-left ideologues "who realize that their lineage affords special leverage in attacking Israel," Muravchik puts it. "Nowhere does JVP evince any genuine interest in Judaism or in the well-being of the Jewish people or any reverence for the accouterments of Jewish life — holidays, prayers, ceremonial garments, Hebrew words — that it appropriates as props or adornments in its impassioned campaign for Palestinian vanquishment of Israel."
