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Jewish pro-Palestinian groups claim Israel advocates stifle free speech
CRITICS OF ISRAEL are being silenced on campus, the Jewish Voice for Peace, a Jewish pro-Palestinian group, contends in a newly released report.
The report, "Stilling Dissent," issued Sept. 30, asserts that Israel advocates are using "false charges" ot anti-Semitism to silence critics of Israels policies, Palestine Legal and the Center for Constitutional-Rights issued a similar work on the same day, "The Palestine Exception to Free Speech: A Movement Under Attack in the US,"
The 69-page JVP report argues that Jewish communal organizations arc seeking to "muzzle political criticism" of Israeli policies and threatening "constitutionally protected speech and academic freedom." JVP accuses groups such as SlandWithUs and the Zionist Organization ot America - which JVP describes as "far-right political organizations' - of filing fal.se complaints with the federal gov ern menc that claim campuses are hostile for Jewish students, pressure university administrators into canceling pro-Palestinian speakers and engage in "blacklisting professors."
In a conference call...