Excellent Question. Should Jewish Voice for Peace Register as a Foreign Agent? - by Sean Savage

JVP’s Deadly Exchange program has close ties to the BDS National Council, a group that serves as the Palestinian arm of the BDS movement and helps coordinate international BDS efforts.

Sean Savage..
JNS.org..
04 March '19..

The BDS group Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) has launched several campaigns in recent years targeting the legitimacy of the Jewish state. Among them has been its Deadly Exchange program, which seeks to end police exchange programs between the United States and Israel.

A closer look at JVP’s Deadly Exchange program reveals the close ties between the campaign and the BDS National Council (BNC), a group that serves as the Palestinian arm of the BDS movement and helps coordinate international BDS efforts. The BNC operates the website Bdsmovement.net, which serves to educate and update readers on the BDS movement.

Two employees of the BNC have had ties with the advisory council for the Deadly Exchange campaign: Garik Ruiz, the North America advocacy adviser for the Palestinian BNC (Ruiz stopped working for the BNC in August 2018); and BNC founding member Omar Barghouti.

Given these international ties, there are those who have been asking whether JVP should register as a foreign agent under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA)?

“If you look at the facts of prior FARA prosecutions and how the law was applied to those facts, then the JVP Deadly Exchange campaign fits squarely within the scope of FARA,” Marc Greendorfer, founder of the Zachor Legal Institute, told JNS.

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