Club Z Summit Discusses Shifting the Zionist Narrative
Brooke Goldstein, executive director of The Lawfare Project and founding partner of the grassroots organization End Jew Hatred, called for Zionist activists to change the narrative during Club Z’s virtual summit.
Club Z, which calls itself a “Zionism for Teens” organization, held a summit on January 24 called “#BreakFree Celebrating Zionism, Justice and Activism.” Goldstein, who was the keynote speaker, noted that the past year has seen “the rise of minority rights movements in the West and creating seismic shifts and changes with how the public views minorities,” citing the Black Lives Matter and LGBTQ+ movements as examples. However, “Jews and the Jewish community still have not mobilized themselves to achieve this type of effective change and the question is why.”
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Many Jews believe.
Dr. King’s protection and love of the Jewish people was shown through numerous speeches he made, including one at Harvard in 1967, where he remarked: “When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You’re talking antisemitism.”
The Zionist tenets encompassing Dr. King’s movement contradict one BLM platform, which labeled Israel an “apartheid state” and accused it of perpetrating a “genocide” against the Palestinian people. (This version was later retracted.)
In May, a BLM rally in an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Los Angeles resulted in the defacement of Jewish institutions and businesses, with participants yelling anti-Israel obscenities. While the violence was never called for by BLM, there was hardly any repudiation or rejection of it.