(Religion News Service) Jeffrey Salkin - "The Mapping Project" locates Jewish institutions and individuals in the Boston area that anti-Israel activists believe to be responsible for Israeli "crimes" against the Palestinians. As the Boston Jewish Community Relations Council has noted, "the underlying messages are clear: Jews are responsible for the ills of our community." The project mentions the Synagogue Council of Massachusetts, the ADL, a Jewish high school, local philanthropists, an arts group, and even J Street - a left-leaning advocacy group. In its pernicious labeling and scapegoating of the Jews, and its imagined web of Jewish influence, it comes straight out of the playbook of any medieval Jew hater. The BDS people and their allies do not want a better State of Israel. They want no State of Israel. And how does the "Mapping Project" improve the life of one single Palestinian? The writer is the spiritual leader of Temple Solel in Hollywood, Fla.
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