{"id":185,"date":"2010-06-29T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/06\/jewish-group-joins-flotilla-efforts-to-break-israel-blockade-of-gaza.html"},"modified":"2010-06-29T11:45:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T11:45:00","slug":"jewish-group-joins-flotilla-efforts-to-break-israel-blockade-of-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/06\/jewish-group-joins-flotilla-efforts-to-break-israel-blockade-of-gaza.html","title":{"rendered":"Jewish Group Joins Flotilla Efforts to Break Israel Blockade of Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s been a month since Israel’s raid on the Gaza-bound aid flotilla killed nine Turkish activists <\/a>(including one with dual American citizenship), and this caught my eye: JTA reports <\/a>that a group of Jews from the United States, the United Kingdom and Germany — including at least one Holocaust survivor — are preparing to sail a “Jewish Boat to Gaza” sometime next month.<\/p>\n

The boat will include members of American Jews for Peace and Jews for Justice for Palestinians, a British organization<\/a>. <\/p>\n

I’m guessing they will be stopped peacefully and taken into Israeli custody, as have most other ships (including the “Rachel Corrie” earlier this month<\/a>) attempting to break the naval blockade of Gaza. What will make this more interesting is how the Jewish identity of these pro-Palestinian activists will play out in the media and blogosphere — “anti-Semitism” won’t fit so easily as a label here<\/a>, though there are other insults that get thrown around in situations like this <\/a>— and on the ground.<\/p>\n

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