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| Jarrod Jordan. |
Jarrod Jordan, an African-American activist from Atlanta, Ga., is neither a Christian evangelist nor a Jew. He didn’t study Zionism growing up and has no relatives in Israel. And yet his organization, Vanguard Leadership Group (VLG), is a vigorous defender of the Jewish state. Last year, for example, VLG took out full-page ads in campus newspapers to counter the accusation that Israel is an apartheid state.
In October 2011, Jarrod Jordan, executive director of the Vanguard Leadership Group, said in an open letter to *Students for Justice in Palestine, the group behind Israel Apartheid Week, the VLG issued a scathing rebuttal:
"SJP's holding a conference about Israel and apartheid is like the Ku Klux Klan holding a conference at Morehouse College in Atlanta." “Playing the ‘apartheid card’ is a calculated attempt to conjure up images associated with the racist South African regimes of the 20th century. The strategy is as transparent as it is base. Beyond that, it is highly objectionable to those who know the truth about the Israelis’ record on human rights and how it so clearly contrasts with South Africa’s."
Jordan told me he’s planning to bring one of America’s most popular black radio DJ’s to Israel, and, eventually, to bring other prominent members of the African-American community there as well.
“Under apartheid, black South Africans could not vote and had no rights in a country in which they were the overwhelming majority of the population. SJP has chosen to manipulate rather than inform with this illegitimate analogy. Therefore, we request that you immediately stop referring to Israel as an apartheid society.”
*(As The Students for Justice in Palestine are no hold barred Islamofascist cheer leaders, there's fat chance of the SJP doing anything to stop their disinformation and rabid anti-Israel campaigning). My italics.
(Jarrod Jordan was interviewed by David Suissa : Article (C) David Suissa. Photo: Copyright Control).
