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January 28, 2019

To Preserve the American Jewish Big Tent, Exclusion Is Sometimes Necessary

Say “no” to radical anti-Zionists.

Recently the Boston chapter of the Workmen’s Circle, a venerable left-wing American Jewish organization primarily dedicated to the preservation of Yiddish culture, signed a petition sponsored by the virulently anti-Israel Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) in support of boycotts of the Jewish state. In response, the Boston Jewish Community Relations Council—a nondenominational umbrella group—has begun the process of expelling the Workmen’s Circle. Jonathan Tobin defends this decision:

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