The meticulous editing of reality by the social-justice crowd

The activist arm of the Quaker denomination, the American Friends Service Committee, has a long history of fellow-traveling and taking up causes that don't exactly further the pacifism it claims to be motivated by.

Is it aware of this, and therefore really about some other agenda?  Perhaps so motivated by this other agenda that it is willing to spoil real peaceful cooperation, as well as the fostering of prosperity, between groups with a history of tense relations?  A current project of the group would indicate so.  Along with Jewish Voices for Peace, it held a Boycott, Divest, and Sanctions camp this summer.  But the aim was not to target Israel as a nation, doncha know:

There’s a very telling remark at the end of Philadelphia Jewish Exponent’s Philly-Based Quaker Group Criticized For BDS Camp:

Alexis Moore, an AFSC spokeswoman, said her group rejects “the idea that BDS is anti-Semitic. We are not targeting a country.” Instead, it is targeting specific companies like Israeli-owned Sodastream, that has its home fountain soda maker factory on the West Bank. “We see nothing anti-Semitic in the use of these non-violent tactics. Our work is rooted in human rights and equal justice for everyone.”

By mentioning SodaStream she gives away her game.

You see, SodaStream is a prime example of coexistence. Palestinian workers there make good salaries and have room for advancement. If there was a place in the Middle East that demonstrated “equal justice,” SodaStream would be an excellent example of that.

Willing to foul up economic opportunity for the group it claims to champion, all in the name of an abstract ideological principle.  That's the Freedom-Hater way!