these can have them as long as they have an occupation and a system of apartheid now look at jewish voice for peace is a jewish based organization that's increased its membership by something like five thousand in the past year since it really made its call for b.d.s. more open and that really tells you where younger american jews are going they're going away from the right wing israeli government and the right wing israeli government is in a state of panic i mean there are these reports that have been issued by government linked think tanks like there are a huge institute which call for actually applying a price tag to b.d.s. and targeting activists with surveyor. measures and black operations and that so this is part and parcel of that it's designed to intimidate american jews who might think of joining jewish voice for peace but who also want to enter israel palestine and i think they need to understand that this can't be fully enforced and that they shouldn't be intimidated one less the question also too is how do you implement this i mean i can't imagine that a policy like this is easy to impl

based organization jewish voice for peace which has been very vocal recently against president trumps moved to declare jerusalem as israel's capital as well as the wide scale deportation of african jews and the organization has long supported b.d.'s. we exist we are everywhere we speak and love and dream and everything we will not be won over by free vacation and scholarship money we will not accept a legacy that we will not quietly witness the violation of human rights in palestine we are better than we have ancestors to honor we have allies to honor we have ourselves to honor we commit ourselves to peace we will stand up with honest bodies to offer honest bread we commit to re invasion in the homeland to make room for justice we will stand up now israel's strategic affairs ministry which is responsible for implementing this list had for months refused to divulge which organizations were going to be blacklisted well earlier on sunday interior minister already a kerry said that quote these people are trying to exploit the law and our hospitality to act against israel and to defame the

among the groups whose members will be banned from entering israel are jewish voice for peace, national students for justice in palestine, american friends service committee, american muslims for palestine, codepink, and the u.s. campaign for palestinian rights, as well as palestinian solidarity groups in france, italy, norway, sweden, britain, chile, and south africa. in response, the director of the u.s. campaign for palestinian rights, yousef munayyer, said -- "when israel, which aims to portray itself to the world as liberal and democratic, blacklists activists dedicated to nonviolent organizing and dissent, it only further exposes itself as s a fraud." meanwhile, multiple news outlets are reporting that the trump administration has frozen $125 million in funding for the u.n. agency that provides humanitarian aid to palestinians. the united nations relief and work agency provides critical educational and health services in the gaza strip. last week, president trump threateneded to cut off u.s. funding to the agency, tweeting -- "with the palestinians no longer willing to talk peace