Over the course of five months in 2021, JVP Philly engaged in a harassment campaign against Jeffrey Yass, a Philadelphia philanthropist.

The campaign began on May 21, 2021 when JVP Philly activists staged a sit-in at Yass’ business in Philadelphia. Protesters held banners outside the company’s office accusing Yass and his partner, Arthur Dantchik, of “funding genocide, apartheid and ethnic cleansing” in Israel.

Speakers, using a megaphone, accused Yass of “funding continued ethnic cleasing of the Palestinian people” and demanded that he stop supporting pro-Israel initiatives. Participants responded by banging on the table yelling “shame.”

In a Facebook live stream of the protest, Wise declared, “Last week we were at his office … this week we’re at his house because his employees, his staff, his colleagues, his neighbors, they know what he’s doing.”

She continued, “We must build outrage in everyone in his community until we get what we want.”

JVP Philly activists returned to Yass’ house on September 23, 2021 during the Jewish festival of Sukkot. They erected a mock sukkah (a tent-like structure) on Yass’ lawn and held large signs that read, “YASS FUNDS FASCISTS,” “YASS FUNDS ISRAELI APARTHEID,” “YASS CASH HARMS OUR PLANET” and “YASS CASH HARMS OUR SCHOOLS.”

At the protest, dubbed “#AllEyesOnYass,” Wise, equipped with a megaphone, said, “We are everywhere, we’re gonna keep coming back because Yass … hello, can you hear us, indicate if you can hear us, you are funding apartheid, and that is wrong and shameful.” She then led the crowd in yelling “boooo.”

Wise then addressed Yass’ neighbors, saying, “Hi neighbors, we’re here because Jeffrey Yass, your neighbor, is funding Israeli apartheid.”

JVP Philly activists also passed out flyers to Yass’ neighbors stating that Yass was financing “Israeli apartheid policies which cause great harm to Palestinians and any possibility of peace in the region.”

The flyer asked, “TIRED OF SEEING US HERE? TELL JEFF HIS CHOICES ARE NOT JUST HARMING THE WORLD, THEY’RE BUGGING HIS NEIGHBORS TOO. MAYBE THAT WILL MAKE HIM CHANGE HIS WAYS!”

JVP Philly’s whitewashing of terrorism is most apparent in their continued support of the violent Palestinian protest on Israel’s Gaza border that began in the spring of 2018.

Dubbed the “March of Return,” the terror group Hamas organized and funded a campaign of violent protests to spotlight their demand for the “right of return” to Israel.

During the protests, Palestinian protesters threw Molotov cocktails, shot firearms and sent scores of kites outfitted with explosives across the border to burn Israeli crops and homes. The kites alone caused millions of dollars in property damage.

When protesters tried to breach the border fence, Israeli Defense Forces responded with live fire after numerous warnings.

On May 14, 2018, Israel’s Independence Day, JVP Philly held a rally to condemn Israel’s response to the riots and protested the raising of the Israeli flag at Philadelphia’s City Hall.

During a live stream of the event on Facebook, a JVP activist said, “We’re here ‘cuz we think it’s a disgrace that our public officials are celebrating 70 years of occupation and apartheid and turning a blind eye to violence against unarmed protesters.”

The group then read the names of each March of Return protester who was killed. After each name, JVP activists chanted “... was a freedom fighter and he taught us how to fight.”

On May 16, 2018, two days after a particularly aggressive and violent protest, a senior Hamas official stated that 50 out of 62 protesters killed during a May 14 March of Return protest were Hamas operatives. Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), another terror group, claimed that three of its members were killed at the same protest.

Five days later, JVP Philly held another rally in support of the March of Return “freedom fighters.” At the event, a JVP Philly activist read from poetry by terror supporter Dareen Tatour and led the other JVP Philly protesters in chanting Tatour’s words, “Resist, my people, resist them; resist, my people, resist them.”

JVP’s national membership meeting website that year featured Odeh and referred to her as a “deeply respected Palestinian organizer” and “feminist leader,” claiming that accusations against her stemmed from “anti-Palestinian and anti-Muslim persecution.”

The website further declared, “Rasmea’s life is a story of Palestinian resilience: a story of persistence … building grassroots leadership …”

After the NMN, JVP Philly followed up with a Facebook post linking to the NMM sessions, writing, “We missed you so much! Check out Linda Sarsour, Rasmea Odeh, and more here--and hopefully we'll be together at 2019's NMM!”

In 2017, JVP concocted and launched a campaign called the “Deadly Exchange,” which blamed American Jewish organizations for police violence in the United States against black and brown communities, immigrants and activists.

JVP based this campaign on the false claim that mainstream Jewish organizations in the U. S. were bringing American police to Israel to learn “worst practices” and “racist policies.” Participants in the program testified that this accusation couldn’t be farther from the truth.

Anti-Israel organizations as well as white supremacists eagerly helped JVP disseminate this antisemitic lie.

JVP Philly joined the lie locally. On October 22, 2017, the group held a protest against the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a premier Jewish organization that has been dedicated to fighting antisemitism for over a century. The protest was held outside the International Association of Chiefs of Police Conference (IACP) in which ADL participated.

JVP Philly said they staged the protest “to demand that the ADL stop funding police exchange programs between the U.S. and Israel.” A Facebook event page advertising the protest alleged, “These exchanges exacerbate racist police violence, militarization, and surveillance both here and in Israel/Palestine...”

On November 8, 2017, JVP Philly held another protest against the ADL in connection with the “Deadly Exchange” campaign. Tweeting from the protest, the group wrote, “‘We're gonna rise up, rise up till it's gone!’”

The group continued rallying against the ADL, staging yet another protest at the ADL’s annual “Walk Against Hate” on June 3, 2018. As ADL representatives spoke at the event, JVP Philly activists stood in front of them holding a large banner that said, “ADL STOP THE HATE END POLICE XCHANGES W/ ISRAEL.”