Jimmy Anthony Rothschild
Overview
Rothschild is a supporter of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
In 2021, Rothschild expressed solidarity with Yasmeen Mashayekh, a graduate student at the University of Southern California (USC) and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Senator who tweeted her desire to “kill every motherf**king Zionist.”
As of January 2022, Rothschild’s LinkedIn profile said he was a “Community Organizer” with IfNotNow (INN) who “Co-founded the Twin Cities branch of a national movement.”
As of January 2022, Rothschild was also affiliated with Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP).
As of March 2022, Rothschild worked as the “Community Organizer” for the Housing and Economic Justice team at the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs (JCUA).
Also, as of March 2022, Rothschild’s LinkedIn said he had been a “Healthcare IT Project Manager” and was a Consultant with Montefiore Health System from July 2017 to September 2018.
Rothschild’s LinkedIn also said that he graduated from Carleton College (Carleton) with a bachelor’s degree in Religion and Religious Studies in 2012, and that he was located in the Greater Chicago Area.
Hatred of Israel
Rothschild’s tweet was referring to the April 14, 2024, Iranian missile attack on Israel, which took place during Israel’s war against Hamas terrorists. At the time of the missile attack, it was still April 13, 2024, in the U.S.
On April 14, 2024, Iran fired “Over 350 ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, armed drones and rockets” toward Israel in an unprecedented attack. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and several international partners intercepted 99% of the projectiles. The IDF named the operation Iron Shield. The missile attack took place during Israel’s war against Hamas terrorists.
Iranian media claimed the attack was in retaliation for an alleged Israeli strike on an Iranian consular building in Damascus, Syria, earlier that month. The Damascus attack killed several members of designated terrorist organization Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), including a senior commander and a brigadier general.
On Saturday, October 7, 2023, approximately 2,900 heavily armed Hamas terrorists breached Israel’s border with Gaza. They executed numerous war crimes on civilians, including mass murder, beheadings of children, rape of men and women, torture, kidnappings and mutilation. Hamas broadcast videos of their butchery on social media, often to victims’ accounts for families to see. Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.” As of November 10, 2023, over 1,200 Israelis, the vast majority of them civilians, were murdered during the attacks. Hamas kidnapped 242 Israelis, including at least 30 children. At least 3,500 people were wounded, many severely.
In early July 2023, Israeli forces launched a two-day counterterrorism operation in the Jenin refugee camp. Its goal was to target terrorists and dismantle the terror infrastructure of organizations such as Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ). By the end of the operation, the Israeli army had reportedly dismantled “hundreds of explosives, weapons caches and underground tunnels.”
On July 4, 2023, Rothschild tweeted: “Love to see leading Dems [Democrats] just straight up doing Control+C Control+V from the AIPAC talking points memo.”
Rothschild’s tweet was in response to a tweet by United States House of Representatives member Josh Gottheimer that said: “Israel has every right to defend itself, especially as the PA [Palestinian Authority] loses control of Jenin, which has become a hub of Iranian-backed terrorist activity in the West Bank.”
On May 11, 2021, Rothschild tweeted: "The Nakba was an intentional, organized, mass ethnic cleansing event. That is genocide. And what we're seeing today in Sheikh Jarrah and elsewhere is a continuation of that same project of ethnic cleansing."
The term “Nakba” is generally translated as “catastrophe” in Arabic, referring to the outcome of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It is a term often used to delegitimize the creation of the State of Israel by defining it as a catastrophe.
Incitement surrounding Al-Aqsa and Sheikh Jarrah were leading factors in Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorists firing over 4,300 rockets from Gaza at Israeli population centers from May 10 to 21, 2021. In response to rocket attacks from Gaza, Israel launched “Operation Guardian of the Walls (OGW),” striking military targets in the terrorist-controlled enclave.
On July 11, 2018, Rothschild tweeted: “If you want people to stop calling you [Israel] an apartheid state, maybe stop doing apartheid s**t.”
On July 7, 2018, Rothschild tweeted: “Israel, like the US, was founded with aspirational ideals and genocidal goals...”
Endorsing Anti-Israel Agitators
On May 20, 2021, Rothschild tweeted in support of anti-Israel agitator Emily Wilder who was fired by the Associated Press (AP) from her position as a news associate for reportedly violating the company’s social media policy in 2021.On January 24, 2018, Rothschild posted to Facebook: “This is the coolest thing IfNotNow has ever done.#FreeAhed #FreeAhedTamimi #NoBirthdaysBehindBars.”
Anti-Israel Activism
On May 14, 2018, Rothschild updated his Facebook profile picture to a photo of himself in an INN graphic used to promote their #EmbassyofFreedom campaign opposing U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and relocate the U.S. Embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.In December 2017, the U.S. government announced its decision to formally recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and to relocate the U.S. embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
On June 5, 2017, Rothschild promotedan INN event on Facebook, writing: “Join us tomorrow as we share stories about what 50 years of Occupation in our name means to us…”
That same day, Rothschild shared a video to Facebook of INN activists in the Bay Area in California disrupting a Christian United for Israel (CUFI) Jerusalem Day celebration.
On June 7, 2017, INN Twin Cities, Minnesota, shared to Facebook a photo of Rothschild and other INN activists sitting outside the Jewish Federation of Greater St. Paul, opposing Israel’s “50th anniversary of ‘Jerusalem's reunification.’” INN Twin Cities wrote that they gathered to tell that reunification represents “brutal occupation, daily nightmare for those living under it, moral disaster for the Jewish institutions upholding it.”
On the same day, Rothschild posted photos to Facebook from the protest and wrote: “This action last night was one of the most refreshing, energizing demonstrations I've ever been to.”
On February 10, 2017, Rothschild wrote on Facebook: “I'm super excited to be working with... IfNotNow leaders from around the country to be putting together the first IfNotNow training in the Twin Cities!...”
Supporting BDS
On August 11, 2021, Rothschild tweeted: “Boycott any company that opens up a storefront in this new Israeli luxury mall built on stolen West Bank land.”On May 25, 2021, Rothschild tweeted: “Practice BDS by having your tfilin [tefillin] made at your local leather store.”
Tefillin, or phylacteries, is a pair of specially made black leather boxes traditionally worn by adult Jewish men during weekday morning prayers.
On April 13, 2021, Rothschild tweeted: “...We need to divest from Israel so we can invest in ourselves and our own.”
On January 28, 2019, Rothschild tweeted: “
Senate Bill 1 (SB1) titled, “Strengthening America's Security in the Middle East Act of 2019,” the U.S. Senate’s first bill introduced in the 116th Congress (2019-2020), was a combination of four bills, including the “Combating BDS Act of 2018,” which allows states to divest from entities boycotting Israel.
On June 4, 2017, Rothschild tweeted: “BDS can mean many things. For me, it is a way to pressure Israel into ending the Occupation, leaving a just Israel and a free Palestine.”
Solidarity with Yasmeen Mashayekh
In December 2021, Rothschild tweeted in support of Mashayekh who was [00:11:08] in the middle of a national controversy over anti-Semitism she spread on social media that year.In October 2021, Mashayekh was listed as the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Senator for USC’s Viterbi School of Engineering (Viterbi). In May 2021, she tweeted: “I want to f**king kill every motherf**king Zionist.” She also tweeted: “yel3an el yahood [curse the Jews]
.” Mashayekh has also spread violent hatred of Israeli Jews, called for the destruction of Israel and America, expressed support for Hamas and glorified terrorists.
Mashayekh was condemned after Canary Mission exposed her anti-Semitic tweets.
On December 15, 2021, Rothschild tweeted: “Major Zionist organizations are running harassment campaigns agaisnt a USC student because they don't like her tweets about Israel. She and her family are receiving death threats. But USC has only made that worse. How does that contribute to their "values and a safe environment"?”
IfNotNow (INN)
INN claims to be “young Jews angered by the overwhelmingly hawkish response of American Jewish institutions” to OPE. INN presents three demands on its website: “Stop the War on Gaza, End the Occupation, and Freedom and Dignity for All.”
INN defines “the Occupation as the military rule over Palestinians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza,” which is land Israel has controlled for nearly 50 years since the 1967 Six-Day War. However, INN leaders have made [00:34:32] the claim [00:13:49] at protests that the occupation is 70 years long, referring to Israel’s founding in 1948.
INN actions have aimed to demonize [00:38:13] Israel, harass [00:05:44] mainstream American Jewish organizations like the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and decrease support for Israel among American Jews.
INN has used “public action and imaginative ritual” to achieve its goals, including disruptions where activists were arrested.
One of the high-profile arrests occurred at a May 2018 disruption at a U.S. Senator’s office in Washington, D.C. to protest legislation against the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
At the same incident, INN used [00:07:17] the Jewish ritual of the Mourner’s Kaddish prayer to mourn [00:09:10] protesters who were killed during the Hamas-organized and funded Great March of Return riots on the Israel-Gaza border.
INN activists have also staged and promoted walk-offs from Birthright Israel trips, a heritage trip to Israel for young Jewish adults from across the world.
INN claims to take no position on the BDS movement and that it is “open to any who seek to shift the American Jewish public away from the status quo that upholds the Occupation.” However, INN organizes with pro-BDS, anti-Israel organizations including American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP).
JVP
JVP was founded in Berkeley, California in 1996, as an activist group with an emphasis on the “Jewish tradition” of peace, social justice and human rights. The organization is currently led by Rebecca Vilkomerson and its board members include Israel critics Naomi Klein, Judith Butler, Noam Chomsky and Tony Kushner.
JVP, which generally employs civil disobedience tactics to disrupt pro-Israel speakers and events, consists of American Jews and non-Jewish “allies” highly critical of Israeli policies. A staunch supporter of the BDS movement, JVP claims to aim its campaigns at companies that either support the Israeli military (Hewlett-Packard) or are active in the West Bank (SodaStream).
Although several Jewish groups critical of Israeli policies, like J Street and Partners for a Progressive Israel, make efforts to operate within the mainstream American Jewish community, JVP functions outside. The group is often criticized for serving as a tokenized Jewish voice for the pro-Palestinian camp and is widely regarded as the BDS movement’s “Jewish wing.”
JVP denies the notion of “Jewish peoplehood” and has even gone so far as to refer to its own Ashkenazi (Jews who spent the Diaspora in European countries) leadership as “white supremacy inside of JVP.”
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has accused JVP of being “the largest and most influential Jewish anti-Zionist group in the United States,” and said the group “exploits Jewish culture and rituals to reassure its own supporters that opposition to Israel not only does not contradict, but is actually consistent with, Jewish values.”
The ADL also claimed that “JVP consistently co-sponsors rallies to oppose Israeli military policy that are marked by signs and slogans comparing Israel to Nazi Germany, demonizing Jews and voicing support for groups like Hamas and Hezbollah.”
According to the ADL website, JVP “uses its Jewish identity to shield the anti-Israel movement from allegations of anti-Semitism and provide it with a greater degree of legitimacy and credibility.”
BDS
The Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement was founded by Omar Barghouti in 2005 to challenge “international support for Israeli apartheid and settler-colonialism.” BDS is an allegedly “Palestinian-led movement,” although leading BDS activists have admitted [00:01:01] this is not true.
One of the demands of BDS includes [point 3] what is generally known as the “right of return,” a demand discredited as a way to eliminate Israel. Barghouti said the “right of return” is a means to “end Israel’s existence as a Jewish state.”
Barghouti has said that BDS “aims to turn Israel into a pariah state, as South Africa once was.”
In his activism, Barghouti has also said [00:05:55] regarding Israel: “Definitely, most definitely, we oppose a Jewish state in any part of Palestine. No…rational Palestinian, not a sellout Palestinian, will ever accept a Jewish state in Palestine.”
The movement has been linked to numerous terrorist organizations and received a public endorsement from Hamas in 2017.
BDS initiatives include calling on institutions and individuals to divest from Israeli-affiliated companies, promoting academic and cultural boycotts of Israel, and organizing anti-Israel rallies, protests and campaigns.
The movement’s most notable achievement has been the infiltration of university campuses through lobbying for “BDS resolutions.” In these cases, student governments and student groups, backed by their own anti-Israel members and affiliates, have proposed resolutions on some form of boycott of, or divestment from, Israel and Israeli-affiliated entities.
Boycott resolutions, although non-binding, have been passed by student governments on numerous North American campuses.
BDS activity is often aggressive and disruptive. It has been noted that universities that pass BDS resolutions see a marked increase in anti-Semitic incidents on campus. On one campus, when the student government debated a BDS resolution, reports emerged of violent threats against those opposing it.
Social Media and Weblinks
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jimmy.rothschildTwitter: https://twitter.com/Pale_0ntologist
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-rothschild-56802071/
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/alsomuchcattle
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