In response to inquiries from some of our member agencies: JCRC is aware of the recent statement released by Jewish Voice for Peace on behalf of several largely fringe groups regarding BDS and anti-Semitism. We are further aware that Boston Workmen’s Circle, a member of the JCRC Council – and through its national body a member of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations – is a signatory to this statement.

JCRC’s bylaws provide that the programs, activities and practices of our member organizations must be compatible and do not conflict with the mission of JCRC. It is the long established view of the JCRC Council – our policy setting body representing our forty-three member organizations and the community at-large – that support for BDS is contrary to our mission of advocating for a safe, secure, Jewish and democratic state of Israel.  The Council can and does, through its standard committee processes, review actions of our members that may reflect that such a compatibility is lacking.