Update June 8, 2023
David L Bernstein left the JCPA CEO position
in 2021. Starting the Jewish Institute for Liberal Values to distribute his book "Woke Antisemitism How Progressive Ideology Harms Jews" to bid for contracts with the JCPA and JCRC to hold Project Shema trainings continue the cooperation without an employment relationship. David L Bernstein used to work for the David Project founded by a Charles Jacobs. Charles Jacobs has since moved on to devote more of his time to the Jewish Leadership Project that shares a contact address in Watertown, MA
with Americans for Peace and Tolerance. Charles Jacobs' past in Jewish, actually more zionist than Jewish, community activism was described here in 2006. The Jewish Institute for Liberal Values, David L Bernstein's group, differs from the Jewish Leadership Project only in style and tone of language and a slower pace of change used for the same objective to keep 'legacy' or 'mainstream' American Jewish organizations supportive of zionism as the brand that Palestinian rights supporters correctly identify as the inequality, inequity, injustice and policies constituting the international human rights crime of apartheid committed by the nation-state of Israel. The JILV, despite its softer, more welcoming tone and style of language, coincident with Project Shema trainings, is equally radical to the JLP.
David L Bernstein the [former] CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs JCPA calls himself a 'classical liberal.' Ex-President George W Bush called himself a conservative.
Bush's advisers were called neoconservatives who were more liberal on some issues separate from law enforcement and military spending.
Both David L Bernstein and ex-president George W Bush admire Natan (Anatoly) Sharansky. David L Bernstein considered Natan (Anatoly) Sharansky to be his political hero.
Here is where GW Bush stated part of his political DNA included the views of Natan (Anatoly) Sharansky.
In a past post written here your humble blogger wrote of the delegitimization of the case for statehood for Palestinians while admitting the illegality of the occupation of the West Bank, Gaza, Golan Heights and East Jerusalem. As the prospects for a two state solution have diminished other alternatives like a one state solution have been discussed because the one state reality of Israeli military occupation is only sustainable with growing amounts of military spending. The post also noted the agreement between a former Republican president George W Bush and Natan (Anatoly) Sharansky. Bernstein is trying to worsen and retain support for the zionist side despite growing divisions in the Jewish community over zionism that showed in 2022 primary elections for the House of Representatives (Congress) in the same way that Project Shema Organizing and Development Director Eli Cohn-Postell's Brandeis University thesis topic "The Americanization of Zionism in the 21st Century"
will likely guide the work of Project Shema discussions about antisemitism and Israel in JCPA member JCRC spaces.
The 80% agreement between Republicans and Democrats that ex-President Reagan valued was cited in the Republican Jewish Coalition recommendation in the 2012 Republican Autopsy report reported in the April 4, 2013 Washington Jewish Week in the image posted below.
That 80% agreement between the Republican Jewish Coalition, the Jewish Democratic Council of America, the Republican Party and the Democratic Party is 'playing out' or being normalized in the continued attempts to maintain bipartisan support for unconditional military aid to Israel in the USA federal government as Israel continues moving further right in its parliamentary coalition governments since 2009. Palestinian individual rights and national self determination remain marginalized by the 80% agreement on unconditional military aid for Israel.
