Jewish Voice For Peace Says Kaddish Over Recent Lack Of Terrorists For Whom To Say Kaddish

“The IDF can’t be relied on to supply the requisite number of Palestinian corpses with any regularity, and that’s a tragedy.”

New York, June 22 – An activist group known for treating the deaths of even the most violent, heinous Palestinian militants as occasions worthy of Jewish expressions of grief shifted tacks this week, given that zero Palestinians have met their demise trying to kill Israelis since the end of May: the group now engages in those mourning rituals because they mourn the absence of dead Palestinian terrorists whose deaths otherwise give the group purpose.

Members of the anti-Israel organization Jewish Voice for Peace assembled yesterday in Central Park to recite the Kaddish prayer, this time with a twist: whereas normally the activists recite Kaddish as part of the mourning ritual for Palestinians who died while engaged in terrorism against Jews, the fact that no Palestinians have fallen in such a manner since late last month now serves as the impetus. Without dead terrorists, a spokesman explained, JVP cannot showcase its pro-terrorism, antisemitic credentials wrapped up in the mantle of Jewish ritual.

“Under normal circumstances we would be out there demonstrating solidarity with those who have no choice but to continue the attempted genocide the Arabs began in 1948,” observed organizer and JVP activist Benedict Kapowitz. “I mean, what other options does anyone have to a situation they find objectionable, except trying to eliminate Jewish sovereignty in the ancestral Jewish homeland, in favor of yet another corrupt, repressive Arab regime, and the slaughter of who knows how many Jews in the process? But now that June is mostly over and we haven’t seen a single fatal incident involving Palestinians and the IDF or Israeli police, or even those evil settlers, we’re concerned that people will forget about us as an organization, as a movement. We and our clones at If Not Now, who exist to manufacture the perception that we’re not all basically the same people pretending we represent significant numbers, have nothing to wield as a rhetorical cudgel unless Palestinians get themselves killed trying to kill Jews. The IDF can’t be relied on to supply the requisite number of Palestinian corpses with any regularity, and that’s a tragedy.”

The Mourner’s Kaddish represents a version of a mostly-Aramaic prayer proclaiming God’s exalted greatness, a statement that a mourner makes as a demonstration that he accepts that God’s ways lie beyond human comprehension, and that the end result will prove the goodness of those ways. Its period of recitation generally begins with the burial of the deceased, and continues at each of the thrice-daily prayer services for thirty days; for a parent, the mourner continues reciting Kaddish for eleven months. A participant in the Central Park recitation by JVP who declined to be identified by name disclosed her discomfort with the propriety under Jewish law of the event, given that no one had checked the as-a-Jewish status of the participants, calling into question the presence of the required quorum for Kaddish recitation.

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