• Director with Jewish Voices for Peace
• Writer for Z Magazine

Mitchell Plitnick is the Director of Administration and Policy of Jewish Voices for Peace (JVP), a group that has endorsed radical Islamic attacks on Israel and the United States.  He is involved with Z Magazine, an Internet publication whose guiding intellectual spirit is the anti-Israel, anti-American ideologue Noam Chomsky. In an effort to present himself as a credible expert in subjects concerning Jews and Israel, Plitnick states that he was "raised an Orthodox Jew… in a radically Zionist environment," and that he has studied Jewish and Israeli history "since [he] was a child."  In Plitnick's view, the anti-terror efforts of the Israeli Defense Force are no more respectable than the suicide bombings of Palestinian terrorists. Drawing a moral equivalence between the two, Plitnick says, "The [Israeli] occupation, for all its violence, its murder, its degradation and dispossession, cannot justify such an act [a reference to an August 2003 Jerusalem suicide bombing aboard a crowded bus], any more than such acts justify the suffering Israel inflicts on the Palestinians."