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Source: http://www.jewishjournal.com/david_suissa/article/the_new_defenders_20120125
The New Defenders of Israel
(Los Angeles Jewish Journal) David Suissa - Jarrod Jordan, an African-American activist from Atlanta, Ga., is neither a Christian evangelist nor a Jew. Yet his organization, Vanguard Leadership Group (VLG), is a vigorous defender of the Jewish state. Last year, for example, VLG took out full-page ads in campus newspapers to counter the accusation by Students for Justice in Palestine that Israel is an apartheid state. So, why did they do it? "We just wanted to protect the truth," Jordan told me last week. "Our group deals with plenty of other issues, but this one struck a nerve." In fact, the group was founded as an honor society to nurture future leaders in the black community. Jordan visited Israel a few years ago as part of an AIPAC trip.