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“Anti-Israel marchers in the Celebrate Israel Parade,” By Ronn Torossian, NY Post March 8, 2015 |
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Members of the Jewish Foundation School of Staten Island march in the Israel Parade in June 2014. Photo: APStory continues below advertisementWhy are the organizers of this year’s Celebrate Israel Parade letting a vehemently anti-Israel group march along down Fifth Avenue?
Sunday, May 31, brings North America’s largest one-day celebration for Israel. Each year, tens of thousands celebrate the beauty of Israel — the land and her people — marching beneath blue-and-white banners to commemorate the modern-day miracle of the state of Israel and to pay homage to America’s closest ally in the Middle East.
Yet the parade organizers — the New York Jewish Community Relations Council and the UJA-Federation — refuse to prevent a demonstrably anti-Israel group, the New Israel Fund, from marching.
How demonstrably? Well the New Israel Fund funds the Boycott, Divest and Sanction movement — which aims to treat Israel as an international moral leper like apartheid-era South Africa.
NIF also funds efforts to bring Israel — and soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces — before UN war-crimes tribunals. And it sends hundreds of thousands of dollars to groups such as the Human Rights Defenders Fund, which calls Israelis “racist” and “murderous” and Israel a “temporary Jewish apartheid state.”
Bizarrely, the Jewish Community Relations Council claims that BDS supporters aren’t allowed in the parade: “JCRC-NY, for clarification purposes, added a new rule that all groups must oppose, not fund, nor advocate for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS) against Israel, which seeks to delegitimize the State of Israel by not recognizing it as a Jewish state.”
This isn’t an issue of right versus left, but one of right versus wrong.When I asked how NIF could march, the parade organizers essentially told me that the ban is only on pro-BDS signs. Sorry: The rules clearly say groups that fund the BDS movement can’t march.
And the NIF’s Web site and annual report show support for BDS. Indeed, the site proclaims that NIF will “not exclude support for organizations that discourage the purchase of goods or use of services from [West Bank] settlements.”
The Scarlett Johansson-SodaStream debacle centered on this exact issue. The actress came under BDS-led fire for representing the Israeli carbonated-beverage company SodaStream, which dared to employ Palestinians in a West Bank settlement. The BDSers got the anti-hunger group Oxfam, which she served as global ambassador, to complain; she responded by dropping Oxfam.
This bold action was widely applauded at the time — including by the JCRC, which posted on Facebook and Twitter, “Go Scarlett, go! Go Scarlett, go! Go Scarlett, go!”
Johansson’s actions speak volumes, and so too does shamefully allowing the NIF into the parade.
Just last month, top NIF officials signed a petition calling on European countries to boycott products from the settlements, to restrict the entry of settlers and to restrict academic cooperation with Israeli institutions.
So why does NIF get to march?
Well, some leaders of the JCRC and UJA are also donors to the New Israel Fund, including UJA President Alisa Doctoroff and JCRC board member Karen Adler.
Doctoroff, Adler and other NIF supporters have every right to their views, but their support for a group that boycotts Israel should have no place in a parade to support the Jewish state.
Follow Scarlett Johansson’s example, and choose your side.
NIF’s ill works go far beyond BDS. It spends nearly $27 million a year on openly anti-Israel activities.
Notes Knesset Deputy Speaker Yoni Chetboun, “The main goal of the NIF is to undermine the Israeli Army, by knowingly financing left-wing Israeli groups that try to get young Israeli soldiers prosecuted for war crimes.”
The Celebrate Israel Parade is a place for friends of Israel. It should reject extremists of all kinds. It’s simply unspeakable that New York’s mainstream Jewish advocates would lend credibility to the New Israel Fund.
This isn’t an issue of right versus left, but one of right versus wrong.
As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at last year’s American-Israeli Political Action Committee gathering, “Everyone should know what the letters B-D-S really stand for: bigotry, dishonesty and shame. And those who oppose BDS, like Scarlett Johansson, they should be applauded.”
Those who stand with the New Israel Fund are wrong — as are those who’d let it march in our city’s Celebrate Israel Parade.
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9 Comments
9 years ago
Ms Geller, Is there something we can do as a group to protest them being allowed in the parade…a petition perhaps?
9 years ago
Reply to
V.NICE
Petitions are worthless. Calls to leadership, cessation of donations – that’s what gets through to these cretins.
9 years ago
Reply to
pamelageller
The satan worshiping tsaranev family, exemplify the danger of “The Religion of Peace”.
9 years ago
Meanwhile, something is going very wrong at the BBC. Has Mossad put truth serum in their water supply? Why are they no longer publishing taqiyya about attacks on French Jews?
“….Today anti-Jewishness is back, but in a different guise. And many Jews feel betrayed by the slowness of the French response.
They feel that for more than a decade the source of most
anti-Jewish violence has been deliberately masked in order not to
antagonise French Muslims.
Instead of saying explicitly that the new anti-Semitism came
from elements in the Muslim community, it was more expedient for
politicians and journalists to lump it all together as part of a
historical phenomenon for which the whole of France could be held
responsible. So goes the argument…” http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-31707102
Whatever next? The truth about UKIP?
9 years ago
Reply to
Guest
The BBC is always quite willing to take a swing at their next door neighbor.
Perhaps the good thing from this apparent “truth telling” by the BBC, is that British citizens will self-consciously see their own country’s similarities, the way satirical literature will use a fictitious country’s name as a proxy for societal self-criticism.
9 years ago
What morons.
9 years ago
I am so appalled that these left wing wlitest multicultural PC american Jews, would act in such a horribly destructive way against the homeland of their own people! Israel is a miracle of the Middle East … Their hospitals are number one, they’ve turned a desert ( that the lazy oaffish palestians roamed around on and claimed as their own and did nothing with in fact starved on until israeli ingenuity made the deserts bloom) into an oasis!! it not only hurts the honor of AMERICANS that these slime ball kapos would openly aid the enemy But it’s extremely baffling why their hate is so deeply ingrained.. What do they have to bitch about?! These self serving narcissistic bitches?! These same trust fund babies would’ve been running the ghettos in WWII, ratting out hiding JEWS all to lick the boots of their master killers! To then be killed in the end themselves! Same thing here these disgraceful horrid kapo JEWS are working for the muslims who wand them DEAD! All of the JEWS, we’ll all of us who are not muslim..why divest from Israel?! They give their ENEMIES JOBS!!! What other nation besides america helps their enemies?! Truly?! But that’s not good enough for these vile traitors.. They really need to be worked over named shamed and publicized again again and again and driven from their high office!! Excellent work pamela on calling these obola accolytes out and shaming them although they don’t seemshamed enough yet… Keep up the pressure.. If we all send pam a bit if $$ she can turn up the heat.. Your my hero pamela! I’m not jewish but a catholic but I love the jewish people, israel and pray that they do not fall victim to the endless pressure to see them wiped off the face if the world! Shame! Shame! I think these women were actually spawn of Osama bin obama in that they feel no loyalty to their heritage but I fact hatred…
9 years ago
Where are there even more naïve, if not outright stupid parents; and equally out of touch Bubbies and Zaydies, neboch? Where are the real Rabbis? Not the President’s Annual Prayer Breakfast perzeindlochkeiten; who in Obama’s presence remind me of the Naturei Karta. Does anyone ask these Jewish kids what encourages them about supporting Israel, as opposed to denigrating it and themselves, by doing so? Are these girls’ families too busy to know what their politically brainwashed daughters are up to… for what, about $25,000.00 annually? These students can learn to be ignorant mouthpieces for Soros’ J Street et al. on any slimy corner; they don’t need to get dressed up, go to school and learn how to bake a challah to absorb that. Turn them into BDSers while they’re still young enough to have a long unfulfilling and non-supportive life, as a cynical member of Klal Yisroel. “Bewildering” is a word that hardly comes close to defining such a “shandeh”.
As far as the NIF (New Israel Fund) is concerned, the actual word NIFTAR, in Hebrew, means “deceased”. That’s the way I see it, anyway.
9 years ago
Any muslim country or any left wing group labelling Israel an apartheid state is the biggest joke of the 21st century, EVERY and it is an undeniable fact EVERY muslim country on earth is an APARTHEID country and all have total disregard for human rights and equality how dare this muslim Marxist alliance criticise anyone, one responsible for the murder of hundreds of millions for an evil religion, the other responsible for the murder of hundreds of millions for an evil ideology.
