EXTREMIST ANTI-ISRAEL GROUPS TO MARCH
ON JUNE 3, IN THE “ISRAEL DAY PARADE”
UJA-FEDERATION IS PERMITTING ORGANIZATIONS THAT PROMOTE BOYCOTTS, DIVESTMENT AND SANCTIONS AGAINST ISRAEL TO PARTICIPATE
A coalition of community Jewish organizations urgently calls on all friends of Israel to make their voices heard. The UJA-Federation and Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) have granted permission to extremist anti-Israel organizations to march in the Celebrate Israel Parade on June 3rd in New York. These groups encourage Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel, seeking to delegitimize and economically weaken the Jewish State.
We call on all supporters of Israel to contact the UJA-Federation and JCRC and ask them to reverse their misguided decision.
THESE ARE THE FACTS:
- Last year, the New Israel Fund (NIF) was allowed tomarch in the parade . Other groups marched with the New Israel Fund, displaying their individual banners, including B’Tselem, Partners for Progressive Israel and Rabbis for Human Rights.
- This year, New Israel fund is slated to march again, and we expect B’Tselem and the other groups will once again join NIF, displaying their banners.
- New Israel Fund finances numerous Israeli NGOs (non-governmental organizations), some of which promote Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel.
- For instance, five grantees of the New Israel fund (Machsom Watch , Coalition of Women for Peace, Women Against Violence, Social TV, and Mossawa) signed a letter to the Norwegian Government Pension Fund, urging it to divest from Israel.
- Partners for Progressive Israel (also known as Meretz USA) prominently displays on its website, under the heading “boycott these Settlement products sold in the US,” a list of Israeli products that it wants Jews to boycott. These products include Ahava cosmetics, SodaStream products, and wine from nine Israeli vineyards.
- The chair of B’Tselem’s board, Oren Yiftachel , has publicly called for “effective sanctions” against Israel. B’Tselem is a major grantee of the New Israel Fund.
- B’Tselem produced the Video that was shown at the infamous “Israel Apartheid 2012” events held at Universities and Colleges worldwide.
- Despite New Israel Funds stated opposition to Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS), their continued funding of these groups shows their actions are not in line with their statements.
ACT NOW!
We urge everyone to raise your voices and call the UJA-Federation and the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC). Urge them to stop these groups from marching in the Israel Day Parade and hijacking a pro-Israel event for their anti-Israel purposes. While the JCRC runs the Parade, the UJA-Federation has effective control over the JCRC, as they appoint Board members as a right and contribute the major portion of JCRC funding.
Richard Allen, a member of the Committee for a Pro-Israel Parade and founder of JCCWatch.org stated: “It is not surprising that the UJA-Federation is pushing these bash Israel groups to march in the June 3, 2012 Israel Parade. Published reports show that the UJA-Federation’s Chief Executive Officer, John Ruskay, worked with Noam Chomsky in one of the first political bash Israel groups; CONAME (Committee On New Alternatives in The Middle East). The reports stated the group CONAME specialized in attacking Israel. John Ruskay also gave over 1 million ($1,000,000) of UJA-Federation Jewish Charity Dollars to the political George Soros funded group, Jewish Funds for Justice. The community must make its voice heard by calling and writing The UJA-Federation and demand that Jewish community charity funds not be used for these divisive purposes.”
PUBLIC CAMPAIGN – CALL OR WRITE TODAY
Tell John Ruskay and Jerry Levin of the UJA-Federation of New York:
NOT ONE DIME to Legitimize the De-Legitimizers of Israel!
STOP groups that work to Delegitimize Israel from Hijacking the Israel Parade!
Call and write the Board of the UJA-Federation of New York.
Tell the UJA Federation you do NOT want your Jewish Charity Dollars Going to Support John Ruskay’s Political Agenda. Call: 212-980-1000.
Email the UJA-Federation CEO John Ruskay: ruskayJ@ujafedny.org
Email the UJA-Federation Board: President Jerry W. Levin:jwlevin@jwlevinpartners.com
Email the Jewish Community Relations Council board: Rabbi Michael Miller, millerm@jcrcny.org or call 212-983-4084.
Committee for a Pro-Israel Parade
(Committee in formation)
Richard Allen
Founder of JCCWatch.org
Rabbi Steven Axelman
Whitestone Hebrew Centre
Helen Freedman
Executive Director, Americans for a Safe Israel
Beth Gilinsky
Executive Director, National Conference on Jewish Affairs
Eli E. Hertz
Founder “Myths and Facts”
Rabbi Eluzer (Eli) Kowalsky
Pro-Israel Activist
Lori Lowenthal Marcus
President, Z Street
Rabbi Allen Schwartz
Congregation Ohab Zedek
The leadership of the UJA-Fed should be fired.
People should divest the UJA-Fed if they do not cancel this decision.
They are controlled by the elite’s MSM. They don’t ‘think’, they are programmed.
They don’t think anymore than the people who protest against their own Healthcare, ‘think’.
They don’t think anymore than the people who protest against relieving their poverty and powerlessness by taking back the wealth and power from the rich, ‘think’.
It’s all in whomever controls the MSM. Unless someone can find an alternative MSM that is not controlled by the economic fascists, or take control from them, we are all doomed.
By the way Fox News is reporting the person responsible for the killing of the Jewish children at school in France is claiming to be a Muslim extremist.
Just maybe the anti-Israel marchers should rethink what they are doing.
Keelie I feel to understand what their problems are.
According to them Israel is denying rights of a mixed bag of Arabs mostly Jordanians who call themselves Palestinians.
I don’t read where Muslims are being mistreated by Israelis while on the other hand rockets continue to rain on Israel almost on a daily basis from Gaza by Hamas the terrorist Palestinian organization. Thank G-d the IDF is up to the task of defending Israel.
As far as the settlements, Israel has every right, G-d given rights to continue to build throughout the Holy Land.
As I see it, Jerusalem is the capital of Israel a sovereign Jewish Nation and as far as other faiths, there is no problem they have access and the sites are well protected by the Israelis. This city above all must be undivided.
These so called groups are certainly misguided and need to understand Israel is under siege by her Muslim neighbors who wish to remove the Jews from Israel.
What don’t they understand.
By the way the rockets are not directed at any military installation, rather civilians including children. Then of course this group must also know the Palestinians use their children as shields. How about teaching their children to kill Jews and encourage them to be martyrs (suicide bombers).
It doesn’t take much to understand who the victims are. They need to wake up to reality.
I give the Israelis a lot of credit, living their lives with hope of peace right smack in the middle of the Arab world who want to wipe you off the map.
Defending Israel is what they should be interested in not supporting her enemies.
I agree Ron. “Outrage” is a worn-out concept; an over-used word, most often used by the Religion of Peace. I prefer the use of the word “pain”. Pain is a great teacher, and is in most cases more effective than sugar.
Joe, I appreciate what you’re doing… Just bear in mind that they will no doubt try to cause trouble not only directly toward the other participants, but to the city in general, and will try to pass off whatever they do as being the fault of “the Jews”.
It would be a good idea to have some kind of strategy for this possibility.
[Sorry for being an “armchair general”.]
After the murders of 5 Jews in Toulouse, I say the vermin from the BDS who run interference for the subhuman snakes aka Muslims should have a meeting with G-d and someone should arrange it ASAP.I will go to the parade, and as long as I don’t get arrested I will do my best to make these creatures regret their support of the subhuman pests aka Muslims (all actions within the law ,of course).
These anti-Israel unJews take advantage of the moral weakness within the mainstream Jewish community. They resemble an infection that a person acquires when their immune system is weak. Healthy people are resistant to infection.
These leftists even look repulsive and behave with no dignity, no class and no decency. This low class action is also typical of the left in general.
Unfortunately this is what we get after many decades of neglect of Jewish education in America, except for the Orthodox minority.
It turns out this guy Ruskay was associated with the group, Breira, which was regarded as poison by the organized Jewish community in the late 1970’s. I remember this group quite well, it was regarded as traitorous and seditious, a threat to support for Israel, both inside and outside the Jewish community.
I don’t believe the leaders had Israel or Jewish interests at heart–I think they wanted to compromise that support and divide the Jewish community.
They had an evil agenda.
I recall attending a conference in the Washington DC area in 1977 where a contingent of Breira people attended. An unwashed, unkempt, malodorous bunch, I was repulsed by their activities and appearance. I suspect the Washington groups was a descendant of Rabbi Arthur Waskow’s various projects.
I have not been involved in or had contact with the organized Jewish community since the late 1970’s, but I am so disheartened to find out that these disreputable 1970’s radicals have now achieved positions of power and influence in the organized American Jewish community. This is another reason that, over the decades to come, the Jewish community may continue its death march with the exception of the Orthodox.
I wonder if this is why the historically effective and aggressive Jewish defense organizations like ADL are now pussycats. I know the major national Jewish organizations used to get yearly stipends from the federations around the country. If they still do, maybe the federation radicals have cowed Abraham Foxman and his ilk into passivity and retreat.
Laura, outrage is too sugar coated.
They must have bought into the Palestinian garbage. G-d help us.
I know no one pays attention to my ridicules comments, specially calling out anti-Semitism, having said that this sounds like Jewish anti-Semites. Is that crazy. Good grief what’s their problem?
I have an idea, how about shipping them to Israel and place them in the area near Gaza where their Palestinian friends are sending rockets in Israel and hope they land in their midst.
This is an outrage. These groups clearly don’t belong at the salute to Israel parade since their goal is the destruction of Israel.