This survey was passed to me from a Wexner listserv. It’s unclear what they’re going to do with this data, but it’s worth filling out the survey and encouraging your constituencies to fill it out so that it’s more representative of the whole community and not just ‘the young leadership groups’ already represented by them.
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Archive for January, 2009
Change the communal agenda
January 29th, 2009 Filed under: Jew York Culture Shock. 1 Comment
This month by yours truly
Up on Jewschool over the past month:
Why everyone in the Israel advocacy field might be ostensibly “pro-Israel” there are only a few who can call themselves “pro-peace”.
The left gets our “I told you so” moment as the Gaza mission is revealed a failure.
Our pro-ceasefire, pro-Israel, pro-Palestine, pro-peace rally, our pics, and Max Blumenthal’s hilariously [...]
January 25th, 2009 Filed under: X-posted to Jewschool. 2 Comments
Is this how the Christian Right felt when Bush was elected?
The euphoria of Obama’s first day in office is incredible. I came to work as any other day and set about my job forgetting about it all. Then in the middle of a conference call I checked the news and saw a huge photo of Obama’s first executive order outlawing torture. My eyes misted, I [...]
January 23rd, 2009 Filed under: Politics. 0 Comments
Hilarious and emblematic Israeli political squabble of the day
Arab and a right-wing Knesset members insulted one another at an Israeli Supreme Court appeal hearing today on whether two Arab parties should remain banned.
“You’re a terrorist representing terrorists,” Israel Beiteinu chairman Avigdor Lieberman said to United Arab List lawmaker Taleb a-Sanaa before the hearing. “We’ll deal with you like with any other terrorist, like [...]
January 20th, 2009 Filed under: Israel. 0 Comments
Haaretz ad: There is no democracy without a minority
An ad in today’s Haaretz paper against the banning of two Israeli Arab parties signed by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel and several other democratic and civil rights organizations:
Translation:
THERE IS NO DEMOCRACY WITHOUT A MINORITY
The Elections Committee banned / barred the Balad and Ra-am-Ta’al parties from running in the upcoming Knesset elections. [...]
January 15th, 2009 Filed under: Israel and Politics. 0 Comments
Israeli PR: Allow me to assist you [as I crush your soul]
I just got an email forward from some Israeli PR department with pictures of the Israeli military in compassionate moments. Not to say that the IDF or Israelis aren’t compassionate as individuals, but as a military occupation one could say they’re the institution of daily torture, humiliation, oppression, suffering and death for everyone over the [...]
January 12th, 2009 Filed under: Humor and Israel. 3 Comments
Brilliant hoax: Britain Board of Jews calls off Israel rally
This email is fake, but it’s brilliant in its sharp targeting of the Jewish community’s stances on the Gaza operations. Language about an end to deaths on either side, a resolution to the long-standing problem of Palestinian statehood, and so on would be very simple to add to existing statements about an end to Hamas [...]
January 10th, 2009 Filed under: Humor, Israel and War. 4 Comments
Hamas is not a moral “Get Out of Jail Free” card for Israel
The whole damn Jewish world uses the response that “Hamas is using human shields” as a moral Get Out of Jail Free card. When civilians die, Israel is just at fault as Hamas.
Israel is responsible for their direct killing, Hamas responsible for their being in the crosshairs, Israel for using bombs in civilian centers, Hamas [...]
January 6th, 2009 Filed under: Politics and War. 3 Comments
Stewart: Israel is the “mobius strip” of American politics — there’s only one side!
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The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10c
Strip Maul
Barack Obama InterviewJohn McCain Interview
Sarah Palin VideoFunny Election Video
Catch the somewhat more serious interview with MSNBC’s Gregory David about Israeli settlements being the third rail of American politics too.
January 6th, 2009 Filed under: Humor and War. 0 Comments
WANTED: Facebook programmer to make pro-Isreal, pro-peace PRO-CEASEFIRE status update donater
Will pay. Inquire within.
January 6th, 2009 Filed under: War. 1 Comment
