Israel Matzav

Who's behind Occupy Birthright?

You will recall that last week I showed you a video of a disgraceful demonstration called Occupy Birthright. Fresno Zionism's Vic Rosenthal has the scoop on the privileged characters (yes, of course they're little rich kids) who were behind that display.

So who were they? They were members of “Young, Jewish, and Proud” (YJP), the “youth wing” of the Jewish Voice for Peace organization, the only Jewish organization to make the ADL’s list of the top ten anti-Israel groups in the nation.

As I mentioned yesterday, the male speaker in the video is Max Blumenthal, left-wing ‘journalist’ and videographer who is known for baiting pleasant evangelical Protestants and drunken students. Blumenthal has been responsible for some vicious anti-Israel slanders, including an incredible 2010 article which asserted that the use of deadly force on the Mavi Marmara was planned and intended in advance, in order “to lift the morale of the Israeli public while intimidating Iran and the Arab world.”

The first female speaker was Kiera Feldman, who wrote a snarky piece in The Nation about her own Birthright trip, suggesting that the main idea was “promotion … of flings among participants, or between participants and [Israeli] soldiers” as a form of Zionist mind control. Birthright sponsors admitted to her that bringing together young Jewish people tends to encourage marriage between Jews, which they think is a good thing (Feldman apparently doesn’t).

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Feldman and Blumenthal, of course, have highly privileged backgrounds. Kiera Feldman graduated from Ivy-League Brown University in 2008 (in 2010, the total cost of a year at Brown was $51,360. No wonder she smells and looks expensive!) And Max Blumenthal is the son of Senior Adviser to President Clinton Sidney Blumenthal.

Unfortunately, we've seen before the phenomenon of non-Halachic Jews passing themselves off as Jewish to attack Israel from the Left, haven't we? Anyone else think that might be some of what's in play here?

Read the whole thing.

Labels: Kiera Feldman, Max Blumenthal, Occupy Birthright

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 4:38 PM