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JCC Watch.org: 'We get results'

MEDIA ADVISORY

March 5, 2012

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Important JCC in Manhattan Up-Date

We are pleased to see, and share with you, that the JCC in Manhattan has apparently made serious changes to its programming lineup to avoid lending legitimacy to organizations that attempt to delegitimize Israel. As an example, the program series sponsored by the New Israel Fund, "Love, Hate & the Jewish State 4.0 Airing The Dirty Laundry", hosted last year by the JCC, will not be hosted at the JCC in 2012. In addition, Mr. Ido Aharoni, Consul General of Israel, has been invited by the JCC to speak at a Birthright alumni event. Most amazingly, some of the films shown at the JCC can almost be described as fair and balanced!

We welcome the recent changes at the JCC in Manhattan and hope this new positive trend continues and becomes permanent. We will, of course, continue to monitor their programming and alert the community if the JCC in Manhattan should again embrace such biased and slanted political groups as BTselem, as they did in 2011. The group BTselem has a history of anti-Israel propaganda and they provided the video recently shown at the vicious and fraudulent "Israel Apartheid 2012" events held throughout colleges and Universities worldwide.

JCCWatch.org applauds the apparent shift in the JCC in Manhattan's direction. The embrace of groups that fund and support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions strategy against Israel, or otherwise propagate anti-Israel propaganda, is not a proper function of the JCC in Manhattan, and does not further the Jewish community's interest. We look forward to the JCC in Manhattan's continuing recognition of this fact in all their programs.

Labels: JCC Watch, Manhattan JCC

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 7:17 PM