Israel Matzav

Why have a Salute to Israel day parade at all?

Ashley Rindsberg asks a good question.

BDS, as it’s affectionately known by proponents, is a fiercely effective legal-economic strategy in the ongoing effort to demonize, delegitimize and, ultimately, destroy Israel. Its supporters say it’s peace they want, and no doubt this is true: peace by way of warfare, albeit warfare of a different kind.

The question we have to ask today is why the UJA, the organizer and funder of the parade, is displaying such equanimity in the face of such strident anti-Israel antipathy, especially given that the majority of US Jews utterly reject ideologies like those of the NIF and its anti-Israel grantees and affiliates.

When the pro-Israel parade becomes a moment for actively anti-Israel groups to vent and propagandize, you have to ask, why have an Israel day parade at all?

Read the whole thing.

The problem is that unlike other anti-Israel groups. the New Israel Fund is trying to gain entry to the tent - and to pro-Israel fund raising. NIF is partly funded with Jewish money from foolish American Jews who have no clue what it actually does. (They're also funded by European governments, but that's a separate issue). By allowing them into the parade, the Federation granted them further legitimacy for their fund-raising activities.

Labels: BDS, New Israel Fund, Salute to Israel Day Parade

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 10:10 AM