Pro-Palestinian ads at Metro-North stations spark alarm from Jewish leaders

[JohnyCanuck]

CHAPPAQUA — Provocative poster advertisements showing shrinking Palestinian land in Israel that are on display at Metro-North train platforms have alarmed leaders in the Jewish community who are concerned they could lead to acts of hate.

“This is anti-Semitic because when people think of Jews they think of the Jewish state,” said Dovid Efune, editor of the Manhattan-based Jewish newspaper, The Algemeiner. “Jews have seen this happen so many times. It always starts with messaging that says Jews are committing a crime.”

The ads, which show a succession of shrinking Palestinian territory in four maps and contain a headline stating that 4.7 million Palestinians are classified as refugees by the United Nations, were paid for by an 84-year-old ex-Wall Street financier who lives in Connecticut.

“If the facts are inflammatory then they are inflammatory,” said Henry Clifford, the chairman of a 10-member group called the Committee for Peace in Israel/Palestine. “All of the Middle East is infected with the virus of the Arab-Israeli conflict. People need to know the truth of the matter.”

http://www.lohud.com/article/20120711/NEWS/307100105?nclick_check=1

[pennylane100]

1. I do not think it is anti semetic to tell the truth.

If land is being taken from Palestinians to establish illegal settlements, it is absurd to complain about ads that show what is happening.

[JohnyCanuck]

2. Of course it is not anti-semitic

From the blog Dissident Veteran for Peace at http://vfpdissident.blogspot.com/2012/05/former-israeli-mp-anti.html :

Former Israeli MP: The Anti-Semitism/Holocaust "Trick"
Ten years ago, Shulamit Aloni, a former Palmach fighter and Israeli Knesset and cabinet member, gave an interview to Amy Goodman on Democracy Now. Below is part of what the interview:

Goodman: Yours is a voice of criticism we don't often hear in the United States. Often when there is dissent expressed in the United States against policies of the Israeli government, people here are called anti-Semitic. What is your response to that as an Israeli Jew?

Aloni: Well, it's a trick, we always use it. When from Europe somebody is criticizing Israel, then we bring up the Holocaust. When in this country people are criticizing Israel, then they are anti-Semitic. And the organization is strong, and has a lot of money, and the ties between Israel and the American Jewish establishment are very strong and they are strong in this country, as you know. And they have power, which is OK. They are talented people and they have power and money, and the media and other things, and their attitude is "Israel, my country right or wrong", the identification. And they are not ready to hear criticism. And it's very easy to blame people who criticize certain acts of the Israeli government as anti-Semitic, and to bring up the Holocaust, and the suffering of the Jewish people, and that is justify everything we do to the Palestinians.

You can watch the entire interview on Democracy Now. The segment quoted above starts at about 50:51.

[Mosby]

3. the maps are a lie

And are designed to mislead and misrepresent the truth.

[azurnoir]

4. well show us an accurate map then n/t

[shira]

5. Of course they're a lie, misleading, and inflammatory. That's why the ad is antisemitic.

If misleading, inflammatory lying ads were against Muslims or any Islamic nation, you can bet they'd be attacked for the bigoted rightwing trash they are.

[azurnoir]

6. then show us the 'truth'

seems to be lot's pudding but little proof

[Mosby]

7. This one does not cover the same time period but it least it's accurate

[azurnoir]

8. well according to you it's accurate, but it does show Israel's land grab from 3 countries

it shows the conquests of the 6 day war as if the lands conquered in that war were part of Israel all along

lets see the West Bank in more detail too