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Celebrate Israel Parade – A Look at Both Sides (Pro & the BDS Con)

May 31, 2015. NYC. The Annual Israel Day Parade.

logo-67-usa222CELEBRATING Israel, That’s WHY we were there. To CELEBRATE!But, the BDS’ers (Boycott, Divest Sanction)  … the Neturei Karta …. the NIF (The New Israel Fund) …They came to RAIN on this parade not to praise it.The insanity of  the Prog – Commie – Leftist Jewish organizations (the NIF, Adalah , Breaking The Silence) offended the eye as they marched IN the parade (Thanks to the JCC

Other anti-Zionistas stood along the parade route with obnoxious signs and banners. Liars, proclaiming Israel to be an Apartheid State.

From Mark Langfan :

The Boycott-Divest-Sanction (BDS) movement against Israel…  everyone ignores the simple truth staring them in the face: The so-called “Two-State Solution” is the sole cause of the BDS movement.  Until the Israeli government exposes the “Two-State Solution” as a charade and a fraud, the Israeli government’s de jure endorsement of a “Two-State Solution” will continue to fuel the BDS movement. 

At 59th and 5th avenue, when it came to who was PRO-Israel … these two giving a thumbs-down to the BDS’rs … were like most in attendance: Proud and Clear!Mega-Dittos
Of course, the parade was a HUGE success (IN SPITE of the anti-Zionists.)

New York’s annual celebration of Israel was greeted by tens of thousands of spectators devoted to the Jewish state with about 30,000 participants”

As the Prog-Soc-Lefties marched in opposition to the State of Israel, some on their side found the JPAC to be an odd bunch-of-coconuts, even for them:

“Who the heck is the Jewish Political Action Committee?”

Said Gilli Getz , a photographer posting on the ‘progressive’ JewSchool blog:

From the photos it looks like the Westboro Baptist Church picked up some day laborers outside a Home Depot, gave them some offensive signs, taleisim and Na-Nach hats and paid them to stand at the parade.”

(look closely at who is holding the JPAC signs) >
The view from behind, was when I first took notice of the unusual participants holding signs for the  JPAC .Even the JPAC flyer criticized the BDS Movement….

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As for Getz and his defense of the BDS Movement, he complains about the attempts to block the anti-Israel ‘progressives’ from marching in the CELEBRATE Israel Parade. (posted on JewSchool)

He continues, “I was marching as I do every year at the Celebrate Israel parade with the Progressive cluster.

Despite a loud and nasty campaign to keep us out of the parade, we marched proudly under the banner of New Israel Fund, T’ruah, Partners for Progressive Israel and Americans for Peace Now.

Celebrating the inspiring Israeli human rights organizations and the fight in Israel for social and economic justice and the end of the occupation.” (TSM: They were NOT Celebrating Israel)

MORE PICTURES of the anti-Israel banners and signs (click picture below for slide show)


A short VIDEO
of the anti-Israel Neteuri Karta and the JPAC protestors being challenged by the JOYFUL kids as they marched up Fifth Ave.

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Anyone who cares about Israel stands against the New Israel Fund.

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From Stand With Us regarding the BDS Movement:.

“The last decade has seen a sharp uptick in the amount of traction gained by BDS and its associated partners.”

“Recently major supermarket chains like Tesco in the UK have begun labeling products made in Israel, while a major Norwegian state fund has divested from Israel companies, Danya Cebus and Africa Israel, for their involvement in building projects over the Green Line.”

Some of the PRO-Israel supporters
were at 63rd and Fifth. AFSI and JCC Watch. They had banners and signs to expose, chastise and protest the participation of these anti-Zionist groups.


Shamefully, these groups were sanctioned by Alisa Doctoroff and the Parade’s organizers at the JCC.

Slide show pictures of  AFSI & JCC Watch (click picture below for slide show)


Slide show pictures of the  POLITICIANS using the parade for self-promotion. (Click Picture below for slide show)

About 8 days after the CELEBRATE Israel Parade, Obama, our first ‘Jewish’ President (!) 2011-10-07-FirstJewishPresidentsucceeded in denying ISRAEL as country-of-birth.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday struck down a law that would let American citizens born in Jerusalem have Israel listed in passports as their country of birth, saying it encroached on the president’s exclusive power to recognize foreign governments. It can no longer be listed a Country of Birth on American passports (for anyone born in Jerusalem). ”

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Thousands Protest Klinghoffer Snuff Opera – Metropolitan Opera – Vids & pics

A PROTEST Rally was led by the Coalition Against Kinghoffer Opera outside the Metropolitan Opera

Opening Night of the Metropolitan Season. September 22, 2014 – NYC –

The Metropolitan’s Season will  include this Anti-American, Anti-Jewish, Anti-Israel, Pro-Terrorist SNUFF Opera, ” The MURDER of Leon Klinghoffer”

548More appropriate title should be. ” The MURDER of Leon Klinghoffer“…  Leon Klinghoffer didn’t just die… SHAME ON PETER GELB

Thousands came out to protest the Snuff opera. They gathered on both sides of the Avenue and managed to have a presence on the Plaza as well.

Even though  attempts were made to confine the massive gathering to one location across from the opera…the protest peacefully but with determination spread out ( before, during AND AFTER)

The Official Protest ended at 6 PM. but many stayed on with signs and flyers to greet those attending the Opening Night of the opera season.

Demanding this Snuff Opera be removed from the season.

Important questions were asked of the media as well, “WHO is FUNDING this Terrorist Opera?”

There were many speakers. Please watch them all in the 3-part videos below. (Videographer, Pamela Hall)

Part 1 Video  [Please watch videos in HD for best quality]

Speakers listed in order:  Introductory remarks, Jeffrey Wiesenfeld, David Weprin, Laurie Cardoza-Moore, Rabbi Joseph Potasnik, NYPD Detective Steven McDonald and Debra Burlingame.

Part 2 – Video

Speakers listed in orderTony LoBianco, Richard Allen, Bill Donohue, Bruce Blakeman, Sarri Springer,Wendy Laski, Consolee Nishemwe, Dr. Paul Brody reading a letter from Judea Pearl, Former Attorney General, Michael Mukasey and Congressman Eliot Engel.

Part 3 – Video

Speakers listed in order: Rabbi Avi Weiss, Dov Hikind, 3 students:Hannah Cohen, Ben Kahn, Ari Brandspigel (student council president DRS Yeshiva H.S.), Gov, George Pataki, Charles Asher Small, Rabbi Steven Burg (Simon Wiesenthal Center), Rabbi Zev Freidman, Richard Allen, MK Nissim Ze’ev, Mort Klein, Devorah Halberstam, Beth Gilinsky and Helen Freedman.

There are two side shows of pictures. First slideshow is the Speakers-

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Second slideshow is the crowd and also a few pictures across the avenue in the Lincoln Center Plaza-

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Wrapping up with a few more observations on the protest.

First from Lori Lowenthal Marcus at the Jewish Press here

And finally, from writer, Jack Kemp:

“One of the lines in this anti-semitic opera is: “wherever poor people are gathered they can find Jews getting fat. America is one big Jew.”  So who is this “exploiter Jew,” the one that Peter Gelb, the director of the Metropolitan Opera and himself a Jew whose father was a New York Times Managing Editor, allows to be denigrated on his stage?
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Leon Klinghoffer was born a poor Jew from the Lower East Side, a man who invented an electric mini-grill you could also wash in your sink, an early predecessor of the current George Forman Grill. I recall one of these mini-grills in my home as a child in the 1950s. From this, Mr. Klinghoffer was able to create jobs for a number of people in manufacturing and sales and to support his family.
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Marty Peretz, writing in the New York Observer,  states that:
“John Adams can work his clunky, chunky music to his heart’s content. And so I suppose can Alice Goodman work her poetry. Ms. Goodman was born a Jew. She is now an Anglican priest, serving the Church of England, first as chaplain at Trinity College, Cambridge, latterly at a group of parishes near the university. The truth is that it is not Mr. Adams’ music that is at the core of the controversy. It is Ms. Goodman’s words. She is no free spirit in this church, which has been fighting with the Jewish nation and the British Jewish community for decades. ”
This so-called opera is actually a sophisticated attack by wealthy, cosmopolitan Jews on a self-made New York Jew with limited education who had the audacity to make something of his life.” [End Jack Kemp]
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Never Again Means  NEVER AGAIN!

Join the Coalition on October 20. Opening night of the actual opera: “The Death MURDER of Leon Klinghoffer”

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Protest “The MURDER of Leon Klinghoffer” : anti-Semitic Snuff Opera at the Met-NYC

DEMONSTRATION AT METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE at Lincoln Center- NYC- July 21, 2014

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A PROTEST OF THE KLINGHOFFER PRO-TERROR, ANTI-SEMITIC, ANTI-ISRAEL SNUFF OPERA

548 “The Met is asking audiences to ‘look for the humanity in the terrorists, asking people to accept them as ‘men of ideals,” “We cannot romanticize terrorists and idealize their evil executions.

The vicious anti-Semitic libels that are contained in the libretto, and the historical revisionism of the Israeli/Arab war of 1948 are extremely offensive and dangerous at any time,

but especially egregious today when terrorists are terrorizing and killing civilians world-wide.”

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Americans for a Safe Israel & JCC Lead the Demonstration

AFSI and JCC Watch, along with dozens of supporters, began the first of many demonstrations at the Metropolitan Opera protesting the 8 performances planned for the pro-terrorist, anti-Semitic, anti-Israel opera THE DEATH (MURDER) OF KLINGHOFFER.

There were wheel chairs, signs, flags and flyers outside Lincoln Center Monday night, July 21.

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  There was media [NY 1, CBS radio and Russian TV (RT), Arutz Sheva and Shalom TV ]  filming and interviewing the demonstrators and later, other outlets picked up the story.

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John Adams’ opera is based on the 1985 hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro and the murder of disabled Jewish-American passenger Leon Klinghoffer. (The hi-jacking was by the PLO under direction of Yasser Arafat)

The Coalition to STOP Klinghoffer will continue to demonstrate every Wednesday night through the summer, culminating in a huge demonstration on Gala night, Sept. 22.
If the opera actually is performed, demonstrations will take place every night of a performance on  Oct. 20, 29, Nov. 5, 8, 11.
The Met has said it does not plan to cancel the performance. HOWEVER, the Met did, in fact, cancel plans for a simulcast of the opera around the world, which had been scheduled for Nov. 15.  (John) Adams blasted the decision to cancel the simulcast, saying the opera “in no form condones or promotes violence, terrorism or anti-Semitism.”
“They take the issue of a horrible act of terrorism and there’s a rationalization – a kind of equivalence, moral equivalence,” Jacobsen said last month.

More from Helen Freedman of AFSI as to why they must educate the public about the rise of anti-Semitism that is behind this “Snuff” Opera:

While the war is raging in Gaza and Israel, we mourn with heavy hearts the terrible loss of our beloved Israeli brethren. We also note the increased anti-Semitism throughout Europe. France, Germany, Ireland, and even England report vicious anti-Jewish demonstrations.

There are also alarming things happening at home. Word has reached us of ADL hiring Islamist terrorist sympathizers as camp counselors, indoctrinating our young children against Israel and America. We also know that the White House is filled with Muslim sympathizers and activists. All of this is tunneling into America’s fabric in the most subtle, but dangerous ways. Just as the Israelis are being attacked through an incredible network of underground tunnels which were being built over the past decade, so is America in danger from the Muslim subterranean network being built around us.

A Side Note :

The NYS Commission on Human Rights might be interested in the Met’s violation of our rights with this opera. Their complaint line is: 212-306-7450.

Also, these protests might become moot issues if the unions working with the Met either strike or get locked out of the Opera House. July 31 is the decision day. We’ll keep you posted.

SLIDESHOW of a few pictures:

 

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Part 1 Video:

July 21, 2014. Outside Metropolitan Opera Part 1. CBS Radio interview Richard Allen and Helen Freedman of AFSI during the demonstration against the Snuff Opera that avoids the obvious: Klinghoffer was MURDERED by Muslim Terrorists because he was Jewish. “Do we cry for Terrorists or their victims?” Zero Tolerance for Racist Anti-Semitism.

Part 2 Video

July 21, 2014. Outside Metropolitan Opera Part 2. RT media interviewed Helen Freedman of AFSI during the demonstration against the Snuff Opera that avoids the obvious: Klinghoffer was MURDERERD by Muslim Terrorists because he was Jewish. “Do we cry for Terrorists or their victims?” Zero Tolerance for Racist Anti-Semitism.

Heads up about another rally in support of Israel next Monday, July 28 –  NEW YORK STANDS WITH ISRAEL

Rally Monday, July 28th at 12:30 PM