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The Israeli government has launched an aggressive advertising campaign in the U.S. to discourage its expats from marrying American Jews—who some see as not really Jews at all.
Unfortunately for American Jews, and all those niggling parents, it turns out that Israel might not be on our team in this marriage game. A middling and now infamous Israeli government department has forged a peculiar U.S.-based advertising campaign. In a series of videos and billboards, it is discouraging Israeli expats from marrying American Jews and imploring them to move back to Israel.
So why again the US is giving money to the Israeli government?
Israeli absorption ministry releases campaign warning Israelis living abroad against assimilation; ADL calls videos demeaning to American Jewry.
Israelis largely view American Jews as nothing more than a political and financial resource to further Israeli interests.
Originally posted by Vitchilo
Well we have the answer from the SANE Jews in America...
U.S. Jewish groups furious over campaign to bring expat Israelis back home
Israeli absorption ministry releases campaign warning Israelis living abroad against assimilation; ADL calls videos demeaning to American Jewry.
Oh wait, it's the ADL... Sorry about calling them the SANE Jews... which they are not...well maybe THIS time...
And a good comment from Haaretz...
Israelis largely view American Jews as nothing more than a political and financial resource to further Israeli interests.
+1edit on 1-12-2011 by Vitchilo because: (no reason given)
Israeli Government Tells Israelis Not to Marry American Jews
U.S. Jewish groups furious over campaign to bring expat Israelis back home
One video advertisement features an Israeli girl, Dafna, observing Israel’s memorial day, while her feckless American boyfriend, Josh, looks on dumbly. He is cast as a slobbering puppy who may be lovable but can’t really think. “They will always remain Israelis,” rumbles the voice-over. “Their partners won’t always understand what this means.”
The other video panders by using every culture’s weakness—its children. An American Jewish child is visiting with her Israeli grandparents on Skype. They ask which holiday is represented by the menorah behind them. She shrieks, “Christmas!” and their faces tighten with shame. The message is that we American Jews will tarnish Israelis’ hard-won, all-encompassing Jewish identities by solely being our secular selves.
The two are linked... ``don't marry American jews, come back to Israel and marry Israeli jews`` is basically the message.
who some see as not really Jews at all.
Originally posted by Vitchilo
So why again the US is giving money to the Israeli government?
Israeli Government Tells Israelis Not to Marry American Jews
The Israeli government has launched an aggressive advertising campaign in the U.S. to discourage its expats from marrying American Jews—who some see as not really Jews at all.
Unfortunately for American Jews, and all those niggling parents, it turns out that Israel might not be on our team in this marriage game. A middling and now infamous Israeli government department has forged a peculiar U.S.-based advertising campaign. In a series of videos and billboards, it is discouraging Israeli expats from marrying American Jews and imploring them to move back to Israel.
So what, now Jews who don't live in Israel are somehow lower-class Jews? What kind of sick BS is this?
Netanyahu and his government are really the worst of the worst.edit on 1-12-2011 by Vitchilo because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Vitchilo
Well we have the answer from the SANE Jews in America...
U.S. Jewish groups furious over campaign to bring expat Israelis back home
Israeli absorption ministry releases campaign warning Israelis living abroad against assimilation; ADL calls videos demeaning to American Jewry.
Oh wait, it's the ADL... Sorry about calling them the SANE Jews... which they are not...well maybe THIS time...
And a good comment from Haaretz...
Israelis largely view American Jews as nothing more than a political and financial resource to further Israeli interests.
+1edit on 1-12-2011 by Vitchilo because: (no reason given)