ZOA accuses Hatikvah slate of ‘false advertising’

Editor’s Note:  The HaTikvah slate for election to the World Zionist Congress has been asked for comment on the following story, but had not replied at press time.  

ZOA logoNEW YORK (Press Release)– The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has filed a false advertising complaint this week regarding the HaTikvah slates’s official platform page, which was published on January 14  on the official American election website for the World Zionist Congress elections.  The HaTikvah slate’s platform page falsely states that the HaTikvah slate works to “combat the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.”   The “HaTikvah” slate’s false advertising will mislead voters.   In fact, the HaTikvah slate’s member organizations promote discriminatory boycotts and sanctions against Israeli Jews and international sanctions against Israeli officials that they disagree with as follows:

(1)    Partners for a Progressive Israel (PIP): (a major member of the “HaTikvah” slate) promotes discriminatory boycotts of Jewish Israel businesses in 170 industries in Jerusalem, Hebron, Ariel, Efrat, Ma’ale Adumim, etc. right on PIP’s website.  Partners for a Progressive Israel’s Chairman Theodore Bikel also promotes cultural/artistic boycotts including boycotting the new Israeli-Jewish arts facility in Ariel.

(2)    Ameinu (another major member of the HaTikvah slate): lobbies U.S. and European governments to impose severe financial and visa sanctions on Jewish Israeli government officials whom Ameinu disagrees with.   Ameinu’s top officials also double as J Street officials or are tied closely to J Street, which engages in extensive de facto promotion of BDS.

(3)     “Open Hillel”:  The confusingly-named “Open Hillel” group tries to force the well-known and long-time campus organization Hillel International to provide platforms to promote the global BDS movement – and to bring in speakers that promote Israel’s destruction.  “Open Hillel” was formed in 2012 to attempt to abolish Hillel International’s “Standards of Partnership.”  Hillel International’s reasonable “Standards of Partnership” prohibit campus Hillel facilities from hosting organizations that promote BDS against Israel.  “Open Hillel” brings in speakers who say that Israel should be destroyed and cease to exist.  “Open Hillel” is working together with the anti-Israel anti-Semitic hate group “Students for Justice in Palestine” (SJP)   SJP members have violently attacked Jewish students on college campuses.

(4)    Americans for Peace Now (APN):  APN openly promotes boycotts of Jewish Israeli businesses in eastern Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria

(5)    New Israel Fund (NIF):  NIF spent large sums of money erecting the BDS infrastructure, and continues to fund BDS groups and their co-conspirators.  The NIF-funded Adalah organization’s “Adalah-NY and friends” participated in a “Global BDS Day of Action” with a pro-BDS “flash mob” at Grand Central Station.  Adalah’s current Facebook page also brags about “the amazing things we achieved together in 2014 – BDSmovement.net,” and declares “Tell the New York City Council: Don’t Tour Apartheid Israel.”  NIF grantees Adalah, B’Tselem and Breaking the Silence also provided the false information to Judge Goldstone which formed the basis of the false (and since discredited) Goldstone report that accused Israel of war crimes.  The BDS movement uses the false Goldstone report as one of its chief weapons to promote BDS against Israel.  The “US Campaign for the Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel” has a web page entitled “Sections of Goldstone Report Very Useful for BDS and related campaigns.”   The NIF also funds groups that hire Arabs to viciously confront young Israeli soldiers with ugly personal provocations against the Israeli soldiers, their families and Israel.   There are always cameras filming these episodes, so that on the rare occasion when a young soldier responds strongly, these groups’ cameras film and disseminate the response, out of context – without showing the provocation or the rarity of such responses – to try to harm the humane IDF’s reputation.

(6)     J-Street:  J Street promotes, honors, and gives major platforms to the leaders of the global BDS movement (including Mustafa Barghouti) at its national conferences and brings top BDS leaders to college campuses.  J Street also promotes BDS on J Street’s website video.

Thus, the HaTikvah slate’s official platform page on World Zionist Congress election website tells voters the exact opposite of what the HaTikvah slate members are really doing.   It is unconscionable election fraud to mislead World Zionist Congress voters with such lies.

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3 thoughts on “ZOA accuses Hatikvah slate of ‘false advertising’”

  1. I guess the author(s) couldn’t be bothered to fact check the information here.

    Adalah-NY: the New York Campaign for the Boycott of Israel, the organization referenced under the New Israel Fund, actually has no affiliation with Adalah: The Legal Center for Minority Rights (which the New Israel Fund does give money to).

    The mistake made here is the equivalent to seeing the word Justice in two names of organizations in the United States, and not differentiating between them.

  2. It is a disgusting spectacle and a Shanda to witness supposed Jewish organizations taking action and speaking out against the only Jewish Nation in the world. Doesn’t Israel have enough trouble with declared enemies without having to do battle with shortsighted Jews? Amazing that these organizations like J Street, Americans for Peace (PIECE?) Now, New Israel Fund ignore history and keep making the same mistake. Isn’t this how the 1st and the 2nd Temples were destroyed by infighting of Jews within the Temple Walls leaving a weakened defense against their enemies? Look at how they ignore the history of Jewish communities in Samaria and Judea for thousands of years and destroyed by the Jordanian army in 1948. Look at how they are willing to give up Hebron where Arabs do not accept the 3% of Jews within Hebron, the initial capitol of the Jewish nation.
    No, these organizations and whatever motives them should NEVER be part of any discussion or solution of Israel’s present and future. They should be ostracized not seek credibility.

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