Posted on 01/11/2008 11:31:15 AM PST by george76
The American Jewish Congress submitted this understated advertisement about the status of women in Israel to Ms. Magazine. Underneath the attractive photographs of Israel's foreign minister (Tzipi Livni), Supreme Court president (Dorit Beinish), and speaker of the Knesset (Dalia Itzik), the ad reads: "This is Israel." I think it is fair to say that in most parts of the United States it would be deemed an utterly innocuous ad.
Ms. rejected the ad. Yesterday the AJC issued this press release with the following comments:
"What other conclusion can we reach," asked Richard Gordon, President of AJCongress, "... a significant number of Ms. Magazine readers -- are so hostile to Israel that they do not even want to see an ad that says something positive about Israel?"
When Director of AJCongress' Commission for Women's Empowerment Harriet Kurlander tried to place the ad, she was told that publishing the ad "will set off a firestorm" and that "there are very strong opinions" on the subject -- the subject presumably being whether or not one can say anything positive about Israel.
Ms. Magazine publisher Eleanor Smeal failed to respond...
(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...
Well, they don't buy it for the pictures!
That it is hopeless to believe that they can be won over by logic and good sense?
True enough.
Though, the twisted radical feminists that read that nonsense might actually get off on the pictures. They like women who aren’t bound by patriarchal standards of beauty. :)
I’ll take the patriarchal standards, myself. But, to each his own ... if they like burly truck-driving lesbians, have at ‘em.
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Yes, thank you.
Frankly, most in Israel would prefer to not be associated with that magazine...if most of us even hear of it.
Sorry, “if any of us even hear of it”.
What’s the paid circulation? 5 dykes and one for the newstand in front of CNN?
An ad showing a picture of Muslim women, with “This is Iraq” written below it would be refused?
An ad showing a picture of Hillary, Nancy, and Barbara, with “This is America” written below it would be refused?
Sure they would./sarcasm
When Director of AJCongress' Commission for Women's Empowerment Harriet Kurlander tried to place the ad, she was told that publishing the ad "will set off a firestorm" and that "there are very strong opinions" on the subject -- the subject presumably being whether or not one can say anything positive about Israel.
So that’s where the former NOW leader went. I thought her last name was spelled “Schlemiel.”
But seriously, if I was Israeli, I wouldn’t have considered submitting an ad to “MS”, inasmuch as the feminist movement has been a front for the Democratic Party since the late 1970s.
I’m not even sure I get what the ad is trying to say.
Proof again that there is justice.
"Ms. Magazine publisher Eleanor Smegal failed to respond...>
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Their blind, political agenda to only support women if they are in favor of abortion on demand...
Ms mag. is probably to lesbians the equivilent of what Penthouse Letters is to men.
I'm glad they rejected it. These woman are all ultra- left-wing secular JINO's who despise religious Jews and want to give every square inch of Israel away for "peace".
Hey, you know the hardcore constituency of Ms ragazine is the large urban lesbian population.
There has always been a large contingent of Jew-hating Jews. Irrational? Yes. But no more rational than the screwball leftists who sit in the Student Union of any college greedily stuffing their faces and throwing away trays half-full of food while cursing their own country.
Those calling themselves “liberals” today are just slightly right of Castro.
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