The ad Ms. doesn't want you to see ( Liberals hate Israel )

power line ^ | January 11, 2008 | Scott

[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...

[Piranha]

I apologize. I thought that these examples were so “out there” that you were using insulting stereotypes for dramatic effect. I find it amazing that you have met Jews with such anger about their religion.

[Cacique]

btt

[dervish]

Thanks.

My niece just took a College course called sex and gender. Much to her dismay she found herself lumped in with transgender as a subject of discussion. The rest of America was the “dominant culture.”

Phyllis Chessler has a thing or two to say about today’s so called feminism.

[SunkenCiv]

Sex *and* gender. Yah, that’s higher education (sure sounds high to me).