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.