Posted on 08/18/2022 6:59:36 AM PDT by rktman
Five months after canceling its planned trips to Israel, and then — following outrage from Jewish organizations — apologizing days later and saying the trips would be reinstated, the Sierra Club has quietly posted a new excursion to Israel for next year.
Called “Natural and Historical Highlights of Israel,” the two-week trip in March 2023 will include many of the same activities the Sierra Club offered before activists convinced the environmental nonprofit to cancel two Israel outings. The trip will feature snorkeling, bird watching, nights on a kibbutz and a visit to Tel Aviv.
Participants will also meet with Palestinians working on conservation to hear “first-hand about their daily and ongoing challenges,” according to the itinerary that was posted Friday. The itinerary also lists a visit to the Arava Institute, which brings Israelis, Palestinians, Jordanians and students from around the world together for environmental studies and research, and whose motto is “Nature knows no political borders.”
The planned Sierra Club trip is the latest development in a saga that saw one of the country’s oldest and most influential environmental groups, which traditionally avoids politics in favor of a big-tent approach to environmental conservation, embroiled in a public controversy that drew ire from large Jewish organizations and prompted intervention by California politicians.
The Sierra Club is the club of the insane never listen to them
It’s hard to know which men to please these days.
Israel should have quit while they were ahead.
Any person of faith wishing to see the Spiritual Highlights of Israel would not be using a Sierra Club tour to facilitate it.
One of my proudest moments was bowhunting elk literally a quarter mile away from their Wyoming facility.
This is right out of the Palestinian playbook all the way back to Yasser Arifat.
Invent a “reason” to invite people to visit Israel and then while there, surround them with Palestinian propaganda.
You never get to visit the Druz Villages or Jericho where Israeli and Arabs are on very friendly terms.
I went to Jericho on my trip and was greeted as friends.
Trip to Aqaba showed me the real hatred of the Middle East.
I was on full alert the entire time.
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