ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA ON PALIN DISINVITE UPDATED:ISRAEL PROJECT WITHDRAWS SUPPORT

UPDATE; HERE ARE THE PHONE NUMBERS OF THE HEADS OF THE ORGANIZATIONS THAT DISINVITED PALIN TO THE ANTI-IRAN DEMONSTRATION! WORK THEM!

Call them and demand that she be re-invited.  If Democrats don't want to stand with the Jewish people against Iran, that's their politicization of the issue. Palin does want to stand with us, and we should be honored.

Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations
>    Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice Chairman
>    212-318-6111
>
>    Jewish Community Relations Council of New York
>    Michael Miller, Executive Vice President
>    212-983-4800 x 161
>
>   Jewish Council for Public Affairs
>   Steve Gutow, Executive Director
>   212-684-6950 x 208
>
>   UJA-Federation of New York
>   John Ruskay, Executive Vice President
>    212-980-1000
>
>   United Jewish Communities
>   Howard Rieger, President and CEO
>   202-875-5900

UPDATE: The Israel Project has removed its support for the Rally which disinvited Palin. The only rally in NY they are participating in is the one on the 25th

ZOA has issued this statement - Baruch Hashem!

The following statement is from Morton A. Klein, national president of the Zionist Organization of America.                        

"The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) strongly opposes the disinvitation of Vice-Presidential candidate Governor Sarah Palin to be one of many speakers at a "stop Iran from gaining nuclear weapons rally."  This rally will also protest the presence of Iran's president Ahmadinejad at the United Nations on Monday, September 22. This is an anti-Iran rally, not a partisan political rally, as Democratic Senator Hilary Clinton was invited as was vice-presidential candidate Joe Biden and later Democratic Congressman Robert Wexler of Florida.  Clinton withdrew and Biden apparently couldn’t attend.                             

  "Under tremendous pressure from Jewish Democrats and liberal Jewish groups, Palin's invitation was withdrawn with a decision made not to include any politicians. Why are we excluding political leaders who have the real power to act on this critical issue?  The ZOA believes this was a serious mistake.

“This was not a political rally for any party or individual. All Democrats and Republicans are united against Ahmadinejad developing nuclear weapons which he indicated he would use "to wipe Israel and America off the map." We thought that one of the themes of Democrats this year was “promoting unity” and “bringing people together.”  Well, here was an opportunity to do just that on an issue we can all support and certain groups and interests have caused us to fail.  The ZOA is so disappointed by this unnecessary and harmful outcome.  

"At this rally, there would be no implied or explicit endorsement of any candidate or party, only a unified condemnation of Ahmadinejad.  No one was going to speak about politics, only about loving America and Israel, and fighting Iran, and standing up to evil.    

"The ZOA deeply regrets that certain Jewish groups and individuals believed the inadvertent benefit that would accrue to Sarah Palin outweighed the enormous benefit that Israel and the United States would receive when a Vice-Presidential candidate and others give visibility and power to this life and death issue.

“It seems for these people politics and their personal political agenda were more important than Israel and America's security. This wrong-headed action of cancelling the appearance of major political leaders hurt Israel and the United States.  Ahmadinejad must be delighted that those who oppose his policies are so divided they can’t even stand on the same stage to condemn him.  I assure you, if we were holding a rally to condemn an internationally-known racist, anti-Black leader, no one would dare disinvite a speaker and no speaker would dare back out.  

"The ZOA strongly urges that Sarah Palin be reinvited along with any other key Democratic or Republican leaders. 

“Otherwise, this will become a day of shame and humiliation for the Jewish people instead of a day of Jewish pride, strength, courage, and will.  On this day, we should have put aside all other political interests and together fight against this existential threat against Israel and major threat to the United States and the entire western world.”

Comments

[Deacon John M. Bresnahan]

Three cheers for the non-partisan patriotism, courage, integrity---and common political sense of the ZOA.

[neverforget]

Now they'll just call them a bunch of Zionists. s/

[shortred]

Reneging on Sarah's invitation made me livid. My husband phoned Malcom Hoelein's office and Mr. Hoelein called him back. I think his office had been deluged by phone calls. He was very nice and said lawyers got involved. He wanted Sarah Palin there but the other organizations threatened to walk. Our local Jewish Federation drive starts Sunday and the leader of it and my husband are meeting afterwards to draft a letter to the national. We refuse to donate until something is made right.

[Josef K]

Thanks to the bipartisan TIP for doing what is right.

This is sickening how one political party has become the Party of the Pouters and not the Party of the People.

[ThousandOaksBill]

She is prepared to defend Israel against the Islamo-facists with the full force of American military power and this is how they treat her?

Obama is a gutless pushover. He will let Israel burn.

[Jhn'1]

Senator McCain is on record as saying that he would rather lose an election, than lose a war.

Obviously this preference is not universally shared in America.

These partisans would rather lose Israel than lose the upcoming election, and they just showed it in public.

[JewishOdysseus]

This farce is a 21st century "fools of Chelm" story by Sholem Aleichem...except at the end of this one the idiotic squabbling Jews are cut short by a bright flash and a mushroom cloud.

UN. FUCKING. BELIEVABLE.

[Jewish Mothers For Sarah Palin]

I called the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations at 212-318-6111 to complain about Gov. Palin's disinvite. The woman who answered the phone claimed that Gov. Palin was never invited to the rally. Apparently not only CPMAJO is a bunch of gutless morons, but their staff is also completely clueless.