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Israel has cancelled government-sponsored television advertisements calling on expatriates to return, after some American Jews complained that the message denigrated their lifestyles.
The spots, aired on Israeli channels that are often viewed by emigrants, featured dramatized scenes of Jewish assimilation in gentile settings. In one, an Israeli couple looks dismayed to hear their grandchild mention celebrating Christmas abroad.
"I don't think I have ever seen a demonstration of Israeli contempt for American Jews as obvious as these ads," wrote influential U.S. blogger Jeffrey Goldberg, in sentiments echoed by several American Jewish groups that lodged complaints.
The United States has the largest Jewish community outside Israel, and religious assimilation there is common. Israel looks to American Jews for support, but some in the community chafe at Israel's rightist tilt and strains in its ties with Washington.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered that the ads, produced by Israel's Immigration and Absorption Ministry, be yanked "immediately" upon hearing of the controversy they caused, his spokesman said on Saturday.
"The government of Israel is very attuned to the sensitivities of the American Jewish community," the spokesman, Mark Regev, said.
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Originally posted by Expat888
good to see that some spoke out against those ads..
seeing the ads they reminded me of nazi propaganda.. anybody sane would be offended by them.
not surprised that israel would produce such ads.
Originally posted by Corruption Exposed
Anyone that celebrates Christmas CANNOT be trusted!
Originally posted by Corruption Exposed
reply to post by xuenchen
How did you like that parody video?
I just watched it again and it's as funny as the first time
"It's Christmas!"
Although, you got to admit the irony...A democratic society like Israel, making an issue of a little girls confusing Christmas time with Hanukkah???
If Israel is non-religious, it should stay consistent, and not advocate any one religion. But, if Israel is as it should be - a religious Torah society - then indeed, a little Jewish girl in America will undoubtedly, eventually, assimilate with the gentile population. She wont understand or appreciate the deeper idea of Hanukkah, and so gravitate towards a secularism; and secularist culture is meaningless, pointless, soulless garbage which makes enjoyment the be-all-end-all of their personal existence.
If Israel is non-religious, it should stay consistent, and not advocate any one religion. But, if Israel is as it should be - a religious Torah society - then indeed, a little Jewish girl in America will undoubtedly, eventually, assimilate with the gentile population. She wont understand or appreciate the deeper idea of Hanukkah, and so gravitate towards a secularism; and secularist culture is meaningless, pointless, soulless garbage which makes enjoyment the be-all-end-all of their personal existence.