Anti-Israel marchers in the Celebrate Israel Parade

NEW YORK POST
by Ronn Torossian
March 8, 2015

Why are the organizers of this year’s Celebrate Israel Parade letting a vehemently anti-Israel group march along down Fifth Avenue? Sunday, May 31, brings North America’s largest one-day celebration for Israel. Each year, tens of thousands celebrate the beauty of Israel — the land and her people — marching beneath blue-and-white banners to commemorate the modern-day miracle of the state of Israel and to pay homage to America’s closest ally in the Middle East. Yet the parade organizers — the New York Jewish Community Relations Council and the UJA-Federation — refuse to prevent a demonstrably anti-Israel group, the New Israel Fund, from marching. How demonstrably? Well the New Israel Fund funds the Boycott, Divest and Sanction movement — which aims to treat Israel as an international moral leper like apartheid-era South Africa. READ MORE

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