JEWISH PRESS
Why Are American Jews Funding a Rachel Corrie Memorial Program?
by Lori Lowenthal Marcus
February 25, 2016

Never put it past Jews in the Diaspora to shoot themselves (or at least their own people) in the foot, or worse. Now we learn that Jews are giving money, through a Jewish organization, to help fund an educational initiative to honor the “great humanitarian activist” Rachel Corrie. Several years ago a brouhaha was raised about the Jewish Communal Fund, which is wholly-owned by the Jewish Federation of New York, because it was revealed to be distributing money to anti-Israel groups such as the New Israel Fund and Jewish Voice for Peace. The response from the Federation was first that it is not connected to the Jewish Communal Fund, they are separate entities….The claim by the Federation is like saying Pepsico and Frito-Lay are separate entities. They are, but Frito-Lay is wholly-owned by Pepsico. READ MORE