Long Island, NY – Jewish Activist Groups Pressure Synagogue To Cancel Geller Appearance

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    FILE - Pamela Geller has raised controversy over her approach to Islam in America. (AP)Long Island, NY – Multiple New York-based Jewish activist organizations are joining forces to put pressure on a Long Island synagogue to cancel an upcoming speech by outspoken anti-Islamist blogger Pamela Geller.

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    The Jewish Daily FORWARD (http://bit.ly/10z6CVC) is reporting that at least three New York groups: Jewish Voice for Peace, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, and Jews Say No! have all asked their members to contact the Modern Orthodox Great Neck Synagogue and express their objections to Geller’s appearance which is scheduled for April 14th.

    Attempts by the groups to block Geller have sparked calls of “double standard,” after a couple of the same groups recently pressured Brooklyn College officials to cancel an event featuring the pro-Palestinian group Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions.

    Rebecca Vilkomerson, executive director of Jewish Voice for Peace, rejected the charge of “double standard,” saying that the group’s mission is combat racism and bigotry “in all of its forms.”

    Vilkomerson called Geller’s “venom” towards Islam “inappropriate” for a synagogue.

    In response to the attempts to block her appearance, Geller referred to the groups as “insufficiently Jewish,” calling them “willing tools of supremacists and annihilationists.”


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    hashomer
    hashomer
    10 years ago

    These anti-Israel Jewish groups are toxic. Let the woman speak!

    RACHELIGHT
    RACHELIGHT
    10 years ago

    Wow! I want to go!!

    10 years ago

    Dignity is not the thrust of a mainstay of anti-Islamic banter. So if you ask me, this is a good move and really, who needs to bring seething indifference and even possibly hatred into a synagogue. A good job to ban a coward from speaking about her indifferences.

    ALLAN
    ALLAN
    10 years ago

    Self hating Jewish Liberals, doing one of the things they do best….refusing to allow anyone with opposite positions have a voice.

    czyrankevic
    czyrankevic
    10 years ago

    if they say no that means the shul is right more power to anti islamists and murderers

    SandraM
    SandraM
    10 years ago

    Liberals are the greatest champions of freedom of speech….as long as they agree with what you have to say…if they don’t they don’t…then Mao Zedong starts to look good compared to their tactics…

    10 years ago

    Geller’s history of vile and hateful comments are akin to many of the worst hyperoble by the Nazis, yemach shemam, but having said that, I’d rather let her have her 15 minutes in the public plaza to fully display her ignorance and intolerance rather than trying to muzzle her.

    yaakov doe
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    yaakov doe
    10 years ago

    Even a lunatic like Geller should be free to speak, but I don’t understand why shuls have speakers other than rabonim.

    10 years ago

    “Attempts by the groups to block Geller have sparked calls of “double standard,” after a couple of the same groups recently pressured Brooklyn College officials to cancel an event featuring the pro-Palestinian group Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions.”

    There is something seriously messed up wth this.

    These groups did not pressure Brooklyn College to CANCEL the event, they PROTESTED a move to cancel the event.

    That is just one reason they are open hypocrites.

    Pretty bad reporting her, to put it mildly.

    Butterfly
    Butterfly
    10 years ago

    To #13 Maybe we should let her have her 15 minutes, on the condition that if she says one anti-semitic remark== she is out of there!!

    10 years ago

    Whatever happened to FREEDOM OF SPEECH?

    Brian
    Brian
    10 years ago

    These people are insane. Nick Berg, Daniel Pearl, dancing on 9/11 etc. etc. And these lunatics see no need to speak about this death cult?!? Nobody argues that it’s possible to be a peaceful muslim. Our Torah is also full of things that in 2013 would be considered “hate”, but nobody cracks open a Tanach and decides to behead people or blow up civilian buildings, yet many islamist animals do! Hence Pamela Geller like activists… She’s a breath of fresh air. I just wish tznius was more elevated…