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.”
These anti-Israel Jewish groups are toxic. Let the woman speak!
Wow! I want to go!!
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.
Self hating Jewish Liberals, doing one of the things they do best….refusing to allow anyone with opposite positions have a voice.
if they say no that means the shul is right more power to anti islamists and murderers
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…
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.
Even a lunatic like Geller should be free to speak, but I don’t understand why shuls have speakers other than rabonim.
“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.
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!!
Whatever happened to FREEDOM OF SPEECH?
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…