On Jewcy, Jessica Miller bemoans the birth of ad campaigns which, she says, “scare the crap out of you.” Examples cited are the MTV ads on the Holocaust and the American Jewish Committee’s latest radio spot highlighting the plight of Sderot.
That latter spot was pulled by New York classical music station WQXR and Miller has no problem with that: it’s misleadingly scary, she says.
Apparently, those cutting-edge pioneers at Jewcy are really rather tame. There we were, thinking nothing would be taboo for a site which features an image of a bra made out of bacon. Not so. Mustn’t upset the listener, settling in for a night of Brahms, by reminding him or her about the fifteen second missile warnings which plague Sderot.
Miller’s piece also misses a rather more basic point. The WQXR episode has all the ingredients which would have a John Mearsheimer or a Tony Judt clamoring to express outrage: censorship, muzzling, sitting on the truth. Except that this time, it’s a Jewish advocacy organization which is the victim. And maybe at Jewcy, that doesn’t count.
This is reminiscent of the rejected ad submitted by American Jewish Congress to Ms. Magazine last November. The excuses given for both rejections are “specious.”
If only we could change the reality of life in Sderot as easily!
“And maybe at Jewcy, that doesn’t count.”
At “Jewcy” the line between satire and Judeophobia is often non existent.
We need to discuss anti zionism at the New York Times.
This weeks book review section featured an attack on Israel by the antizionist Wheatcroft while he was reviewing a book by Tony Judt.
Here is a link to the anti-Israel review:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/books/review/Wheatcroft-t.html?ref=review