Ad urging Americans in Israel to vote: ‘Want a Palestinian state?’

Mairav Zonszein By Mairav Zonszein June 17, 2012 | Edit

Last week I posted an article about a new campaign launched to get American citizens in Israel to vote in the upcoming 2012 presidential election. While the “iVoteIsrael” campaign claims to be non-partisan, its rhetoric and indication by its campaign manager that its donors are Sheldon Adelson types made me suspicious of a certain slant.

Then I noticed this ad featured quite prominently on my Facebook page:

Ad urging Americans in Israel to vote: 'Want a Palestinian state?'

 

 

Hmm…asking whether I “want” a Palestinian state and then informing me that the next U.S. president will affect my future in Israel.  I clicked on the ad, and lo and behold:

Ad urging Americans in Israel to vote: 'Want a Palestinian state?'

 

So the non-partisan campaign which cannot advocate for a specific candidate is asking Americans in Israel an anachronistic question (to say the least) and then asking which president in the White House will have “Israel’s back.”  Do the math.

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Mairav Zonszein

Mairav Zonszein is a journalist and editor who writes about Israel-Palestine and its role in U.S. politics. Her publications include The Guardian, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New York Review of Books, The Intercept, VICE News, Foreign Policy and many more.