Stand With Us

Prisoners standing during a roll call. Each wears a striped hat and uniform bearing colored, triangular badges and identification numbers. *''Buchenwald, [Thuringia] Germany, 1938-1941. [http://www.ushmm.org/ United States Holocaust Memorial Museum]

Stand With Us poster sends truly universal message – accidentally

Controversial poster juxtaposes Holocaust survivors with IDF soldiers. The only thing is, the Nazis’ victims in the picture are probably not Jewish. Ami Kaufman reported here on a tasteless Stand With Us poster, politicizing the memory of the Holocaust in order to support Israeli policy and the IDF. Here is the poster, and I urge…

By Noam Sheizaf March 30, 2013

Stand With Us poster juxtaposing Holocaust survivors with IDF soldiers

Tasteless montage: Pro-Israel group puts IDF soldiers in line with Nazi camp inmates

How does one give therapy to a whole nation? This is the question I asked myself after seeing this photo montage made by the pro-Israel group Stand With Us, celebrating that Israel is now the largest center of Jews in the world. (UPDATE: Stand With Us took the picture off their Facebook wall) That’s the only…

By Ami Kaufman March 30, 2013

Invitation to the "Ambassador Club" plan. Note endorsement by Stand With US (Yossi Gurvitz)

Israeli universities becoming Hasbara mills

Two universities, Tel Aviv and Haifa, now offer programs in Hasbara. Both feature Neal Lazarus, the man behind the fake “gay flotilla” video. Two Israeli universities, Haifa University and Tel Aviv University, now offer programs in Hasbara. The Haifa course is meant for Israeli students, the Tel Aviv one for foreign students. Both are supported…

By Yossi Gurvitz March 21, 2012

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Hasbara: Why does the world fail to understand us?

A short discussion of the Israeli term used to describe the ongoing, ever-growing, national propaganda effort. I have used the word “Hasbara” pretty freely recently, and so do more and more people, without stopping to explain what it actually means. The use of this term has been widespread in Israeli Hebrew for many years now,…

By Noam Sheizaf November 13, 2011

Captain Israel vs. The world

In order to win the nation’s heart, Captain Israel must defeat its seven evil ex-boyfriends: Hamas, Lebanese Shiites, Iran, Turkey, France, Salam Fayyad and Benny Begin If you thought that Israel is becoming a cartoon, you are not that far off. The good folks at the “pro-Israeli” group Stand With Us have brought us a…

By Roi Maor January 15, 2011