“The message is: Dear American Jews, thank you for lobbying for American defense aid (and what a great show you put on at the AIPAC convention every year!) but, please, stay away from our sons and daughters.”-Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic

Steven I. Weiss of the Jewish Channel broke the news; the Israeli government is launching an ad campaign in the United States, with the message ‘U.S. Jews stay out of Israel’!

“The worst part about this campaign is that it points to something deeply defective in the Israeli psyche: the notion that fear is the only motivating factor that anyone can come up with for selling the country. In this case it’s fear of assimilation, of oblivion, of erasure. It betrays a terrible insecurity.  I understand the Zionist demographic necessity of actually living in Israel, but if there were ever a chance that someone like me and my family would move there, this is not the approach to take.”-Gal Beckerman, The Jewish Daily Forward

You can watch a couple of the Israeli video ads here and here. In Hebrew the ads basically say that U.S. Jews can never relate to Israeli Jews, and Israeli Jews should stay away from U.S. Jews! Who said the Israeli Zionist Jews weren’t NAZIs?

Billboard ads have already shown up on the east and west coasts of the United States.

I wonder if the Israeli government paid for the ads with money that came from the United States?  Happy Hanukkah!