Celebrate Israel Parade NYC 2011 (video/pics)

The Celebrate Israel Parade (2011)








There was the ubiquitous Neturtei Karta.Very vocal. Faces twisted in anger as they moaned at the parade claiming there should be no Israel. I was pleased to overhear a father telling his young son, as he referred to these strange men (the NKUSA), " They are confused. We should pray for them."

 







At 59th St and 5th Avenue, the usual assortment of anti-Israel protestors and Leftist Sympathizers stood with the Neturei Karta in what was now double-layered pens

 US


THEM


... as they mocked and berated the parade....





The anti-Israel protestors even put on a bit of street theatre (rehearsed of course) as this fellow in green aggressively charged at the parade. (He stepped into the double barricaded area... forbidden territory).

 

 The police responded immediately. 





BUT, this guy has an agenda; getting a photo-op (so goes right back) 

 



The green-hatted legal beagle (most likely not even an attorney) dictates a play-by-play into a digital recorder



The 'Pali" has "VERY concerned friends" (lead by commie agitator, Bill
Doar) 



Friends who wailed at the police, "Let our  comrade go!" (more great photo-ops/sarc intended)

 

SO, and this part is particularly interesting, the police banished this 'palestinian' from the pen, sending him into the crowd going to the parade.




No big deal.... "It's all in the game."



There were some unusual participants in this year's  "CELEBRATION of Israel Parade" (no more "Salute". Was it too militaristic?)  At any rate, J Street and 'Jewish Voice for Peace'  and 'Jews
Against the Occupation' marched in the parade saying they support Israel while ignoring these FACTS:







 





 

Support Israel? YET, these JEWISH groups characterized Israel as an "OCCUPIER"!











Thankfully, their presence was a blip in a wonderful, joyful day of CELEBRATING ISRAEL!











Curtis Sliwa and his Guardian Angels challenged those calling for the destruction of Israel by proudly marching passed them in SUPPORT of Israel








The video is a compilation of all the pictures I took at the parade




Something observed walking to the West Side on 57th Street, after the parade...LOTS of Sanitation Trucks loaded with sand  blocking the intersections

 



There were a LOT of Sanitation Trucks loaded with sand  blocking the intersections

 

This was like security for  the President as well as the U.N.visit of AH'JAD (The-Evil -Dwarf)





Clearly this was a high risk event.



But, Islamic terrorists and Commie agitators couldn't rain on this fabulous parade. Everyone in support of Israel was spirited, proud and feisty.








FULL of smiles and joy, it was infectious and trumped those Jew-hating anti-Semites standing at 59th Street and 5th Avenue.


 



Am Yisrael Chai!




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CUNY Rally to Support Israel Against Appeasers and Islamist Enablers

 UPDATE: a great slide show of pictures that ZA took after I had to leave. Enjoy!

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On Friday, June 3, 2011 CUNY (the City University of New York) held it's Graduation Ceremonies at the Javits Center in Manhattan, where they chose to bestow an Honorary Degree on Israel Basher, Tony Kushner .This after Wiesenfeld, the son of Holocaust survivors, had denounced Kushner's hostile views on Israel, questioning whether he was an appropriate candidate for an Honorary Degree. In spite of the very public support of CUNY Trustee, Wiesenfeld, the honorary degree was reinstated. So Tony Kushner who accuses Israel of "Ethnic Cleansing" while young Israeli soldiers stand on the front lines of Jihadist aggression and Israeli families bear the barrage of rocket fire in their homes received his Honorary Degree from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.



After Kushner received his Honorary Degree, he told the graduates that they, too, must engage with society's thorniest issues and urged them to "find the human in yourself by finding the citizen in yourself, the activist, the hero in yourself."He continued, saying they faced a "beset and besieged world" where slavery masquerades as freedom, urging them to respond to the planet's cries for help. "There's injustice everywhere. There's artificial scarcity everywhere. There's desperate human need, poverty and untreated illness and exploitation everywhere. Everywhere in the world is in need of repair, so fix it. Solve these things."

 He warns of Injustice? Slavery?Activism, and of course"The Planet". All of this on the heels of the two weeks of alarming pronouncements made by Obama regarding Israel's future, demanding a return to the indefensible pre-1967 borders.

Those who rallied outside the Javits Center warned, as have others over and over that "A Hamas-Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority state, with or without all the borders the PA demands, would leave all of what would remain of Israel within Katyusha missile range."

 

Unfortunately, Kushner and Obama represent our worst nightmare. This dangerous anti-Israel rhetoric and appeasement of Jihadist goals is on the rise, on our campuses and in Washington.

There are “APPEASERS IN AMERICA!”
“ISLAMIST ENABLERS IN AMERICA!”
“ISRAEL’S ENEMIES IN AMERICA!”

We Must Stand With Israel. The only Democracy in the Middle East. 

The Time is NOW to speak out in Defense of Israel. 

Silence is not Golden. 

And now, most disturbingly, we have seen this very offensive material published in California  as part of a campaign against male circumcision. It is so anti- SEMITIC that it clearly brings us back to the horrors of the 20th Century.


 
 "'Foreskin Man,' with its grotesque anti-Semitic imagery and themes, reaches a new low and is disrespectful and deeply offensive," "... the imagery invokes the "age-old anti-Semitic canards" such as the blood libel, the accusation that Jews ritually murder Christian children.

 Never Again Should mean NEVER AGAIN. 

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