Saturday, August 22, 2009

The right-wing PR firms that make Birthright Israel free

5W Public Relations CEO Ron Torossian

Ha'aretz
... one of the most widely praised Jewish communal programs, is facing a rare dose of criticism from within the Jewish world after deciding to hire a public relations company with ... a history of controversy...

....Birthright Israel is sponsored by a combination of funding from the Israeli government, American Jewish federations and Jewish philanthropists around the globe...


... [Israel advocate] Jeffrey Goldberg
dubbed Torossian's advocacy of mass military retaliation against Palestinian civilians "a Nazi idea"...

The firm "was caught posting fraudulent commments on web sites," represents softcore pornographers, and
CEO Ronn Torossian, who founded an organization which worked to push non-Jewish Israeli citizens out of Jerusalem, has a history of threatening people. Full story