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“We have expressed concern over how this happened and asked the company to ensure the integrity of these ad cases so that no such illicit ads are placed in the future,” Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Center told JNS.
The arm tattoo in the ad was similar in style to those forcibly given to Jews in the Holocaust.
The average ad spot sale this year is $6.5 million per half a minute, with the event broadcasting a total of between 80 to 90 commercials.
“Unfortunately, Facebook inexplicably rejected our ads, presumably because they contain the words ‘hate’ and ‘anti-Semitism,’ ” said Mark Freedman, interim president and CEO of the Jewish Federation of Broward County.
“This is about arrogance and irresponsibility, enabling the odious anti-Semitic BDS movement to brand Jews as occupiers in their own land,” said Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
Masa Fellows begin long-term work, study and volunteering experiences in Israel
Ahead of the Jewish New Year, 3,000 American Fellows have already landed in Israel, including 1,000 from New York.
“As an independent ad server built for television, Innovid is making a big investment in the technology to power this next wave of streaming content—live TV,” says company co-founder and CTO Tal Chalozin.
“We are using all available avenues from high in the sky billboards to Instagram and everything in between,” said Elizabeth Abrams, assistant vice president of communications for JUF.
The top three bias-motivated offenses most frequently reported in the UCR Program’s hate crime data set are destruction/damage/vandalism, intimidation and simple assault.
“This ad does nothing to win over undecided voters; it’s awful. If a voter already feels Trump mishandled the virus, then they’re already voting for Biden,” Republican Jewish Coalition executive director Matt Brooks told JNS.
“The president is not Hitler. Joe Biden is not Castro,” said Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, adding that the comparison “degrades the memory of the Shoah.”
Billboards in New York’s Times Square display send-off of Masa Israel Fellows
Thousands of young adults from around the world have arrived in or are preparing to travel to Israel for a gap year, internship, study abroad, volunteer or professional training program.
