EXCLUSIVE: UJA President Alisa Doctoroff Major Donor to State Dept Funded Campaign to Increase Arab Vote in Israel

The UJA Federation president is backing an organization to get Arabs out to vote in Israel — a campaign the State Department is paying for. Election jihad.

Last week I published the report that the UJA-NY President, Alisa Doctoroff, is a donor to a radical left-wing anti-Israel Organization. The organization, the New Israel Fund, “funded an organization which petitioned Israel’s Supreme Court on behalf of the terrorists who murdered five Israelis in a brutal massacre during morning prayers in Jerusalem. The same organization petitioned on behalf of the terrorists’ families. NIF also funds numerous groups hostile to Israel.”

Alisa Doctoroff is the Chair of the UJA-Federation in NY and the imme­diate past pres­i­dent of the Abraham Joshua Heschel School in Manhattan.

But that was merely the tip of the iceberg.  Doctoroff’s anti-Israel activities are much more extensive than previously known. Alisa Doctoroff is a “bridge builder” at the Abraham Fund, an anti-Netanyahu campaign to get out the Muslim vote in Israel and embed the enemy in the Knesset and PMO.  This initiative has the backing US funding — part of Obama’s campaign team, V15, in Israel to defeat Netanyahu.

Not only is Doctoroff financing this group, she has made UJA Federation of New York a “visionary” — the top level of participation and funding of this State Department funded group.

“As a nonpartisan body, the Abraham Fund is not interested in which party Arab voters choose,” said Abraham Fund co-executive director Abu Rass.

Not interested in how Muslims vote? Who is Abu kidding? They Abraham Fund is not working to get out the Russian Jewish vote, or the Sephardim. The objective is to get out the anti-Israel vote. This skulduggery replicates Obama’s treachery in the US with the immigrant vote.

Is it any wonder that the Jews are in such trouble? Proud Jews and fierce Zionists like myself are cancelled by quislings at the UJA Federation (LA), while dangerous traitors like Doctoroff are given enormous power within the Jewish lay leadership, only to behave and wield their power like kapos.

Doctoroff must be fired from UJA.

Ronn Torossian wrote:

Doctoroff – the wife of the former Deputy Mayor of New York – continues, “Seeing the common humanity speaks loudly to what needs to be done… Putting food on the table, taking kids to piano lessons, and providing for a better life are hard to do there—these are things that Palestinians in the West Bank struggle with daily and we take for granted.”  This organization, in which she partners, has an upcoming trip to Eastern Jerusalem – which will visit not one Jewish resident of the area. Par for the course, as a previous trip of this group has been described aslegitimizing a one-state solution.

A previous trip has been described as:  “…Jewish participants spent the entire time listening to Palestinian views,”, “…not one Palestinian, when discussing their long-term vision for the region, advocated a two-state solution, nor expressed any empathy for Jewish aspirations,” and that a Palestinian presenter said “in the absence of a one-state solution, there is going to be a bloodbath. In response to this, most participants clapped.” One of the speakers “has signed the Stuttgart declaration calling for a one-state solution (a resolution signed by activists representing both Islamism and the radical left), and, “…sanitized the death and carnage of the 2nd intifada as a mere “civil uprising” which the Arab world would be wise to emulate.

And it goes on… Ms. Doctoroff is also a board member of the Social Venture Fund for Jewish-Arab equality & shared society, whom in a recent annual report discussed the need for “job placement and integration of Arab teachers into Jewish schools.” There are surely many issues for Israeli and American Jews to tackle, but the President of the largest Jewish organization in North America must have more important concerns than Arab teachers in Jewish schools.  Tellingly, she has not been an advocate for Jewish teachers in Arab schools to end the rampant Anti-Israel sentiment amongst Israeli Arabs, or eliminating the books and courses that teach anti-Semitism to Palestinian children.

Doctoroff has the right to these radical, extreme viewpoints – but they are different than those of American Jewry.  The President of the UJA-Federation cannot – and must not – financially support BDS, “non-violent” Palestinian activism, and worse. 

There is no spin which UJA-Federation can provide for the simple fact that their President financially supports a number of different organizations that harm Israel

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Campaign launched to increase Israeli-Arab voter turnout

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The campaign includes running conferences for Arab students in colleges; media outreach; and work on a new poll that will identify the messages that would encourage the most turnout.

A WOMAN walks past campaign posters for the Arab-led Hadash party in the Israeli-Arab city of Umm al-Fahm. (photo credit:REUTERS)

The Abraham Fund Initiatives NGO launched what it called a “nonpartisan” campaign to increase turnout in the Israeli-Arab sector for the coming elections, after a report surfaced about possible US funding for such efforts.

The campaign includes running conferences for Arab students in colleges; media outreach; and work on a new poll that will identify the messages that would encourage the most turnout.

Earlier this month, the Washington Free Beacon reported that a group of US-funded progressive groups were planning a major effort to increase voter turnout among certain communities in Israel that are likely to vote against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party.

The report quoted a memo it had obtained by the Ameinu group that promoted a $3 million effort for “a massive, nonpartisan Get Out The Vote campaign targeting selected demographic and geographic segments of Israeli society.”

The memo said that the Israeli NGO Givat Haviva would lead the effort in the Israeli-Arab community.

Mohammad Darawshe, the director of planning at Givat Haviva – which is dedicated to promoting mutual responsibility, civic equality, and cooperation between divided groups in Israel – told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday that his organization is “not involved in getting out the vote at all.”

“The way that the subject has been represented in the media is not accurate,” he said.

Darawshe added that, personally, on his own initiative and separate from his work at the NGO, he is volunteering to get out the Arab vote for the upcoming elections.

In another similar story, the Likud party dropped its court petition on Thursday after it had accused the Zionist Union of violating laws prohibiting accepting funds from non-Israeli citizens and foreign-funded organizations and governments via V15 (Victory in 2015), a group that, among other things, seeks to promote moves toward defeating Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the upcoming election.

Abraham Fund co-executive directors Thabet Abu Rass and Amnon Beeri-Sulitzeanu, in a conversation with the Post on Sunday, emphasized the nonpartisan nature of the campaign.

Asked about other efforts at getting out the vote in the Arab sector, Abu Rass said that each organization wants to get out the vote “in their own way.”

“We in the Abraham Fund praise any effort to increase the Arab vote,” said Beeri-Sulitzeanu.

Another main focus will be an effort to increase the turnout among the Beduin population in the Negev, which historically has been low.

In addition, the fund is working with activists and young community leaders to raise awareness about the importance of voting.

“The habit of low political participation is a manifestation of the alienation that the Beduin community feels from the state. Our aim is to help enhance their sense of belonging to the state as citizens,” said Abu Rass in a statement released by the NGO.

“Our goal is to enhance the influence of Arab citizens on the political system in order to improve the situation of the Arab minority and encourage its integration in Israeli public life. As a nonpartisan body, the Abraham Fund is not interested in which party Arab voters choose,” said Abu Rass. “We simply want them to exercise their fundamental democratic right to vote.”

The Abraham Fund also is encouraging the main political parties to promote Jewish-Arab cooperation in politics and government, including the inclusion of Arab parties in the future government coalition.

“We have seen a systematic and worsening trend to exclude Arab citizens and to challenge their right for political involvement and influence,” said Beeri-Sulitzeanu.

“The Abraham Fund opposes this trend and will struggle to defend the right of Arab citizens to play a part in shaping the future of Israeli society,” he added.