The Hasbara All-Star game
The day started with the always funny Gil Hoffman of the Jerusalem Post. He talked about the current political landscape after the March elections and discussed the advantages and disadvantages of the current Convergence plan and the internal, external and personal challenges that Ehud Olmert is facing.
Batting second in the Monday lineup was historian Ken Spiro who taught his lecture called "The History of the State of Israel." He started with Pinsker and Herzl Zionist theory and made it all the way upto the Yom Kippur War while still throwing in his witty anecdotes.
It was clear that the first two hitters were able to get on base with the crowd, so up next was Hasbara director Elliot Mathias who taught a class called "Answering the Most Difficult Questions." He elaborated on the framework setforth in the session "Communicating for Israel" while going deeper into the anti-Israel claims of occupation, excessive force and racism and how to use them to control the issues you want to advocate for.
It looked like team Hasbara was really batting well on this day, so it was time to bring up Joe Hyams of Honest Reporting who spoke about media bias against Israel and the tangible ways to get involved and make concrete change to ensure fair balanced reporting in the middle east.
And finally, the clean up hitter so to speak, even though technically he's batting 5th was the president of the Kadima party, Yochanan Plesner. He outlined the growing hostility of Israel's neighbors in a geopolitical context. He also spoke about the Kadima party, its principles, goals and successes thus far and the problems it has faced during the 4 months of its existence. The Convergence Plan was a hot topic for the discussion questions that he took at the end.
After a real long day it was time for some group bonding on the town. We were all excited for a group kareoke night, but then we realized there are no kareoke places in Jerusalem on Mondays, so we took to Ben-Yehuda to make our own Hasbara kareoke night.
Tomorrow we are off for a 2 trip to the south. There will be lots of great stories and pictures to share after so stay tuned.
Batting second in the Monday lineup was historian Ken Spiro who taught his lecture called "The History of the State of Israel." He started with Pinsker and Herzl Zionist theory and made it all the way upto the Yom Kippur War while still throwing in his witty anecdotes.
It was clear that the first two hitters were able to get on base with the crowd, so up next was Hasbara director Elliot Mathias who taught a class called "Answering the Most Difficult Questions." He elaborated on the framework setforth in the session "Communicating for Israel" while going deeper into the anti-Israel claims of occupation, excessive force and racism and how to use them to control the issues you want to advocate for.
It looked like team Hasbara was really batting well on this day, so it was time to bring up Joe Hyams of Honest Reporting who spoke about media bias against Israel and the tangible ways to get involved and make concrete change to ensure fair balanced reporting in the middle east.
And finally, the clean up hitter so to speak, even though technically he's batting 5th was the president of the Kadima party, Yochanan Plesner. He outlined the growing hostility of Israel's neighbors in a geopolitical context. He also spoke about the Kadima party, its principles, goals and successes thus far and the problems it has faced during the 4 months of its existence. The Convergence Plan was a hot topic for the discussion questions that he took at the end.
After a real long day it was time for some group bonding on the town. We were all excited for a group kareoke night, but then we realized there are no kareoke places in Jerusalem on Mondays, so we took to Ben-Yehuda to make our own Hasbara kareoke night.
Tomorrow we are off for a 2 trip to the south. There will be lots of great stories and pictures to share after so stay tuned.
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