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Come to Israel...for a blowjob
I’ve been covering the controversial Size Doesn’t Matter viral video campaign (watch the video here) sponsored by Canadian pro-Israel college students and several Israel lobby groups. Lately, the student leader claiming responsibility for the website and the Israeli MFA have been heading for the hills in terms of establishing who’s responsible for the project. I’ve staked out convincing evidence that the college students are at least in joint sponsorship with the Canadian Council for Israel and Jewish Advocacy (CIJA) and/or Canadian Jewish Public Affairs due to the registration of the Size Doesn’t Matter Domain with the CIJA and funding for the student group from CJPA, which is confirmed on the student website. The only question is whether the students are a front for the project or actually took some active role in it. Right now, I’d say the jury’s out on that one. But one thing that is clear is that the Israel lobby is taking a powder.
They’ve done something totally inexplicable and underhanded and frankly I don’t understand it. They’ve re-registered the Size Doesn’t Matter domain. Previously it was registered to Canadian Jewish Public Affairs. Yesterday, it was re-registered to 3Managed. This web design company’s only four clients listed at it’s website are the Canadian Council for Israel and Jewish Advocacy (CIJA) – cija.ca, Canadian Jewish Congress (CJC) – cjc.ca, and Canada Israel Committee (CIC) – cicweb.ca. Nice try fellas.
The registrant listed for 3Managed’s own website is Stephen Verrall. And who is listed as the registrant for Canadian Jewish Public Affairs’ website? You guessed it, Stephen Verrall. Here are the registration details for the various sites:
Domain name: sizedoesntmatter.ca
Domain number: 2929497
Approval date: 2009/07/13
Renewal date: 2011/07/13
Updated date: 2010/02/23Registrant Name: 3managed Inc.
Number: 2947274Administrative contact:
Name: David Bird
Postal address: 3managed Inc.
3-35 Stone Church Road Suite # 332
Ancaster ON L9K 1S5 Canada
Phone: 2892399875**************************
Domain: 3managed.comDate Registered: 06/02/09
Date Modified: 11/21/09
Expiry Date: 06/02/10
DNS1: ns1.easyDNS.com
DNS2: NS2.EASYDNS.COMRegistrant
Verrall Stephen
David Place
200 North Service Road West, Suite 531, Unit 1
Oakville, ON (CA)
L6M 2Y1Administrative Contact
Verrall Stephen
Stephen Verrall
1150 Skyview Dr #79
Burlington, ON (CA)
L7P 4X54167273233
Where did you read the name Stephan Verrall?
Domain: gfcas.com
Date Registered: 02/06/08
Date Modified: 02/06/10
Expiry Date: 02/06/10
DNS1: dns.yourdomainhasexpired.com
DNS2: dns2.yourdomainhasexpired.comRegistrant
Canadian Jewish Political Affairs Inc.Stephen Verrall
4600 Bathurst St #315
Toronto, ON (CA)
M2R3V3Administrative Contact
CIJA
Stephen Verrall
1075 Bay Street
Toronto, ON (CA)
M5S 2B1
4169257499
So all they’ve done is engaged in an elaborate charade to conceal the fact that CJPA is directly involved in this disgusting project which suggests that oral sex and Israeli tourism go hand in hand. Why are they hiding like this? I always believe that transparency is the best policy. If you do something, own it, explain it, defend it. That’s not apparently the approach of CJPA. That’s the problem with hasbara. It’s just like the infamous Steve Rosen aphorism (first sent in a memo to my good friend, M.J. Rosenberg, when they both worked at Aipac):
A lobby [Aipac] is like a night flower, it thrives in the dark and dies in the light.
And that’s the purpose of this blog, to force the Israel lobby into the light. Maybe it will die, maybe it won’t. But at least it will be in a place where everyone can see what it does and judge for itself as to whether it is credible or not.
H/t to readers Robin and Surcouf for research above and beyond.
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If this tasteless campaign had been successful, I’m sure the lobby would be crowing about it from the rooftops, but because it turned out to be an astronomical mistake, the rats are deserting the sinking ship. However, it’s not as easy to do as one would think. As you’ve shown, Richard, they’ve left a trail.
This may be a boon to those of us who would like to see some of these lobby groups lose power. I am sure there are at least a few people who will now think twice about donating their money to a group who has damaged Israel’s already poor public image. I would like to see fewer donations to groups who unduly influence governmental policy in their favor.
Now, we could use a similar campaign here in the US that would, shall we say, go limp in a similar fashion. AIPAC, what are you waiting for?
And just when you thought you heard it all, FINALLY someone in Canada IS taking responsibility
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/getting-the-big-picture-on-a-not-so-small-country/article1479074/
“Our students year-to-year on campus are so burdened by the politicization of the debate,” says Susan Davis, executive director of the Canadian Council for Israel and Jewish Advocacy, an arm of the United Jewish Appeal, which backed the effort. “It’s the idea of hearing about Israel in the bigger picture, Israel outside the conflict, Israel as a complete country. And the students are the most excited.”
Here is info on Susan Davis:
Yessir that is her background and she thinks this idea was just grand and notes how excited our students are……..
OK, looks to me like MAJOR damage control.
You’ve got it backwards. CJPAC (what you call CJPA) used to be part of the CIJA/CIC/CJC family (back when it was called CIJA-PAC). Thought they split about 6 years ago, some of it still exists on paper, and sometimes spills over into this sort of thing. But CJPAC doesn’t involve itself in marketing like this, they’ve adapted their focus, and most of what they do now is aim to get Jewish students involved in Canadian politics.
It would be kind of dumb to have a “charade” that CJPAC wasn’t involved, since CIJA is a much bigger and more robust organization than CJPAC.
This ad was made by CFJS – the Canadian Federation of Jewish Student, but paid for by CIJA.
The CIJA website has gone POOF.
Since CIJA bills itself as the Canadian equivalent of AIPAC I find it’s sort of interesting their website has disappeared.
This is Saturday, I found it was gone at 6 am this morning, had to have gone bye bye before that.
http://www.cija.ca/
BTW, Stephen Verrall whose name was on the registration for the sizedoesntmatter website until it was changed this week, is the IT director for CIJA as of Aug 2009 at least.
Holy crap. They must’ve gotten someone very, very mad with that video or something related to it. I’d like to get to the bottom of this.
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=169784
He doesn’t think this campaign is such a great idea either.
He is absolutely correct and has successfully articulated the entire issue. Kudos to this young man.
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