Big Aish on Campus: Laundering Kiruv Through Zionism

The NY Times reports,

When a Middle East discussion group organized a showing at New York University recently, it found that the distributors of “Obsession� were requiring those in attendance to register at IsraelActivism.com, and that digital pictures of the events be sent to Hasbara Fellowships, a group set up to counter anti-Israel sentiment on college campuses.

Failed Messiah notes that the Hasbara Fellowships are run by Aish HaTorah, and this Zionist front gives Aish HaTorah “a huge list of college-age Jews they can target with haredi missionary propaganda which, no doubt, is a major goal.â€?

Also – in case you missed it – see Failed Messiah’s story on where Big Aish recruits their kiruv machers. Apparently, if they were lying for and enabling Lanner, they are ready for Manhattan and online projects.

Shouldn’t they be in Hasbara?