{"id":18833,"date":"2015-03-06T06:28:40","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T06:28:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rabbi-apologizes-for-ad-accusing-susan-rice-of\/"},"modified":"2015-03-06T06:28:27","modified_gmt":"2015-03-06T06:28:27","slug":"rabbi-apologizes-for-ad-accusing-susan-rice-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rabbi-apologizes-for-ad-accusing-susan-rice-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Rabbi apologizes for ad accusing Susan Rice of being blind to genocide"},"content":{"rendered":"
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{Rabbi Shmuley Boteach apologized for running a full-page advertisement in the New York Times accusing National Security Adviser Susan Rice of turning a blind eye to genocide, juxtaposing a photo of her face next to skulls, daily Haaretz reported on Thursday.}<\/p>\n

\u201cI personally want to offer an apology to anyone who was offended by our organization\u2019s ad about National Security Advisor Susan Rice,\u201d Boteach said Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur disagreement with Ms. Rice is strictly over policy. It was construed by some as a personal attack that is certainly and absolutely not its intent.\u201d<\/p>\n

The ad, which ran in the US ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Congress speech last Tuesday, accused Rice of turning a blind eye to genocide.<\/p>\n

\u201cSusan Rice has a blind spot: Genocide,\u201d said the ad appearing in Saturday\u2019s New York Times.<\/p>\n

The ad noted Rice\u2019s recent accusation that Netanyahu’s speech damages the fabric of US-Israel relations and a controversy from the 1990s, when Rice was on President Bill Clinton\u2019s staff and reportedly advised against describing the mass killings in Rwanda as \u201cgenocide.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMs. Rice may be blind to the issue of genocide, but should treat our ally with at least as much diplomatic courtesy as she does the committed enemy of both our nations,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

Jewish groups across the political spectrum rushed to condemn the ad. The American Jewish Committee called it \u201crevolting,\u201d the Anti-Defamation League called it \u201cspurious and perverse,\u201d the Jewish Federations of North America called it \u201coutrageous.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marshall Wittmann, the spokesman for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, said, \u201cAd hominem attacks should have no place in our discourse.\u201d<\/p>\n

Agencies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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