Statement of Purpose

The purpose of this site is to alert the world to the anti-Jewish/anti-Israeli propaganda on the Internet. To do this, we list alerts of websites of organizations and people who are using the Internet to work with Israel's enemies to destroy Israel as a Jewish State and to promote anti-Semitism, either openly or covertly. 

 

Our alerts list the URL, a contact address if available, and a quotation from the site which demonstrates why it was selected.  Our alerts often have a personal comment as well, urging people to write the people running these sites (except for terrorist groups) to try and inform them of the truth (or at least, to let them know that every hit is not from a supporter).  The most dangerous sites are often given a lightning bolt icon but that decision is often somewhat arbitrary.  However, our decisions to alert people to a site is determined by specific criteria -- they are either visibly promoting anti-Israel/anti-Jewish propaganda or they aren't. 

 

The other aspect of the JWD is the "Friends of Israel" category which lists groups who are all fighting for Israel's survival as a Jewish State. The only requirement for inclusion is that they do not compromise their goal by advocating "negotiation" with Israel's sworn enemies.  Types of organizations include media watch groups, historical information sites, and hasbera-fighting groups.  The sites' philosophies range from secular Zionists to strictly Orthodox. (I am a strong Conservative Jew but I try not to let that influence me.)  This category does include Christian Zionist sites, but it does NOT include Christian Evangelist ones, who are given alerts of their own because we believe that, while they are not out to destroy the physical State of Israel, they are out to destroy its soul as a Jewish State.  

 

We should make it clear that, in order to be given an alert, a Christian group has to do more than just BELIEVE that it is a Christian's duty to proselytize; the group has to be actively working to convert Jews and to be deliberately using Israel's political troubles to further their goals.  We especially target so-called "Jewish-Christians/messianic jews" in order to demonstrate their mendacity when they use Jewish symbols and rituals in their attempts to pollute Judaism itself.  (My late partner and I actually met when we were active anti-missionaries which might explain our applying these standards to Christian sites.)  We do not list individual posts in forums or chat rooms (or hate letters), although we might list the organization sponsoring them, no matter what is said; the quote cited has to have a direct link in order to be included.

 

We can sum up the principles of the JWD as our determination to use truth and historical knowledge to fight the propaganda of Israel's enemies on the Internet as best as we can.  We will not compromise those goals, whether for misplaced trust in "friends" or for "negotiations" with Israel's enemies. 

 

Am Yisroel Chai!