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February 24, 2010 at 15:04 (Canada, Guest Blog, Hasbara, Israel, Tourism)

Size Doesn’t Matter: Israel’s Porno Tourism Promotion

Israel has annexed the West Bank and Gaza in map featured in Size Doesn’t Matter video

Israel’s hasbara and tourism promotions are the gift that keeps on giving as far as this blogger is concerned.  I hope you’ve all seen the atrocious video I offered here a few days ago in which a lissome lass tells her lad she can’t possibly go “down” on him because it’s “too small.”  The up shot of all this double entendre is of course that Israel may have a small, er, no…rather that Israel may be small, but that it is MIGHTY!!

There have been some rather delectable developments in the aftermath of this viral video which seems to have infected all those involved with it in a case of the jitters.  Shalomlife, a Canadian Jewish news portal, followed up on the story and managed to get an MFA spokesperson to deny the Size Doesn’t Matter campaign has anything to do with it or the consulate:

Kadosh said that a conversation with the Israeli consulate in Toronto “indicated that the Consulate had no part in the movie, did not initiate it and did not participate in its planning or its distribution.”

As I noted in my earlier post, this is given the lie by a rapturous announcement by the very same MFA and consulate that they were partnering with three wealthy Canadian Jewish pro-Israel individuals in a long-term rebranding campaign on Israel’s behalf of which the Toronto Film Festival’s controversial fete of Tel Aviv’s 100th birthday was but the start.

The student ostensibly behind the Small Penises Aren’t That Bad campaign, Rebecca Cherniak, is falling all over herself to deny that the organized Canadian Jewish community had anything to do with the video:

Rebecca Cherniak, coordinator of the campaign and chair of Israel affairs for the Canadian Federation of Jewish Students also confirms that Size Doesn’t Matter is an initiative strictly run by students, not by CIJA. She said that they have not been in contact with any Israeli ministers or diplomats.

A few problems with that statement.  My trusty informal researcher Robin notes that Cherniak is president of McMaster University’s Israel on Campus chapter. On the group’s website it says clear as day:

McMaster Israel On Campus thanks the Canadian Council for Israel and Jewish Advocacy (CIJA) for their generous contribution, which made this website possible.

And if you need any further evidence that this campaign is tied directly into Canada’s Israel lobby, note that the Size Doesn’t Matter domain was registered to:

Domain name: sizedoesntmatter.ca
Domain number: 2929497
Approval date: 2009/07/13
Renewal date: 2010/07/13
Updated date: 2009/12/10

Registrar:
Name: Internic.ca Inc.
Number: 29

Registrant:
Name: Canadian Jewish Political Affairs Inc.
Number: 1262044

Administrative contact:
Name: Rob Hall

Canadian Jewish Public Affairs is an Israel advocacy outfit whose board chair is none other than Joel Reitman, of the famed Canadian Reitman real estate family. Reitman is one of the three gentlemen I mentioned above partnering in the MFA’s Canadian rebranding project. So much for plausible deniability. Size Doesn’t Matter is about as much of a student-run project as the old Mickey Mouse Club TV show was run by the mouseketeers themselves (sorry for dating myself).

Cherniak embarrasses herself further by actually claiming the reason she produced the video was because Israel’s image suffered among the general public (and this was going to make it right?):

“We were very dismayed by the way that Israel is represented in the media,” she says. “We think students are more critical and want to understand more than the typical slogans they see. We put together a campaign that grabs people’s attentions.”

So she made the video for all those students out there thirsting for critical thinking about Israel, which is why the underlying theme is oral sex.  As for grabbing peoples’ attention (and crotches?)–that she did.

I’m a little sorry that someone complained to Vimeo about the SDM video and it was inexplicably pulled due to “explicit sexual content.”  I could see if it’d been pulled due to excruciating bad taste.  But calling this “explicit” leads one to believe that Vimeo is run by some extreme prudes.  Does this mean, by the way, that hasbara is pornographic or just THIS hasbara?

Thankfully, YouTube isn’t quite as prudish (yet).  People, don’t complain about this video.  It’s a gift.  In fact, if any of you are Canadians and have any spare change you might want to make a designated gift to one of these two estimable pro-Israel organizations that will help fund more of these videos.

And on that note, there are future videos in store for us in this series including one that takes us “from the office to the bedroom.”  I can’t wait!

Crossposted FROM

The video used in the campaign follows….. THIS IS FOR MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY!

See my original post on this matter HERE.