{"id":1375932,"date":"2022-03-14T13:09:30","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T17:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1375932"},"modified":"2022-03-14T13:09:35","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T17:09:35","slug":"environmentalists-give-in-to-anti-semitic-pressure-campaign-cancel-israel-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/environmentalists-give-in-to-anti-semitic-pressure-campaign-cancel-israel-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Environmentalists Give in to Anti-Semitic Pressure Campaign, Cancel Israel Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fenvironmentalists-give-in-to-anti-semitic-pressure-campaign-cancel-israel-trip%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1375932&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>The environmentalist group Sierra Club has scrapped scheduled trips to Israel under pressure from left-wing anti-Israel organizations.<\/p>\n<p>In an email distributed by the group and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jweekly.com\/2022\/03\/11\/sierra-club-cancels-trips-to-israel-at-urging-of-progressive-groups\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">obtained<\/a> by the <em>Jewish News of Northern California<\/em>, the Sierra Club announced that it was canceling the trips after facing accusations from activists that it was &#8220;greenwashing the conflict&#8221; and &#8220;providing legitimacy to the Israeli state, which is engaged in apartheid against the Palestinian people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A &#8220;Jewish-American activist&#8221; reached out to the Sierra Club to pressure it to cancel trips to Israel, the group said. After the Sierra Club rebuffed the demands, the activist enlisted a host of left-wing and anti-Israel groups, including Jewish Voice for Peace, the Sunrise Movement, and the Movement for Black Lives, in a pressure campaign against the environmentalist group.<\/p>\n<p>Sierra Club officials met with members of the anti-Israel coalition, &#8220;who insisted that there was no room for compromise&#8221; and threatened to &#8220;go public that the organization was violating the organizational values it recently rolled out&#8221; if it did not promptly cancel the Israel trips.<\/p>\n<p>Sierra Club acting executive director Dan Chu agreed to scrap the trips on the recommendation of two members of a group he appointed to address the demands.<\/p>\n<p>The organization no longer lists its Israel trips on its website&#8217;s list of upcoming trips, according to the <em>Jewish News of Northern California<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>A Jewish member of the Sierra Club, David Neumann, told the <em>Jewish News of Northern California<\/em> that he&#8217;s disappointed by the organization&#8217;s embrace of progressive politics and radical views.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Obviously, people who care about the environment aren&#8217;t necessarily progressives,&#8221; Neumann said. &#8220;You can care about the environment and have different political views. We have Republicans among us. \u2026 These groups that call Israel an apartheid state\u2014that&#8217;s so far out there. That&#8217;s so not mainstream. That&#8217;s crazy.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The environmentalist group Sierra Club has scrapped scheduled trips to Israel under pressure from left-wing anti-Israel organizations. 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