The Expected and the Unexpected

Israel advocacy expert will show you how to prepare for both

What will be the response to the “deal of the century”?

We can’t know how EU states will respond, much less Iran and the Arab states. What we do know is that, regardless of any new diplomatic initiatives, anti-Israel advocates will continue to peddle a view of the Middle East that is mendacious, myopic (see this cartoon from almost 30 years ago!) and sometimes even classically antisemitic.

If our response is limited to running around and putting out the fires caused by such lies, then we will discover that it is the arsonist who is calling all the shots. What’s needed is an overall strategy to regain control of the discourse and put the pyromaniac on the defensive.

Expert training

I have more than three decades of experience teaching Israel advocacy skills to a wide range of student and community groups from Israel and all over the English-speaking world.

This spring I will be in North America, running Israel advocacy skills training workshops for campus and community groups who want to upgrade their abilities to advocate for Israel.

Among those who have already profited from my workshops are:

Among those who have already profited from my workshops are:

• Israel’s diplomats and emissaries
• the staff of major Jewish organizations
• Jewish Federations and JCRCs
• high school and university students
• community activists from around the world

Subjects covered include:

• Why is it so hard to get people to accept our messages? How can we make them compelling? Learn about CENTRAL versus PERIPHERAL PROCESSING OF INFORMATION, and ANALYTICS versus HEURISTICS.
• CONCEPTUAL FRAMING: How to go off the defensive and seize the initiative.
• CAMPAIGNING: How to move from events to sustained campaigns.

These techniques will prepare advocates for Israel to deal with predictable calumnies as well as the surprises that are bound to confront us.

Dates and details

Dates of the spring tour of the US and Canada are April 19–30, 2020. if you would like me to visit your community, organization or school, please be in touch regarding fees, available dates and logistics.

David Olesker
Director
J·C·C·A·T
Jerusalem Center for Communication and Advocacy Training
Training advocates for Israel and public speakers for over three decades
14/3 Agassi St. · Jerusalem 9387714 · Israel
Tel. +972-2-651-2610 · WhatsApp +972-58-748-0451· Fax +972-77-470-2844
e-mail: jccat@iname.com · Website: https://jccat.org · About.me · LinkedIn · Facebook

Hone your skills as an
Israel Advocate

 

Advanced workshops from an Israeli expert
April 2018

 

If you think everyone is against you, are you paranoid… or just realistic?

Jews, of all people, could be forgiven for feeling that they have no friends. It may be understandable, but it’s not true. Despite the rise of neo-Nazi groups like National Action (that is more of a security threat than a political danger) and the ongoing concerns about antisemitism on the Left, most Britons do not harbor antisemitic attitudes to Jews or the Jewish State.

We are not widely hated

Despite justifiable feelings of being threatened, the statistics show no widespread support for antisemitism among the British public. That’s the good news. The bad news is that there is widespread indifference to antisemitism, especially among younger people. The UK’s Labour party is clearly experiencing a problem with antisemitism, one that was extensively publicized before the last election. Despite that publicity many young voters still chose to support it. If you had asked them if they hated Jews or Israel, the vast majority would have said, sincerely, that they didn’t. But is that enough when extremist hatred is coming closer to the center?

And if you thought that all the problems lay on the left of the political spectrum, then remember that the current government (regarded by many as being friendly to Israel) voted in the UN to condemn US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

We don’t need to be victims

I’ve spent decades training advocates for Israel around the world in a systematic method to produce effective and persuasive pro-Israel messaging. In April I’ll be coming the UK and will be available to visit your community, campus or organization in order to help you hone your Israel advocacy skills. I’ll show you:

• How to frame a message to give yourself the greatest chance of success.
• How to build coalitions at the grass roots to multiply the number of active supporters of Israel.
• How to go from the defensive to taking the initiative.
• How everyone can be an advocate in mass media, social media and one-on-one interactions.

When and where?

I will be in the UK from April 22 through May 2, giving training workshops in London, Manchester and Aberdeen, and I am open to visiting other locations. For details of available dates and applicable fees, please be in touch as soon as possible.

(NEW WORKSHOP! For the first time ever on an overseas trip I’m going to be offering hands-on training in public speaking. Details are here.)

David Olesker
Director
J·C·C·A·T
Jerusalem Center for Communication and Advocacy Training
Training advocates for Israel and public speakers for over three decades
14/3 Agassi St. · Jerusalem 9387714 · Israel
Tel. +972-2-651-2610 · Fax +972-77-470-2844
e-mail: jccat@iname.com · Website · About.me · LinkedIn · Facebook

David’s workshop brings a new and thoughtful perspective to advocacy. His presentation on having the information to advocate, techniques to convey the information, and a forum to advocate in, equips communities with the tools they need to become effective Israel advocates.

In my 25 years of work with media, communications, education and training within the Jewish community, I have met no one who does what David does even half as well.

Of the plethora of Jewish- and Israel-oriented educational programming I have implemented in forty states and a dozen other countries, David Olesker’s programs were the ones students most told me they found to have fundamentally changed and enhanced their understanding.

 

 

Eyeless about Gaza?

The whole world recognizes the reality of the dangerous dictatorship that is North Korea. This tyrannical regime oppresses its own citizens and threatens its neighbors. Almost every state in the world agrees that it must be dealt with; the only disagreement is over the best method.
Yet Hamas’s rule over Gaza is just as oppressive to those who live there, and just as threatening to Israel. But it is perceived very differently.

The fact that few see that a double standard is being applied is one more example of how the West has succumbed to anti-Israel rhetoric.

We don’t need to be victims

The fact that the enemies of Israel have exerted influence over public discourse doesn’t mean that they are right or that they are destined to win. On the contrary, the US and Canada have witnessed victories by major pro-Israel organizations and grassroots activists alike. US state legislatures and the Canadian Federal Parliament have condemned BDS. Anti-Israel student groups have been disciplined at the University of California and BDS defeated in a labor union on a Canadian campus. But anti-Israel groups are not, unfortunately, giving in and continued success against them demands information and skills.

I have more than three decades of experience teaching Israel advocacy skills to groups ranging from the staff of major Jewish organizations to campus volunteers.

I will be in North America in November 2017, running Israel advocacy skills training workshops for campus and community groups who want to upgrade their abilities to advocate for Israel. Among those who have already profited from my workshops are:

• Israel’s diplomats and emissaries,
• the staff of major Jewish organizations,
• Jewish Federations and JCRCs, as well as
• student and community activists around the world.

Subjects covered include:

• Why is it so hard to get people to accept our messages? How can we make them compelling? Learn about CENTRAL versus PERIPHERAL PROCESSING OF INFORMATION and ANALYTICS versus HEURISTICS.
• CONCEPTUAL FRAMING: How to go off the defensive and seize the initiative.
• CAMPAIGNING: How to move from events to sustained campaigns.

Dates and details

I’ll be in North America from November 12 through 22, 2017. If you would like me to visit your community, organization or school, please be in touch regarding fees, available dates and logistics.

(PUBLIC SPEAKING WORKSHOP! I’m also going to be offering hands-on training in public speaking. Details are here.)

David Olesker
Director
J·C·C·A·T
Jerusalem Center for Communication and Advocacy Training
Training advocates for Israel and public speakers for over three decades
POB 2534 · Jerusalem 91024 · Israel
Tel. +972-2-651-2610 · Fax +972-77-470-2844
e-mail: jccat@iname.com · Website · About.me · LinkedIn · Facebook

David’s workshop brings a new and thoughtful perspective to advocacy. His presentation on having the information to advocate, techniques to convey the information, and a forum to advocate in, equips communities with the tools they need to become effective Israel advocates.

In my 25 years of work with media, communications, education and training within the Jewish community, I have met no one who does what David does even half as well.

Of the plethora of Jewish- and Israel-oriented educational programming I have implemented in forty states and a dozen other countries, David Olesker’s programs were the ones students most told me they found to have fundamentally changed and enhanced their understanding.

 

BDS is on the Run

The campaign to demonize Israel to the point that people will boycott, divest from, and sanction the Jewish state has been running for nearly two decades. At least in the US and Canada it is now being beaten again and again. Legislatures around the United States have passed anti-BDS laws and resolutions, as has the Canadian Province of Ontario. Many campus BDS resolutions have been defeated (even in the UC system where they usually succeed). Even the hip young Canadian Prime Minister has condemned the antisemitic movement.

Victories don’t just happen

BDS has been pushed back by the hard work of a number of national organizations in the US and Canada along with front line campaigning by grass roots activists. Anti-Israel groups are not, unfortunately, giving up, and continued success against them demands dedication, information and skills. I have more than three decades of experience teaching Israel advocacy skills to groups ranging from the staff of major Jewish organizations to campus volunteers.

I will be in North America in November, running Israel advocacy skills training workshops for campus and community groups who want to upgrade their abilities to advocate for Israel. Among those who have profited from my workshops are

I will be in North America from at the beginning of February, running
Israel advocacy skills training workshops for campus and community
groups who want to upgrade their abilities to advocate for Israel. Among those who have profited from my workshops are

• Israel’s diplomats and emissaries,
• the staff of major Jewish organizations,
• Jewish Federations and JCRCs, as well as
• student and community activists around the world.

Subjects covered include:

• Why is it so hard to get people to accept our messages? How can we make them compelling? Learn about CENTRAL versus PERIPHERAL PROCESSING OF INFORMATION and ANALYTICS versus HEURISTICS.
• CONCEPTUAL FRAMING: How to go off the defensive and seize the initiative.
• CAMPAIGNING: How to move from events to sustained campaigns.

Dates and details

I know that some organizations plan their events well in advance, so I’m sending you this “heads up” to let you know that I’ll be in North America from November 12 through 22, 2017. If you would like me to visit your community, organization or school, please be in touch regarding fees, available dates and logistics.

David Olesker
Director
J·C·C·A·T
Jerusalem Center for Communication and Advocacy Training
Training advocates for Israel and public speakers for over three decades
POB 2534 · Jerusalem 91024 · Israel
Tel. +972-2-651-2610 · Fax +972-77-470-2844
e-mail: jccat@iname.com · Website · About.me · LinkedIn · Facebook

David’s workshop brings a new and thoughtful perspective to advocacy. His presentation on having the information to advocate, techniques to convey the information, and a forum to advocate in, equips communities with the tools they need to become effective Israel advocates.

In my 25 years of work with media, communications, education and training within the Jewish community, I have met no one who does what David does even half as well.

Of the plethora of Jewish- and Israel-oriented educational programming I have implemented in forty states and a dozen other countries, David Olesker’s programs were the ones students most told me they found to have fundamentally changed and enhanced their understanding.

Fake news? For Jews that’s so old!

 

Israeli expert will train you in Israel advocacy skills
March 2017

 

Lies that have legs

 

So, the rest of the world is waking up to the perils of unsubstantiated accusations. Whether it’s weird conspiracy theories about a pizza store or major news outlets publicizing an uncorroborated “dossier,” many are starting to realize what we Jews have known for a long time: an allegation doesn’t need to be proven in order to be dangerous. From Josephus having to explode Greek libels, through The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, down to allegations that Israelis plant knives on dead Palestinian Arabs to justify their murder, Jews have paid with their lives when the gullible accept the lies of the malicious.

Refuting these lies needs not only information, but the skills to use it effectively. That’s where I can help you.

The skills you need to succeed

When Israel’s supporters work skillfully and consistently, they have proven that they can effectively refute the lies and roll back the tide of BDS and other manifestations of Jew hatred.

With more than three decades of experience teaching Israel advocacy skills to supporters of Israel around the world, I can be an important resource to your community.

I will be in North America from at the beginning of February, running
Israel advocacy skills training workshops for campus and community
groups who want to upgrade their abilities to advocate for Israel. Among those who have profited from my workshops are

• Israel’s diplomats and emissaries,
• the staff of major Jewish organizations,
• Jewish Federations and JCRCs, as well as
• student and community activists around the world.

Subjects covered include:

• Why is it so hard to get people to accept our messages? How can we make them compelling? Learn about CENTRAL versus PERIPHERAL PROCESSING OF INFORMATION and ANALYTICS versus HEURISTICS.
• CONCEPTUAL FRAMING: How to go off the defensive and seize the initiative.
• CAMPAIGNING: How to move from events to sustained campaigns.

Dates and details

This will be my final trip of 2016-17 to North America and I’ll be there from March 19 through 29, 2017. If you would like me to visit your community, organization or school, please be in touch regarding fees, available dates and logistics.

(PUBLIC SPEAKING WORKSHOP! I’m going to be offering hands-on training in public speaking. Details are here.)

David Olesker
Director
J·C·C·A·T
Jerusalem Center for Communication and Advocacy Training
Training advocates for Israel and public speakers for over three decades
POB 2534 · Jerusalem 91024 · Israel
Tel. +972-2-651-2610 · Fax +972-77-470-2844
e-mail: jccat@iname.com · Website · About.me · LinkedIn · Facebook

David’s workshop brings a new and thoughtful perspective to advocacy. His presentation on having the information to advocate, techniques to convey the information, and a forum to advocate in, equips communities with the tools they need to become effective Israel advocates.

In my 25 years of work with media, communications, education and training within the Jewish community, I have met no one who does what David does even half as well.

Of the plethora of Jewish- and Israel-oriented educational programming I have implemented in forty states and a dozen other countries, David Olesker’s programs were the ones students most told me they found to have fundamentally changed and enhanced their understanding.

Staying on Message

An expert from Israel will help you perfect your Israel
advocacy skills in February

You may have been distracted…

…but Israel’s enemies have remained on message.

While the rest of the world focused on “trivial issues” like Brexit and the US elections, those who hate the Jewish people and their state have stayed focused on their message of hate. Wrapping themselves in the false flags of human rights, they have taken antisemitism out of the lunatic fringe of Western politics and are attempting to spread it to rational people.

It’s our job to keep antisemitism in the dark and distant corner where it belongs.

The skills you need to succeed

When Israel’s supporters work skillfully and consistently they have
proven that they can effectively stem the tide of BDS and other
manifestations of Jew hatred. But to be effective our advocates need to be well informed and, even more importantly, have the skills to use their knowledge successfully.

With more than three decades of experience teaching Israel advocacy skills to supporters of Israel around the world, I can be an important resource to your community.

I will be in the UK in February, running Israel advocacy skills training workshops for campus and community groups who want to upgrade their abilities to advocate for Israel. Among those who have profited from my workshops are:

• Israel’s diplomats and emissaries,
• the staff of major Jewish organizations,
• Jewish Community organizations in North America, the UK and Europe, as well as
• student and community activists around the world.

Subjects covered include:

• Why is it so hard to get people to accept our messages? How can we make them compelling? Learn about CENTRAL versus PERIPHERAL PROCESSING OF INFORMATION and ANALYTICS versus HEURISTICS.
• CONCEPTUAL FRAMING: How to go off the defensive and seize the initiative.
• CAMPAIGNING: How to move from events to sustained campaigns.

Dates and details

I’ll be in Britain in the first half of February 2017. If you would like me to visit your community, organization or school, please be in touch regarding fees, available dates and logistics.

(NEW WORKSHOP! For the first time ever on an overseas trip I’m going to be offering hands-on training in public speaking. Details are here.)

David Olesker
Director
J·C·C·A·T
Jerusalem Center for Communication and Advocacy Training
Training advocates for Israel and public speakers for over three decades
POB 2534 · Jerusalem 91024 · Israel
Tel. +972-2-651-2610 · Fax +972-77-470-2844
e-mail: jccat@iname.com · Website · About.me · LinkedIn · Facebook

David’s workshop brings a new and thoughtful perspective to advocacy. His presentation on having the information to advocate, techniques to convey the information, and a forum to advocate in, equips communities with the tools they need to become effective Israel advocates.

In my 25 years of work with media, communications, education and training within the Jewish community, I have met no one who does what David does even half as well.

Of the plethora of Jewish- and Israel-oriented educational programming I have implemented in forty states and a dozen other countries, David Olesker’s programs were the ones students most told me they found to have fundamentally changed and enhanced their understanding.

Staying on Message

 

An expert from Israel will help you perfect your Israel
advocacy skills in February

 

You may have been distracted by the elections…

 

…but Israel’s enemies have remained on message.

While the world’s leading democracy has been trying to decide what kind of leadership it wants (and the rest of the world has been trying to make sense of it) those who hate the Jewish people and their state have been focused on their message of hate. Wrapping themselves in the false flags of human rights or conservative values, they have taken antisemitism out of the lunatic fringe of western politics and are attempting to spread it to rational people.

It’s our job to keep antisemitism in the dark and distant corner where it belongs.

The skills you need to succeed

When Israel’s supporters work skillfully and consistently they have
proven that they can effectively stem the tide of BDS and other
manifestations of Jew hatred. But to be effective our advocates need to be well informed and, even more importantly, have the skills to use their knowledge successfully.

With more than three decades of experience teaching Israel advocacy skills to supporters of Israel around the world, I can be an important resource to your community.

I will be in North America from at the beginning of February, running
Israel advocacy skills training workshops for campus and community
groups who want to upgrade their abilities to advocate for Israel. Among those who have profited from my workshops are

• Israel’s diplomats and emissaries,
• the staff of major Jewish organizations,
• Jewish Federations and JCRCs, as well as
• student and community activists around the world.

Subjects covered include:

• Why is it so hard to get people to accept our messages? How can we make them compelling? Learn about CENTRAL versus PERIPHERAL PROCESSING OF INFORMATION and ANALYTICS versus HEURISTICS.
• CONCEPTUAL FRAMING: How to go off the defensive and seize the initiative.
• CAMPAIGNING: How to move from events to sustained campaigns.

Dates and details

I’ll be in North America from January 29 through February 8,
2017. If you would like me to visit your, community, organization or
school, please be in touch regarding fees, available dates and
logistics.

(NEW WORKSHOP! For the first time ever on an
overseas trip I’m going to be offering hands-on training in public
speaking. Details are here.)

David Olesker
Director
J·C·C·A·T
Jerusalem Center for Communication and Advocacy Training
Training advocates for Israel and public speakers for over three decades
POB 2534 · Jerusalem 91024 · Israel
Tel. +972-2-651-2610 · Fax +972-77-470-2844
e-mail: jccat@iname.com · Website · About.me · LinkedIn · Facebook

David’s workshop brings a new and thoughtful perspective to advocacy. His presentation on having the information to advocate, techniques to convey the information, and a forum to advocate in, equips communities with the tools they need to become effective Israel advocates.

In my 25 years of work with media, communications, education and training within the Jewish community, I have met no one who does what David does even half as well.

Of the plethora of Jewish- and Israel-oriented educational programming I have implemented in forty states and a dozen other countries, David Olesker’s programs were the ones students most told me they found to have fundamentally changed and enhanced their understanding.

Standing up to the BDS bogey man

Prepare your community with Israel advocacy skills

We are rightly outraged by the lies told about Israel. Some of these are easily refuted (like the teenaged terrorist allegedly “executed” by Israel, who nonetheless lived and admitted to his crime). Others require more time and effort (like the allegation that Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza is illegal). But we shouldn’t let our outrage fool us into thinking that the liars are winning. Despite their “best” efforts,

1. Cultural boycotts have had little impact.
2. Attempts at academic boycotts seem to backfire.
3. Economic and political ostracism has little or no impact.

If that’s the case, if the BDS campaign has had such little effect on Israel they have had to invent victories, why do we pay so much attention to them?

Bullies at work

The BDS movement is one manifestation of the campaign to delegitimatize the Jewish State and its supporters. They have two immediate goals:

1. Just as Holocaust deniers deem it a victory when they make the reality of the Final Solution the subject of debate, so too do the new anti-Semites claim victory when they call the national rights of the Jews into question.
2. Since the BDSers can’t harm Israel directly, they seek to intimidate and bully Israel’s supporters abroad. The worst examples of this appear on campus but the problem isn’t limited to students.

Skills

When Israel’s supporters work skillfully and consistently they can effectively stem the tide of BDS. But to do so our advocates need to be informed and, even more importantly, have the skills to use that information effectively.

North America in November 2016

With more than three decades of experience teaching Israel advocacy skills to supporters of Israel around the world, I can be an important resource to your community.

I will be in North America in November, presenting Israel advocacy skills training workshops to campus and community groups who want to upgrade their abilities to advocate for Israel. Among those who have profited from my workshops are Israel’s diplomats and emissaries, the staff of major Jewish organizations, Jewish Federations and JCRCs, as well as student and community activists around the world. Subjects covered include:

• Why is it so hard to get people to accept our messages? How can we make them compelling? Learn about CENTRAL versus PERIPHERAL PROCESSING OF INFORMATION and ANALYTICS versus HEURISTICS.
• CONCEPTUAL FRAMING: How to go off the defensive and seize the initiative.
• CAMPAIGNING: How to move from events to sustained campaigns.

Dates and details

I’ll be in North America from November 6 through 16, 2016. If you would like me to visit your school, community or organization, please be in touch regarding fees, available dates and logistics.

David Olesker
Director
J·C·C·A·T
Jerusalem Center for Communication and Advocacy Training
Training advocates for Israel and public speakers for over three decades
POB 2534 · Jerusalem 91024 · Israel
Tel. +972-2-651-2610 · Fax +972-77-470-2844
e-mail: jccat@iname.com · Website · About.me · LinkedIn · Facebook

David’s workshop brings a new and thoughtful perspective to advocacy. His presentation on having the information to advocate, techniques to convey the information, and a forum to advocate in, equips communities with the tools they need to become effective Israel advocates.

In my 25 years of work with media, communications, education and training within the Jewish community, I have met no one who does what David does even half as well.

Of the plethora of Jewish- and Israel-oriented educational programming I have implemented in forty states and a dozen other countries, David Olesker’s programs were the ones students most told me they found to have fundamentally changed and enhanced their understanding.

I want to go somewhere at some time and be paid for it.