Comments on BlueTruth: The J Street Lobby-- How Big Is Their Tent?

JStreet is led by an expat Israeli named Ben Ami w...

2008-07-10T18:10:00.000-07:00

JStreet is led by an expat Israeli named Ben Ami who was an executive with Qorvis Communications in Washington DC, a PR firm funded by and ledby the Saudis. Qorvis was fined for running to full page ads in the washington Post and NY Tiems claiming to be run by Progressive Jews who wanted Israel to withdraw to 1949 border. The ads resulted in a fine for Qorvis not reporting themseles as foreign agents when it was revealed the Saudis paid for the ads.

J Street, like JVP is an Arab front to try and separate JEwish support for Israel here in the United States from helping ISrael to survive. Its activists are wannabe communist revolutionaries and Jews by descent only who are now anti-Semites. They are in no way like AIPAC or jsut some alternate voice.

Interesting thoughts. I personally find all nation...

2008-05-02T11:48:00.000-07:00

Interesting thoughts. I personally find all national anthems problematic (and confess to generally being uncomfortable with overt displays of patriotism/nationalism, but that might just be because I did not grow up with any real exposure to them.

While I can't disagree with your analysis that J-Street has some uphill battles to fight, I think (hope?) that its larger priority will not be to provide political cover for those critical of Israel but rather to encourage moderate to left-wing Jews who feel that they don't belong with the AIPAC crowd, who want peace for Israel but also the Palestinians, etc., a place they can be comfortable and a mechanism to be pro-Israel while not abandoning or ignoring their other values.

I don't think J Street and AIPAC need to dovetail perfectly to achieve the goal of getting more American Jews involved in supporting Israel- and in fact, the more support both organizations can claim, the better Jews can underscore the common values and priorities of all.

Divide and Conquer. We've seen it before "For Ame...

2008-05-01T10:26:00.000-07:00

Divide and Conquer. We've seen it before

"For Americans to be persuaded [to support the Palestinian cause]," says Hany Khalil, organizing coordinator for United for Peace and Justice, a national antiwar organization that opposes the Israeli occupation, "we have to build support across all sectors of the United States, and that will never happen without a significant and visible split within the Jewish community."

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