[justiceseeker93]

The story set off a wave of reaction on the Internet and in the US Jewish press. James Besser, Washington correspondent for the New York Jewish Week, wrote Sunday that J Street deceived him about receiving support for Mr. Soros.

"I was one of the many journalists who asked the question and received in return something significantly less than the truth," Mr. Besser wrote. OK, it was a lie."

Let's not get the wrong impression about Besser's reaction to this. It's not that Besser is particularly teed off at Soros or J Street. It's just that Besser is concerned that J Street's image, one that Besser and the rest of his cohorts on the Jewish left have been doing their best to build up in the last 2 to 3 years, will be tarnished.

Here is Besser in his own words:

"I don't happen to think that Soros in the evil incarnate; his philanthropy has done a huge amount of good in the world. He has become a favorite whipping boy for the right, and a lot of that has seeped into the general political culture.

"I don't think he's anti-Israel, either - but there's little question his views on Israel are outside the mainstream that J Street claims to represent."

[Eleutheria5]

No. How could robbing people on their way to Auschwitz via the cattle-car express be evil incarnate? It was just a job he had when he was 14. I can’t understand how he became a whipping boy for the right.

[ssaftler]

Here is Besser in his own words:

"I don't happen to think that Soros in the evil incarnate; his philanthropy has done a huge amount of good in the world. He has become a favorite whipping boy for the right, and a lot of that has seeped into the general political culture.

Don't tell me, let me guess. James Besser's father was Joe. Only a Stooge (or a son-of-a-stooge) could believe this crapola.

[rmlew]

And Besser is an arrogant leftist.