Posted on 01/26/2011 3:51:15 PM PST by SJackson
A liberal Jewish congressman tore into the liberal Jewish lobbying firm J Street this week, saying the organization's "brains have fallen out" after it urged the Obama administration not to veto a proposed U.N. resolution condemning Israel.
Rep. Gary Ackerman, D-N.Y., effectively cut ties with J Street, a group that raised campaign money for him last year, in a searing press release Tuesday. The tipping point was the group's call for the administration to clear the way for a Palestinian-backed proposal at the U.N. Security Council condemning Israel's settlement expansion.
"I've come to the conclusion that J-Street is not an organization with which I wish to be associated," Ackerman said.
J Street bills itself as the voice for "pro-Israel, pro-peace Americans," and is often critical of Israel's policies in the process. That hasn't stopped Ackerman from associating with the group before, but the organization's stance on the resolution triggered a harsh response.
"The decision to endorse the Palestinian and Arab effort to condemn Israel in the U.N. Security Council is not the choice of a concerned friend trying to help. It is rather the befuddled choice of an organization so open-minded about what constitutes support for Israel that its brains have fallen out," he said. "America really does need a smart, credible, politically active organization that is as aggressively pro-peace as it is pro-Israel. Unfortunately, J-Street ain't it."
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I seriously doubt Carter considers his position a mistake. As he's stated publicly, had he been reelected, he'd have brought the conflict to a Final Solution. I doubt he considered his words, they came naturally.
J Street: Soros funded kapos.
The Nazi collaborator Soros and the utter moral reprobrate. These are the upstanding citizens of the world who support this worse than judenrat organization.
Cohen of Tenn. is also a fave of J Street.
A special place in hell for these betrayers and deceivers.
Isn’t J street financed and backed by that ex Kapo Soros? If he led jews into the ovens before, is there any wonder he’s at it again?
Maybe a few other prominent pro-Israel Jewish 'Rats will follow his lead and divorce themselves from J Street, but I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for them to do so.
Eric Alterman, a vile Stalinist who writes for the rag known as The Nation, is a supporter of J. Street. Shame on all of them!
...saying the organization's "brains have fallen out" after it urged the Obama administration not to veto a proposed U.N. resolution condemning Israel. Rep. Gary Ackerman, D-N.Y., effectively cut ties with J Street, a group that raised campaign money for him last year... "I've come to the conclusion that J-Street is not an organization with which I wish to be associated," Ackerman said... "The decision to endorse the Palestinian and Arab effort to condemn Israel in the U.N. Security Council is not the choice of a concerned friend trying to help. It is rather the befuddled choice of an organization so open-minded about what constitutes support for Israel that its brains have fallen out," he said. "America really does need a smart, credible, politically active organization that is as aggressively pro-peace as it is pro-Israel. Unfortunately, J-Street ain't it."IOW, Ackerman is just looking for another organization that does the same job, but doesn't have the visibility. It was always clear and obvious exactly what J Street is, and Ackerman's limp complaints are too little, too late. The time to condemn J Street was when it was organized at the behest of sonderkommando George Soros, and Ackerman obviously can't be trusted by his friends, either.
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