If J Street’s self-description as “pro-Israel” is to be accepted, we must truly be living in wonderl
If J Street’s self-description as “pro-Israel” is to be accepted, we must truly be living in wonderland.
Despite widespread predictions to the contrary, J Street failed dismally to gain admission into the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations (Presidents Conference). It was unable to obtain the constitutionally required two-thirds majority, and could not even muster a simple majority. Only a third of the constituents supported its affiliation.
An embittered J Street and its allies have launched a campaign seeking to portray the organization as a martyr, claiming it was blackballed by a fanatically rightwing Jewish establishment which is blindly supportive of Israel, brooks no dissent in its ranks and is effectively a bigoted, reactionary body undermining the pluralism and tolerance of the American Jewish community. The reality is that the Presidents Conference also includes left-wing organizations such as Americans for Peace Now, Ameinu and the Jewish Labor Committee. It is also noteworthy that Rabbi Meir Kahane’s right-wing Jewish Defense League was previously excluded.
There have even been false allegations that the voting was rigged. In fact, J Street was given a fair hearing and overwhelmingly rejected by a majority of organizations, many of whom were neither right-wing nor Orthodox.
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Candidly-speaking-The-fake-martyrdom-of-J-Street-351597
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Posted here because I'm sure that the half of you not part of our community consider this a part of your business and those not part of our community or the Palestinian or Muslim community definitely a part of your obsession with us... 
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Aipac Youth 
And I could have sworn you were a fan, as a good little liberal Zionist.
What was the rest of that about?