The "red-baiting"of J Street continues. From ZOA. Note that they don’t have their facts straight, and don’t care either:
According to [West Bank colonist]… Lenny Ben-David, writing in Pajamas Media, [J Street executive director] Ben Ami served as senior vice-president of Fenton Communications which, in March 2009, signed contracts with a Qatari foundation to lead an 18-month long anti-Israel campaign in the United States with a special focus on university campuses. The actual text of the contract called for “An international public opinion awareness campaign that advocates for the accountability of those who participated in attacks against schools in Gaza.” It is not known if Ben-Ami severed his ties with Fenton in 2008 to take up his position with the then-newly formed J Street, whether he retained any role or holdings in Fenton thereafter or whether he was aware of the negotiations or the contract signed on March 12, 2009 with the Qatari foundation mounting the anti-Israel campaign. If so…
By coincidence it was David Fenton, now head of Fenton Communciation, but then an exceptionally bright and talented teenager who was working withLiberation News Service in NY who wrote me in London in 1970 asking me if I wanted to go to Lebanon and Jordan and take photographs in the Palestinian refugee camps for a book that LNS was planning to publish. That book never was published but the photographs appeared in the Palestine Reader, published by Ramparts Press in 1971.
Maybe liberal American Jews will finally see what these whacked out right-wing Jewish evangelists have been doing to the rest of us for decades.
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It would be wonderful if you SUPPORTED J Street, Blankfurt, rather than only object to “red-baiting”.
The fake Jewish liberal browbeating others? It’s like a Monty Python sketch symbolized in a blog comment.
You mean this J-Street?
link to counterpunch.org
What do you want him to do, Wutty? Send them money? Speak at their conference? Get J STREET tattoo’d across his back?
Isn’t objecting to dishonest portrayals of J Street a form of support? Or am I missing something?
I’d like him to say,
“I support J Street’s effort to get Israel to stop settlement expansion, to encourage the substantive reconciliation between Israel and the PA, and negotiate a fair and consented two-state solution.”
I support.
I agree with the first part of your statement, Richard. It would be great if J Street can actually credibly present American Jewish opinion as against the settlements.
But there you go demonizing Hamas (albeit, passive aggressively). The “fair and consented two-state solution” you invoke involves only the morally and politically bankrupt Palestinian Authority? Isn’t that the status quo?
I don’t support Israel’s existence as a Jewish state, Wittgenstein, never have and never will. Consequently I cannot support an organization that does. This does not, however, prevent me from pointing out when the Israel Uber Alles crowd that presently has our nation’s political apparatus in its clutches goes off the rails in attacking it.
I take it Richard Witty is an explicit, anapologetic and enthusiastic supporter of J-Street?
Wittgenstein . . .lol.
Blankfort, Witty, Blankfort.
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Makes me wonder how I’d behave if I were a J-streeter. I imagine I’d denoumce the Zionists. Then I wonder why the leftish cave so quickly. What do they fear from these louts? But cave they do. Perhaps they see themselves forced to live under a bridge. Always something to consider in a land where it’s every man for himself.