Michael Goldfarb of the neoconservative Weekly Standard (which is run by William Kristol, who fears a loss of power) is leading the campaign to undermine J Street’s conference in two weeks. Here he picks up reports that another congressman, Arkansas’s Mike Ross, is not going to be attending the fete. Then he reveals his role, shitstirrer:
THE WEEKLY STANDARD put a call in to another member of the Arkansas delegation, Senator Blanche Lincoln, asking her staff whether they might have been the victim of the same confusion — whether they intended to lend the senator’s name to an organization that advocates for engagement with Hamas and against sanctions on Iran. We will update when her office responds.
I guess Goldfarb has his work cut out for him, calling a lot of folks these next couple weeks. Funny enough, this is what non-Zionists did to Herzl 115 years ago, when he was starting his Zionist conferences, tried to undermine him at every turn. On its site, J Street says, accurately:
Since our founding, accusations about J Street and our leadership have morphed from whispered lies to stated fact in attacks on J Street in various right-leaning publications, organizations, and blogs.
