Katy bar the door: neocon smears ‘J Street’ as ‘enemy within’

Crazy attack on J Street by Israel lobbyist James Lewis, who loves Nazi analogies. Says my tipster, Mark Wauck, you’ll get most of the way through this before you’ll find out it’s really about J Street and an attempt to brand it as "the enemy within."

Today we are seeing a Second Cold War, but the enemy is within, just as it was after World War Two. We are seeing outright front organizations again. "J Street" is a classical front organization, which should be called "J  Front." It’s a fraud, claiming to represent people who never voted for them. George Soros, who sets up many of these phony fronts, is a man who accommodated the Nazis, among other distinctions. He has never displayed a smidgen of guilt for his role in the the disposition of Jewish possessions after their owners were arrested and sent to death camps — men, women, and children. Normal Holocaust survivors feel tremendous guilt; Soros sounds jaunty and devil-may-care about the murderous cannibalism of those years. He made out well, and started his long road to fortune. Today he is financing Obama’s "Coup from Above," with the same insouciance with which he betrayed his Jewish relatives in Hungary.

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  1. potsherd says:

    It’s a full-blown chorus: link to haaretz.com

    Isi Leibler:

    In this context, I was also critical of J Street not because of their views but their preposterously false attempts to portray themselves as pro-Israel. J Street has never endorsed any substantive Israel government policies and their principal objective is to lobby the Obama administration to exert more pressure on Israel to provide additional unilateral concessions. They opposed Israel’s role in the Gaza war, lobbied Congress to oppose sanctions against Iran and recently urged Congress to water down a resolution criticizing the Goldstone report. The “pro-Israel, pro-peace” pretensions of J Street are reminiscent of the Jewish communists who sponsored state sponsored Soviet anti-Semitism in the guise of promoting bogus “peace” campaigns.

  2. Shmuel says:

    Soros was 13-14 years old during the Nazi occupation of Hungary. Is that when he was supposed to have “accommodated” them? It gets very confusing when all of the conspiracy theories – left-right-Jewish-anti-Semitic-Nazis-Zionists-Arabs – are served up together.

  3. MRW says:

    What is Lewis talking about? “He [Soros] has never displayed a smidgen of guilt for his role in the the disposition of Jewish possessions after their owners were arrested and sent to death camps — men, women, and children.”

    Soros was 10 years old when the war started, and 15 when it ended. When did he have control over “the disposition of Jewish possessions” of people sent to the death camps? Is Lewis referring to this from Wikipedia? Because if he is, he’s grossly unfair.

    Soros was thirteen years old in March 1944 when Nazi Germany took military control over Hungary.[11] For two days, Soros worked for the Jewish Council,[4] which had been established during the Nazi occupation of Hungary to forcibly carry out Nazi and Hungarian government anti-Jewish measures. Soros later described this time to writer Michael Lewis:

    The Jewish Council asked the little kids to hand out the deportation notices. I was told to go to the Jewish Council. And there I was given these small slips of paper…It said report to the rabbi seminary at 9 a.m….And I was given this list of names. I took this piece of paper to my father. He instantly recognized it. This was a list of Hungarian Jewish lawyers. He said, “You deliver the slips of paper and tell the people that if they report they will be deported.[12]

    To avoid his son’s being apprehended by the Nazis, Soros’s father paid a Ministry of Agriculture employee to have Soros spend the summer of 1944 living with him and posing as the godson. Young Soros had to hide his Jewishness even as the official was overseeing the confiscation of Jewish property.[13]

    • The Jewish Council which Soros refers to was headed by Reszo Kasztner whose collaboration with the Nazis was detailed in the trial of an 86-year old Hungarian survivor who correctly described Kasztner as such in Israel after the war and who was prosecuted for libel by the Ben-Gurion government for telling the truth since Kasztner, now an important journalist in Israel, was close to the Mapai government. Kasztner continued to have the deportation notices passed out to the Hungarian Jews even though he knew they were headed to their death. In exchange, he was allowed by the Nazis to send to Palestine 1200 Jewish notables including members of his family. Had those Jews who boarded the trains for Auschwitz, thanks to Kasztner, known of what awaited them on the other end they could have fled across the border to meet the advancing Russian troops.

      The trial which centered on his testimony on behalf of Nazi SS General Kurt Becher at Nuremberg, however, quickly turned on Kasztner’s activities so the desperate Ben-Gurion government brought in its attorney general to take over the prosecution. He failed and the judge acquitted the 86-year old defendant. Ben-Gurion, whose Zionist operation had itself colluded with the Nazis throughout the 30s, appealed the decision and got it reversed but it was too late to save Kasztner who was assassinated the day before the decision was announced. Ben Hecht’s “Perfidy” provides a vivid description of the trial as well as a record of the mainstream Zionists’ efforts to sabotage the rescue of Jews from Nazi-occupied Europe.

      It is significant that there has been an ongoing campaign by the Zionist community to rehabilitate the reputation of Kasztner who had changed his first name to Israel upon arriving there after the war.

  4. Colin Murray says:

    One would think that discussion of ‘enemies within’ would be avoided by members of the Israeli Lobby, lest they give the restless natives any ideas.

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