That hateful Rachel Abrams rant against Palestinians continues to resonate, in large part because she’s the wife of Elliott Abrams. You know that the neocons are on the run because J Street, which usually avoids hot topics, has issued a sharp condemnation of the remarks, saying that they put Abrams and the Emergency Committee for Israel outside the “pro-Israel” community. Well I’ll take anything I can get to push the neocons out of the discourse. Jeremy Ben-Ami:
“J Street is appalled by the unhinged rant filled with incitement and hate speech posted this past week by the founder of the Emergency Committee for Israel, Rachel Abrams, on her personal blog….
It is bad enough that the Emergency Committee for Israel already has a proven track record of making Israel a wedge issue in American politics. If they hope to have any credible claim to a place in the pro-Israel community, they must cut ties with Ms. Abrams immediately.
If they don’t, we call on politicians and community leaders to refuse any further connection with ECI.”
I see that J Street doesn’t like that the Emergency Committee has politicized support for Israel. That’s the part I like: getting Israel into the political debate…
Now maybe they can be gotten to take a stand against Marty Peretz’s next unhinged rant.
And the Dersh’s. And — too much to ask — Bibi’s or Lieberman’s.
It would be good catch. Then they could go after advocates of “Samson options” in Freeman Center for Strategic studies, and then we could prepare a longer list.
J Street only objects to the “posting” – not the actual comments.
J street is whack. They are kind of like a rapist who uses a condom………
It’s nice. It’s going to cause them to be cautious for 3 months but it’s nice. Neoconservatism has been obnoxious and indefensible since the beginning to those paying attention but this kind of talk makes it easy to explain to everybody.