The days of being disappointed in J Street are long gone, but this does seem to be a new low. First the JTA:
Alan Elsner, a veteran journalist whose last job was helping to helm The Israel Project, joined J Street as its top spokesman.
Elsner was executive director of The Israel Project until September, when Josh Block, the former spokesman for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, was named TIP president.
Elsner, a longtime Reuters journalist and a dual U.S.-Israeli citizen, is J Street’s latest hire from a centrist pro-Israel group, and probably the highest profile.
The statement announcing Elsner’s hire on Monday said there was no contradiction between his strong pro-Israel credentials and the group, which advocates a more assertive U.S. role in bringing about Israeli-Arab peace and an Israeli retreat from settlement building.
Want a sample of Elsner’s work at The Israel Project? Here’s the intro to a primer he authored on “Newt Gingrich and the Palestinian Culture of Hate“:
Republican Presidential candidates Newt Gingrich and Michele Bachmann both raised the way Palestinians teach their children to hate Israelis and Jews in last weekend’s GOP debate. Here are some facts about this Palestinian “culture of hate.”
And the hate wasn’t limited to just Palestinians. Here is Elsner writing on how the Arab world is responding to the Republican primary:
Their commentaries show that the “culture of hate” that still persists in much of the Arab world toward Jews and Israel also colors views toward the U.S. democratic process.
J Street, how exactly do these attitudes redefine what it means to be pro-Israel in America? Actually, seems par for the course.
The Israeli pirates parrot.
“Culture of Hate (screeeech) Culture of Eight (screeech) Pieces of Eight (screeech)”
All Bibi needs is an eye patch. He’s got his boy to scrub SS JStreets decks for them.
Who’s writing about the Israeli and AIPACish culture of hate? Oh and the free-standing (if any) Islamophobes, a real hate group if ever there was one.
I think this is one of the reasons that the more sane/intelligent people like Daniel Levy jumped ship.
J Street, after its very recent (and proud!) pro-war rallies for Operation
Cast BallotPillar of Defence, organized together with such stellar and liberal groups like AIPAC, couldn’t have sunk any lower. I was wrong.Ben-Ami deludes himself that he can change the ‘community from within’. He can’t. He has become like them and its more than past time that the actual liberals, not just the left, sever their ties with people like him and his right-wing outfit which has now, truly, become another AIPAC.
J Street is good cop, AIPAC is bad cop.
Got to give those libs a place to go
Culture of hate is used to slur peoples who are too poor to afford the culture of high tech war of the US and its allies. Culture of hate is a joke considering the hospitality of the native people of the Middle East.
Culture of war is part of the US system of military Keynesianism where over 1 trillion dollars is spent annually feeding corporate swine from the trough of public money. The amount of that money that disappears in kickbacks and graft would comfortably fund insurance for 43 million uninsured Americans.
But as Lenny Bruce used to say, there is only what is, and what could be is a dirty lie.