Blogmocracy in Action

Guest Blogger: Delectable

This is a call to action on ALL Blogmocracy netizens, to email their Congressmen and Senators to IMMEDIATELY drop out of the J Street Gala, to take place October 25-28 2009.

A full listing of Congressmen/Senators planning to attend the Gala is right here. Please take the time and email your Congressman/Senator, asking them to drop out of J Street, should they appear on this list.

Now, you might be asking why this action should be done. Below explains what J Street is all about, and why it is imperative that this action be taken.

J Street is a new organization that seeks to “engage” those Jews who know nothing about Israel, haven never been there and likely will never go there, in the Middle East process. Its goal is to present Jews who care little to nothing about Israel as “experts” in the Middle East, who are empowered to tell Israel what to do. It bills itself as “pro-Israel, pro-peace,” but the term “peace” is an Orwellianized desecration of the English language, in the hands of J Street.

Don’t believe me? Just check out what Jeremy Ben-Ami, the director of J Street, had to say in the Jerusalem Post, after Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren rejected an invite to speak at the J Street annual “Gala.”

You seem well aware, both as an American by birth and as a student of American Jewish communal dynamics, that the connection to Israel for a large number of Jewish Americans has become strained over time.

We’re all looking at the same research and data. A majority of Jewish Americans have never been to Israel. Large – and increasing – numbers don’t take part in the traditional communal organizations. Levels of attendance at synagogues among the non-Orthodox remain low.

There is a generational dimension to these trends as well, one you undoubtedly noticed as a respected academic in the classroom. Young, liberal Jews have even less connection to Israel than their parents and grandparents, and they talk more openly about the challenges and difficulties facing Israel and about its responses.

THERE IS good news, however. The excitement that J Street has generated and its rapid early growth indicates that there is a thirst in the progressive Jewish community – and among young liberal Jews – to find a way to relate to, to talk about and, yes, to advocate for Israel that is consistent with progressive Jewish values. We are only one facet of a new and growing movement in American Jewry that is attracting hundreds of thousands of progressive Jews into study, communal service and non-traditional observance.

Jeremy Ben-Ami is thus admitting the following: (a) he is a progressive, and his organization is progressive; (b) his organization goes after other progressives who don’t give a fig about Israel, but nonetheless feel empowered, through his organization, to speak about Israel.

But there’s more!

What exactly does J Street stand for? Does it in fact “advocate for Israel”? Or is it a water carrier for Obama and the progressive movement?

Let’s examine the evidence:

• (a) During Operation Cast Lead, J Street became famous as the only major “pro-Israel” organization to publicly oppose Cast Lead and seek a “ceasefire” prior to Israel finishing the job. Even the far-left Meretz Party of Israel, as well as “Peace Now” were supportive of Cast Lead. Recall that Cast Lead occurred after eight years of rockets aimed at Southern Israel, and was in defense of a civilian population, aimed specifically at disempowering Hamas. Source.
• (b) J Street raises money for political candidates who include Muslim Congressman Keith Ellison and Congresswoman Donna Edwards, who have a famous antipathy towards Israel. Source.
• (c) J Street publishes made up polls to advocate on behalf of its twisted policies. Source.
• (d) J Street is the only major “pro Israel” organization to publicly push Obama to NOT increase sanctions on Iran. Source.
• (e) J Street supported Obama when he pushed Israel for an anti-Semitic “settlement freeze,” that stood directly against the Roadmap that Bush published, and Israel relied upon when it evacuated 8,000 settlers from Gaza. Source.
• (f) J Street is endorsed by Stephen Walt, of famed Walt and Mersheimer fame, who wrote the anti-Semitic screed, “The Israel Lobby and Foreign Policy.” His screed claimed a cabal of Jews control U.S. foreign policy, and this caused the war in Iraq. Source.

We thus far have established a grounding in how and why J Street is a progressive, anti-Israel organization, masquerading as a “pro-Israel” organization, at war with the English language, and only pretending to be “pro-Israel” in order to distort what it means to be pro-Israel. But some people may still claim they want more evidence. So I present you with the smoking gun, so to speak, that proves J Street is openly aligned with Jihad. (and yes, I mean that literally)

J Street invited Salam al-Marayati from the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), and Trita Parsi from National Iranian American Council (NIAC) to come speak. See the full list of progressives and Islamists who will be speaking right here.

MPAC is the Muslim Brotherhood’s propaganda arm in the USA. NIAC is the Iranian regime’s lobby group in the USA. See this dossier on Salam al-Marayati.

NIAC is the Iranian regime’s propaganda arm in the USA. See this dossier on NIAC and Trita Parsi.

Other notable Jihad propagandists include: Ziad Asali from the American Task Force on Palestine, Robert Malley, Program Director for Middle East and North Africa, International Crisis Group, Oded Na’aman, Breaking the Silence (a blood libel organization), and Eli Pariser, Former Director, MoveOn.org (a George Soros organization).

This would make little sense until one examines J Street’s funding, and sees they are funded by Arabs and Jihadists.

They were told to disinvite the jihadists to their “Gala,” and openly ignored this advice.

J Street is inviting Jihad propagandists to its Annual Gala and is funded by Arabs and Jihadists. It cannot be legitimized through a large cadre of Senators/Congressmen and dignitaries.

Conclusion: J Street is Exhibit A on how the progressive movement is aligned with Islamists. It cannot be allowed to succeed.

What are you waiting for? Write a letter to your Congressman/Senator who is planning on attending the J Street Gala, today!

Update: Stand With Us on J Street – even more links and information on this progressive organization!

AND THIS IS CLASSIC: J Street complains that politicians are dropping out from their “Gala” like flies due to the scary neocons! We are getting to them! Poor babies!