Any illusion that J Street has included these speakers merely to give insight into “the other side” is dispelled by the roster of Jewish speakers scheduled to speak at “Giving Voice to Your Values.” All are leftists, and most are even more radically anti-Israel than the Islamists who will appear. Many are active in the malicious “BDS” (boycott, divestment, sanction) movement, designed to serve as an economic assault against Israel. Many others are anti-Israel students at US colleges. A few are pseudo-rabbis and members of unknown radical Jewish splinter groups. Speakers will include:
- Eric Alterman, obsessive Israel-basher whose diatribes run in “The Nation.”
- Michael Lerner, editor of Tikkun, a rigidly anti-Israel and increasingly pro-Hamas magazine, who demanded that Americans “feel the pain” of al-Qaeda after the 9-11 attacks.
- Naomi Chazan, president of the far-left “New Israel Fund,” which finances almost all the leftist groups in Israel that produce anti-Israel propaganda, especially the smears adopted by the UN’s “Goldstone Commission.”
- Michael Sfard, leftwing anti-Israel extremist lawyer who works for the “Association for Civil Rights in Israel,” a group that has trouble finding an Arab atrocity against Israel worthy of condemnation. ACRI is anti-democratic and refuses to defend freedom of speech for non-Leftists. Sfard may be best known for his quote: “I am ashamed as an Israeli.”
- Oded N’aman, head of the seditious “Breaking the Silence” group in Israel, which has been exposed for repeatedly inventing fictional “crimes” by Israel and Israeli soldiers that turn out never to have existed. The best expose of his groups is the NGO-Monitor Report entitled, “Breaking WHAT Silence.”
- Daniel Sokatch, long-time Israel critic and now CEO of the New Israel Fund. In the past, Sokatch has organized anti-Israel propaganda festivals in the Bay Area.
- Jessica Montell – executive director of the pro-terror anti-Israel propaganda lobby B’Tselem, famous for its one-sided anti-Israel reports and devious use of statistics to paint Israel as a demonic entity.
- Edina Lekovic – director of policy and programming for the Muslim Public Affairs Council, a pro-jihad pro-terror lobby group.
- David Chemla; Director, JCall France, a tiny leftist Bash-Israel lobby group in France.
- Bernard Avishai, an anti-Israel tenured extremist from Israel, who has dedicated his career to stripping Israel of its capital city.
The “values” that will be expressed in this conference will be anti-Israel—part of an obsessive organizational quest to undermine American Jewish support for the only democracy in the Middle East, and to decouple Israeli interests from America’s. By providing a platform for Islamists and their American and Israeli enablers who want to help push Israel into the sea, “Giving Voice to Your Values” shows once again why J Street is despised in Israel and regarded as part of the problem rather than part of the solution.
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J Street members are not real Jews they are Socialists who may have descended from the Jewish faith. They only wish to induce the One World Order with as John Lennon would have it in his song “imagine” “and no religion too.” They hide behind their Jewish roots but not the faith. They think by taking sides with liberation organizations they may be allowed to live in peace should Islam over through Israel. They will be surprised to find themselves as Dhimmi if that. If you think that is bad look at what is happening here in America. http://www.therepublicrevealed.com/forums/index.p…
It's not Jews who are despicable, it's Zionism!! A corrupt evil nasty political organization that needs to be exterminated before it can do more damage to the world.
Sorry David, it is anti-Zionists who are despicable. To deny Jews alone among all peoples to self-determination on their historical and legal homeland reeks of antisemitism.
Hi Mix. All I can say is, If you want the land, take the people. ie Arabs including the refugees and their descendants who were driven from their homes in 1947/48 and 1967. No one condones ethnic cleansing given the experience the world had during the Holocaust.
Neil, what you are describing is exactly what Israel wanted in 1948. Zionist leaders (from Theodore Herzl to Chaim Weizman to David Ben Gurion) were dedicated to peaceful CO-EXISTENCE with the local Arab residents and to having them "benefit" from Zionist development.
On the eve of war in 1948, the Zionists stressed that they intended to include Palestinian Arabs in their future state and treat them as full and equal citizens. Israel's Declaration of Independence states the following:
"In the midst of wanton aggression, we yet call upon the Arab inhabitants of the State of Israel to return to the ways of peace and play their part in the development of the State, with full and equal citizenship and due representation in its bodies and institutions – provisional or permanent."
Israel never engaged in any ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians (via forced transfer or other means). In fact, during the 1948 War, Zionists frequently urged Palestinians not to flee and to stay in their homes and communities. It was the Arabs who left on their own accord because the invading Arab armies promised to "exterminate the Jews" and "push the Jews into the sea." Recall, the Arab States threatened to treat any Arab who accepted Israeli protection as "defectors" who would be "severely punished" when "the Arab forces were victorious."
Thank you for explaining the history so well. I wanted to add that in 1948 "the invading Arab armies promised to exterminate the Jews" and told their people that they could return once the slaughter was completed. I think this is correct.
That is absolutely correct Esther (just in time for Purim!).
On May 15, 1947 Azzam Pasha, Secretary General of the Arab League stated the following to the BBC about going to war with the Jews: "This will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades."
In 1947 the Arab Higher Committee printed the following quote: "The Arabs have taken into their own hands the final solution of the Jewish problem. The problem will be solved only in blood and fire. The Jews will soon be driven out."
In June of 1948 Time Magazine reported that Damascus radio called on all Arabs to "undertake the liberation battle that will tear the hearts from the bodies of the hateful Jews and trample them in the dust."
Even anti-Israel Historian Benny Morris notes that in 1947 Arab representatives told the UN that they "rejected partition and advocated a unitary, democratic state from which the illegal immigrants [i.e. Jews] would be expelled and where the remaining Jews would have no political rights."
"It's not Jews who are despicable, it's Zionism!!"
Zionism is an integral part of Judaism. The connection of the Jews to the Land of Israel is reiterate throughout the entire religion, in the Torah, the Prophets, the Writings, the Talmud, the rabbinical responsa in all of Jewish history, and Jewish Law itself. The vision of the renewal of Jewish political sovereignty over the Land of Israel is likewise part and parcel of the Jewish canon. Anyone trying to decouple Zionism from Judaism is either a fool or a knave.
"A corrupt evil nasty political organization that needs to be exterminated before it can do more damage to the world. "
That would be Marxism. With 100,000,000 murders its name by political power, and now its aiding and abetting of Islamic imperialism as its proxy for violent power (since the demise of the U.S.S.R., which had filled that role), the utter, unrelenting evil wrought by Marxism is pervasive and undeniable. I am proud to be a Zionist, as that makes me one of the bitterest enemies of Marxism; I am proud to have such an evil ideology as my enemy. It is a position no less glorious than being part of the resistance against Nazism, with which Marxism shares much more than people have been taught to believe. (Because, guess who taught them?)
J Street members have no religion they are Socialists who may have descended from Abraham. They only wish to induce the One World Order with as John Lennon would have it in his song “imagine” “and no religion too.” They hide behind their Jewish roots but not the faith. They think by taking sides with liberation organizations they may be allowed to live in peace should Islam over through Israel. They will be surprised to find themselves as Dhimmi if that. If you think that is bad look at what is happening here in America. http://www.therepublicrevealed.com/forums/index.p…
They think by taking sides with liberation organizations they may be allowed to live in peace should the government of Israel be over thrown. They will be surprised to find themselves as Dhimmi if that. If you think that is bad look at what Soros is doing here in America. http://www.therepublicrevealed.com/forums/index.p…
An intern over at kapo chuckles schumer's office admitted that Chuck would be very interested indeed in having Georges old job of confiscating property from condemned Jews. He's a big fan of soros, and his office says he just LOVES it when George hits his tip jar.
We can also add another J to J Street – a JOKE!
It doesn't surprise me, consider that these people consider democracy to be dangerous and you can't have a democracy in the middle east, or anywhere else, for that matter. We should renounce Soros citizenship and send him to live in palestine.
Check out the I am a Muslim rally scheduled for next week. One of the two Rabbis belongs to J Street.
http://wwwtwosetsofbooks.blogspot.com/2011/02/goo…
Thank you for informing us all of who and what J Street represents. There is no wiggle room here!
They will be stopped for how long can the liberal Jewish community stand deaf and dumb when they will be the first wiped away by the muslim hand of death in the name of a false phophet.