Thursday, May 01, 2014

Mainstream American Jewish Groups Reject J Street

J Street and its backers chafe at the notion that those whose jobs and whose lives are put most at risk as the result of
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security compromises are the ones who are entrusted with making the decisions about how and where and, especially, when, those compromises will be made, if at all.
Published: May 1st, 2014
Jeremy Ben-Ami, president of J Street at the Israeli Left Conference.
Jeremy Ben-Ami, president of J Street at the Israeli Left Conference.
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In a rebuke to the relatively young but very well (and oddly so) financed group J Street, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations decisively rejected the group’s bid for membership.

J Street has only been in existence since 2008, but it shot out of the starting block with hundreds of thousands of dollars in the bank and the backing of a wide array of well-connected American (mostly) Jews (mostly) who were itching to establish a new standard for the American Jewish community’s attitude towards Israel.
J Street’s backers are the ones who bridle at the idea that American Jews should feel a strong inclination to support and respect the Jewish State’s assessments of the level of threat it can survive with. 


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