JSTREET EXPOSED AS FRAUDS AND PRO TERR0RIST

[mord]

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It was the Buddhist seders that tipped me off to the real conceit behind J Street. The sensitive "progressive" types behind the new Washington lobby are deeply concerned, it seems, for the morality and soul of Israel.
The Web site of J Street.

The Web site of J Street.
Photo: Screenshot

Gee thanks.

A love for Buddhist seders, a penchant for avant garde poetry (including a ballad entitled The Queer Intifada), and an abiding concern for Israel's spiritual quintessence - all while being intermarried down to nearly the last Jewish soul among them - is how The New York Times recently characterized the founders and key staff members of J Street. They seek, you see, justice and holiness and Jewish meaning in the world. Especially in the Arab-Israel conflict.

This explains the preponderance of numerous, vaporous spiritual types at this week's big J Street hug-in in Washington. Rabbi Sharon, Rabbi Amy, Rabbi Tirzah, Rabbi Jennie, Rabbi Julie, Rabbi Toba and Rabbi Melissa are among the prominent speakers. They are "diversity facilitators," "spirituality counselors," and "interreligious leaders" at places called Neve Kodesh, Brit Tzedek, Dorshei Tzedek and Just Vision.

So much "Tzedek"! So much "Kodesh"! So much overflowing of honey, holiness and justice! At a political lobby conference, no less. Perhaps the organization should be renamed Spiritual Street.

You know that all this righteousness just needs to be exported - through tough love, if necessary - to Israel. To repair the Middle East. To spiritually save Israel in spite of itself. Or at least to salve the sacred American Jewish soul.

Well, enough, I say, of this misty, sentimental and self-serving gobbledygook. All this soft spiritual urgency, supposedly on "behalf of" Israel, belies a triple conceit; or should we say, a great deceit.

Firstly, J Street is peddling the nutty notion that spirituality has anything to do with Mideast peace. The latent chutzpa is the insinuation that authentic identification with the Jewish prophets and morality dovetails with the dovish side of the political map. If only American Jews and Israelis were more religiously dovish and in touch with the forgiving and compassionate side of their Jewish souls - we would do the "left" thing and concede more generously to the Palestinians. Then, lo and behold, peace would come to the Mideast.

The second conceit is that such J Street-peddled nonsense - along with J Street support for talks with Hamas, opposition to military action against the Hamas, and opposition to sanctions or military action against nuclear Iran - represents the majority of American Jewry. Hogwash. Patently false.

The third conceit is that, if only Israel were to change - and it is J Street's job to get America to force Israel to change - then peace would come to the Mideast. As if Israel was the party unwilling to compromise. As if Israel hasn't already offered the Palestinians at Oslo and Camp David and Taba and Annapolis just about everything they want of post-67 Israel. As if the Palestinians have compromised on their demands one wit since the great handshake on the White House lawn. But it is Israel that needs to be pressured, say the J Street moral oracles.

J Street is a new form of Jewish apostasy. Its adherents hasten to embrace their Jewishness (even if they don't really know much about authentic Jewish tradition and morality) in order to besmirch Israel and the mainstream Jewish community. They earnestly declare how "profoundly" Jewish they are, in order to engender a distancing in US-Israel relations.

I guess that's why J Street has spent most of its resources bashing long-standing supporters of Israel - calling them extremists and right-wingers and accusing them of a 'silencing' - and listing things that Israel must be made to do. All this, instead of calling out the dangers of Iranian nuclear weapons or Palestinian genocidal anti-Semitism. That's why they fret over the Jewish soul instead of working to save and protect the physical Jewish State of Israel.

The only people clearly not fooled by all this spiritual mumbo-jumbo are Salam al-Mayarati, Ziad Asali, Trita Parsi and other leaders of the American Muslim Public Affairs Council, American Task Force on Palestine and the National Iranian American Council - all of whom are speaking - surprise, surprise - at the J Street Jewish soul jamboree this week. They undoubtedly see past the pious claptrap, and know - and appreciate - exactly what J Street is up to.

The writer is director of public affairs at Bar-Ilan University's Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies. He blogs at www.davidmweinberg.com

[Spiraling Leopard]

Those  freaks are sickening.
Luckily some Buddhists still have sane minds.

[mord]

lol THEY ACCEPT MONEY  FROM QURANANIMALS AND CALL THEMSELVES ZIONIST.AND LOOK AT ALL THE WOMEN 'RABBIS' THEY MUST BE FAILED HOOKERS

[Manch]

Please tell me why we are giving JStreet so much attention and why are they relevant? I am not being facetious, I seriously have no idea.

[mord]

Please tell me why we are giving JStreet so much attention and why are they relevant? I am not being facetious, I seriously have no idea.

LOOK AT THE CLOWNS AT THEIR CONVENTION



http://conference.jstreet.org/schedule 










SUNDAY, OCTOBER 25

Join J Street and Theater J for an exciting pre-conference event at the DCJCC, "Arts and Activism in Troubled Times: Can Culture Effect Change?"

5:00pm - Registration Opens

7:00pm - PLENARY SESSION: Israel and 21st Century American Jewry (Independence Ballroom)
Speakers:
Jeremy Ben-Ami, Executive Director, J Street
Daniel Sokatch, CEO, New Israel Fund
Respondents:
Ronit Avni, Founder and Executive Director, Just Vision
Rabbi Andy Bachman, Rabbi, Congregation Beth Hashem, Brooklyn, NY
Jim Gerstein, Principal, Gerstein Agne Strategic Communications
Rabbi Melissa Weintraub, Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director, Encounter

9:00pm - Dessert Reception (Independence Foyer)

 

MONDAY, OCTOBER 26

8:00am - Briefing for Hill Team Leaders (Lafayette Park/Farragut Square)

9:00am to 10:30am - BREAKOUT SESSIONS

   1. AMERICANS FOR PEACE NOW PRESENTS: West Bank Settlements: Obstacles on the Road to Peace - A View From the Ground and From the Diplomatic Arena (Lafayette Park/Farragut Square)
      Akiva Eldar, Chief Political Columnist and Editorial Writer, Ha'aretz
      Scott Lasensky, Senior Research Associate, Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention, United States Institute of Peace
      Hagit Ofran, Director, Settlement Watch, a project of Peace Now
      Moderator: Ori Nir, Spokesman, Americans For Peace Now

   2. The Maze: Navigating Foreign and National Security Policy Through the Knesset (Constitution CD)
      Ami Ayalon, Former Member of Knesset; Former Head of the Shin Bet
      Shlomo Molla, Member of Knesset (Kadima)
      Yuli Tamir, Deputy Speaker of the Knesset (Labor); Former Minister of Immigrant Absorption
      Moderator: Colette Avital, Former Israeli Consul General in New York; Former Member of Knesset (Labor)

   3. The Need for a Regional Comprehensive Approach to the Israeli Palestinian Conflict (Independence HI)
      Prince Zeid Ra'ad Al-Hussein, Ambassador of Jordan
      Shlomo Ben Ami, Former Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs and Public Security
      Alvaro de Soto, Former Chief Middle East Envoy, United Nations
      Moderator: Ambassador Phillip Wilcox, President, Foundation for Middle East Peace; former U.S. Consul General in Jerusalem

   4. Examining the Jewish Social Justice/Israel Divide (Independence FG)
      Alana Alpert, Rabbinical student, Hebrew College; Former Recipient, 2008 AJWS Dvar Tzedek Torah Commentary: Lisa Goldberg Memorial Writers' Fellowship
      Elissa Barrett, Executive Director, Progressive Jewish Alliance
      Jacob Feinspan, Executive Director, Jews United for Justice
      Moderator: Rabbi Jennie Rosenn, Program Director, The Nathan Cummings Foundation

   5. THEATER J AND J STREET PRESENT: Culture as a Tool For Change - Theater (McPherson Square)
      Ari Roth, Artistic Director, Theater J
      Actors from Theater J 

10:45am to 12:15pm - BREAKOUT SESSIONS

   1. The American Left and Israel (Independence HI)
      J.J. Goldberg, Editorial Director, The Forward
      Michelle Goldberg, Author, Kingdom Coming
      Ezra Klein, Staff Reporter, The Washington Post
      Moderator: Katrina vanden Heuvel, Editor, The Nation

   2. Where Has Israeli Peace Activism Gone? (Constitution CD)
      Dana Agmon, Director of Major Gifts, OneVoice
      Ronit Avni, Founder and Executive Director, Just Vision
      Hagit Ofran, Director, Settlement Watch, a project of Peace Now
      Moderator: Didi Remez, Senior Partner, BenOr Consulting

   3. Israel's Social and Domestic Challenges - Yes, They Also Exist (Independence FG)
      Nitzan Horowitz, Member of Knesset (New Movement - Meretz)
      Amir Peretz, Member of Knesset (Labor); Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense
      Meir Sheetrit, Member of Knesset (Kadima); Former Finance Minister; Former Interior Minister
      Moderator: Avshalom Vilan, Former Member of Knesset (Meretz)

   4. How Jews, Christians and Muslims Can Work Together For Peace (Lafayette Park/Farragut Square)
      Greg Khalil, President and Co-Founder, The Kairos Project
      Salam Al-Marayati, Executive Director, Muslim Public Affairs Council
      Mark Pelavin, Associate Director, Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism
      Maureen Shea, Former Director, Episcopal Church Office of Government Relations; Former Churches For Middle East Peace Chair
      Moderator: Ron Young, Co-Founder, National Interreligious Leadership Initiative for Peace

   5. NEW ISRAEL FUND PRESENTS: Setting the Stage for Peace: The Fight for Democratic Values (Franklin Square)
      Hagai El-Ad, Executive Director, The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI)
      Akiva Eldar, Chief Political Columnist and Editorial Writer, Ha'aretz
      Rachel Liel, Executive Director, New Israel Fund Israel
      Moderator: Larry Garber, Former CEO, New Israel Fund

   6. THEATER J AND J STREET PRESENT: Culture as a Tool for Change - Popular Media (McPherson Square)
      John Marks, President and Founder, Search for Common Ground

12:30pm to 1:30pm - LUNCH

1:45pm to 3:15pm - PLENARY SESSION: Jewish Community Town Hall (Independence Ballroom)
Jeremy Ben-Ami, Executive Director, J Street
Rabbi Eric Yoffie, President, The Union for Reform Judaism
Moderator: Jane Eisner, Editor, The Forward

3:30pm to 4:45pm - BREAKOUT SESSIONS

   1. Iran: Is Diplomacy Working? (Lafayette Park/Farragut Square)
      Hillary Mann Leverett, CEO, STRATEGA
      Trita Parsi, Founder and President, National Iranian American Council
      Brian Finlay, Senior Associate, The Henry L. Stimson Center
      Moderator: Toni G. Verstandig, Director of Middle East Programs, The Aspen Institute

   2. Human Rights in Israel (Independence FG)
      Rabbi Arik Ascherman, Executive Director, Rabbis for Human Rights
      Oded Na'aman, Breaking the Silence
      Uri Zaki, USA Representative, B'tselem
      Professor David Kretzmer, Emeritus Professor of International Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Co-Chair, Executive Board, B'Tselem, The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories
      Moderator: Aaron Back, Director, Ford Israel Fund

   3. How We Stop Talking to Ourselves: Innovative Ways to Broaden the Conversation (Constitution CD)
      Ronit Avni, Founder and Executive Director, Just Vision
      Malka Fenyvesi, Director of Interfaith Programming/NewGround Co-Director, Progressive Jewish Alliance
      Rabbi Melissa Weintraub, Co-founder and Co-Executive Director, Encounter
      Moderator: Shawn Landres, Co-Founder and CEO, Jumpstart

   4. Israel on Campus (Franklin Square)
      Ralph Hexter, President, Hampshire College
      Aimee Mayer, Member, J Street U Student Board of Directors; President, University of Maryland J Street U
      David Shneer, Associate Professor of History; Director, Program in Jewish Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder
      Dr. Bernard Steinberg, President and Executive Director, Harvard Hillel
      Moderator: Chaya Rubin, Doctoral Candidate in Clinical Psychology, Yeshiva University

   5. Palestinian Economic Development: Path to Peace or Diversion? (Independence HI)
      C. Ross Anthony, Ph.D., Senior Economist, RAND Corporation
      Bassim Khoury, Minister of National Economy, Palestinian Authority
      Ron Pundak, Director General, Peres Center for Peace
      Douglas Suisman, Principal Architect, Suisman Urban Design
      Moderator: Bernard Avishai, Business Consultant; Author

   6. THEATER J AND J STREET PRESENT: Culture as a Tool for Change - Storytelling - A Land Twice Promised (McPherson Square)
      Noa Baum, Storyteller   

5:00pm to 6:15pm - PLENARY SESSION: View From the Hill: Congress and the US-Israel Relationship (Independence Ballroom)
Representative Charles Boustany (LA-07)
Representative Bob Filner (CA-51)
Representative Jan Schakowsky (IL-09)
Moderator: Bob Franken, Former CNN Correspondent

8:00pm -  Rocking the Status Quo Party (Independence Ballroom)
Featuring Music by Soulico
Open to all participants

8:00pm  - Reception in Celebration of Brit Tzedek v' Shalom (Lafayette Park/Farragut Square)
Open to all participants

 

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 27

8:00am to 9:00am - Briefing for Hill Team Leaders (Independence Ballroom)

9:00am to 10:15am - BREAKOUT SESSIONS

   1. An Israeli-Palestinian Peace Deal in 24 Months: How to Get it Done (Constitution CD)
      Gadi Batilansky, Director General, Geneva Initiative-Israel; Former Spokesperson for Prime Minister Ehud Barak
      Daniel Levy, Senior Fellow and Director, Middle East Task Force, New America Foundation; Former Israeli Negotiator
      Dr. Ron Pundak, Director General, The Peres Center for Peace
      Moderator: MJ Rosenberg, Senior Fellow on Foreign Policy, Media Matters Action Network

   2. What Does It Mean To Be Pro-Israel? (Lafayette Park/Farragut Square)
      Jonathan Chait, Senior Editor, The New Republic
      Matt Yglesias, Blogger, ThinkProgress.com
      Moderator: J.J. Goldberg, Editorial Director, The Forward

   3. BRIT TZEDEK V'SHALOM PRESENTS: Organizing on the Ground - A Political Force for the Pro-Israel/Pro-Peace movement (Independence FG)
      Carinne Luck, Organizer, Former Director of Grassroots and Chapter Development, Brit Tzedek v'Shalom, Former J Street Chief of Staff
      Laurie Moskowitz, Founding Partner and Director, FieldWorks
      Ari Wallach; Partner, StudioBenZion; Co-founder, The Great Schlep.com, JCER and JewsVote.org
      Moderator: Diane Balser, Former Executive Director, Brit Tzedek v'Shalom

   4. RABBIS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS OF NORTH AMERICA PRESENTS:  A Text Study: What's Jewish about J Street? (Franklin Square)
      Rabbi Amy Eilberg, Co-Founder, Yedidya Center for Jewish Spiritual Direction
      Rabbi Edward Feld, Rabbi-in-Residence, The Rabbinical School, Jewish Theological Seminary; Former Education Director, Rabbis for Human Rights of North America
      Rabbi Tirzah Firestone, Spiritual leader, Congregation Nevei Kodesh, Boulder, Colorado

   5. THEATER J AND J STREET PRESENT: Culture as a Tool for Change - Short Films presented by The Other Israel Film Festival (Independence HI)
      6.5 Minutes in Tel Aviv (Director: Mirey Brantz)
      Roads (Director: Lior Geller)
      Shnaim (Director: Shimon Richik)
      Presenter: Isaac Zablocki; Executive Director, Other Israel Film Festival

10:30am to 11:45am - BREAKOUT SESSIONS

   1. BRIT TZEDEK RABBINIC CABINET PRESENTS: Dancing on the Head of a Pin: The Role of Rabbis in the Pro-Israel, Pro-Peace Movement (McPherson Square)
      Rabbi David J. Cooper, Kehilla Community Congregation, Piedmont, CA
      Rabbi Joshua Levine-Grater, Pasadena Jewish Temple and Center, Pasadena, CA
      Rabbi Julie Saxe-Taller, Congregation Sherith Israel, San Francisco, CA
      Rabbi Toba Spitzer, Congregation Dorshei Tzedek, Newton, MA
      Moderator: Rabbi John Friedman, Judea Reform Congregation, Durham, North Carolina

   2. Palestinian Perspectives: Looking Forward (Constitution CDE)
      Ziad Asali, President and Founder, American Task Force on Palestine
      Nadia Bilbassy, Correspondent, Middle East Broadcasting Center
      Bassim Khoury, Minister of National Economy, Palestinian Authority
      Moderator: Amjad Atallah, Co-Director, Middle East Task Force, New America Foundation

   3. What Next? Analysis and Advice for the President from Washington Insiders (Lafayette Park/Farragut Square)
      Jon Alterman, Director and Senior Fellow, Middle East Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies
      Lara Friedman, Director of Policy and Government Relations, Americans for Peace Now
      Robert Malley, Director, Middle East/North Africa Program, International Crisis Group
      Moderator: Morton H. Halperin, Member, J Street Board of Directors

   4. Shifting the Conversation: Jewish Community Dynamics and Israel (Independence FG)
      Shula Bahat, Director, American Friends of Beit Hatfutzot; Former Associate Executive Director, American Jewish Committee
      Rabbi Peter Knobel, Beth Emet the Free Synagogue; Former President, Central Conference of American Rabbis
      Daniel Sokatch, CEO, New Israel Fund; Former Executive Director, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, The Peninsula, Marin and Sanoma Counties
      Moderator: Hannah Rosenthal, Corporate Vice President, Wisconsin Physicians Service; Former Director, Jewish Council for Public Affairs

   5. Messaging "Pro-Israel, Pro Peace" (Franklin Square)
      Matt Dorf, Managing Partner, Rabinowitz/Dorf Communications
      Jim Gerstein, Principal, Gerstein Agne Strategic Communications
      Dr. Calvin Goldscheider, Scholar in Residence, Center for Israel Studies, American University
      Moderator: Dahlia Scheindlin, Political Consultant and Public Opinion Analyst

   6. THEATER J AND J STREET PRESENT: Culture as a Tool for Change - Documentary - Excerpts from Budrus has a Hammer/2010 (working title) (Independence HI)
      Julia Bacha, Media Director, Just Vision
      Ronit Avni, Executive Director and Founder, Just Vision

12:15pm to 1:00pm - LUNCH

1:00pm to 4:00pm - PLENARY SESSION: Why Two States? Why Now? (Independence Ballroom)

Introduction and Response: Representative Robert Wexler (FL-19)
Keynote Speaker: General James L. Jones, United States National Security Advisor

Israeli Interests:
Bernard Avishai, Business Consultant; Author
Ami Ayalon, Former Member of Knesset (Labor); Former Head of the Shin Bet
Haim Ramon, Former Member of Knesset (Kadima); Former Vice Prime Minister

American Interests:
Ambassador Martin Indyk, Vice President and Director of the Foreign Policy Program, The Brookings Institution; Former Ambassador of the Unites States to Israel
Mel Levine, Former Member of Congress (D-CA)

Moderator:
Richard Wolffe, Author, Renegade: The Making of a President; Former Senior White House Correspondent, Newsweek

6:30pm - J Street Gala Dinner Reception (Independence Foyer)
This is a ticketed event

7:30pm- J Street Gala Dinner (Independence Ballroom)
This is a ticketed event
Keynote Address: Former Senator Chuck Hagel VERY ANTI ISRAEL ON PAR WITH RON PAUL WITH TIE TO PAKISTAN

 

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28

8:00am-9:00am - Hill Visit Briefing (Independence Ballroom)

9:15am to 9:45am - Busses to Capitol Hill
10:00am to 2:00pm - Appointments with Member offices
ME JOHN KERRY AND CHUCK HAGEL SAY GIVE THE PAKIS  4OR 5 BILLION TO AID THIER WAR ON AL QAIDA AND TALIBAN ANYONE WHO HAS SEEN PAKI TROOPS IN TRIBAL AREAS HAVE SEEN THEM ARMED WWITH BOLT ACTION RIFLES YET ON THE INDIAN BORDER THEY'RE ARMED WITH MOST MODERN ARMS.THEY DON'T USE THE MONEY TO FIGHT IN TRIBAL AREAS THEY USE IT ON THE BORDER WITH INDIA

http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world-news/pakistan-urgently-needs-4-5-bn-says-us-senator_100159290.html

[mord]

Please tell me why we are giving JStreet so much attention and why are they relevant? I am not being facetious, I seriously have no idea.

NO IT'S JUST THAT SOME PEOPLE MAY THINK THIS IS A PRO ZIONIST GROUP I WANT THEM TO KNOW IT'S   ANTI ISRAEL

[Manch]

Please tell me why we are giving JStreet so much attention and why are they relevant? I am not being facetious, I seriously have no idea.

NO IT'S JUST THAT SOME PEOPLE MAY THINK THIS IS A PRO ZIONIST GROUP I WANT THEM TO KNOW IT'S   ANTI ISRAEL

But why are they important enough to give them so much attention? Do they get a lot of coverage in the press or get a lot of attention in the White House?

[mord]

Please tell me why we are giving JStreet so much attention and why are they relevant? I am not being facetious, I seriously have no idea.

NO IT'S JUST THAT SOME PEOPLE MAY THINK THIS IS A PRO ZIONIST GROUP I WANT THEM TO KNOW IT'S   ANTI ISRAEL

But why are they important enough to give them so much attention? Do they get a lot of coverage in the press or get a lot of attention in the White House?

IN THE W.H. OBAMA KNOWS HE'S FOR HIS AGENDA SO THEY HAD A MEETING WITH HIM.BUT I DOUBT HIGHLY MOST AMERICANS AGREE WITH THEIR ANTI ISRAEL POSITION