J Street is revealed to have promoted the Goldstone report, the UN’s libelous report on the Gaza conflict that has been condemned throughout the Israeli political spectrum and by American Jews. J Street markets itself as the liberal alternative to AIPAC, and claims to be pro-Israel as well as pro-peace, while — in fact — they have sided with anti-Israeli elements:
J Street — the self-described pro-Israel, pro-peace lobbying group — facilitated meetings between members of Congress and South African Judge Richard Goldstone, author of a U.N. report that accused the Jewish state of systematic war crimes in its three-week military campaign against Hamas in Gaza.
Colette Avital — a former member of Israel’s parliament, from the center-left Labor Party and until recently J Street’s liaison in Israel — told The Washington Times that her decision to resign her post with J Street earlier this year was a result in part of the group’s “connection to Judge Goldstone.” . . .
The Goldstone Report is widely viewed as slanderous toward the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) among the American Jewish community and in Israel. It accuses the IDF of deliberately targeting civilians in the ground and air war in Gaza, which resulted in at least 1,000 Palestinian deaths. The White House also has criticized the report. . .
The report instantly made the judge political poison in some quarters in Israel. Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, famously said last year that Israel faces three major threats — “the Iranian nuclear program, rockets aimed at our civilians, and Goldstone” — while its president, Shimon Peres, said that the report “gives de facto legitimacy to terrorist initiatives and ignores the obligation and right of every country to defend itself.”
J Street also falsely denied any involvement in the meetings.
(Via Volokh.)
POSTSCRIPT: While I’m trashing J Street, it’s also worthwhile to note that, despite J Street’s denials, they receive funding from unrepentant Nazi collaborator George Soros.
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