J Street applied for membership in the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations. Today, its application was resoundingly rejected in a vote in which only 17 of 50 voted to accept the group. 22 voted "No" and there were 3 abstentions. J Street need 34 yes votes and didn't even come close despite an intense push. In the past week several … [Read more...]
Can J Street Smear and Not Pay a Price?
Over the past few days, I've been thinking about the lies that J Street published about me in an official tweet which called my criticism of Jesse Jackson Jr's Jerusalem Post op-ed "crazy, disgusting and racist." I thank Max Blumenthal, Phil Weiss, Gabriel Ash, and a number of others who've blogged, tweeted and posted to Facebook about this serious … [Read more...]
Gershom Gorenberg is a Liar
I was shocked today when I saw in my site stats, a visit to this blog from The American Prospect and, following the link, read that Gershom Gorenberg has written an essay in which he's blatantly lied about my political views, saying they represent "the grim anti-Zionist left." His essay is a bit of puffery written on behalf of J Street in which he sets up a … [Read more...]
Irrelevance of J Street
The Yom Kippur liturgy talks about the two goats which marked the Yom Kippur holiday in ancient times. One goat was sacrificed on the temple altar and the other goat carried the sins of Israel symbolically on its back and was sent out into the wilderness of Azazel. So the children of Israel purified themselves by ridding themselves of their collective … [Read more...]