New Republic Dissects More J Street Jive

I wrote that the new leftist J Street anti-AIPAC has “Defining Questions” to answer, concluding:

The founders of J Street think they’re cute, because K Street is the home of so many Washington lobbies, and there is no J Street in Washington. There is no J Street anywhere else either but in the dangerous ambitions of extremists. Some supporters may be of Jewish background, or such, but their serious delusions are not those of more than a few whose confusions they seek to promulgate. The rest of us, the overwhelming majority of Jews and non-Jewish Americans, will not be fooled.

As to my questions, J Street has not responded, and its sole public declaration has been to pick selectively on Rev. Hagee’s fundamentalist support of Israel, with his position not actually straying far from Jewish concerns about how G-d could allow the Holocaust.

The liberal New Republic takes the examination of J Street a step further, looking more closely at its leading lights, questioning their “Street Cred.”

A perusal of J Street's list of supporters further undermines its pretensions to mainstream credibility.

Read it all.

J Street may just be another 2008 elections creation to provide cover for Obama’s associates’ troublesome anti-Israel declarations. For example, see PowerLine’s latest,(and here) and scroll back through PowerLine’s other unearthings of the truth about Obama’s advisors on Israel.

In 2004, although George Bush’s was credited with being the most pro-Israeli president ever, John Kerry’s Israel credentials were reasonably within traditional Democratic Party support, and Bush’s Jewish vote only inched up, maybe 20% at most, other Jewish liberal concerns overwhelming. In 2008, the tangible evidence of Obama’s own associations and the positions of his advisors regarding Israel may, and should, be taken more seriously by Jewish voters, J Street’s transparent absurdities aside.