J street leads to anti-Israel votes from left wing dems

from Richard Baehr

The US congress considered a resolution to urge the Obama administration to fight any further consideration of the Goldstone Report at the UN or other international forums. . A fifth of the Democrats in Congress (and 3% of Republicans) either opposed the measure or gutlessly voted present ( a common vote for Barack Obama when he was in the Illinois State Senate). Even worse, many of these Democrats openly attacked Israel in the floor debate. This is a new thing in the US Congress , for which we can thank J-Street . Particularly odious is the behavior of Jewish California congressman Bob Filner who at the J-Street Conference, shilled for the Walt/Mearsheimer thesis of near unlimited Jewish power over congress. He was rebuked by a Jewish Congressman from Colorado -Jared Polis. Filner is the only Jewish Democrat who voted no on the Goldstone resolution in Congress. Most of the other Democrats who did so hailed from Massachusetts ( a one party state for many years), were members of the Black Caucus, or were far left Democrats from California. You would have to be blind at this point not to see that there is a growing problem on the left in the Democratic Party in Congress when it comes to support for Israel. What has changed in the last year, is that Barack Obama has enabled J-Street, which has enabled the Democrats on the left in Congress to "come out of the closet" and promote their negative views towards Israel. 44 member of Congress attended the J-Street dinner, and 3 three others (including Jan Schakowsky) were on a panel. 46 of the 47 were Democrats.
The votes on the resolution in the House : http://tinyurl.com/yf2hvrn
The US delegation attended but did not speak when the Goldstone Report was discussed in the UN General Assembly. I guess Valerie Jarrett forgot to tell Susan Rice to speak truth to power.
http://tinyurl.com/yc46yry
A good statement from Congressman Howard Berman: http://tinyurl.com/yf8xtn8