They've shown their true colors. J Street sides with the enemy.

J Street Endorsees in Congress Refuse to Support Iron Dome Funding for Israel

J Street funnels $92,387 to members who wouldn’t support Iron Dome

An Iron Dome missile interceptor overlooking Haifa, Israel / AP

BY: Adam Kredo
August 21, 2014 1:30 pm
Eleven lawmakers backed by liberal advocacy group J Street either voted against or refused to vote in favor of increased funding for Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system, which has been a critical life-saver during Hamas’s latest assault on the Jewish state.
Congress overwhelmingly approved an emergency increase in funding for Iron Dome this month by a vote of 395 to 8.
Three of the eight who voted against the funding increase are J Street-backed lawmakers. Another eight abstained from the pro-Israel vote and also are financially supported by the group.
J Street’s political action committee (PAC) has already donated and bundled in this election cycle alone at least $92,387 to lawmakers who did not vote in favor of Iron Dome funding—which J Street itself claims is a priority for its endorsees.
The revelation that 11 of the 37 lawmakers who either voted against or abstained from supporting Iron Dome prompted outrage in the pro-Israel community and criticism of J Street for financially supporting lawmakers who take an explicitly anti-Israel line.

They've shown their true colors. J Street sides with the enemy.

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  • J Street: Israel is ‘Fanning Growing Flames of Anti-Semitism’

  
  

  
  

  BY: Washington Free Beacon Staff
  August 8, 2014 2:32 pm
  The liberal Middle East advocacy group J Street accused Israel of “fanning growing flames of anti-Semitism” by waging a military campaign to stop Hamas terrorists from firing rockets at Israeli civilians.
  J Street, which has said little about the conflict in recent weeks, released a statement Friday afternoon after Hamas resumed attacks on Israel moments after a temporary 72-hour ceasefire had expired.
  J Street decided that now is the time to “put forward some hard truths” about Israel as it fights to defend its citizens from terrorism.
  “Failure to solve this conflict is eating away at support for Israel around the world, damaging the country’s legitimacy and, in some cases, fanning growing flames of anti-Semitism,” J Street leader Jeremy Ben-Ami said in a posting on the group’s website.
  The U.S.-based group also accuses Israel of being racist. Little is said of Hamas’ commitment to the genocide of all Jewish people.
  “When members of Israel’s sitting government openly oppose the two-state solution, spout racism, and promote ideas that undermine Israel’s democratic fabric, it’s hard to view this government as a credible partner for a real and substantial peace,” Ben-Ami writes.
  “Hatred of the other” among Israelis and the American Jewish community “needs to be addressed,” according to Ben-Ami.
  “The growth and extent of hatred of the other, intolerance and outright racism in our own Jewish community – both in Israel and in the United States – is frightening. It needs to be addressed directly and combated seriously by our community’s leaders here and in Israel,” according to Ben-Ami
  “We highlight the need to fight the racism and intolerance that are growing too quickly in Israel and in the American Jewish community,” he adds.
  J Street also is against Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip, which continues to be enforced in order to ensure that missiles and other weapons do not flow freely into Gaza.
  “Keeping the Palestinian people locked up under near-total blockade or occupation only strengthens extremists like Hamas, undermines moderate partners like President Abbas, and increases the threat to Israel rather than making it more secure,” according to the statement.
  Ben-Ami also demands that Israel “respect” the Obama administration.
  “The Israeli government should pay more heed to the advice of its friends in the White House and the State Department and at a minimum should show them the respect that the country’s closest ally deserves,” he writes.