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J Street denied entry to US Jewish umbrella group
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Published: 01.05.14, 09:26
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1. J Street
Marcelo ,   Berlin / TLV   (05.01.14)
lefty elements within the big Jewish family (or maybe outsiders since nobody knows if these elements in the US are indeed Jews) will be shown as they are, as those who wanted to distroy the Jewish State Nation...
2. They'll be loved in Gaza, Ramallah, Saudia-so on.
tom ,   tel aviv   (05.01.14)
3. "J Street" is BUT a "pro-Israel, pro-peace".
N.L.Katz ,   Qatzrin, Israel   (05.01.14)
Its leadership, detached from Jewish history, heritage and values, this organization is nothing short of a Trojan Horse, designed to undermine all of the above in the name of a vague concept of peace that contradicts both international law and Jewish codes of ethics. One is troubled by the fact that any organization voted for this group of people who, through word and deed, undermine the very existence of the liberal democratic and sovereign nation-state of the Jewish people, the State of Israel. N.L.Katz Qatzrin, Israel
4. The PLO backs JStreet
Righteous Zionist ,   Israel   (05.01.14)
so it MUST be a wise decision to bar them from the Conference. This also reflects the Left-Liberal pro-Arab and anti-Israel stance in general.
5. This Reform Jew is Glad J-Street not included!
Shep Fargotstein ,   Memphis, Tn   (05.01.14)
Rabbi Julie Schonfeld complains that inclusion should have been determined by "popular vote"? The URJ didn't use popular vote among their congregations to see how we felt about J-Street - or the myriad of other liberal stances on social issues that the URJ has over-reached in it's original mandate. Let's face it: Most Reform Jews don't even know much about Israel, much less J-Street's (opinion) anti-Israel stance. The problem is, the URJ doesn't want their congregations to know.
6. Well J Street is anything but Jewish
Sam ,   PT   (05.01.14)
J Street is more likely affiliated with Jihad (pro Arab) Street than anything Jewish and should be denied entry to any Jewish group. Are their "rabbis" even Jewish?
7. They should knock on the doors of muslim american groups
Arthur ,   SF, CA   (05.01.14)
they will be accepted there....
8. J Street's acceptance denial
David Gershon ,   Haifa, Israel   (05.01.14)
J Street does not understand a simple fact. With their dovish anti-Israel propaganda they harm the State of Israel in a very bad way. One does not have to agree with Israeli policies but preaching to all kind of non-Israeli groups to boycott Israel smells of bad intentions. J Street needs to rationally evaluate the damage they cause Israel. Being so friendly with Palestinians who deny the right of Israel to exist absolutely reeks of self hatred.
9. Cry babies
Zionist forever   (05.01.14)
The right thwarted our effort to join not fair. We represent US Jews boo hoo hoo hoo. Maybe it's time for these people to take an interest in what's going on in the streets of Israel rather than the streets of Rammalh and Gaza. The leftist organisations like these call themselves pro Israel but reality Is they are pro Arab and their priority is the creation of a Palestinians state and paying any price the Arabs demand to achieve that aim.
10. J street is a relatively new organization
Michael   (05.01.14)
that portrays itself as everything it isn't. In its statement you would have thought J street was around for 50 years. They came to represent Pro Israel Pro Peace Pro inclusiveness. Yet the ballot was secret, that didn't stop J street from tryng to destroy rather than strengthen the jewish Group by accusing the right wing of stopping it. If it was asecret ballot how could J street say what it said. The answer: they are J street J street still needs to show maturity.
11. J street represnt no one.
Tomi Weiss ,   Serbia   (05.01.14)
Jihadi Street does not represent anyone in World Jewish community beside their financial owners, namely Anrtisemitic and Islamist circles which finance them for years. They are paid agents of Antisemitism, whose aim beside destroying the Jewish people is to unable Ben Ami well known self doings and corruption. They should not be just denied entry to any Jewish unbrela organization, they should be boycotted and confronted by every single decent Jew or a friend of Jewish people.
12. J Street
Max ,   Washington DC   (05.01.14)
J Street is more like Jews for Jesus than the survival of the Jewish People and Israel.
13. Obama's Jews lost
CJK   (05.01.14)
obama and his creators had decided before he was ever elected president that it would be a splended idea to split the american jewish community and to create a wedge between the american jewish community and the jewish state of israel. now we find out that this little conspiracy, financed by george soros, has failed. although there are american jews who do not support israel, it turns out that the majority still is zionist. obama should not have presumed with such zeal that he could split a three thousand year old community. nor should he have assumed that those jews who voted for him out of a sense of empathy would at the same time turn against the jewish state.
14. # 12 OOOh, that did it!
BUILD BABY BUILD !!!   (05.01.14)
Jews for Jesus can join J Street. I'd love to see that.. Poor Jesus, he gets the blame for all the loose ends. KEEP BUILDING !!!!
15. # 13 CJK not only that
BUILD BABY BUILD !!!   (05.01.14)
to add insult to injury, now most far left anti Israeli organizations are spit on as is obama. Times they are a changing... obama sucks and now, everyone knows it. Benghazi Gate is closing in on obama and his stooges. HALLELUJAH!!!! NEVER STOP BUILDING ISRAEL, BABY !!!
16. J Street is profoundly Anti-Israel. Boycott A.D.L. too.
Chaim ,   Israel   (05.01.14)
It is ludicrous to call J Street "pro Israel". This Soros funded abomination supports BDS and almost every other Israel baiting evil. Its leaders have called Israel "a mistake". The A.D.L. should be totally boycotted for supporting J Street and the horrid Obama regime.
17. It is a LIE to say J-Street is pro-Israel!
Robert Blum ,   New Albany, USA   (05.01.14)
J-Street is anti-Zionist! On Monday, a new documentary about J Street called The J Street Challenge, debuted in Miami. The film, produced by the social action group Americans for Peace and Tolerance, shows how J Street, which claims to be pro-peace and pro-Israel, seeks to eliminate American Jewish groups on the Right and weaken overall American Jewish support for Israel by delegitimizing the American Jewish organizational structure. In July 2010, as the IRS was engaged in delaying and denying the applications for the non-profit status of groups that campaigned for limited government, J Street asked the IRS to cancel the non-profit status of American charities that support Israeli entities located in or operating beyond the 1949 armistice lines. Since then, a dozen completely legitimate, law-abiding charitable organizations have been embroiled in lawsuits or audits and have been forced to fight for their institutional lives. The J Street Challenge provides footage of speeches by J Street leaders and founders who question Israel’s right to exist and defame the American Jewish community for supporting Israel. In one such speech, J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami used the classical anti-Semitic imagery of a Jewish hydra suffocating the world in his description of the American Jewish establishment. As he put it, “I think we’re taking on much more than AIPA C. I think it is the Conference of Presidents. It’s the American Jewish Committee. It’s the lobbying structures of the Federations. It’s the network of JCRCs, the community relations councils. It’s a multi-layered, multi-headed hydra.” The most outspoken critics of Israeli anti-Zionist NGOs and J Street are on the Right. And that makes sense. It isn’t hard for rightists to make the distinction between speeches and extortion. But the primary target of these groups is not the Right. It is the leftist Jewish establishment, in Israel and in the US. And as J Street’s nearly unchallenged rise in the US, and the Court’s self-defeating incoherence on the boycott campaign indicate, over the decades, the establishment Left has become so dependent on rejecting the Right for its own sense of identity, that it is no longer clear whether its members are capable of siding with the hated Right against their common foes.
18. This Reform Jew is Glad J-Street not included!
Shep Fargotstein ,   Memphis, Tn   (05.01.14)
Rabbi Julie Schonfeld complains that inclusion should have been determined by "popular vote"? The URJ didn't use popular vote among their congregations to see how we felt about J-Street - or the myriad of other liberal stances on social issues that the URJ has over-reached in it's original mandate. Let's face it: Most Reform Jews don't even know much about Israel, much less J-Street's (opinion) anti-Israel stance. The problem is, the URJ doesn't want their congregations to know.
19. #3 P.S.
N.L.Katz ,   Qatzrin, Israel   (05.01.14)
Why not, one is asked every once in a while? Because the leadership of this organization and its followers, instead of showing respect to the Jews who dwell in Zion and govern themselves based on Jewish codes of ethics and liberal democratic concepts, arrogantly assume they know how we in Israel ought to handle our affairs, and they truly don't, so much so that they promote ideas that would contradict Israel's very security and the lives of its citizens. The vast majority of "J Street" supporters have never even visited the State of Israel, let alone lived in it. The vast majority of them don't know a thing about the region in which Israel is located and can't converse in the languages of the area, including Hebrew. But, they already place themselves as experienced emissaries in the White House that is eager to get Jewish support to the theories of the likes of the Rev. J. Wright of Chicago and those of Profs. E. Said and R. Khalidi of New York..., theories that contradict the interest of the Jewish people and the State of Israel and which stand in contrast to both international and Israeli law, and to Jewish and general moral codes. It is time the Jewish community of America extricated such an organization out from its midst rather than permit it to collaborate with some of the Jewish people's worst enemies, including those with the blood of Jewish children staining their hands...!!
20. # 11 I think your right
BUILD BABY BUILD !!!   (05.01.14)
This is the beginning of the end of Jihadi Street, ( love your word, may I use it? think I already did. ) Thank G-d He chose the Jews and Israel as their home, there are so many ignorant, people in this world, unfortunately, some are Jews. That's okay, the others with brains help wash them out. KEEP BUILDING ISRAEL FOR JEWS !!!
21. Take THAT Geo Soros
BUILD BABY BUILD !!!   (05.01.14)
you miserable neo nazi bastard and make sure and tell your sweetie, obama the bad news. Watch obama's star fall into the east as a short flame and the sound of a long raspberry. KEEPING BUSY BUILDING ISRAEL, BABY !!!
22. Jihad Street
Eli ,   Israel   (05.01.14)
They are nothing but self hating Jews along with Islamic terrorist supporters funded by Soros with the main goal to destroy Israel and turn it into Gazastan. The group should be banned from entry into Israel forever.
23. Goyishe Yidden is what this J-Street is.
Kolboynik ,   Baltimore, MD   (05.01.14)
This article is great news! -- Lets put J-Street back into the hole they came from! With Jews like these you don't need nazis.
24. J Street = political tinnef
Alexander Scheiner ,   Israel   (05.01.14)
Leave J Street and join J Date! J Street is the ugly face of leftist Israel and those 800 so called "rabbis" are a shame for the jewish religion. rememberamalek.blogspot
25. about time. good on them. j-street is anti-israeli. they r
ralph   (05.01.14)
the enemy also.
26. J Street Challenge
I. Barr ,   Michigan,USA   (05.01.14)
"J Street Challenge" is a movie about an organization financed by a most radical anti Semite, a convicted felon and Nazi collaborator George Soros, a mystery lady from Hong Kong, Iranian businessmen. Ben Ari visited the White House 44 times to be instructed. J Street is condemned by most Jewish leaders such as Alan Dershowich. Israeli should view the movie to understand that J Street is representing Iran, radical Left and everybody who wants to trash Israel. Sadly Ynet, Haaretz do not understand who they are protecting. J Street is well financed, sophisticated, wants to appear as supporting Israel. Their deeds, not their words, are profoundly anti Israel and anti Jewish.
27. J Street
Judy Silver-Shapiro ,   California-USA   (05.01.14)
J Street is the epitome of self-loathers. J Street is saturated with the blood of murdered JEWISH innocents. They are funded by the likes of obama puppeteer, george soros, the billionaire Hungarian HOLOCAUST survivor, who does not miss an opportunity to DEMONIZE ISRAEL. He is a self-outing atheist.
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