Guilty as charged!
I am proud to tell you that I have been accused of killing J Street's attempt to sponsor a Birthright trip.According to J Street staff, 104 students signed up to receive more information about the trip during the two days following the press release. But Spitalnick, Rothman and J Street U Director Daniel May noted that something else occurred during those two days: right-wing Zionist bloggers drew attention to the J Street U press release and called on Birthright to cancel the trip.So Vic Rosenthal and I killed the trip, with an assist to Martin Solomon for re-publishing Vic's post. And we've made sure that J Street isn't accepted into the pro-Israel community.
The day after the trip was announced, Vic Rosenthal wrote a post called “Action alert: Don’t let J Street exploit Birthright” at FresnoZionism.org, a blog that calls itself, “A pro-Israel voice from California’s Central Valley.” In the post, he called J Street “anti-Zionist” and told his readers to e-mail Birthright and “ask them if they think that the anti-Zionist organization J Street U should be allowed to lead a Birthright trip.” He reposted the same post on Boston Zionist blog Solomonia.com. IsraelMatzav.blogspot.com—another right-wing blog—published a similar post criticizing Birthright for the J Street trip.
While J Street staff have not suggested that these posts alone led Birthright to cancel the trip, they do hint that it raises another possibility: that Birthright cancelled the J Street U trip as a result of political pressure. J Street’s self-labeled “progressive” positions—along with certain stances it takes that run counter to Israeli governmental policies—have led some in the pro-Israel community, like Rosenthal, to doubt J Street’s Zionist credentials.
And while Rothman—J Street U’s student president—hoped that the Birthright trip would signal J Street U’s full acceptance into the campus Zionist community, Spitalnick fears that the opposite has happened.
My good deed for the week.
And they (apparently) haven't even read all my posts questioning J Street's 'Zionist credentials.'
Heh.
Labels: Birthright, J Street, pro-Israel pro-peace
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:02 PM
4 Comments:
Carl, you are truly a monster.
oy vey....
Keep up the good work.
JStreet tried to pull one over on everyone. They failed because the Jewish community really isn't as stupid as they think. Just because Jewish Americans believe in some progressive ideals, they do not want to endanger Israel. They also know that JStreet is many things, pro-Israel is not one of them.The interesting thing is that even by their own admission JStreet had not even appropriately applied to host a trip.I say let Soros pay for the rips sinc ehe pays for everything else for JStreet.
Medals all round! now can you put the kibosh on this vile critter:
George Soros.
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2011/02/both-sides-in-egypt-blamethe-jews.html
J-Street got its well deserved comeuppance.
Its not exactly like Jeremy Ben Ami and company have defended the Jewish State.
Here's to hoping it folds up and goes away for good in the next few years.
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