Surprise: Most of the 340 'rabbis' for Iran came from Iran-supported J Street
ZOA Analysis Shows "340 Rabbis For
Iran Deal" Are From Groups Hostile to Israel,
Including J Street (Which Works With Apparent
Iranian Regime Group NIAC), BDS Group "Jewish
Voice for Peace," and Israel-Bashing "Rabbis for
Human Rights"
94% of U.S. Rabbis Did NOT Sign
Pro-Iran Deal Statement, While American Jews
Oppose Deal by 2-1, Israelis 7-1, and All
Americans by 2-1
NEW YORK, August, 18, 2015 -- The Zionist Organization
of America (ZOA)'s analysis shows that the
overwhelming majority of the "340 Rabbis for Iran
Deal" come from groups that routinely take
positions and engage in activities that are
hostile towards Israel and inimical to American
interests. The "340 Rabbis for Iran
Deal" are a small fringe group. There are
over 5,000 Rabbis in the United States. In
other words, 94% of American Rabbis did
not sign the statement
supporting the Iran deal.
The majority of the Iran Deal Rabbis come
from the Soros-funded J Street.
(George Soros is a self-described anti-Zionist
billionaire.) Liberal Professor Alan
Dershowitz explained that J Street "always
seems to be taking positions that are
anti-Israel." J Street U's new student board
president is an anti-Israel Muslim.
J Street has financial and other ties to the
National Iranian American Council (NIAC), an
apparent arm of the Iranian regime.
Dissident journalist Hassan Daioleslam revealed
that NIAC
serves as a lobbying group for Iran, and that
NIAC's president and founder, Trita Parsi, has a
long-term close relationship with Iranian Foreign
Minister Javad Zarif. J
Street's financial filings revealed that J
Street's initial funders included NIAC board
member Genevieve Lynch. J Street's first
national conference held an Iran panel with NIAC
head Trita Parsi and Iran apologist Hillary Mann
Leverett, who insisted that no sanctions be placed
on Iran. At the J Street event, Leverett
also condemned anyone who did not trust the
Iranian regime as "reinforcing stereotypes of
Iranian duplicitousness" and asserted that such
"stereotypes" of Iran's Mullahs were
"fundamentally racist." Leverett also
compared Iran's mullahs to Israeli rabbis.
See Trouble
on J-Street, by James
Kirchick.
J-Street has a long history of supporting the
Iran regime's interests over those of America and
Israel. For instance, J Street lobbied
Congresspersons to simply "believe in Iran" -
despite the Iranian regime's responsibility for
murdering hundreds of Americans, Israelis and
others, and history of undeclared sites for
carrying on its nuclear weapons program. Former
Congressman Allen West, who noted that J-Street
was a "Pro-Palestinian Jewish organization,"
related that J-Street told him that he should just
"believe in Iran."
In addition, several months ago, J Street ran
and touted a phony poll to falsely claim that Jews
support the Iran deal. The poll asked
about a hypothetical Iran deal that would only
give Iran "modest relief from sanctions," and that
would only reduce sanctions gradually as Iran met
compliance benchmarks, in exchange for enrichment
restrictions to civilian use and full time
inspectors at Iran's nuclear facilities "to make
sure Iran is not developing nuclear
weapons." This loaded polling question
is a far cry from the actual Iran deal, which
gives hundreds of billions of dollars of sanctions
relief and economic windfalls to Iran, allows
enrichment in excess of the amounts needed for
civilian use, and delays and places all sorts of
roadblocks in the way of obtaining inspections of
Iran's undeclared nuclear activities. In
addition, no Americans are allowed to inspect
Iranian facilities, and inspectors must first be
approved by Iran officials before they can even
enter Iran.
Moreover, Ameinu (which is the group
promoting the "340 Rabbis for Iran Deal") is
closely tied to J Street. Ameinu appears to
be serving as a front group for J Street here -
since J Street has been so discredited.
Ameinu National President Kenneth Bob doubles as J
Street's Treasurer. Ameinu Vice
President and Executive Committee Chair Judith
Gelman is a member of J Street's Montgomery
County, MD steering committee. Ameinu and J
Street recently ran together on the same election
slate.
Other "340 Iran Deal Rabbis" include a board
member of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP). JVP
is featured on the Anti-Defamation League (ADL)
list of the "Top 10 Anti-Israel Groups in
America," and actively promotes anti-Israel
boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS).
The Iran Deal Rabbis also include over a
dozen significant contributors to the so-called
"Rabbis for Human Rights" (RHR). RHR
participates in anti-Israel demonstrations and,
along with other anti-Israel groups, launched a
website with false
testimonies accusing Israel of human rights
violations in Gaza. ZOA members witnessed an
RHR Rabbi invent and widely publish false stories
to demonize pro-Israel young people at the Israel
Day Parade Concert in New York several years
ago.
ZOA's comparison of the names and locations
on the 340 "Rabbis for Iran Deal" list with lists
published on the websites of hostile-to-Israel
groups showed the following:
- 187 (the majority) of the Iran Deal Rabbis are members of the "J Street Rabbinic Cabinet."
- 12 of the Iran Deal Rabbis are members of the "J Street Rabbinic Cabinet Executive Council"
- The Iran Deal Rabbis also include 2 (out of 3) of the J Street cabinet's co-chairs
- 13 of the Iran Deal Rabbis are significant donors to the falsehood-purveying "Rabbis for Human Rights."
- Iran Deal Rabbi Linda Holtzman is on the Board of Directors of the anti-Israel BDS group, "Jewish Voice for Peace." Rabbi Holtzman is known as a "pioneer lesbian Rabbi." As a homosexual, she should be the first to condemn Iran's horrendous human rights record, which includes Iran's brutal executions of hundreds of innocent individuals for the sole reason that they are gay. Incredibly, she is fostering a deal that will give the Iranian regime hundreds of billions of dollars to continue its brutal oppression of gays and minorities.
- Iran Deal Rabbi Arthur Waskow [pictured - CiJ] states that the people at the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) are "people I trust and admire and respect." CAIR is an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation case (the case against groups that sent funding to Hamas). CAIR is also among the top groups that ADL has frequently condemned for its anti-Israel activities.
ZOA
President Morton A. Klein stated:
"The Rabbis signing the Ameinu letter do not
in any way represent the viewpoint of American
Rabbis. To only be able to get 6% of U.S.
rabbis to sign this statement supporting the
catastrophic Iran deal clearly indicates that
Rabbinic leaders are deeply concerned about the
Iran nuclear deal. This is especially true
when 75% of American Jews voted for President
Obama. More importantly, reliable polls show
tremendous opposition to the Iran deal. The
Quinnipiac poll shows that Americans oppose this
dangerous deal by a margin of 2 to 1, and the
Israel Project poll shows that American Jews also
oppose the Iran deal by the same 2 to 1
margin. In addition, a poll conducted
this week by Israel's Channel 10, reported in the
liberal Israeli newspaper Haaretz, shows that
Israelis oppose the Iran deal by a margin of 7 to
1."
"Almost every major Jewish and pro-Israel
group strongly opposes this disastrous Iran
deal. These major groups opposed to the Iran
deal include: the American Israel Public Affairs
Committee (AIPAC); the Anti-Defamation League
(ADL); the Zionist Organization of America; the
American Jewish Committee; the American Jewish
Congress; B'nai Brith; Christians United for
Israel (CUFI); the Orthodox Union; over 100
organizations who are members of the
StopIranRally.org Coalition; and Jewish
Federations across the country including in Los
Angeles, Boston, Miami, Houston, Phoenix, Chicago,
New York, and many
more."
Labels: anti-Israel rabbis, J Street, J Street funding, J Street U, Jewish Voice for Peace, Zionist Organization of America
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:20 PM
2 Comments:
In summarizing the Democrats' Propagandists, one would also need to keep in mind the Hipsters:
https://youtu.be/6bVltvsJF14
BTW Some of those on the Iran Deal "opposition" list, including AIPAC, ran a campaign in support of the Corker Bill, which is a lawless subsuming of the U.S. Constitution's treaty provision and will make it MUCH harder to assemble the 2/3 of BOTH houses of congress (rather than only 1/3 of the Senate) to overcome the Obama/Clinton/KhmerRouge Kerry Disaster. The concept that NOT having the U.S. Constitution as the base of the U.S. enterprise as something to do, is the most amazing thing I've seen so far. And it will not turn out well for Jews, nor for anyone else.
Carl, did you see that one Israeli paper grabbed a picture to go with an article about rabbis in favor of the deal? They snagged the picture of the shluchims convention, and Chabad rabbis are really upset about it. On COLlive.com they were saying they need to start making phone calls to show they are opposed.
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