Rattling the Cage: ‘Die, J Street, die!’ is the title of this article from Jerusalem Post writer, Larry Derfner. As he puts it, there is presently an ongoing attempt by right wing Zionist groups in the US to undermine the convention next week being held by J Street, the liberal alternative to AIPAC.
The telephones are ringing, allegedly from the Weekly Standard and other right wing sources to scare off US Congresspersons and Senators from attending the J Street convention.
THE Weekly Standard, Pajamas Media, Commentary, StandWithUs, ex-AIPACer Lenny Ben-David and assorted other soldiers in Israel’s information war, there’s a campaign on not to disagree with J Street, not to criticize it, but to destroy it. There’s a telephone crusade led by Weekly Standard Online editor Michael Goldfarb to scare senators and congressmen away from the convention. The strategy is to slander J Street, it’s having more than a little success, and Goldfarb is confident the cancellations will snowball.
“Will Senator Mark Pryor really go to the mat for an anti-Israel, pro-Hamas organization?” he asks rhetorically.
“Anti-Israel, pro-Hamas.” That’s J Street to these people.
Read on HERE
Most liberals I believe are familiar with The Weekly Standard, the right wing Neocon rag started by William Kristol and Fred Barnes, originally owned by Rupert Murdock, which today makes no apologies for being deep into Israeli politics, as a supporter of Likudnik right wing occupation/colonialism of Palestine. Well, who didn’t know that?
