Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Cancellations, cancellations...J Street's Jeremy Ben-Ami caught on hidden camera:
Courtesy of J Street Jive: "Prior Committments"..."Scheduling Conflicts"...
They're dropping off like flies - and it's not because of the "vast, right wing conspiracy". Legislator after legislator has been quietly issuing excuses for not attending J Street's Israel-bashing gala next week. As more of J Street luminaries like Josh "hate Israel" Healey and Salam al Marayati have their cv's laid bare to the public, senators and congressmen are putting lots of daylight between themselves and Mr. Ben Ami's group. Here's the latest tally of dropouts...
The latest is John Kerry. He's been billed as the keynote, and in typical Kerry fashion wants to have things both ways by stating that he supports J Street's mission but, curiously, told J Street "weeks ago" that he had a scheduling conflict.
Once again, J Street is not an organization for supporting Israel, it is an organization for pressuring Israel. It is fundamentally anti-democratic. It is a fake.
What's the video?
Is Ben Ami the same lefty intellectual who is/was an embassador from Israel or something that Finkelstein brow beat on Democracy Now once?
I watched part of it... but that guy (similar name?) was Israeli so this couldn't be the same guy?
Sholom Ben Ami
http://74.125.113.132/search?q=cache:eU2lZSkGxVkJ:www.democracynow.org/2006/2/14/fmr_israeli_foreign_minister_shlomo_ben+ben+ami+democracy+now&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
Right, different Ben-Ami (though on the same end of the political divide).
The clip is from an old Andy Griffith movie directed by Elia Kazan, A Face in the Crowd.