BREITBART
By Thomas Rose
May 9, 2014

America’s organized Jewish community is in turmoil following last week’s rejection of a membership bid from the anti-Israel left wing lobbying group ‘J Street’ to join the umbrella President’s Conference of Major American Jewish Organizations.

The President’s Conference – created in 1956 at the urging of President Dwight Eisenhower who wanted the disputatious Jewish community to create one address that he could deal with – faces fracture and possible dissolution after several left-wing member groups, lead by the largest of all member organizations, the Union for Reform Judaism, representing America’s 1.5 million Reform Jews, are threatening to withdraw in “protest” against the April 30th rejection of J Street’s membership bid. 22 of the 31 President’s Conference groups that participated in last week’s ballot voted to reject J Street’s application on the grounds that a group openly seeking to sabotage the key missions of the Conference does not belong inside the Conference.

J Street is not, as the New York Times repeatedly claims, ‘just another liberal Jewish organization’. It is anything but. Founded in 2008 as part of the Obama presidential campaign, J Street was launched to become an Obama front group inside the American Jewish community, helping the President change the American Jewish community’s pro-Israel consensus and ultimately replacing the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) as the primary consensus voice on Israel inside the American Jewish community with J Street.

…J Street doesn’t want to join the pro-Israel Jewish mainstream, it wants to destroy it. By offering itself as another  “pro-peace victim” silenced by the “right wing” Jewish establishment, maybe J Street hopes it will get the media to help it discredit and delegitimize the pro-Israel consensus of the American Jewish community in general, and AIPAC in particular.  The only problem is that the American Jewish establishment is anything but “right wing.” Nearly two thirds of the President’s Conference’s member organizations– the same groups that just rejected J Street, are liberal or left wing.

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