MOSAIC
Jews against Themselves
by Gabriel Schoenfeld
September 24, 2015
As a new book shows, hatred of Jews can be infectious—and some of the worst carriers are Jews who defame their own people…J Street is an organization that describes itself as “pro-Israel” and proclaims itself “devoted and committed to Israel’s future.” Yet, as Edward Alexander observes in an important new book, J Street “misses no opportunities to blacken Israel’s reputation and very few opportunities to encourage campaigns to delegitimize it.” And J Street is not alone. Similar Jewish organizations, some without J Street’s pretensions to Zionist commitment, have been proliferating in recent years both here and abroad. READ MORE