McCollum lectures ambassador on J Street http://blogs.jta.org/ENTRY_PERMALINK_HERE/mccollum-lectures-ambassador-on-j-street/ A Minnesota congresswoman tells the Israeli ambassador he shouldn’t have skipped the J Street conference. en-us efingerhut@jta.org Copyright 2009 2009-11-05T;00:15:00-05:00 Comment by David david.ehrens@gmail.com Mr. Hartuv knows not of what he speaks. Apparently he gets his information directly 3rd hand from a blogger quoting a student who may or may not have really attended JStreetU and is said to be quoting J Street. For those of us who were there, in the midst of quite a few Israelis and a large number of politicians from both countries, the pro-Israel component was front and center. Mr. Hartuv knows not of what he speaks. Apparently he gets his information directly 3rd hand from a blogger quoting a student who may or may not have really attended JStreetU and is said to be quoting J Street.

For those of us who were there, in the midst of quite a few Israelis and a large number of politicians from both countries, the pro-Israel component was front and center.

]]> 2012-02-10T;00:53:00-05:00 Comment by Yosef Hartuv yosefandmelody@gmail.com “To say that you have to love Israel or be pro-Israel to be part of J Street is a terrible mistake.” Thus Judith Baker of the fringe-left Brit Tzedek v’Shalom (its English moniker is Jewish Alliance for Justice and Peace), recently incorporated into J Street, told a reporter at the J Street conference on Tuesday. Indeed, “peace or Israel” seems to be the question. It’s also reported that “J Street’s university arm has dropped the ‘pro-Israel’ part of the left-wing US lobby’s ‘pro-Israel, pro-peace’ slogan to avoid alienating students.” http://calevbenyefuneh.blogspot.com/2009/11/j-street-dreams-israeli-reality.html “To say that you have to love Israel or be pro-Israel to be part of J Street is a terrible mistake.”
Thus Judith Baker of the fringe-left Brit Tzedek v’Shalom (its English moniker is Jewish Alliance for Justice and Peace), recently incorporated into J Street, told a reporter at the J Street conference on Tuesday. Indeed, “peace or Israel” seems to be the question. It’s also reported that “J Street’s university arm has dropped the ‘pro-Israel’ part of the left-wing US lobby’s ‘pro-Israel, pro-peace’ slogan to avoid alienating students.”
http://calevbenyefuneh.blogspot.com/2009/11/j-street-dreams-israeli-reality.html

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