J-Street funded by anti-Israel anti-Semitic George Soros

[maz]

The AIPAC crowd are attacking false opposition pro-Israel J-Street  :roll:

http://cgis.jpost.com/Blogs/rosner/entr ... street_the

The jig is up. J Street's credibility is gone among even the most sympathetic of press outlets. No serious pol or Jewish community leader will want to associate himself with a group that is not only anti-Israeli but also funded by an anti-Semite. Any respectable figure in Israeli politics can no longer give Soros Street any attention.

http://www.jewishjournal.com/nation/art ... _20100927/

J Street has acknowledged substantial donations from billionaire George Soros, reversing years of claims by the group that it had nothing to do with the liberal financier, and apologized for making misleading statements about his role.

Jeremy Ben-Ami, the director of the dovish pro-Israel lobby, confirmed to JTA a report that first appeared in The Washington Times that it had received $245,000 from Soros and his children in 2008, and added that it had received another $500,000 in subsequent years—altogether, about 7 percent of the $11 million that J Street says it has taken in since its 2008 founding.

Ben-Ami for years has given statements denying Soros had a role in founding the group and strongly implying that he continued to have no role.


"This was not founded by him, he didn't provide initial funding," Ben-Ami said. "I stand by the way that is phrased—I still want him to support us more."

In an interview with Moment magazine last March, Ben-Ami was even more direct in his denial: "We got tagged as having his support without the benefit of actually getting funded!"

But on Sunday, two days after The Washington Times story appeared, Ben-Ami on the J Street blog released a statement to followers regretting the misleading statements about Soros' role.

"I accept responsibility personally for being less than clear about Mr. Soros' support once he did become a donor," Ben-Ami said in the statement. "I said Mr. Soros did not help launch J Street or provide its initial funding, and that is true. I also said we would be happy to take his support. But I did not go the extra step to add that he did in fact start providing support in the fall of 2008, six months after our launch."

As a corporation that does not have tax-exempt status, Ben-Ami noted, J Street was under no obligation to reveal its donors.

"Nevertheless, my answers regarding Mr. Soros were misleading," he said. "I deeply and genuinely apologize for that and for any distraction from J Street's important work created by my actions and decisions."

Ben-Ami said J Street's board kept contributions secret as a matter of policy, but that it was also his understanding that Soros continued to prefer to keep his funding off the record.

Michael Vachon, a Soros spokesman, said that Soros had no problem with his role being made public because by the time he contributed money, J Street was up and running.

"Mr. Soros never made any secret about his contributions to J Street," he told JTA. "Mr. Soros believes that J Street makes an important contribution to the policy debate in the United States in the Middle East. He is a financial supporter of the organization but he doesn't control the day-to-day operations, nor does he have a role in setting the organization's policy. He has no problem telling people what he funds."

[Androgynus]

Along with classical Zionist deception techniques...non-Zionist worldwide are routinely barraged with controlled asymmetrical confusion--or constant double-speak intended to create mass cognitive dissonance... What Soros and anything Soros-connected represent (like a Barack Obama or J-Street as examples).

~~A~~

[thirdeyewise]

Wow, so now George Soros (György Schwartz), the Hungarian Jew is anti-semitic. it figures!
These people definitely have no shame in their game.

[maz]

Well I  agree with the neocon Zionists about one thing, the left leaning pro-war J-Street never had any credibility to begin with, so now they are at less than zero