The Jerusalem Post has the latest on J Street’s unusual donors:
According to records filed with the US Federal Election Committee on October 20 and October 21, J Street recorded hundreds of donations from Americans of all sorts, most Jewish and some Muslim. But several names jumped out from the 2,100 pages.
Lenny Ben David, who wrote the item, mentions Genevieve Lynch, a member of the National Iranian American Council’s board.
Lynch, the NIAC board member and a member of J Street’s Finance Committee, is listed contributing $10,000 in October. At one point last year, J Street and NIAC leaders worked together to block anti-Iran sanctions measures proposed by Congress. Belatedly, J Street changed its position and supported sanctions.
Nancy Dutton earmarked last week $250 for the Democratic Senate candidate in Pennsylvania, Joe Sestak. Her late husband Fred served as a Saudi foreign agent in Washington for 30 years. (During the 1982 AWACS debate he was believed to be responsible for the line, “Reagan or Begin?” which strongly suggested American Jews’ double loyalty.) After Fred’s death, Nancy picked up the pricey Saudi gig.
Oddly enough, the donors have a decidedly anti-Israel perspective:
Another new name on the J Street PAC’s list of contributors is M. Cherif Bassiouni, a well-known professor of law at DePaul University. Bassiouni is also an unlikely candidate to contribute to a purported “pro-Israel” organization. Several years ago he complained in an article in the Harvard International Law Journal, “A large segment of the world population asks why Israel’s repression of the Palestinian people, which includes the commission of ‘grave breaches’ of the Geneva Convention and what the customary law of armed conflict considers ‘war crimes,’ is deemed justified, while Palestinians’ unlawful acts of targeting civilians are condemned? These are only some contemporary examples of the double standard that fuels terrorism.”
Now, the jig has been up for some time that J Street allies itself with foes of the Jewish state. The latest is simply more evidence, as if any were needed, that J Street’s pro-Israel label is fraudulent and its sponsored candidates are those it perceives to be most helpful to its — and its allies’ — mission.
For the French, and for many in America, sadly, Obama is but a mascot to prove how enlightened someone is.
Putin’s face is showing up the bottoms of expensive new jeans, so there’s that.
“We know the press is really an independent, civic-minded and nonpartisan group … like ACORN.”
I’ve lived there and other European countries and I can safely say that I would be VERY surprised if they elect an Arab or North African to the position of president.
“At what point can we deem Europe’s cosmetic obsession with a black American presidential candidate offensive? I know we’re supposed to be overjoyed that the rest of the world loves Obama, but this is a pretty condescending brand of love, and it’s shocking that no one has objected to it. You don’t have to agree with Barack Obama to think he deserves more respect from the rest of the world than to be turned into an exotic fashion ornament. A “hip new thing” is still a thing. He may be Europe’s new PC fashion accessory, but he’s still our Democratic nominee.”
Hardly any hypocritical contortion you’re unwilling to attempt, Mr. Greenwald, in order to pursue your juvenile European-bashing. Don’t start lecturing the French on the relationship between the “thing” and the “self”: they’ll win every time. It’s not “love” which they are attempting to express, and what is “shocking” is that you’d interpret it as such. What’s that stereotype the French have about Americans, that they lack a developed sense of irony? Unknot yourself, sir. Go have a cola.
katieo,
are you cabable of making a rational point?
My cleaning lady here in Spain LOVES Obama: Why? Because he is payback to the USA for all its wickedness since WWII!
That, anyway, is what she tells me!
Obama is not The Great Black Hope for the world-as-seen-from-Europe; he is a cat-o’-nine-tails which will scourge Americans and THAT will redeem the USA!
What a shame that the Spanish are contending that only a black man beating white people can wipe away the memory of slavery; it’s as if there was never a period of History in Spain in which Moors enslaved white people!