Washington – U.S. Rep. Gary Ackerman severed ties with J Street over its call on the Obama administration not to veto a U.N. Security Council resolution on settlements.
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“After learning of J Street’s current public call for the Obama Administration to not veto a prospective U.N. Security Council resolution that, under the rubric of concern about settlement activity, would effectively and unjustly place the whole responsibility for the current impasse in the peace process on Israel, and—critically—would give fresh and powerful impetus to the effort to internationally isolate and delegitimize Israel, I’ve come to the conclusion that J Street is not an organization with which I wish to be associated,” Ackerman (D-N.Y.) said in a statement Tuesday.
“The decision to endorse the Palestinian and Arab effort to condemn Israel in the U.N. Security Council is not the choice of a concerned friend trying to help,” he said. “It is rather the befuddled choice of an organization so open-minded about what constitutes support for Israel that its brains have fallen out. America really does need a smart, credible, politically active organization that is as aggressively pro-peace as it is pro-Israel. Unfortunately, J Street ain’t it.”
Ackerman’s agreement to accept J Street’s endorsement was a prize for the progressive pro-Israel group in the November elections: He is Jewish, from New York and his pro-Israel record is considered second to none. In the last Congress he was chairman of the U.S. House of Representatives’ Middle East committee.
doesn’t this confirm that jews for jstreet always had the twisted mind who’s goal was, is, and will stay to bury israel? where was akermans mind till now!
What he said about J Street was beautiful “its brains have fallen out”. Thank you Representative Ackerman!
J street sided more times with Hamas then with israel
B’cho dor V’dor oimdim oleinu L’chaloiseinu. V’HKBH matzileinu M’YODOM.
Thank You Congressman Ackerman. Now where are Chucky Schumer, his sidekick Cristen Guillebrand and OH YEAH! Jerry Nadler?
Rep. Gary Ackerman was a major FUNDER of this organization! What made him finally wake up is anyones guess!
Ackerman does not have a brain if he was involved in j street until now and only now left it