A significant public campaign was launched in 2002 by a new lobby group, Justice for Jews from Arab Countries (JJAC, the creation of major American Jewish organizations), to bring attention to the "forgotten exodus" of Jews from Arab countries with the aim of supporting Israeli diplomacy by playing the Jewish "refugee" card against demands for repatriation.
Ben-Ami does not rehearse his role in the 2000 negotiations but places the Clinton peace effort in a longer historical perspective, offering what he calls an "interpretive overview...ut the pendulous move of Jews and Arabs between war and peace." Michael Massing in the New York Review of Books (June 8, 2006), after criticizing some of the authors' facts and an inadequate analysis, goes them one better and lays out in even greater detail how AIPAC and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations influence policy not only about Israel but the Middle East (Iraq, Iran, and Syria).
Within hours of Israel's bloody act of piracy, nations, political leaders, human rights organizations and the vast majority of the international community condemned the Israeli state for its violation of international law. Turkey, Spain, Greece, Denmark and Austria summoned their Israeli ambassadors to protest the deadly assault. The Financial Times, (June 1, 2010) referred to the Israeli assault as a "brazen act of piracy . . . hurtling into lawlessness" rooted in its "illegal blockage of Gaza." Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Erdogan called the Israeli assault an act of "state terrorism" which would have "serious consequences." Israel's attacks on ships flying Turkish, Greek and Irish flags on the high seas were described by legal experts as an "act of war. The Daily Alert (May 31 - Ju...
..., in close liaison with powerful American Jewish Zionist political backers, covered up the mass mur...
According to Bloomfield, "Only two major Jewish organizations condemned the bombing-the American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League-but they made no mention of the larger problem nor of leaflets at the scene calling for the murder of peace activists and declaring 'the State of Israel has become our enemy' and its leaders are 'a mob of wicked people, haters of the Torah who want to erase the laws of God.'" While Rabbi David Saperstein, director of the Religious Action Center for Reform Judaism, had written to Prime Minister Olmert on Oct. 6 urging a crackdown on the violence and the honoring of Israel's commitments to freeze settlements and dismantle illegal West Bank outposts, Bloomfield pointed out that, "The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations,...
Now more than ever, true friendship requires strong American leadership and engagement to move the sides toward a comprehensive two-state solution," the Israeli leaders wrote in a letter to J Street's founders. "With time running out, business-as-usual will not do. Indeed, earlier this month, Eric Yoffie, the president of the influential Union of Reform Judaism, called on Jews to disassociate themselves from [John Hagee] and his organization, Christians United for Israel (CUFI). Several days later, seven past chairmen of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, another major national group whose leadership has moved increasingly to the right, defended Hagee as a "true friend of Israel" and CUFI as "among the strongest supporters of Israel in the United Stat...
A U.S. Jewish security network has ramped up daily communication with federal, state and local law enforcement agencies in light of Middle East fighting. Although there has been no specific threat against any U.S. Jewish institution, the Secure Community Network, is speaking "constantly" with these agencies, said Paul Goldenberg, SCN's national director. "At this point in time there is nothing specific that says Hezbollah is planning an attack on Jewish institutions to the best of our knowledge," he told JTA. "However, they should as a community remain vigilant. With escalated fighting, there's always a concern that there are people out there that don't await orders from any particular place." SCN, a security resource center for the U.S. Jewish community, was founded by the Conference o...
... founded by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations and the United Jewis...
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Discussing efforts by such groups as the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and the Conference of Presidents to enforce what they view as a pro-Israel position in the current presidential campaign-particularly with regard to Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL), who is feared as one whose Middle East views are largely unknown-Goldberg writes that ...by the standards of rhetorical correctness maintained by such groups...Mr. Obama is actually more pro-Israel than either Ehud Olmert or Ehud Barak (to say nothing of John McCain and President George W. Bush, who spoke to the Knesset about external threats to Israel's safety but made no mention of the country's missteps). " "A More Nuanced Approach" Seymour D. Reich, president of the Israel Policy Forum and a former chairman of the Confere...
Those American Jewish organizations which frequently proclaim themselves "friends" of ... of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Goldberg reports, "...
In responding to polls, large numbers of American Jews are liberal internationalists, favor negotiations with the Palestinians to end the Israeli occupation, and side with the Israelis critical of a primarily ethnic conception of their state. [...] in their angry and obsessive commitment to the Israel of Zionist nationalism, Peretz and the leaders of American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee, and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, are on to something.
His door knocking launched a national student movement, the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry, or SSSJ, whose first public effort was a May 1, 1964, demonstration outside the Soviet mission to the United Nations. More than 1,000 students from Yeshiva, Columbia, Stern College and other campuses marched, demanding freedom for Soviet Jews. The Cleveland Council on Soviet AntiSemitism was created in 1963, although it remained fairly quiet until it was later renamed the Union of Councils for Soviet Jews and went on to play a strong role in pushing Washington to back the Soviet Jewry campaign. The punishment was commuted to hard labor, but it shocked into action 24 major American Jewish organizations. They came together in June 1971 as the National Conference on Soviet Jewry, which became the...
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