J Street in bed with Iran, Soros the tie that binds

NIAC and J Street: Lobbying and Lying   NIAC and J Street might seem at first an odd alliance. J Street is "pro-peace, pro-Israel" and NIAC is pro-engagement, pro-Iran. But J Street isn't all that pro-Israel, and NIAC will take any allies it can find in the fight against sanctions, so few and far between are such organizations in Washington. J Street director Jeremy Ben-Ami co-authored an op-ed with NIAC chief Trita Parsi making the (extremely unpopular in the Jewish community) argument against sanctions. J Street invited Parsi to speak at their conference last month. And the two groups have together constructed and embraced a narrative that explains away all the questions about their credibility and legitimacy as the work of the same nefarious right-wing conspiracy. But follow the money and the tie that binds seems to be George Soros, who provides substantial funding to both groups. Also, Morton Halperin, one of the top men at Soros's Open Society Institute [assets in 2005: $858,935,162], sits on the boards of both J Street and NIAC. As Ben Smith reported Friday, Soros pays the salary of the NIAC staffer who runs the Campaign for a New Policy on Iran. Documents reveal that J Street participated in the discussions that determined the group's agenda. And there's another thing the group's have in common: they've both been caught telling their supporters they've taken one position while lobbying behind the scenes for the exact opposite outcome....

If only this were a cover story... on the front of, say, Newsweek. 

 

It's not that I'm not grateful to the Weekly Standard blog, it's just that I want to get it front of the Lefty Jews.  Ties to Iran might be the straw that breaks the camel's back, so to speak. Ya think?

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[Kae Gregory]

Yeah, I know. It would be nice to put it in front of 'Lefty Jews'. The problem is that their response would be something like, "Yeah... so?"