How Many At J Street Agree With Its Co-Founder That It Was Wrong To Re-establish Israel?

This time, the revelations have nothing to do with the money J Street receives, whose interests they represent or the company they keep--in fact, the source this time is not even Eli Lake.

Instead, Mere Rhetoric found the statement demonstrating that J Street Co-Founder Daniel Levy: Israel’s Creation “An Act That Was Wrong”.

Daniel Levy made the following statement at last May’s Fifth Al Jazeera Forum:

One can be a utilitarian two-stater, in other words think that the practical pragmatic way forward is two states. This is my understanding of the current Hamas position. One can be an ideological two-stater, someone who believes in exclusively the Palestinian self-determination and in Zionism; I don’t believe that it’s impossible to have a progressive Zionism. Or one can be a one-stater. But in either of those outcomes we’re going to live next door to each other or in a one state disposition. And that means wrapping one’s head around the humanity of both sides. I believe the way Jewish history was in 1948 excused – for me, it was good enough for me – an act that was wrong. I don’t expect Palestinians to think that. I have no reason – there’s no reason a Palestinian should think there was justice in the creation of Israel.

Read the whole thing.

Apparently, though Daniel Levy's believes that the re-establishment of the State of Israel is "an act that was wrong," he can find it within himself to understand how in light of the Holocaust and the murder of 6,000,000 Jews that some might find an excuse for Israel.

Levy does not explain whether in addition to not seeing the justice in the creation of Israel, if sees justice in the collaboration of Islamists such as the Grand Mufti with Adolf Hitler.

In any case, seeing that Levy believes that the creation of the State of Israel is a wrongful act, one might ask just what does Daniel Levy see as the goal of J Street--and how many at J Street feel about Israel the way he does?

Or is this just one more thing that Levy and J Street intend to keep hidden?

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