Obama scapegoats Jews to sell deal

One of the call’s Jewish participants, William Daroff, senior vice president for public policy and director of the Washington office of the Jewish Federations of North America, retweeted during the meeting: “Jews are leading effort to kill #Irandeal”. Nowadays, Jewish apostasy involves proudly brandishing one’s Jewish identity or associations in order to legitimize actions that undermine Israel – in order to avoid being blamed for unpopular Israeli actions.

Other opponents have suggested that a military airstrike could sufficiently derail Iran’s nuclear program. Most egregious was the president’s remark that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “injected himself into an American debate” in an unprecedented manner. One such scenario aligns this moment with Munich in 1938 and the act of appeasement, but is this a brilliant diplomatic maneuver designed to ultimately move Iran away from its current policies and lead to the unseating of its radical political base? They enter this particular debate holding a number of competing concerns but are prepared in the end to place their trust in the president. “It is certainly past time to push back against an organization that is brazenly promoting the interests of a foreign government at the expense of the American people”. In fact, many Jewish Americans who are concerned about this deal with Iran actually were opposed to the Iraq war and bristle at accusations that imply “they got it wrong before, don’t listen to them now”. Approving the agreement is the best choice we have. So my question is, in whose behalf is AIPAC intervening in American domestic politics?

The only logical possibility is that AIPAC is acting on behalf of the Likud government of Israel. AIPAC is a creature of Israel’s right-wing, not of the broad spectrum of Israeli opinion, Does Sen. Chuck Schumer (D – N.Y.) a “traitor” for opposing the deal.

Anti-Semitism is all over the drive to make Chuck Schumer shut up about his opposition to the Iran nuke deal.

He is apparently content to represent Israel’s right-wing and its well financed American lobbying arm. For the generations of Jewish Americans aged over 50, according to a 2013 Pew Study, identify strongly with Israel as a matter of existential reflex. Although Prof. Judith Butler, a leader of this group, grudgingly concedes that “those who do violence to synagogues” may be classified as anti-Semitic, she will not use that word to characterize violence against “synagogues and seders in Israel“, Alexander points out. The arguments for the deal are well known … The Iranian nuclear question has demonstrated the depth and intensity of the Jewish political controversy. One of these was retired Navy Rear Admiral Harold L. Robinson, a rabbi and former naval chaplain who chairs the National Conference on Ministry to the Armed Forces.

And there are the obnoxious Jewish left-wing activists who invoke their dead grandmothers as weapons in the war against Israel, claiming that if Grandma were still alive,”she would be right there with me protesting against Israeli apartheid”, as one recently wrote. At worst, it can foster a hostile climate for the American Jewish community as the debate intensifies.