Center Field: ‘AIPACing’ AIPAC: The New Anti-Zionist, Annihilationist Dog-Whistle

The ground is shifting. The peer pressure is growing. The elites are wavering.

By GIL TROY
02/18/2014 21:39

The American Jewish Left loves labeling AIPAC, America’s pro-Israel lobby, as doctrinaire, unrepresentative and bullying – adjectives which often describe the far Left itself. This “AIPACing” of AIPAC – caricaturing the broad bipartisan lobby as monolithic and intimidating – reflects another, more insidious scheme. Increasingly, the barrage of Israel criticism is escalating hopes of ending Israel’s West Bank presence into dreams of ending Israel.

Note what happened when New York’s new mayor Bill de Blasio proclaimed, “City Hall will always be open to AIPAC,” echoing most liberal Democratic leaders who recognize that most American Jews – and thus most AIPACers – are liberal Democrats. This routine greeting drew a mass smack-down from progressive Jews, who lectured: “your job is not to do AIPAC’s bidding....AIPAC speaks for Israel’s hard-line government and its right-wing supporters, and for them alone; it does not speak for us.”

Two protesters, Roly Matalon and Felicia Sol, are rabbis at New York’s B’nai Jeshrun congregation. Forty-three congregants then condemned their rabbis’ “factually incorrect,” “offensive” and “divisive” words.

“[W]e object to the way you mischaracterize the work that AIPAC does and the diverse political affiliation of its many members,” the bothered congregants wrote. “By attempting to paint AIPAC into an ideological corner, you have injured AIPAC’s ability to continue its bipartisan efforts, and in so doing have hurt the State of Israel as well.” Particularly infuriating was their self-righteous rabbis’ co-signing with “a leader of the boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement against Israel.”

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