Jon Segall, sioniste de gauche, se dissocie de J-Street

"Le choix de J-Street d'offrir des tribunes à des antisionistes et à ceux qui répètent des clichés frôlant un antisémitisme borderline au prétexte que "tous les points de vue doivent être discutés" est inquiétant. Ces gens bénéficient déjà de beaucoup de tribunes. La question que J Street devrait se poser est celle-ci: "Pour quelle raison devons-nous leur offrir une tribune alors qu'ils en ont déjà assez?" C'est cette raison qui m'amène à me dissocier d'eux. Je ne vois pas la raison pour laquelle une association qui prétend être pro-sioniste doit présenter des points de vue anti-sionistes. Des points de vue dissidents et différents (gauche vs. droite / progressifs vs. conservateurs) absolument. Des points de vue antisionistes et antisémitismes... Non. Il n'en est pas question." (Jon Segall)

Brian of London @ Israelly Cool: J-Street Falling

A couple of days ago Jon Segall [photo] wrote an interesting piece in The Times of Israel about why, as a left wing Zionist, he’d finally given up on supporting J-Street: “Goodbye J-Street, you lost me“. I felt J-Street were bad from the start, right back to their covering up initial and large funding from George Soros. I’ve also recently watched a damning 1 hour of a new film that really explores J-Street: The J-Street Challenge. I saw a special private preview.

I left the following comment on the post and then had an interesting and civil discussion with Jon:
Nice to see that J-Street is publicly loosing support. They’ve tried to deceive people into thinking they know what is best for us upity Israeli Jews who just refuse to roll over but the reality is they’re an evil bunch of self haters. Always were, always will be and it’s good that their insincere concern for Jewish Israel is being seen for what it really is now.

"Brian. Honestly I cannot agree with your comment.. I don’t believe that J Street are self haters. For the most part, everyone I have met at J Street are concerned for Israel and approach Israel from a Left-centric perspective. That does not make them “self haters”.
That said, their choices in giving platforms to anti-Zionists and those who repeat borderline anti-Semitic memes in the name of “discussing all points of view” is disturbing. Those people have plenty of platforms already. What J Street should be asking is “Why do we have to give them a platform when they already have a number of them”.
THAT is why I am disassociating. I don’t see just WHY an organization that claims to be Pro-Zionist needs to present anti-Zionist viewpoints. Dissent and differences (left vs. right / Progressive vs. Conservative) absolutely. Anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism… No. No way."  SUITE