Last night a fundraiser was held for Rep. Dan Maffei (D-NY25) and Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-NY05) by the fake pro-Israel group J Street. As Politico points out, one of J Street’s biggest donors is George Soros.
J Street has been trying to beat back a controversy after its donor list was accidentally revealed and showed that billionaire George Soros has been among its major benefactors.
Follow the link to view the invitation. Yid with Lid has been following the corrupt shenanigans of J Street, doing the work the media refuses to do. They are anything but a pro-Israel group.
There is another, broader story here, however, that is extremely important. Indeed, it applies to virtually every other issue foreign and domestic for the United States.
How could a man whose only personal involvement in the Middle East was as a paid Arab, anti-Israel lobbyist (for a firm which since he left is the public relations’ agency for the pro-Hamas Gaza flotilla) portray himself as leader of a pro-Israel group with no mass media outlet pointing out this contradiction? How could a group which for most of its existence never took any pro-Israel stand–and even then took only minor steps to the contrary–be lauded in the mass media as something it wasn’t? How could a group loaded with anti-Israel activists portray itself as the opposite?
This is not to say there weren’t many well-intentioned people who joined, supported, or sympathized with this group thinking it was a liberal, dovish, but still pro-Israel organization. But that, too, is the point. If they had been informed properly by the media they never would have done so.
Why did the truth have to be discovered by an intrepid, hard-researching blogger, Jeff Dunetz; a reporter for a small conservative newspaper, the frequently scooping Eli Lake here and here; and another tireless hero working independently, Lenny ben-David, see here and here and here.
Answer: because the mass media is out to lunch on anything that makes a certain side of the political spectrum look bad.
These are the people supporting Dan Maffei, the same people the media provides cover for.
H/T Sam
Tags: anti-Israel, Dan Maffei, Fundraiser, George Soros, J Street
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