In a last minute desperate email blast J ,Street’s Messiah-in-Charge, Jeremy Ben Ami is exhorting the troops to fight back against “right wing extremists”. Playing the martyr card, which he has from the inception of J Street, Ben Ami, whose group secretly received hundreds of thousands of dollars from donors like George Soros and whose coffers are overflowing with dollars from Israel haters, will try to convince an audience in Newton, MA this evening that his is the voice crying in the wilderness, beset by powerful, conservative and xenophobic Jews.
In Democrat-laden Massachusetts, his message will be spun by the Boston Globe and WBUR, the local NPR affiliate. What galls him the most, however, is the fact that a REFORM synagogue told him to get lost. Granted, the rabbi’s decision was no doubt prompted by the threat of members resigning and pulling their funding (which is their democratic right of course), but to have been shown the door by a Left wing synagogue is the real threat that Ben Ami fears.
Like Andy Griffith in A Face in the Crowd, Ben Ami’s Waterloo may have ooccurred when Eli Lake of The Washington Times broke the story a few months ago that Ben Ami lied about his funding sources. Now, in true demagogic style, he’s trying to make lemonade out of Soros’s lemons. Yes, he took the money and lied about it, but so what? It’s all about saving Israel from the dark forces of the Right. How much longer Ben Ami can fool the American Jewish community is anybody’s guess, but one thing is for sure: His mask is beginning to slip even among his knee-jerk followers.