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Mainstream American Jewish Groups, Israeli Government Leaders Reject Efforts to Make Support of Israel a Partisan Wedge Issue
Taken by itself, the Emergency Committee for Israel’s (ECI) founding board member Rachel Abrams’ blog post on the release of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was inappropriate and wrong.
When combined with other statements and actions by the Emergency Committee for Israel over the last year, her blog post is just another example and proof that ECI is no friend to the State of Israel and is advocating a partisan and often bigoted agenda that is far outside the views of mainstream Jewry.
Since its founding, American Jews have been wary of ECI and believe the group’s leaders are far more concerned with defeating President Obama and Congressional Democrats than working to achieve a safe and secure Israel.[1]
But should we expect anything less from an organization whose motivation is to oppose any US action regarding Israel (even the continuation of long-standing policies) by President Obama[2] and to turn Israel into a partisan wedge issue,[3] a strategy even Israel’s government says is “bad for [Israel].”[4]
In the year since ECI was founded, the Emergency Committee for Israel has been: