ZIONIST ORGANIZATION OF AMERICA J Street Sides With Israel’s Enemies & Works to Destroy Support for Israel Special Report Including Executive Summary by The Zionist Organization of America by Morton A. Klein, Elizabeth Berney, Esq., and Daniel Mandel, PhD “J Street is one of the most virulent anti-Israel organizations in the history of Zionism and Judaism.” - Prof. Alan Dershowitz, Harvard Law School Copyright 2018, Zionist Organization of America CONTENTS Table of Contents . i Executive Summary . ES-00 - ES-13 Full Report . 1 Introduction . 1 I. J Street’s Anti-Israel, Foreign & Muslim Donors, and Its Lies About Them. 1 (1) For years, J Street Falsely Denied that Anti-Zionist Billionaire George Soros Was A Major J Street Funder . 1 (2) J Street’s Arab, Muslim and Foreign Donors . 4 II. J Street’s Interconnected Web Of Extremist Anti-Israel Organizations . 9 (1) J Street Is Part of a Soros-Funded Web of Anti-Israel Organizations . 9 (2) J Street Is Also Part of an Interconnected Web of Extremist Organizations Working to Delegitimize Israel, Founded by and/or Coordinated by J Street President Ben-Ami’s Consulting Firm . 11 III. J Street Persistently Even Opposes Israel’s Existence, Persistently Defames and Condemns Israel, And Has Even Encouraged Anti-Israel Violence. 12 (1) J Street Persistently Maligns and Blames Israel . 12 (2) J Street Speakers Have Called for the End of the Jewish State; and a J Street Official Letter to Congress Supported Those Calling for an End to Israel’s Existence . 15 (3) J Street’s Co-Founder Condemned Israel’s Creation As “Wrong” – A Repeated J Street Theme . 15 (4) J Street Has Even Justified and Promoted Violence Against Israelis . 17 (5) J Street Repeatedly Delegitimizes Israel by Falsely Accusing Israel of Being an “Oppressor” and Illegal “Occupier” of Arab Land . 18 IV. J Street Lobbies for Anti-Israel UN Security Council Resolutions . 21 (1) J Street Urged and Offered to Help Obama Pass a UN Resolution Unilaterally Creating a Palestinian Arab State . 21 (2) J Street Urged Obama to Pursue or Not Oppose an Anti-Israel UN Security Council Resolution, in October 2016, Leading to the Passage (on Dec. 23, 2016) of Anti-Israel UN Security Council Resolution 2334, Engineered by the Obama Administration . 22 (3) J Street U Also Urged US Support for Anti-Israel Resolutions . 23 (4) J Street Purchased New York Times Ads Thanking Obama for Supporting Anti-Israel UN Security Council Resolution 2334 and Thanking Kerry for his Anti-Israel Dec. 28, 2016 Speech . 23 (5) J Street Opposed Congressional Resolutions Condemning Anti-Israel UNSC 2334 . 24 (6) J Street Also Urged Obama to Not Veto a 2011 Anti-Israel UN Resolution, and Confirmed It Would Do So Again . 24 (7) J Street Sided With B’Tselem, When B’Tselem Denounced Israel at the UN and Urged the UN to Take Action Against Israel . 25 (8) In 2014, J Street Urged Passage of a UN Security Council Resolution That Outlines a Palestinian Arab State with Pre-1967 Borders That Divides Jerusalem . 25 (9) J Street’s Featured Annual Conference Speakers Call for U.S. (and European) “Pressure Without Limits” on Israel, Including Not Protecting Israel With UN Vetoes . 25 i V. J Street Promotes BDS, Lawfare, and U.S. & EU Anti-Jewish Labeling Regulations . 26 (1) J Street Urged Obama to Enforce Discriminatory US Customs Regulations Prohibiting “Made in Israel” Labels on Products Made in Judea/Samaria . 26 (2) J Street Lobbied Against Anti-BDS Provisions in Trade Legislation . 26 (3) J Street Conferences Promote BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions), “Lawfare” and “Courtroom Intifada” Against Israel (bringing legal actions against Israel and Israeli officials) . 27 (4) J Street Absurdly Claims That The Only Way To “Combat BDS” Is: (a) To Agree With The Basic Anti-Israel Big Lies That Fuel The BDS Movement, That Israel “Occupies”Palestinian Arab Land And Is An Apartheid State; And (b) To Promote The BDS Movement’s Goal Of “Ending The Occupation” . 29 (5) J Street Condemns Mainstream Pro-Israel Groups That Combat BDS as “Fringe Voices” and “Liars”. 30 (6) J Street Founder and President Ben-Ami Misleadingly Defends BDS’s Goals . 30 (7) J Street’s Official BDS Policy Does Not Oppose “Targeted” Anti-Semitic BDS. Moreover, J Street’s “Green Line” Campaigns Are Targeted BDS Campaigns . 32 (8) J Street is Attempting to Stop or Weaken Post-Deal Efforts to Impose Sanctions on Iran, including Sanctions for Iran’s Terrorism and Ballistic Missile Activities. 32 VI. J Street Takes Iran’s Side. 33 (1) J Street’s Iran Positions (Lobbying For the Iran Deal, Against Sanctions, and Against Even Laying the Groundwork for a Credible Military Option) are Identical to the Iran Regime Lobby’s Positions. From its Earliest Days, J Street Collaborated with and had Financial and Overlapping Directorship Ties with the Iranian Regime’s Lobbyist, the National Iranian American Council (NIAC). 33 (2) J Street Repeatedly Lobbied Against Sanctions on Iran, Using Pretexts and Orwellian Logic – Such as Falsely Characterizing Those Supporting Sanctions as Warmongers who were Against a Nuclear-Free Iran . 35 (3) From its Earliest Days, J Street Worked to Stop Scheduled Major Public Speeches by Prominent Officials About Iran’s Genocidal Ambitions and the Need for Strong Action to Stop Iran (a) Governer Palin (b) Prime Minister Netanyahu. 37 (4) J Street’s Iran Positions Opposing Sanctions and Timetables for Imposing Sanctions Are Further Left than the Israeli Left and Far Left. 39 (5) J Street Lobbies Against Keeping Any Military Option on the Table (Even as a Last Resort), Using J Street’s “Key Strategy” of Misrepresenting Israeli Security Experts’ Views . 39 (6) J Street Was a Leading Lobbyist for the Catastrophic Iran Deal, Despite the Fact that, Across the Spectrum, Israelis, Americans and American Jews Opposed the Deal. 41 (7) J Street PAC Finances and Runs Ad Campaigns for Pro-Iran Deal Congressional Candidates, and Targets Iran Deal Opponents for Defeat. 44 (8) J Street is Attempting to Stop or Weaken Post-Deal Efforts to Impose Sanctions on Iran, Including Sanctions for Iran’s Terrorism and Ballistic Missil. 45 ii VII. J Street Opposes Increasing Military Aid to Israel to Counter Increased Iranian Threats, Saying Helping Israel Ignores American Needs! - While J Street Promotes Sending American Funds to the Palestinian Authority (Which Uses the Funds to Pay Terrorists to Murder Jews). 46 (1) J Street Lobbied Against Military Aid to Israel to Counteract Increasing Post-Iran-Deal Threats From Iran and Iranian-Sponsored Terror Groups . 46 (2) J Street PAC Requires Candidates That J Street PAC Endorses and Raises Campaign Funds for to Support Aid to the Palestinian Authority . 47 (3) J Street is Lobbying Against The Taylor Force Act – a Key Bill to Stop the PA from Using U.S. Aid to Pay Palestinian Arab Terrorists to Murder Jews and Americans . 48 (4) From its Inception, J Street Opposed Economic and Diplomatic Pressure on Palestinian Arab Terrorists (and Military Responses) . 49 VIII. J Street Condemns Israel for Defending Herself from Hamas Rocket Attacks and Terror Tunnels, and Makes Pro-Hamas Demands on Israel . 49 (1) J Street Opposes Israeli Self-Defense. 50 (2) When Israel Defends Herself from Terror Attacks, J Street Viciously Condemns Israel and Israel’s Supporters; and Demands Immediate Ceasefires . 50 (3) J Street Equated Hamas Rocket Attacks on Innocent Israeli Civilians to Israel’s Targeted Action to Destroy Hamas’ Rockets, and Equated the IDF to Hamas . 51 (4) After Operation Cast Lead Ended, J Street Championed the “Goldstone Report” - Continuing to Malign Israel’s Actions in Gaza . 53 (5) In 2010, J Street Lobbied Congresspersons to Sign the Infamous “Gaza 54 Letter” a/k/a “Hamas 54 letter” Condemning Israel, and Urging President Obama to Pressure Israel to Lift the Weapons Blockade of Gaza; J Street Then Attacked Pro-Israel Groups that Opposed this Anti-Israel Letter. 55 (6) J Street Has Continued To Demand Lifting the Gaza Weapons Blockade . 55 (7) J Street Falsely Accused Israel of Killing Palestinian Arab Civilians In Gaza . 56 (8) During the 2014 Gaza War, J Street Called for an Early Ceasefire Before Israel Could Begin to Destroy Hamas’s Terror Tunnels, And Again Condemned Israel . 57 (9) J Street U’s Recent Former President Praised Gazan (Hamas) “Resistance” and Falsely Accused Israel of Inflicting Horror . 59 (10) J Street Supports Engaging Hamas . 59 IX. J Street Blames Israel for Palestinian Arab Terror, Other Islamist (Including Al Qaeda) Terror & the Palestinian Authority’s Anti-Israel Incitement . 61 X. J Street Campaigns Against Moving the U.S. Embassy to Israel’s Capital Jerusalem; and For Dividing Jerusalem (1) J Street Campaigns Against Moving the U.S. Embassy to Israel’s Capital Jerusalem, Despite Widespread Bipartisan Support for the Move . 62 (2) J Street Campaigns to Divide Jerusalem . 63 iii XI. J Street Supports Ethnic Cleansing of Jews & Condemns “Settlements” As “Illegal” . 64 (1) J Street Promotes Uprooting Jews From Their Homes and Preventing Jewish Building in the Jewish Homeland Past the 1949 Armistice Lines . 64 (2) J Street Supported the Obama Administration’s Settlement Freeze Demands . 66 (3) J Street Promotes Ending Tax Exemptions for Charities with Operations Beyond the “Green Line” . ..