(Jewish Group) In rare show of unity, all 25 Jewish House Democrats blast Amnesty director's comment

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In rare show of unity, all 25 Jewish House Democrats blast Amnesty director’s comments on Israel

All 25 Jewish Democrats in the House, a fractious caucus that rarely unanimously agrees on issues of Jewish interest, signed onto a statement slamming recent comments by Amnesty International’s U.S. director, who said he believes polls showing overwhelming U.S. Jewish support for Israel are inaccurate.

“As Jewish Members of the House of Representatives, we represent diverse views on a number of issues relating to Israel. However, we are in full agreement that Mr. [Paul] O’Brien’s patronizing attempt to speak on behalf of the American Jewish community is alarming and deeply offensive,” the statement released on Monday reads.

Last week, in an address first reported by Jewish Insider, Paul O’Brien defended Amnesty’s recent report designating Israel as an “apartheid” state. Someone at the event, at the Women’s National Democratic Club in Washington D.C., asked him about a 2020 Ruderman Family Foundation poll that showed eight in 10 American Jews identify as “pro-Israel.” The poll is commensurate with findings of multiple polls over the years.

“I believe my gut tells me that what Jewish people in this country want is to know that there’s a sanctuary that is a safe and sustainable place that the Jews, the Jewish people can call home,” he said, a status short of a Jewish state, which O’Brien had said in the same address Amnesty rejected.

“We are opposed to the idea — and this, I think, is an existential part of the debate — that Israel should be preserved as a state for the Jewish people,” O’Brien had said earlier in his comments.

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1. Paul O'Brien stepped in it

N/T

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2. Or let the mask fall off completely.

I am glad to see these Jewish congresspeople are taking a page out of the recent remarks from our British cousins in a recent OP, Jews shouldn't be shy to call out Antisemitism wherever it appears.

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3. On my FB friends list, I believe the Amnesty International position has more supporters

than not.

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4. Bigotry is fashionable among some

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5. If you are accusing my friends of bigotry, bring forth some evidence

of their bigotry.

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6. I don't have to, not from the JEWISH GROUP

and mainly because they are NOT HERE.

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7. I am here on behalf of my friends. Are you or are you not accusing them of bigotry

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8. I do NOT answer to them in this group!

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9. You can answer to me

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10. Nor do I have to answer to you on any statement you claim about them.

This is the JEWISH GROUP!

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11. Thou shalt not steal

one of the Ten Commandments

Most of my friends follow it.

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12. Thou shalt not return.

This is the JEWISH GROUP. I have made that very clear. Claiming Jews have no right to self-determination, claiming Jews "stole" Israel, and demanding Jews answer to people who aren't even on this site will not be tolerated in this group.

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13. Good