A few months ago they supported a Washington, DC, production of Caryl Churchill’s odious and libelous playlet, “Seven Jewish Children.” When there was protest because among other things the work is as close to a blood libel as makes no never-mind, J Street said they were just trying to expand the conversation.

Apparently J Street didn’t believe there was enough conversation on the Arab-Israel conflict as it is, and that such a conversation, based on the play, should include discussing whether Israelis do in fact use the Holocaust as a means of justifying their wanton slaughter of Palestinian children.

The ironic thing about Ms. Churchill’s work, of course, is that in delineating a society that feeds on hate and justifies to itself the most savage and heinous acts, “Seven Palestinian Children” would actually have portrayed some truth.

In the fall of last year there was going to be an anti-Iranian rally at the UN. Hillary Clinton was to speak. To make it bipartisan the organizers then invited Sarah Palin. At that point Hillary reneged and J Street was then a leader in the movement to cancel the demonstration altogether rather than blaming Hillary or suggesting the Democrats send someone else.

In other words, it was more important to deny Sarah Palin a national platform than to demonstrate bipartisan abhorrence for Iran’s genocidal rantings.

The true religion, the real motivation,of J Street and its ilk is progressivism, leftist ideology. They are pro-Israel only to the extent that Israel doesn’t cause them any embarrassment among their friends on the left. In other words, they support an imaginary Israel, as it were a Platonic ideal of Israel, rather than the Israel that actually exists.

This renders them “pro-Israel” only for a given value of “pro-Israel.” They claim that the majority of American Jews support their views, although their polling methods are questionable. However, at least according to one poll, within the margin of error it is possible to say that no Israelis support their views.

On the other hand, these are people who are comfortable telling average Americans what’s good for them, whether the average American thinks so or likes it, and there’s no reason why they don’t feel OK with telling the vast majority of Israelis that they aren’t capable of recognizing their own interests.