why be satisfied with one denial strategy when you can have two? After they cropped Levy’s remarks in the text, then they linked to a 130 minute Al Jazeera video of his panel. And that video does have his full quote, which moves their denial out of Soros “omission” territory and into the brazen Goldstone denial realm where they have to hope their audience can’t see or hear things. In fairness to them, there’s at least a chance they never intended anyone to sit through the first 127 minutes of the Arabic language tape to find the clip (much easier to just take J Street’s transcript at face value!)
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read the whole thing. we give liberal Jewish Organizations too much credit. We assume we merely disagree... and nothing could be more Jewish then that, but they are liars linking to their lies hoping that their biased audience doesn't fact check their own arguments.Their most basic move has been to deny reality as long as possible and then – when that stops working – to simply pretend that they never said what they said. This is how they handled the Soros funding scandal, as illustrated in their Myths & Facts section on the issue. First paragraph: “J Street has always said…” Second paragraph: “J Street has also always said…” Etc. This is just a strategy of omission. To debunk the accusation that they denied their Soros funding, they just never mention all those times when they denied their Soros funding.
J Street’s other move has been to go all-in on denial, even while – amazingly, openly, brazenly – acknowledging the evidence that flat out disproves what they’re saying. This was their approach to the Goldstone revelations, per Ben-Ami’s comments to the Washington Times. He began by insisting that J Street had nothing to with “facilitating” Goldstone’s DC visit, then he outlined how J Street “reached out to a handful of congressional staff to inquire whether members would be interested in seeing Judge Goldstone” – which is, of course, what the word “facilitate” means. This is a strategy of I honestly don’t know what. Doublethink? Shamelessness? Relying on the audience to be illiterate?
For completion’s sake it’s probably also worth mentioning a third move, where J Street reflexively smears all critics as right-wing neoconservative warmongers or something. That’s how they ended up castigating leftist leading light Alan Dershowitz for being a Limbaughesque Palinista. Now this one isn’t strictly an argumentative tactic, but more like just something that’s kind of stupid. It’s such a part of their repertoire, though – and it plays such a crucial role in how the anti-Israel Jewish left insulates its echo chamber – that it would be a shame to leave it out.
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