The letter, signed by 571 Jewish American politicians, diplomats and rabbis, said that a representative of Israel 'should not sow division but build relationships across differences,' following Ambassador Leiter's statements calling the pro-Israel liberal group J Street 'a cancer'
Israel's ambassador to D.C. Yechiel Leiter, a follower of Meir Kahane and a longtime Netanyahu confidant, very undiplomatically went after J Street. Why? precisely because its supporters cannot be dismissed as outsiders or self-hating Jews
Describing the ADL's initiative as 'alarming,' and J Street chief slammed organization's refusal to apply 'equivalent scrutiny to Donald Trump, despite his long track record of using antisemitism and bigotry for political gain'
This shift in the J Street leader's position comes days after he took part in a debate in which he repeatedly refused to call Israel's actions in the Gaza Strip genocide. The statement marks a shift in tone from the head of one of the most prominent liberal Zionist organizations in the U.S.