{"id":1758744,"date":"2022-12-01T17:03:26","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T22:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1758744"},"modified":"2022-12-01T17:03:30","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T22:03:30","slug":"welcome-bibi-blinken-to-headline-anti-israel-j-street-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/welcome-bibi-blinken-to-headline-anti-israel-j-street-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome, Bibi: Blinken To Headline Anti-Israel J Street Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwelcome-bibi-blinken-to-headline-anti-israel-j-street-conference%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1758744&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/\">Biden Administration<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Move seen as shot at incoming Israeli prime minister Netanyahu<\/p>\n<p>    U.S. secretary of state Antony Blinken and Israeli prime minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu \/ Getty Images   <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/adam-kredo\/\" title=\"Posts by Adam Kredo\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Adam Kredo<\/a> \u2022 December 1, 2022 4:50 pm  <\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Antony Blinken is set to headline a conference held by one of the foremost anti-Israel groups in the country, a move that is being interpreted as a shot at Israel&#8217;s newly elected government led by incoming prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.<\/p>\n<p>Blinken on Wednesday announced that he will serve as the headline speaker at the annual conference for J Street,\u00a0which as recently as last month trashed Netanyahu, accusing the incoming prime minister of &#8220;building and bulldozing\u00a0[his] way to permanent, undemocratic control of the West Bank.&#8221;\u00a0The group also\u00a0advocates conditioning U.S. aid to Israel,\u00a0routinely attacks the Jewish state for defending itself against Palestinian terrorism, and employs\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/culture\/j-street-loses-pumpkin-carving-contest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">notoriously terrible pumpkin carvers<\/a>. It is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/billionaire-george-soros-donates-1m-j-street-super-pac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">funded<\/a>\u00a0by liberal anti-Israel billionaire George Soros, though the organization\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2010\/09\/j-streets-half-truths-and-non-truths-about-its-funding\/63541\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">initially tried to hide<\/a>\u00a0this fact, as well as by far-left groups such as the Ploughshares Fund, one of the chief proponents of the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0conference kicks off this weekend, with Blinken set to address the confab on Sunday,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jstreet.org\/conference\/speakers-partners\/#.Y4kBkOzMLDI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">alongside<\/a>\u00a0former Bernie Sanders adviser and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/sanders-foreign-policy-adviser-departs-to-join-koch-funded-think-tank\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">longtime Israel critic<\/a>\u00a0Matt Duss, <em>Daily Beast<\/em> writer Wajahat Ali, a cadre of pro-Palestinian activists, and several Democratic members of Congress, including Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D., Md.) and senator-elect Peter Welch (D., Vt.).<\/p>\n<p>Blinken&#8217;s decision to attend J Street&#8217;s headline event\u00a0is eliciting\u00a0concerns\u00a0at Foggy Bottom\u00a0and\u00a0sparking\u00a0outrage\u00a0among friends of the Jewish state already aggrieved at the\u00a0Biden administration&#8217;s decision last month to\u00a0launch\u00a0an unprecedented FBI investigation into\u00a0the death in Israel of a Palestinian-American journalist. Israel determined that the journalist was unintentionally shot by its security forces during a standoff with Palestinian terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple sources, both within and outside the State Department, who spoke to the <em>Washington Free Beacon\u00a0<\/em>said Blinken&#8217;s decision to attend J Street&#8217;s conference is part of an effort by the Biden administration to undermine the new Netanyahu government and distance itself from the incoming prime minister&#8217;s conservative coalition.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s repugnant that while Israelis are being repeatedly targeted by terrorists, and the [Department of Justice] launches an unwarranted and politicized investigation of our ally, the secretary of state thinks it&#8217;s a good idea to elevate an organization that spends its time demanding aid to Israel be conditioned and criticizing the Jewish state for defending herself,&#8221; Sandra Parker, the chairwoman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretary of State Antony Blinken is set to headline a conference held by one of the foremost anti-Israel groups in the country, a move that is being interpreted as a shot at Israel&#8217;s newly elected government led by incoming prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.<br \/>\nThe post Welcome, Bibi: Blinken To Headline Anti-Israel J Street Conference appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":1758747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1758744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1758744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1758744\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1758747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1758744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1758744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1758744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}