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He added, "There is a serious differ-
ence of opinion in the community on J
Street, and whether they are more pro-
peace than pro-Israel.
"They have taken several sides of
positions, and their positions have
morphed, I would say. There's enough
of a record on issues of sanction and
pushing the American administration,
there's enough of a debate and discus-
sion to disagree as to how pro-Israel
they are
This is certainly the view of Farley
Weiss, the leader of the National
Council of Young Israel, a national net-
work of Modern Orthodox synagogues,
who said that J Street's actions have
placed it outside of the pro-Israel camp.
"If you have a record, it's hard to
say that this isn't who we are he said.
By defending the United Nations'
Goldstone report, "that even Goldstone
doesn't defend" anymore, he said,
"they're out of the mainstream:"
The Zionist Organization of America
(ZOA) campaigned aggressively against
J Street's bid. Ahead of the vote, ZOA
distributed 18 bullet points for why it
believed J Street should not be admit-
ted to the Conference and issued press
releases slamming J Street's statements
on the Palestinian unity deal and
Secretary of State John Kerry's remark
warning that Israel could become an
"apartheid state
Dr. Charles Jacobs —president of
Boston-based Americans for Peace
and Tolerance, the group behind the
new anti-J Street documentary The
Street Challenge — explained that J
Street breaks a long-honored tradition
between American Jews and Israel.
"[American Jews] can freely criticize
Jewish leaders in Israel — we can do it
publicly, but we who do not live there or
have our children on the front lines do
not have the right to use our American
power to circumvent Israeli democracy,
and to try to lobby to get an American
administration to impose our views
and policies on the Israelis. ... J Street's
entire program is designed to break this
longstanding agreement; Jacobs told
INS.org.
In its statement announcing the
rejection of J Street, the Presidents
Conference noted that other groups
have failed to gain admission on the
first try in the past.
"A two-thirds affirmative vote of the
member organizations is a significant
threshold:' the statement said. "Some
present member organizations did not
initially achieve the necessary support
but subsequently re-applied and are
now members."
In an interview with JTA, J Street's
president, Jeremy Ben-Ami, said the
organization had "no plans at this time"
to reapply.
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tered denials of entry to academics
in many states, and is familiar with
cases in which academics have been
similarly denied entry to the United
States.
"We believe maximizing freedom
of entry and access for faculty world-
wide will facilitate international
understanding and enhance research
and teaching everywhere," Nelson
wrote in a statement concerning
the resolution. "We urge our fellow
MLA members to join the hundreds
already in opposition to this flawed
resolution that unfairly singles out
only one country."
He added that there had been no
actual investigation of the claims. The
AAUP, he said, followed stringent
guidelines for addressing concerns like
those listed in the resolution, while the
MLA has no such guidelines.
"There is a fair question as to why
we're having resolutions about Israel
with the number of problems in aca-
demia: EMU's Shichtman said, while
noting that the resolution's support-
ers framed it as an issue of academic
freedom rather than of a purely
political stance.
"As a director of Jewish studies, I
see in my community real anxiety
about this rhetoric. In some cases, the
e"e
rhetoric is excessive and these attacks
stifle speech. It is getting harder and
harder within the academy to speak
in support of Israel — this issue is
closing debate and not opening it."
Shichtman is concerned that the
resolution is "an early gesture for
a more radical BDS proposal." One
such proposal, an emergency propos-
al to declare the MIAs solidarity for
the American Studies Association's
(ASA) pro-BDS stance, was voted
down by a large margin during the
January meeting.
But Resolution 2014-1, Shichtman
warned, "will open the door" for
future such resolutions. "That is what
I think the framers of the proposal
are hoping and expecting:'
Shichtman, however, believes the
MLXs membership will make the
right decision.
"I'm cautiously optimistic," he
said. "I think it is a really bad pro-
posal, objectively, and I think that
most members are going to see that
because the logic in it is flawed, and
I think that many members of MLA
understand that it is very inappro-
priate for us to single out a particu-
lar nation, and what it means for
us to be singling out this particular
nation."
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