A plethora of Jewish groups and people across the political spectrum denounced President Trump’s threat to Iran on Tuesday morning, April 6, when he posted on Truth Social, “A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” Not all of the groups may be the most wholesome, but, with this, AIPAC and its assorted dirty-money, Epstein-class funding groups are in deep kimchee.
The president and founder of J-Street, a pro-peace pro-Israel group created in 2008, Jeremy Ben-Ami, said “that the group was ‘appalled by President Trump’s heinous remarks. … This language—a threat to carry out war crimes—is a searing violation of Jewish and American values, certainly will not lead to the de-escalation we desperately need and is a terrifying example of the senseless violence that has characterized Trump’s leadership.’” He called on Congress and the Cabinet to ‘do everything in their power to restrain and remove him.’”
Ben-Ami’s grandparents, J-Street tells us, “were one of the founding families of Tel Aviv, and his father was an activist and leader in the Irgun, working for Israel’s independence.” He served as Deputy Domestic Policy Advisor to President Bill Clinton.
The Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA), a syndication service dating back to 1917, reported on the above and other visceral responses under the headline, “Jewish groups condemn Trump’s threat that a ‘whole civilization will die’ in Iran,” The April 7th article was reprinted in the Times of Israel and The Jerusalem Post, and in most of the 70 U.S. Jewish publications and community websites that subscribe to their news service.
“Amy Spitalnick, the CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, condemned the president’s remarks, saying in a statement that there were ‘simply no words to describe the danger of a U.S. president openly threatening to erase an entire civilization.’”
“‘Make no mistake: the president’s threats are deeply reprehensible to us as Jews and as Americans, and must be condemned by all leaders—regardless of their stance on the war with Iran…. We know what it means when leaders call for communities and populations to be wiped out.’”
“Bend the Arc: Jewish Action,” wrote on Instagram, “This is not strength. This is not safety. This is a call for genocide.”
Timothy Snyder, Yale University professor emeritus and a Holocaust historian, reports JTA, wrote on his Substack page “The president speaks genocide.” “To bomb a bridge or a dam or a power plant or a desalinization facility, very likely a war crime in any event, could very well have a different legal significance, a genocidal one, if it takes place after the expression of genocidal intent by the commander and head of state.”
