Analyst's note: The old adage of "Follow the money" still holds. The entire orginal article is an interesting read. For additional insight and perspective, please do an internal site search on the following terms: "Soros", "Progressive", "Czar", "Socialist" and "Responsibility to Protect".
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"JERUSALEM – J Street, the supposedly pro-Israel, pro-peace political action committee and lobbyist group, is actually backed by a controversial far-left clearinghouse financed by billionaire George Soros, WND has learned.
J Street claims to be pro-Israel, yet it has faced mounting criticism for its policies and advocacy that many argue is harmful to the Jewish state.
J Street's executive director, Jeremy Ben Ami, is himself deeply tied to the controversial group, the Tides Center, which is heavily financed by Soros.
Ben Ami served at a radical-led marketing firm that helps to craft the public relations strategy for Tides grantees, including MoveOn. The firm, Fenton Communications, also has represented Soros himself as well as the billionaire's Open Society Institute.
Tides documentation reviewed by WND shows the group provided a $50,000 grant to the "J Street Education Fund" for the fiscal year of 2010. J Street's main website is listed in association with the Tides grant. The discovery that it accepted a donation from the Tides Center serves as yet another connection between J Street and Soros.
J Street previously denied it received significant funds from Soros until the Washington Times reported in September 2010 that J Street had received $245,000 from Soros and his children in 2008, and another $500,000 in subsequent years – altogether, about 7 percent of the $11 million that J Street [....]"