J-Street was paid by Obama administration to promote Iran deal

Arutz Sheva ^ | 21/5/16 | Ari Soffer

[Eleutheria5]

J-Street received more than half a million dollars to advocate for the Obama administration's controversial nuclear deal with Iran, it has been revealed.

The liberal Jewish group, which bills itself as "pro-Israel and pro-peace" but which critics say takes solely anti-Israel stances, was paid the money by the White House's main surrogate organization for selling the deal.

The Ploughshares Fund was named in an explosive New York Times profile of Obama aid Ben Rhodes, in which the President's chief spin doctor listed the central groups responsible for creating an "echo chamber" in order to promote the deal, even when the White House's official line didn't jibe with the facts.

According to Associated Press, the group's 2015 annual report details several organizations which received substantial funds to peddle the official White House line on the nuclear deal. Among them was National Public Radio (NPR), which received a $100,000 grant to promote "national security reporting that emphasizes the themes of U.S. nuclear weapons policy and budgets, Iran's nuclear program, international nuclear security topics and U.S. policy toward nuclear security."

Other grantees included: The Arms Control Association ($282,500); the Brookings Institution ($225,000); and the Atlantic Council ($182,500), who "received money for Iran-related analysis, briefings and media outreach, and non-Iran nuclear work," according to AP.

The National Iranian American Council received more than $281,000, while Princeton University received a $70,000 grant to support former Iranian ambassador and nuclear spokesman Seyed Hossein Mousavian's "analysis, publications and policymaker engagement on the range of elements involved with the negotiated settlement of Iran's nuclear program."

But the largest recipient of Obama administration funding was J-Street, a group which has been closely cultivated by the current White House and is viewed by many as its mouthpiece in the American Jewish community.

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[Eleutheria5]

Whores on Jay Street? Thought I knew my way around Brooklyn, but that's a new one on me.

[Mr. Mojo]

J-Street’s interests are barely distinguishable from Hamas’s.

[ExTexasRedhead]

TREASON, ya think?

[US Navy Vet]

Ploughshares Fund COWARDS:
http://www.ploughshares.org/about-us/board-advisors AND
http://www.ploughshares.org/about-us/staff

[IWontSubmit]

Kapos.

[Winged Hussar]

Thanks; I’ll share with pro-Israel groups on Facebook.

[Thank You Rush]

Where was Congress? Where is this money coming from? Does the WH has a slush fund for such nonsense? Guess my congressman has to come up with an answer...after all he’s up for election on Tuesday!!!

[Thank You Rush]

Valarie Plame - Author, former career covert CIA operations officer - ON THE BOARD.

Not so “covert” lady - you were found out....

[US Navy Vet]

You noticed that too huh.

[GOPJ]

J-Street’s interests are barely distinguishable from Hamas’s.

The hate-American, hate-Israel crowd? Dreadful people..

[Thank You Rush]

I just sent an email to my congressman - running for reelection Tuesday - with an excerpt to that article and the URL....He’s good about responding to calls and emails but then that doesn’t prove he’s actually doing anything!

I told him that we all expect more from our representatives in DC than just keeping a seat warm.. I swear their minds become a blank slate once they are sworn in...and sad but they stay blank in most cases.