He legitimized his friends at J Street and AmericansforPeaceNow by treating them as equals of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.
With the Israeli Left actively supporting Obama's onslaught against Netanyahu in Israel, Obama's Jewish American surrogates J Street and AmericansforPeaceNow denounced his critics at home.
True to their mandates, today J Street and its fellow leftist Jewish groups AmericansforPeaceNow and Brit Tzedek v'Shalom lobby Congress to adopt positions that place the US in direct confrontation with Israel.