Those who found my recent piece, “Barack Obama: More AIPAC than J-Street” interesting, may find further evidence in the fact that J-Street was not invited to Vice President Biden’s meeting with community leaders yesterday. Accoding to Politico, “Among those who attended the powwow yesterday, the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations’s Alan Solow and Malcolm Hoenlein, the Orthodox Union’s Nathan Diament, the Jewish Federation of North America’s Kathy Manning, AIPAC’s Lee Rosenberg, the Reform Jewish Movement’s Rabbi David Saperstein, the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism’s Rabbi Steven Wernick, former Congressman Robert Wexler, as well as long-time Biden friends Jack Rosen, formerly with the American Jewish Committee, and philanthropist and Democratic donor Haim Saban. Among those who attended from the White House: Dennis Ross, the NSC’s senior Iran and wider regional strategist, NSC Senior Director for the Middle East and North Africa Daniel Shapiro, Biden and his longtime advisor Tony Blinken.
