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Clinton’s Kaine Is NOT Pro-Israel

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Virginia Senator Tim Kaine, Hillary Clinton’s vice-presidential running mate, has received significant funds from the anti-Israel organization J-Street and has shown support for organizations connected to the terrorist Muslim Brotherhood.

Kaine is a darling of J-Street. Founded in 2008 by George Soros and Hillary Clinton campaign director John Podesta, J-Street, which goes by the motto “pro-Israel, pro-peace,” has been described by liberal attorney Alan Dershowitz as being neither pro-Israel nor pro-peace. One of the group’s founders, Daniel Levy, has been quoted as saying that the creation of Israel in 1948 was wrong (there’s more if you are not convinced).

J-Street endorsed Kaine’s 2012 run for Senate but money speaks louder than words. According to Open Secrets, an organization which tracks campaign donations to all candidates of any party, J-Street — at $133,382 — was the second largest donor to Tim Kaine’s campaign committee between 2011 and 2014.

Open Secrets also reports that J-Street was the number one donor ($178,000) to Tim Kaine campaigns over the course of his entire political career.

In turn, Kaine has shown himself to be a supporter of J-Street. In 2016 he spoke at the group’s national convention for the second time, saying in part, “There is no organization, no NGO, in the United States now that so stands for the values of diplomacy as J-Street”

Allow me to provide examples of the “diplomacy” Kaine supports. During the 2008 Israeli action against Hamas, when the IDF was protecting the country after it suffered tens of thousands of rockets from Gaza, J-Street called Israel’s “escalation in Gaza counterproductive.” It also made a moral equivalency argument between the policies of Israel and Hamas, stating that they found difficulty in distinguishing “between who is right and who is wrong.” The group has also advocated that the U.S. negotiate with Hamas, rewarding the group for its terrorism. And it tried to get Congress to endorse the discredited anti-Israel Goldstone Report (discredited by Goldstone himself!). This is the group Kaine endorses and takes money from.

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