The only real reasons the majority in that community voted against Bernie was that he wasn't an unquestioning defender of Netanyahu, and what turned out to be the myth that Hillary was "electable".
It's been proven that Bernie did all he could in the fall to help Hillary.
If Bernie and all his supporters are driven away, we won't be a party that's progressive about anything important. We'll go back to the Nineties...a dead zone era.
It wouldn't be possible for us to be a progressive party with no Sanders movement influence at all. It means being permanently stuck where we've been from 2010 on...a party of mildly progressive rhetoric but policies(other than on race and choice)that are actually slightly right of center.
J Street represents a rejection of the ADL mindset within the American Jewish community. So does the Tikkun community. So do all of the people in the American Jewish community who say "Not in My Name".
Why should "supporting Israel"
which today means nothing at all but defending Netanyahu and West Bank settlement construction is more important than giving Israeli children the chance NOT to grow up to be soldiers) be the ONLY measure of whether or not someone is antisemitic?
What about actually being an opponent of and a protester against persecution of Jews? What about being against ALL forms of oppression and trying to make a world in which no one is treated unjustly? Why does it have to be standing with Netanyahu and the settlements?
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