Israeli ambassador: J Street a 'cancer within Jewish community'

(JNS) — Yechiel Leiter, the Israeli ambassador in Washington, referred to J Street as a “cancer within the Jewish community” on Monday.

Speaking at a National Task Force to Combat Antisemitism meeting at Museum of the Bible in Washington, Leiter said that “the worst thing about J Street is it’s duplicitous.”

“How can you be pro-Israel and advocate for an arms embargo on a state that’s fighting a seven-front war against Iranian proxies?” the ambassador said.

J Street, a liberal Jewish organization that bills itself as “the political home for pro-Israel, pro-peace, pro-democracy Americans,” rece...