Apologizing for Donald Trump’s criticisms of President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, the president of the left-wing and Democrat-aligned American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s reportedly “choked back tears” while chastising the Republican front-runner in a statement prior to Israeli Prime Minister’s Benjamin Netanyahu’s address at the organization’s annual conference on Tuesday.
On Sunday, AIPAC President Lillian Pinkus both affectionately introduced Vice President Joe Biden and embraced him after his speech.
“From the moment this conference began, until this moment, we have preached a message of unity,” Pinkus said. “We have said, in every way we can think of: Come together. But last evening, something occurred which has the potential to drive us apart, to divide us. We say, unequivocally, that we do not countenance ad hominem attacks, and we take great offense to those that are levied against the president of the United States of America from our stage.”
AIPAC president Lillian Pinkus admonished the Republican front-runner’s statements as well as those in attendance who cheered for them as violating a bipartisan ethos the ostensibly pro-Israel organization claims to adhere to. No mention was made of either Vice President Joe Biden’s or Hillary Clinton’s joint and coordinated exploitation of the Holocaust to cast Donald Trump and Republicans as modern Hitlerian politicians.
Hyping the apology as “unprecedented,” David Weigel of the left-wing newspaper The Washington Post cited Jewish leftists Jane Eisner and Chemi Shalev to portray Jews as aligned against Trump. Eisner, editor in chief of the communist outlet The Forward, said she was “ashamed” that Trump had received applause from Jews attending AIPAC’s conference. Shalev, a correspondent of socialist outpost Haaretz, reportedly “left the Trump speech in shock.”
No comment was made regarding any Jews who were disappointed with applause directed toward Biden or Clinton.
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