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Article: J Street should rescind invite to Al-Marayati
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- Washington Jewish Week
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- September 17, 2009
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Is J Street a pro-Israel group? The lobbying organization never tires of claiming it is.
Yet what pro-Israel group would invite a man to speak at its forthcoming conference who has called for Israel's destruction, stating that "the establishment by force, violence and terrorism of a Jewish state in Palestine in 1948" was "unjust" and "a crime," and vowed to "work to overturn the injustice"?
The man who signed this Sept. 17, 1993, statement by the Muslim Public Affairs Council was its executive director, Salam
Al-Marayati, who will be speaking next month at J Street's Oct. 25-28 conference. Marayati and MPAC have made numerous other hateful anti-Israel and antiAmerican statements:
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