Jewish Iran deal supporters booted from New York town hall meeting

[azurnoir]

Four Jewish activists were booed and shown the door when they expressed their support for the Iran deal at a town hall style meeting with Democratic Congressman Hakeem Jeffries in Brooklyn Tuesday night.

Sitting in the back section of the Flatbush Jewish Center, the group stood up during the question-and-answer portion of the meeting and silently hoisted signs, reading, “Another Jew who says no war with Iran.”

The mostly conservative audience responded with accusations such as, “You’re going to send all of us to the gas chambers!” Another called them “Arabs” and asked them where they were keeping their PLO flags

“There’s something a little bit sad that in a room full of Jews like that, I would feel so unsafe,” said Simone Zimmerman, one of the activists, who belongs to the anti-occupation group If Not Now. She arrived to the town hall meeting after hearing that the liberal pro-deal organizations J-Street and MoveOn were encouraging their members to take advantage of opportunities to discuss the deal with congressional representatives.

http://972mag.com/iran-deal-supporters-booted-from-new-york-town-hall-meeting/110205/

[HassleCat]

1. What's the deal?

Why do some people think an agreement will prevent Israel or the United States from bombing the snot out of Iran whenever we feel like it? We had UN weapons inspectors crawling all over Iraq, and they told us there were no WMDs, and Iraq was complying, and that didn't even slow us down.

[Agnosticsherbet]

2. China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States; plus Germany will be legally bound

by this treaty, as will Iran.

Isarel, who is not a member of the P5+1 is not constrained.

Unilatarlly withdrawing from the treaty would shatter US Standing with those nations, and they would not go along with any future sanctions or a war with Iran, especially a war that would endager a big chunk of oil in the world.

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

3. “You’re going to send all of us to the gas chambers!”

You got to give them credit. They're all screaming from the same stale talking points.

[oberliner]

5. There is no evidence that anyone actually said that

It's amazing what people believe unquestionably and what people doubt entirely.

[guillaumeb]

6. The article specifically references the statement.

Do you have witness testimony to refute the article?

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

7. I have to give you credit as well.

You're right on time with your trademark denials.

[oberliner]

4. I wonder how a Zionist would be treated at a BDS meeting

Something similar to this reaction would you say?

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

8. It might depend...

on whether the zionist stood up for apartheid, human rights abuses, the illegal Israeli colonies and general ignorance.

[leftynyc]

10. It would be even worse, I would think

That said, these people are an embarrassment. If people take the time to come to speak to you, let them speak. WTF does calling them Arabs accomplish?

[geek tragedy]

9. Hakeem Jeffries can expect a primary challenge if he chooses Netanyahu

over Barack Obama.

I wish the Ultra-Orthodox here would all move to Israel already. Fucking backwards wingnut fundamentalist assholes.