(JNS.org) J Street – the self-labeled “pro-Israel, pro-peace” lobby – “can no longer credibly claim to be pro-Israel” after pulling out of a recent Israel solidarity rally sponsored by Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) of Boston, Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz wrote in an op-ed for the Jerusalem Post. J Street’s Boston director, Shaina Wasserman, wrote in a letter to JCRC Executive Director Jeremy Burton that it decided to pull out of the July 17 Stand With Israel rally because the event did not include speakers who represented the group’s “pro-Israel, pro-peace perspective.”

In his op-ed, Dershowitz wrote that J Street “has whined about being excluded from the mainstream Jewish community, but it is J Street that has excluded itself from joining in community activities such as this rally. … “If you are pro-Israel, you do not belong in J Street, because J Street can no longer credibly claim to be pro-Israel,” he added. “If there was ever any doubt about that, J Street’s actions in refusing to join the Stand With Israel Rally should resolve them.”