So reports the Jerusalem Post. His call, really. Jeffrey Goldberg wrote earlier today:

[I]n the best of all possible worlds, Michael Oren would go to J Street and say whatever’s on his mind. He has, indeed, spoken to left-wing groups already, but J Street is in a different, problematic class. If, in the coming years, J Street becomes the go-to address for pro-Israel advocacy (or two-state-solution-advocacy) or if AIPAC vanishes, then I’m sure the Israeli ambassador will attend. Until then, I can imagine AIPAC putting up a hard fight each year.

But then AIPAC’s Josh Block called to say AIPAC wasn’t putting up any sort of fight and Goldberg walked it back. The assessment, though, is pretty correct: J Street’s right-wing critics will continue to mau-mau it as inauthentically Jewish and harmful to Israel.  J Street will either have to fight back and prove itself or meekly take it. Their call I would, however, suspect that a more liberal Israeli government would send an ambassador. It’s hard to see Kadima or Labor so petulantly shunning a Jewish pro-Israel organization.

This is the caliber of the opposition. Lenny Ben-David, a former AIPAC official, demands to know:

When asked about J Street’s funding by the Jerusalem Post — the newspaper that ran the original exposé — you responded “at most 3 percent” of contributors were Muslim or Arab.  Now you state that the figure may be closer to 10 percent. One tenth of J Street’s budget of $3 million, or $300,000, is a substantial sum. Why do so many Arabs contribute to an organization that purports to be “pro-Israel?”

Yes, because everyone knows those Arabs are uninterested in peace and only interested in Israel’s destruction. I hate these fucking racists, and the Jewish community will have to police ourselves against these despicable pieces of shit for the rest of time. I wonder if all of these people on the Jewish right who are so pissed at J Street will bother to condemn Ben-David’s noxious implication.