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(JNS.org) Lillian Pinkus, the new president of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), on Tuesday morning slammed Republican presidential primary front-runner Donald Trumps on-stage rhetoric about President Barack Obama the previous day as well as the AIPAC conference crowds reaction to Trumps words.
Trump had earned a standing ovation on Monday for saying, President [Barack] Obama in his final year. Yay.
Without mentioning Trump by name, Pinkus said Tuesday that AIPAC takes great offense to verbal attacks that are levied against the president of the United States from the stage of the pro-Israel lobbys annual policy conference.
While we may have policy differences, we deeply respect the office of the president of the United States and our president, Barack Obama, Pinkus, whose emotion was palpable, said.
There are people in our AIPAC family who were deeply hurt last night, she said, lamenting that so many applauded a sentiment that we neither agree with or condone.
Let us close this conference in recognition that when we say, Come Together, we still have a lot to learn from each other, and we still have much work to do, because broadening the base of Americas pro-Israel movement and unity is our strength, said Pinkus, mentioning this years AIPAC conference tagline.
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(58,724 posts)Good to see AIPAC distancing itself from those who gave that standing ovation.