Two weeks back we picked up Daniel Sieradski’s great reporting showing that American Jewish organizations are very liberal in their support for illegal immigrants in the U.S. but become reactionary when the issue is illegal immigrants to Israel.

Well earlier this week Sieradski posted a twitter argument about the story that he had with Jeremy Burton, head of the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston, a member organization of the JCPA, a national body that lobbies on behalf of the Jewish community.

I have picked up most of the argument below. Fabulous. Hat’s off to Sieradski for exposing the transformation of Jewish political thought when it comes to Israel. Dialogue begins with Jeremy Burton commenting on a Haaretz post on the subject: