It’s happened. The Israeli Embassy has called on J Street to pull in its horns, that it’s acting against the interests of the Jewish state. From the Jerusalem Post:

[J Street] invited Ambassador Michael Oren to speak at its first annual conference in late October. Despite early indications the embassy was looking to engage the group, Oren has yet to meet with executive director Jeremy Ben-Ami or agree to participate in the conference. Instead, the embassy has "communicated to J Street its views on the peace process and on the best way to ensure Israel’s security," according to embassy spokesman Yoni Peled. The message, Peled said, is that "while recognizing the need for a free and open debate on these issues, it is important to stress concern over certain policies that could impair Israel’s interests."

This is a signal to the American Jewish community that it must maintain the orthodox monolith of Jewish support for Israel, no matter its racist and militarist policies. The J Street conference is going to be a tremendous event, with or without Oren and the redoubtable Eli Lake. Then there’s this attack:

[F]ormer Commentary magazine editor Gabriel Schoenfeld, lambasted J Street on Thursday for not repudiating the backing of Stephen Walt, whose book The Israel Lobby and Foreign Policy Schoenfeld described as using anti-Semitic tropes. "For a Jewish organization to make common cause with anti-Semitic voices in order to tear down others to establish its place at the table is nothing less than shameful," Schoenfeld said, pointing to a link on the J Street Web site to one of Walt’s articles mentioning J Street, on the group’s news citations page. He also referred to Walt’s recent praise for J Street in a Washington Post story. Schoenfeld was speaking on a panel on divisions within American Jewry organized by the Hudson Institute. [to which no one on the Jewish non-Zionist left was invited].

Says Jeffrey Blankfort: