Nick Jonas

So, like, every family has this lore that turns out, you know, it couldn't possibly be true.

But he was among the first kids born.

Well, look, I mean, we're dealing with this ambassador.

We're dealing with a prime minister.

We're dealing with a government in Israel that is made up of the most loathsome people, uh, who have, uh, perverted the idea of what it should be to have a national homeland of the Jewish people.

They have perverted the idea.

ideals of the country.

They have perverted Jewish identity.

As you said, they, you know, attack reform and conservative Jews as dogs.

I mean, literally that happened in the Knesset last week.

You know, so this is so much more about these people.

than it is about me, than it is about J Street.

You know, the type of person that I represent in this country is really the mainstream of American Judaism, right?

Not orthodox, not highly religious, connected to Israel, but really critical of Netanyahu, doesn't think this government is representing at all what it means to put Jewish ideals into practice.

So the problem isn't J Street.

The problem is a government that would send a man as a diplomat to Washington, D.C., who calls the Jewish critics of the state of Israel cancer.

That's the problem.

Well, there's huge problems with where Israeli public opinion is today without question.

And J Street organizationally and I personally obviously disagree vehemently with some of the things that the majority of Israeli Jews at this moment would say to a pollster they believe in.

But the idea that somehow you don't have the legitimacy and you're not allowed to argue with majority opinion.