Dayan: Wrong of me to call J Street ‘un-Jewish’

Dani Dayan, who is tapped to become Israel’s next consul-general in New York, backtracks on calling the liberal J Street lobby “un-Jewish.”

Taking to Twitter, Dayan writes that he never directly used the term to describe J Street, but rather their actions. Nonetheless, he goes on to apologize for what he says was a “wrong” decision.

Dayan was named as the new consul-general designate for New York earlier this week, following an unsuccessful attempt to name the former settler leader as the Israeli ambassador to Brazil.

Contrary to the headlines, I never called @jstreetdotorg "unJewish" but only a specific action it took. Nevertheless it was wrong. 1/3

— דני דיין (@dandayan) March 31, 2016

My debate opponent in @i24NEWS_EN said certain @AIPAC attitude contradicts Jewish values, my claim was actually a JStreet attitude does 2/3

— דני דיין (@dandayan) March 31, 2016

Mistakenly, along with the gong to end the program, I used the short & undoubtedly wrong form. 3/3

— דני דיין (@dandayan) March 31, 2016