Crowd sends message to Obama by booing Lew

One commentator suggested that booing Jack Lew at last Sunday’s Jerusalem Post conference would “piss off Obama.” Instead, the boos were the pro-Israel community’s way of telling the Administration that it is tired of being “pissed on by Obama.”

Playing the role of the Obama “house Jew,” Treasury Secretary Jack Lew, an Orthodox Jew, addressed the fourth annual Jerusalem Post conference in New York. As he tried to defend the most anti-Israel administration in history, Lew was met with catcalls, screams of “nonsense,” and even some boos by the pro-Israel crowd upset that the Administration official was figuratively “peeing on their legs and saying it was raining.”

Arutz Sheva reported:

As Lew proclaimed that “no administration has done more for Israel than the current one,” and that “we do not at all assume that Iran intends to act with innocent intentions,” a large number of audience members began hooting, booing, and yelling “nonsense,” as well as intoning sharper invectives.

Lew continued, saying that the U.S. “strategically assists Israel daily, and we stand against those who question Israel’s legitimacy and right to exist.” This, too, earned audience opprobrium.

At one point, Lew was forced to stop speaking and address the audience response, saying “I understand that we do not agree on everything, but there is no doubt of the commitment of President Obama to the State of Israel.”

An Orthodox Jew, Lew did generate cheers when he invoked the name of Israel’s Prime Minister, saying, “Binyamin Netanyahu does not believe we can trust Iran.”

But Obama does, apparently, which was why the audience reacted so negatively,” said one observer. “This was the worst I have ever seen a U.S. official ver treated in front of a pro-Israel audience,” he added.