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American Jewish Committee: Neocon Group ‘Counterproductive To Stated Aim Of Supporting Israel’ | On Monday, the Bill Kristol-led right-wing pro-Israel lobby group the Emergency Committee for Israel (ECI) placed a full-page ad in the New York Times baselessly attacking President Obama’s pro-Israel record. Today, the American Jewish Committee, a mainstream pro-Israel Jewish group, lashed out at the partisan ECI, denouncing the ad as “highly objectionable” and “counterproductive to its stated aim of supporting Israel.” Ironically, the ECI ad is part of a campaign where the neoconservative group asserts — contra rightist Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — that Obama is “Not Pro-Israel.”