I‘m very confused this morning — I wake up to find out that J Street, the pro-Israel, pro-peace, pro-Palestine, anti-sanctions organization, is now supporting the sanctions legislation making its way through the House. The White House recently asked that that sanctions bill, sponsored by Rep. Howard Berman, chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, be on Obama’s desk by the end of they year, but the health care debate in the Senate is likely to prevent any movement until after the New Year. But the winds have shifted and the Obama White House seems to have decided that appeasement alone isn’t working. Ben Smith’s “correspondent” notes that “the daylight on Iran seems to be dimming a bit even between AIPAC and the Jewish left.” That’s true, and this is only the latest attempt by J Street to tack right and mitigate criticism of the group — J Street has also renounced the use of U.S. aid to Israel as leverage in negotiations and denounced Walt and Mearsheimer as anti-Semites. It will be interesting to watch the reaction of J Street’s most zealous supporters to see who falls into line and who accuses the group of betraying its principles, but surely the mainstream of Jewish opinion will welcome this move. In other news of the weird, Trita Parsi has a piece on the Huffington Post blasting the Obama administration for its “silence on human rights abuses in Iran.” Parsi’s misnamed National Iranian American Council (Parsi is not an American) has been a close ally of J Street in the fight against sanctions on Iran, and on the same day that J Street folds on sanctions, Parsi makes a U-turn on human rights: