J Street founder Jeremy Ben-Ami admitted this week that he had lied about the funding of his organization for years – but only after the lies had become so obvious, and the criticism so pervasive, that he had no other choice. Contrary to Ben-Ami’s claims, the group had taken a large amount of money from George Soros. And perhaps even more troubling, contrary to Ben-Ami’s claims that the organizations was funded by Americans, J Street had also taken an even larger donation ($811,967) from a Chinese national who no one has ever heard of and whose wealth comes from a still undisclosed source.

The lies are egregious – and they continue today in another scoop from Eli Lake and his Washington Times colleague Ben Birnbaum, this one detailing J Street’s previously concealed role in facilitating the congressional outreach for the toxic judge Richard Goldstone. As Jeffrey Goldberg points out, lying has become so natural to Ben-Ami that he is now contradicting himself in the space of just a few sentences.