J Street

Incitement in Tel Aviv

Jeremy Ben-Ami | Posted 05.25.2012

Read More: Tel Aviv, J Street, Israel, Immigration, Knesset, Tolerance, Middle East, Asylum Seekers Israel, Israel Asylum Seekers, World News

Seeing pictures and reading first-hand reports of Wednesday night's riot in which Jews targeted African refugees in Tel Aviv left me shocked and saddened.

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The American Jewish Vote: It's Not All About Israel - But It Is About Peace

Ryan Simon | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Elections 2012, Jewish American Vote, offthebus2012, Mitt Romney, Israel, Palestine, Jewish Americans, J-Street, Barack Obama, Offthebus, Politics News

Not only is the pro-peace, pro-Israel movement growing every year, but a poll commissioned by J Street shows that the American Jewish community overwhelmingly backs the US government playing an active role in bringing about a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

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Growing Pains For Pro-Israel Jewish Group At Annual Convention

HuffingtonPost.com | Joshua Hersh | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Aipac, Video, J Street, J Street Conference, Barukh Binah, Israel Palestine, Emud Olmert, World News

WASHINGTON -- By the time former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told the crowd at J Street's annual gathering Monday night that he had "a little s...

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How the Split on the Jewish Left Helps AIPAC and What Can Be Done About It

Myriam Miedzian | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Norman Finkelstein, B.D.S., Medea Benjamin, Omar Barghouti, J-Street-Aipac, Michael Lerner, Aipac, J Street, Politics News

Liberal Jewish organizations agree on many issues, but fundamental disagreements remain.

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Bending Foreign Policy: AIPAC's Education Arm Spent $2 Million on One-Sided Congressional Trips to Israel in 2011

Suzanne Merkelson | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Aipac, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, AIPAC Lobby, Birthright Israel, Israel, J Street, Foreign Affairs, Aief, American Israel Education Foundation, Foreign Policy, Politics News

The enormous resources AIPAC marshals in pursuit of its goals, including for extensive overseas trips for legislators, drown out other voices and make it difficult for Members of Congress to hear other points of view about how to foster a peaceful Middle East and protect U.S. security.

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The Numbers Prove It, Now Let's Use It: Young Rabbis Love Israel

Scott Perlo | Posted 12.02.2011

Read More: Pro-Peace, Israel, Israeli Settlements, Rabbis, Rabbinical Students, J Street, Benjamin Netanyahu, Pro-Israel Advocacy, Middle East, Religion and Politics, Religion News

All of the pro-Israel, pro-peace activists and thinkers I know are under constant barrage of attempts to prove that they are faking their authentic and deep connection to Israel, that they are somehow the enemy itself.

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Arab Blood on American Hands

Ira Chernus | Posted 10.22.2011

Read More: Palestine, Two-State Solution, J Street, Israel, Egypt, Israel-Palestine, World News

Americans are left assuming that the Israelis are merely defending themselves against cruel aggressors. It never occurs to most Americans to ask why Gazans would risk their lives on military operations against Israelis.

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Iran Debate: "Playing With Dangerous Things"

Joel Rubin | Posted 09.17.2011

Read More: Aipac, Military, J Street, Islamic Republic of Iran, Mek, Iran, Benjamin Netanyahu, James Cartwright, Israel, Meir Dagan, Politics News

Check out this Bloggingheads TV debate on Iran policy that I just did with Josh Block. Josh is the former AIPAC Spokesman and I'm the former J Street...

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Saving the Tent

Jeremy Ben-Ami | Posted 06.06.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, J-Street, Israel, World News

As a people, we can spend the remaining time before we reach a cliff debating whether those issuing warnings and proposing solutions that may be unpopular belong in the pro-Israel tent, or we can focus on how to save the tent itself.

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U.S. Boat to Gaza is a Quarter Jewish -- "Not Too Shabby!"

Robert Naiman | Posted 08.06.2011

Read More: Hedy Epstein, Gaza Blockade, J Street, Gaza Flotilla, New York Times, Adam Sandler, American Jews, Meir Dagan, Barack Obama, World News

What does it mean that the U.S. Boat to Gaza is a quarter Jewish? Maybe it means that we can openly contest a construction of Jewish identity based on supporting the obstruction of Palestinian freedom.

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On the Question of Palestinian Statehood

David A. Love | Posted 08.01.2011

Peace and security will come to both Israelis and Palestinians only if it is based on a commitment to universal human rights. For Palestinians, this means self-determination.

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In the Tent, or Out: That is Still the J-Street Question

Rabbi Daniel Gordis | Posted 07.29.2011

Read More: J Street, Israel, Politics News

Given the extent of the forces aligned against Israel, seeking to delegitimize the very idea of a Jewish State, the pro-Israel camp needs a big tent.

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The Worst And Best Of Times: Arrogance And Resistance

Rabbi Arthur Waskow | Posted 07.25.2011

Read More: J Street, Gulf Oil, Dominique Strauss-Kahn Sex Scandal, Benjamin Netanyahu, Gulf Oil Spill, Nakba, Barack Obama, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Tony Kushner, Big Oil, Obama Netanyahu, Religion News

The worst danger facing the world today is the arrogance of powerful men and institutions toward the warp and woof of human communities and the weave of life-forms on our planet.

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A Letter to Progressive U.S. Jews: These Are Your People

Bradley Burston | Posted 06.14.2011

Read More: J Street, Haaretz, Gaza, Mideast, Politics, New Israel Fund, Israel. Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Bradley Burston, Qassam, Idf, Rockets, Iron Dome, Israel-Palestine, Israel Palestine Conflict, Progressive Jewish, Liberal Jews, World News

There is much more that our people, progressive American Jews, can and should do to demonstrate humanist concern on this side of the border.

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Writing a New Language About Israel at J Street

Dahlia Scheindlin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Zionism, Palestinians, Israel, Jeremy Ben Ami, J Street, Bernard Avishai, Two-State Solution, Americans for Peace Now, Israel-Palestinian Conflict, World News

Do not confuse the new "pro-Israel" with the old, dead meaning of "pro-Israel." Anyone not actively working for a democratic resolution is against Israel, because the conflict is killing us.

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J Street Needs Another Lane

David Suissa | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Peter Beinart, Rabbi David Saperstein, J-Street, Palestinians, Peaceniks, Irsael, Khaled Abu Toameh, Itamar Marcus, World News

If the goal is to bring together Israel and Palestine, isn't it important to scrutinize both sides? J Street's relentless focus on pressuring Israel isn't only unfair, it's also remarkably ineffective.

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Republicans and Democrats Agree: Cut Aid for Poor People, Not Israel

Medea Benjamin | Posted 05.25.2011

As Republicans and Democrats propose cuts in programs that actually benefit their constituents, they agree there's one area of the budget that's not to be touched: the annual $3 billion subsidy taxpayers provide to the Israeli military.

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Why the Jewish Right Is Terrified by J Street's Conference

Dan Fleshler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israel, J Street, American Jews, Israel Lobby, Palestinians, Aipac, Politics News

American Jews, evidently, are not supposed to listen to Arabs who are unhappy with Israel, or to people with different narratives and perspectives than those of the pro-Israel community.

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J Street's Wrong Turn

Ira Chernus | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, J Street, Israel, World News

As long as pathological fear passes for fact, none of the arguments presented by J Street and other peace groups will make much of a dent in the American political scene, no matter how logical and well packaged they are.

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Don't Let the Window of Israeli-Palestinian Peace Close

Moriel Rothman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, J Street, Palestine, Israel, US Foreign Policy, Peace, Politics News

The window for the only solution I believe has any chance of bringing about meaningful, sustainable peace for Israelis and Palestinians is closing, and with it Israel's future as a Jewish, democratic homeland.

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In Israel Debate, These Jews Should Be Ignored

Rabbi David Wolpe | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israeli Settlements, Israel, State of Israel, Bds Movement, J Street, Israel Boycott, Zionist Organization of America, Jewish Extremism, Jewish Perspectives on Israel, Political Extremism, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Religion News

No responsible organization should dignify intellectually disreputable and morally loathsome positions. There is enough to argue about without inviting the haters into the conversation.

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Why J Street Attacked Sarah Palin But Not Fellow Leftists and Democrats Who Abuse the Language of Jewish Suffering

Alan Dershowitz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Obama Administration, Steven Cohen, J Street, Richard Goldstone, Politics News

It's too easy for J Street to pile on when the alleged abuser is a conservative Republican. It's far more difficult, and costly, for J Street to go after fellow leftists who abuse language, especially those with large followings among its supporters.

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Leapfrogging Barriers to a Two-State Deal

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New America Foundation Middle East Task Force, David Makovsky, Gro Brundtland, Mary Robinson, Grace Machel, Middle East, Martin Indyk, Ela Bhatt, Lakhdar Brahimi, Palestine, Kofi Annan, Martti Ahtisaari, Hamas, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, J Street, Jill Biden, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Jimmy Carter, Israel, Hillary Clinton, Lady GaGa, Desmond Tutu, Israel Palestine Security, Israel Palestine Border, Brookings Institute, Israel Palestine Peace, Middle East Peace Process, Politics News

There is a consensus brewing among progressives, big-name foreign policy hands and some neoconservatives that a borders/security strategy is a way to leapfrog over current impediments to progress in Israel and Palestine.

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Invest in Israel -- Not the Occupation

Moriel Rothman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hebron Fund, Occupation, J Street, Middle East, Protest, Israel, Palestine, Peace, Settlements, J Street U, West Bank, Student Protest, World News

Last Tuesday, forty students gathered in opposition to the occupation in the West Bank. Because there is nothing more pro-Israel, nor more fundamentally Jewish, than raising your voice in support of peace.

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Fox News Must Fire Glenn Beck for Mocking a Holocaust Survivor

David A. Love | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Latinos, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Anti-Semitism, Jews, Adl, Nazi Germany, George Soros, Holocaust, Abraham Foxman, TV Advertising, Lgbt, Aipac, Politics News, Politics, Arabs, Kristallnacht, J Street, Nazis, Rupert Murdoch, Fox News, Racism, Muslims, Glenn Beck, Israel, Media News

All of us should be concerned about Glenn Beck's verbal assault on George Soros and his mocking of the Holocaust. Yet, this is more than a Jewish issue.

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