Jeremy Ben-Ami is the founder and president of J Street, the pro-Israel, pro-peace, pro-democracy advocacy group.
Jeremy Ben-Ami
By Jeremy Ben-Ami
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Opinion What Jimmy Carter has to teach Donald Trump about peace in the Middle East
The late president was a controversial leader. But we still have much to learn from him
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Opinion AIPAC’s attacks on J Street show how out of touch they are
Israel faces existential threats to its democracy. Those threats are not coming from us
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Opinion Don’t let the far-right define what it means to be ‘pro-Israel’
Supporting Israel does not mean unquestioning loyalty to its ascendent far-right government
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Opinion Your Anti-BDS Crusade Hurts Jews
“Congress Trying to Use Spending Bill to Criminalize Boycotts of Israel.” “Texas Speech Pathologist Fired for Refusing to Pledge Not to Boycott Israel.” “Prominent Black Activist Denied Civil Rights Award Because She Supports BDS.” Headlines like these reveal the disturbing consequences of the American Jewish communal establishment’s unhealthy obsession with the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions…
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Opinion Israel’s Democracy Needs Defending. It’s Worth Fighting For.
This piece is one of a series of pieces commissioned from leaders to speak to their feelings about Israel at 70. You will find the others here. Israel’s 70th birthday is an opportunity to celebrate what could be Zionism’s greatest achievement: that the state of the Jewish people is, over time, becoming a “normal” country….
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Opinion Ambassador David Friedman Can’t Silence the Pro-Israel, Pro-Peace Movement
It seems those of us defining ourselves as “pro-Israel, pro-peace” have gotten under the skin of America’s Ambassador to Israel David Friedman. At AIPAC’s annual policy conference this week, he called those who define ourselves this way “blasphemous.” (I suppose that’s better than what he called us during the presidential campaign in 2016.) According to…
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Opinion Abbas Just Committed To A Two State Solution. It’s Time For Israel To Follow Suit.
In a landmark speech to the Security Council this week, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas issued an important challenge to his American and Israeli counterparts. Laying out explicit support for the two-state solution and a serious proposal for getting there, Abbas raised the obvious question: Why are President Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu unwilling to do…
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Opinion Israel Doesn’t Have A PR Problem. It Has An Occupation.
Last week, Michael Oren shared some thoughts on Israel and the US. Reacting to a new Pew study showing Israel has become increasingly a partisan issue in America, Oren said, “We have to make a decision to set a strategic goal of bringing the Democratic party back on our side.” I share the concern of…
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