This is the Forward’s coverage of J Street, a lobby group that advocates for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Opinion Did Obama Just Make It Kosher To Boycott Settlements?
Last week, President Obama made the strongest statement to date that settlement boycotts are a legitimate tactic for liberal pro-Israel groups and activists to use. Although he certainly did not phrase it that way, his language suggests that a position considered beyond the pale when Peter Beinart advocated it just a few years ago —…
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Fast Forward J Street Takes Aim at GOP Senators Who Opposed Iran Deal
A focus of liberal Jewish advocacy group J Street this year will be unseating Republican senators in Illinois and Wisconsin who led opposition to the Iran nuclear deal. “We see Mark Kirk and Ron Johnson as two of our biggest targets,” Ben Shnider, the liberal Jewish Middle East policy group’s political director told JTA Friday…
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Fast Forward Vassar OK’s Funds for J Street Group After Delay
Vassar College’s student council approved a funding request from J Street U, a liberal pro-Israel group, after delaying it because of concerns that it would be supporting a racist ideology. The student council unanimously approved the request on Sunday. The funds allowed students to attend HaaretzQ — a conference focused on Israeli-Palestinian relations and hosted…
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Opinion Why Are You So Confused by J Street’s Muslim Zionist?
I’ve been watching out for articles about Amna Farooqi, the new Muslim-American President of J Street U, since she was elected last month. There’s more than a little bit of kvelling in that for me, since I taught the first two Israel Studies courses she took at the University of Maryland when she was a…
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Opinion Has the American Jewish Left Lost All Sense of Boundaries?
Helped by Michael Douglas and J Street, I have recently become increasingly painfully aware, in the most personal and intense way, of the growing rift between traditional Judaism and everything else that calls itself Jewish. Mind you, I’ve been a Jewish journalist for more than 40 years and I’ve associated professionally and spiritually with almost…
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Fast Forward J Street Student Leader Claims She’s ‘Culturally Jewish’
(Washington Jewish Week via JTA) — J Street U’s new president Amna Farooqi has made no secret of being a “Pakistani American Muslim.” That’s how she described herself in a keynote speech this spring at J Street’s national convention in Washington, D.C., when she was a board member. Still, Farooqi’s election to president at J…
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Opinion Excommunicating Pro-BDS Jews Is a Huge Strategic Mistake
This month, we at Congregation Beth Shalom Rodfe Zedek in Connecticut did something that most synagogues and Jewish organizations have refused to do: We held a forum about the movement to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel (BDS) with participants from pro-BDS Jewish Voice for Peace and from anti-BDS J Street. Lightning didn’t strike, and…
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Fast Forward Muslim Student Elected To Lead J Street U
The campus arm of left-wing pro-Israel group J Street elected a Muslim-American student to serve as president of its national student board. At its “Summer Leadership Institute” in Washington this week, J Street U elected Amna Farooqi, a senior at the University of Maryland who is of Pakistani descent, Haaretz reported. Approximately 120 J Street…
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