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Opinion J Street’s Breakthrough With Likud and Shas
J Street, the dovish pro-Israel lobby that was shunned in its early years by Israeli government officials, is now making another step toward the acceptance by Israeli politicians. This coming September, J Street will host, for the first time, a member of Knesset from the ruling Likud Party and a member of the ultra-Orthodox Shas…
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Opinion Foxman: Foes of ‘2 States’ Hurt Israel’s Credibility
As Washington and Jerusalem jockey over terms for renewing Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, Anti-Defamation League director Abe Foxman insists that his organization will continue to support Israel. But he warns that Israelis make the job harder and hurt their own cause by allowing hardline opponents of Palestinian statehood to speak for them. He singled out Israel’s…
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Opinion AIPAC’s Effort To Reach Out to Liberals Is Doomed to Failure
News that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee wants to reach out more to Democrats and progressives inspires mixed emotions. On one hand, it’s good that the pre-eminent pro-Israeli lobbying organization is coming around to recognizing that liberals are assets to pro-Israel advocacy. But the way it’s going about building support for Israel among this…
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Opinion Despite Resistance, Penn Hillel Hosts Breaking the Silence
Despite initially facing resistance from the Hillel of Greater Philadelphia, student members of J Street at the University of Pennsylvania were able to host an event at Penn’s Hillel featuring Breaking the Silence, a group of Israeli Defense Force army veterans who speak out against Israeli military policy. Thursday’s event drew about 60 people and…
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Opinion Is Israel a Special Case?
As the blunt ax of sequestration begins its crude work, chopping federal expenditures with no purpose or sense of priority, it’s no wonder that those who work to secure and protect American aid to Israel are worried. That $3.1 billion pays for more than a military shopping list every year. It’s an outward representation of…
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Israel News Looming Sequestration Cuts Cause Split Among Israel Aid Advocates
In an effort to save aid to Israel from mandatory, across-the-board cuts now being imposed on all discretionary federal programs, pro-Israel activists are opening the door on a dramatic course of action they have rejected repeatedly in the past. Members of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the largest pro-Israel lobby, are refusing to foreclose…
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Breaking News J Street, Liberal Pro-Israel Group, Claims Big Win on Chuck Hagel
J Street, a liberal Jewish-American lobbying group barely five years old and once shunned by top Israeli officials, is claiming as a victory the fact that Chuck Hagel was confirmed as defense secretary despite opposition from more conservative Jewish groups. In the week when the most influential Jewish-American group, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee,…
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Breaking News J Street Wins as Senate Omits Statehood Slap
A U.S. Senate amendment that would have penalized Palestinians for seeking non-member state status at the United Nations was not attached to its intended law. The National Defense Authorization Act, passed late Tuesday, did not include among its amendments one that would cut funding to the Palestinians should they use their status, gained last week,…
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