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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Fast Forward Livni Urges J Street Conference To Support Two States
Tzipi Livni, the top Israeli peace negotiator, made an impassioned case for peace with the Palestinians and for supporting Israel’s army in remarks to J Street’s national policy conference. The opening Saturday night of the conference, which runs through Tuesday, saw speeches from Livni, who is also the justice minister, Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) and…
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News J Street Trumpets Bigger Role as Conference Looms
(JTA) — The story that this year’s J Street conference schedule tells is, typically enough, about getting Israel and the Palestinians to a two-state solution. Between the lines is another narrative as urgent as peacekeeping to the liberal pro-Israel group: getting J Street into the establishment. The second objective received a major boost earlier this…
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Opinion Mahmoud Abbas Preaches Peace to the Jewish Choir
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas met with a group of prominent American Jews in New York Monday evening for a dialogue over a dinner of trout and saffron rice. Also on the menu were servings of hope, flattery, mutual frustration and a just soupcon of evident peace-process exhaustion and perhaps a hint of unstated despair. Abbas,…
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News Joe Biden Will Speak at J Street Conference
In a major show of support for J Street, White House decided to dispatch Vice President Joe Biden to deliver the keynote speech at the dovish group’s annual conference in Washington from September 28 to 30. Biden will be the most senior official to ever address the group, which has focused its lobbying efforts on…
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News Syria Crisis Puts Rift Running Through J Street on Sharp Display
Among the many political fault lines unearthed by the debate over American military intervention in Syria, one touched directly on the internal rift running through J Street, the left-leaning pro-Israel lobby. The group has prided itself in the past for “having the president’s back” as he seeks to advance Israeli-Palestinian peace. But in this case,…
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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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