Tag: J Street

“J Street’s activities, beyond being immoral, can cause actual harm to the State of Israel in its most sensitive situation in many years,” wrote attorneys Shai Mark and Yotam Eyal.

“It’s time to hold accountable organizations whose traitorous efforts to block arms sales to Israel endanger Jewish lives,” the group’s leaders say.

The NGO urged the White House to take "all necessary steps" to stop Israel from launching a large-scale operation against Hamas in Rafah.

The Dec. 4 event will feature discussion on “the future of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, and the liberal Jewish community’s struggle to confront extremism.”

And J Street blames AIPAC for using money against progressive candidates and receiving funding from major Republican donors.

Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) had some questions about re-entering the Iran nuclear deal—namely, about the IRGC. For those inquiries, he said he received an unwarranted backlash.

Pro-Israel America is calling on J Street PAC to drop its endorsement of Rep. Marie Newman (D-Ill.)

Rep. Andy Levin and Rep. Haley Stevens both running in newly formed 11th Congressional District, which will become the most Jewish district in MI. Stevens is backed by mainstream pro-Israel groups such as Pro-Israel America, while Levin is supported by J Street.

The meeting comes after the leftwing lobby group has been shunned for years by former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The group, however, says it recognizes “the challenges involved with attempting to integrate Palestinian factions committed to nonviolence and diplomacy with those, like Hamas, that have frequently engaged in violence and terror.”

Republican Jewish Coalition executive director Matt Brooks criticized Democrats for sharing the stage with Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas, calling him a Holocaust denier and longtime funder of terrorism.

Castro also wants to condition U.S. military assistance to Israel on the Jewish state not applying sovereignty to the Judea and Samaria.

The reply? “If the Trump administration wants to provide us with photos from closed-door meetings ... to discuss illegal annexation and unilaterally redraw the map of the West Bank, we’d gladly use those.”

The "student" letter attacking ZOA national president Mort Klein appears to be "astroturfing" - leftwing organizations hiding using a grassroots organization to mask their involvement and initiative.

JStreetPAC also intends to raise $5 million for some 175 congressional endorsees, who make up more than half of the House and Senate Democratic caucuses, in the 2020 cycle.

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas was joined at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Midtown Manhattan by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who called Abbas a “man of peace” and the “only partner” Israel has in peace negotiations.

The final tally was 226 in favor, 188 against, and two present—with most Democrats voting for it, and most Republicans voting against it.

“We have a $38 billion commitment over 10 years for military aid to Israel,” said Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), who is the chairman of the U.S. House Judiciary Committee. “The Israelis need it for defense.”

The political action committee of the left-wing Israel group J Street batted just under 43 percent on Tuesday night, as most of their endorsed candidates in competitive races wound up losing their bid.

Fooled us once, shame on us. There won't be a second fooling.

On Monday, Democratic House candidate Wallace celebrated on Facebook his J Street endorsement.

At the University of Minnesota, where a pro-BDS resolution passed in March, J Street U refused to join pro-Israel groups in a campaign against the vote.

A fringe element within the Jewish community uses language and imagery stolen from classical anti-Semitic tropes, sides publicly with declared enemies of the Jewish people, and clumsily but intentionally wields their Judaism as a weapon against the rest of us.

Someone get them a ladder over at Princeton's Hillel.

Last February, facing a serious challenge to his nomination from members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who are allergic to comparisons to things Holocaust, coming from the right or the left, Friedman bowed down and kissed the PC ring.

Alon Friedman of the Hillel organization waxed philosophical: 'A Jew is not someone whose grandfather was a Jew but someone whose grandson would be a Jew.'

Friedman is expected to quickly leave for Israel where he has long maintained a residence in Jerusalem.

David Friedman's nomination as US Amb. to Israel is voted up and out of US Sen. Committee.

Marco Rubio said what needed to be said at the David Friedman hearing.

Friedman: As Ambassador I will represent this administration's policies not my own; and I will welcome all Americans, of every political view, when they visit Israel.