J Street

J Street: How the pro-Israel pro-peace lobby promotes war

by News Sources 03.03.2011

Chase Madar writes: J Street, America’s premier liberal pro-Israel lobbying group, has just wrapped up its third annual conference in Washington. There have been sessions and panels on “building peace from the ground up,” on “expanding the tent” and even some passionate condemnations of the Occupation. Amid so much good feeling it’s almost possible to [...]

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Israel apologists and the Israeli national will

by Paul Woodward 05.31.2010

Depending on ones view of Israel, the deaths that occurred on the decks of the Mavi Marmara early today are either reprehensible, tragic, regrettable, or — a cause for celebration. Someone just wrote to me: “Too bad you weren’t on that ship with the rest of the terror supporters. Anyone touching an IDF soldier deserves [...]

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Is J Street, AIPAC’s Trojan horse for disarming the American Jewish left?

by Paul Woodward 05.03.2010

After meeting last week with J Street‘s executive director, Jeremy Ben-Ami, the Jerusalem Post‘s Shmuel Rosner mused that J Street may have a complimentary role to the one performed by AIPAC. Maybe as a separate organization with more credibility on the left J Street can help Israel more by way of helping curb the wacky [...]

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The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement is working

by Paul Woodward 11.24.2009

Mohammad Othman’s administrative detention is a sign BDS is working By Adam Horowitz, Mondoweiss, November 24, 2009 Mohammad Othman, the BDS campaigner who was detained by Israel upon returning from a speaking tour in Norway, was given three months administrative detention yesterday in an Israeli military court. Othman had been held 63 days without charge [...]

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J Street seeks to undermine BDS

by Paul Woodward 11.22.2009

J Street seeks to undermine BDS By Adam Horowitz, Mondoweiss, November 20, 2009 We’ve been following J Street’s attempts to counteract the growing BDS movement. First there was its aborted release of a public letter criticizing the Toronto Declaration. Then there was the workshop at its student conference called “Reckoning with the Radical Left on [...]

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Two-State Solution: The Broadway Musical

by Paul Woodward 11.01.2009

Two-State Solution: The Broadway Musical By Paul Woodward, War in Context, November 1, 2009 Remember a mere five months ago when Hillary Clinton, with all the toughness she had displayed during her primary campaign, said bluntly: “[Obama] wants to see a stop to settlements — not some settlements, not outposts, not ‘natural growth’ exceptions”? The [...]

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