Pro-Israel lobbyists work to save Palestinian Authority funding (and why should this be a surprise?) By Alex Kane September 14, 2011 7 Congressional threats to cut off aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) have grown in recent…
The two-state solution is on its deathbed, but that news didn’t reach J Street conference By Alex Kane March 8, 2011 20 When the liberal “pro-Israel, pro-peace” lobby J Street launched in 2008, it was big news.…
Mona Eltahawy’s speech signals shift in mainstream discourse that Zionists don’t want By Alex Kane February 28, 2011 75 Egyptian journalist Mona Eltahawy’s speech at the J Street conference was more than just another…
‘Progressive Zionist’ group in U.S. calls for settlement boycott (while J Street continues to refuse to) By Alex Kane February 17, 2011 10 The liberal Zionist organization Meretz USA is calling on American Jews and Israelis to boycott…
The truth that the ‘Palestine Papers’ has broken into the mainstream: Israel is the obstacle to peace By Alex Kane January 25, 2011 2 The release of the “Palestine Papers,” Al Jazeera’s leak of thousands of documents relating to…
‘J Street’ honorably opposes McCarthyism in Israeli civil society (but what about ethnically-cleansed Palestinians?) By Matthew Tower January 8, 2011 20 The other day J Street’s Jeremy Ben-Ami sent me another entreaty to help him “save…
J Street asks: ‘What if Israel Ceases to be a Democracy?’ (Pssst…it never was) By Matthew Tower January 3, 2011 16 Another J Street fundraising pitch lands in my inbox: Matthew — “What If Israel Ceases…
J Street: ‘Right wing activists and donors regularly intimidate Jewish communal institutions’ re Israel By Philip Weiss November 18, 2010 9 The cancellation by a Reform synagogue in Newton MA of a J Street event tonight…
J Street is shunned by Reform synagogue in Newton (amid talk of ‘donors’) By Philip Weiss November 17, 2010 25 Astonishing. A J Street event is cancelled by a Reform Newton synagogue due to fierce…
Former AIPAC aide calls J Street fleas and liars By Philip Weiss November 5, 2010 18 Josh Block used to work at AIPAC (and before that for Edward Kennedy). He just…
