In 2012, an unprecedented amount of money was spent on efforts to turn support for Israel into a partisan wedge issue. Because most American Jews don't vote based on Israel - and actually support a two-state solution and US leadership to achieve it - millions upon millions of dollars were essentially wasted. Well, not completely wasted, because now we can revel in just how off the wall these ads really were. Here are the five most outrageous examples. Read More...

J Street condemns the recent surge in rocket attacks launched at Israel from the Gaza Strip. Our thoughts go out to the five civilians injured in these attacks and to Captain Ziv Shilon who was wounded by a roadside bombing on Tuesday. Read More...

With his rejoinder to Governor Romney's charge of "American weakness" based on the number of ships we have, President Obama memorably highlighted how out-of-date the debate is over what constitutes military strength in the 21st century. Read More...

Governor Thompson’s desperate charge that Congresswoman Baldwin is somehow anti-Jewish or anti-Israel clearly crosses the line. His ignorance of the facts, and of the Jewish community’s sensitivity to the legacy of anti-Semitism is upsetting and unbecoming of someone aspiring to become a senator. Read More...

In what has become an unwelcome annual tradition, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s address to the UN General Assembly was unsurprisingly outrageous and offensive. President Ahmadinejad, whose anti-Israel and anti-Semitic statements have repeatedly threatened Israel’s survival and the Jewish people’s historic connection to that land, degrades the standing of the UN and undermines both the spirit and letter of the UN Charter with each such address. Read More...