Recent Blogs

• Where J Street Stands in the Discussion on Aid to Israel

  I couldn’t be more pleased that J Street’s National Conference last week has sparked an energetic and long-needed discussion about the role that US assistance to Israel should play, not only in supporting Israel’s long-term security, but in advancing the goal of peacefully resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and bringing an end to the occupation.

• J Street Congratulates Rep. Nita Lowey for Her Distinguished Career of Service

  We at J Street are sad that Chairwoman Lowey will not seek re-election, but are delighted for her and her family as she completes a distinguished career in the House of Representatives.

• Israel’s integrated schools provide a vision for an integrated Israel

  It was November, 1995, and Lee Gordon’s son was perched on his shoulders as Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin spoke at a historic peace rally. “I wish to thank each and every one of you who have come here today to take a stand against violence, and to stand for peace,” Rabin told the crowd.

• Shana Tova from J Street!

  This New Year, J Street will continue to fight for peace, tolerance, and equality -- both here in the US and in Israel. We will work tirelessly to achieve the political change we need. We hope we can count on you to join us.

Gantz says he’s doubtful Likud wants unity, ‘examining alternatives’, Times of Israel
Blue and White party chief Benny Gantz on Friday said he was doubtful as to whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party was genuinely interested in forming a unity government, and said his party was looking at “alternatives” to such a coalition, without giving details Gantz, on the 16th of his 28-day race to attempt to form a government, attacked Likud’s insistence of negotiating only as a single bloc of 55 MKs that include ultra-Orthodox and national-religious parties. “I fear Likud does not truly wish to reach a unity agreement as is required by the election results,” he wrote on Facebook. “Anyone refusing to let go of the restrictive and obstructive bloc, who is not prepared to seriously discuss the basic principles of a future government — isn’t actually interested in forming a government.”

Netanyahu’s party could break Israel’s political deadlock by dumping him. Why won’t it?, Washington Post
Ruth Eglash writes, “Present and former Likudniks — as members are known in Hebrew — are beginning to express disillusionment with the direction he is taking the party and asking why he’s still there after a year of failures.”