J Street

{{Short description|American nonprofit liberal advocacy group}} {{about|the liberal Zionist advocacy group|other uses|J Street (disambiguation)}} {{pp-extended|small=yes}} {{use mdy dates|date=March 2017}} {{use American English|date=March 2017}} {{Infobox organization | name = J Street | logo = J Street logo (2016).svg | type = 501(c)(4) organization | founder = Jeremy Ben-Ami | location = Washington, D.C. | tax_id = 26-1507828 | leader_name = Jeremy Ben-Ami | leader_title = Executive Director | leader_name2 = Morton Halperin | leader_title2 = Chairman | key_people = Daniel Levy (advisor) Debra DeLee (advisor) Shlomo Ben-Ami (advisor) Lincoln Chafee (advisor) | region_served = {{bulleted list|Israel|United States}} | focus = Liberal Zionism Two-state solution Israeli–Palestinian conflict | method = Lobbying | num_employees = | num_employees_year = | num_volunteers = | num_volunteers_year = | revenue = $3.18 million<ref name=propublica>{{cite web |title=J Street - Nonprofit Explorer |url=https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/261507828 |website=ProPublica |access-date=16 February 2026 |language=en |date=9 May 2013}}</ref> | revenue_year = 2024 | expenses = $3.38 million<ref name=propublica/> | expenses_year = 2024 | subsidiaries = J Street Education Fund, J Street PAC | founded = {{start date and age|2007|11|29}}<ref name= corp>[https://corp.dcra.dc.gov/BizEntity.aspx/ViewEntityData?entityId=2692170 "J Street"]{{Dead link|date=February 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}. ''Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs''. Government of the District of Columbia. Accessed on March 24, 2016.</ref> | website = {{URL|jstreet.org}} }} {{infobox organization | name = J Street Education Fund | status = 501(c)(3) organization | tax_id = 20-2777557 | num_employees = | num_employees_year = | num_volunteers = | num_volunteers_year = | revenue = $8.75 million<ref name=education>{{cite web |title=J Street Education Fund Inc - Nonprofit Explorer |url=https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/202777557 |website=ProPublica |language=en |date=9 May 2013}}</ref> | revenue_year = 2023 | expenses = $8.12 million<ref name=education/> | expenses_year = 2023 | leader_name = Jeremy Ben-Ami | leader_title = President | leader_name2 = Morton Halperin | leader_title2 = Chairman }}

'''J Street''' ({{langx|he|ג'יי סטריט}}) is an American nonprofit liberal<ref name="Eggen">{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/16/AR2009041603995.html |newspaper=The Washington Post |title=Year-Old Liberal Jewish Lobby Has Quickly Made Its Mark |first=Dan |last=Eggen |date=April 17, 2009 |access-date=May 5, 2010 |archive-date=December 4, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161204093032/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/16/AR2009041603995.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://archive.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2010/02/27/delahunts_journey_to_mideast_upended/ |work=The Boston Globe |title=Delahunt's journey to Mideast upended |first=Farah |last=Stockman |author-link=Farah Stockman |date=February 27, 2010 |access-date=September 22, 2010 |archive-date=March 28, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170328195548/http://archive.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2010/02/27/delahunts_journey_to_mideast_upended/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Zionist<ref>{{Cite web |last=Beinart |first=Peter |date=March 22, 2024 |title=The Great Rupture in American Jewish Life |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/22/opinion/israel-american-jews-zionism.html |website=New York Times}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Tracy |first=Mark |date=April 8, 2024 |title=J Street Seeks a Middle Path on Gaza. Is That Possible Anymore? |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/08/us/j-street-lobby-israel-gaza.html |website=New York Times}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Kane |first=Alex |date=Feb 1, 2023 |title=J Street's Balancing Act Comes Under Pressure |url=https://jewishcurrents.org/j-streets-balancing-act-comes-under-pressure |access-date=2024-09-19 |website=Jewish Currents |language=en}}</ref> advocacy and lobby group based in the United States whose aims include strengthening Jewish democracy in Israel, promoting a diplomatic end to the Israeli–Palestinian conflict with a two-state solution,<ref>{{Cite web |last=Spitzer-Resnick |first=Jeff |date=2023-12-20 |title=Where Are Leftwing Jewish Groups on the Israel-Gaza Conflict? |url=https://progressive.org/latest/leftwing-jewish-groups-on-the-israel-gaza-conflict-SpitzerResnick-20231220/ |access-date=2025-02-22 |website=Progressive.org |language=en-us |quote="It describes itself as Pro-Israel, Pro-Democracy, and Pro-Two State solution."}}</ref> and opposing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.<ref name=":9">{{Cite web |title=Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) |url=https://jstreet.org/boycott-divestment-and-sanctions-bds/ |access-date=2025-02-22 |website=J Street |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":10">{{Cite web |last=Jilani |first=Zaid |date=2017-07-20 |title=J Street, a Reliable Foe of BDS, Urges Congress to Oppose Israel Anti-Boycott Act For Now |url=https://theintercept.com/2017/07/20/j-street-a-reliable-foe-of-bds-urges-congress-to-oppose-israel-anti-boycott-act-for-now/ |access-date=2025-02-22 |website=The Intercept |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":11">{{Cite web |last=Goldberg |first=J.J. |date=2016-06-20 |title=Israel Needs Help Fighting BDS — and It's Turning to J Street |url=https://forward.com/opinion/343025/israel-needs-help-fighting-bds-and-its-turning-to-j-street/ |access-date=2025-02-22 |website=The Forward |language=en |quote="J Street shares the Israeli government's opposition to the anti-Israel boycott-divestment-sanctions movement, commonly known as BDS. J Street campus activists are frequently in the forefront of pro-Israel efforts to block university boycott and divestment resolutions...."}}</ref>

J Street describes itself as "the political home for pro-Israel, pro-peace Americans who want Israel to be secure, democratic and the national home of the Jewish people". Many right-wing and Zionist critics allege that J Street and the policies they support are anti-Israel.<ref name="Donig">{{cite news |last=Donig |first=Mark |url=https://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?ID=232749&R=R1 |title=Dershowitz strikes back: 'J Street has harmed Israel' |work=The Jerusalem Post |date=August 6, 2011 |access-date=August 30, 2011 |archive-date=October 24, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024215835/http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?ID=232749&R=R1 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kX4TCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA54|title=The New American Zionism|last=Sasson|first=Theodore|date=April 8, 2015|publisher=NYU Press|isbn=9781479806119|pages=50, 54|language=en}}</ref> At the same time, Left-wing and anti-Zionist movements criticize J Street's positions supporting Zionism and aid to Israel,<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Cohen |first=Mari |date=9 February 2024 |title=J Street's Pro-War Stance Prompts Staff Departures |url=https://jewishcurrents.org/j-streets-pro-war-stance-prompts-staff-departures |access-date=2025-02-22 |website=Jewish Currents |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Arria |first=Michael |date=2021-11-18 |title=DSA chapters call for action against Jamaal Bowman over J Street Israel trip, Iron Dome vote |url=https://mondoweiss.net/2021/11/dsa-chapters-call-for-action-against-jamaal-bowman-over-j-street-israel-trip-iron-dome-vote/ |access-date=2025-02-22 |website=Mondoweiss |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":3">{{Cite web |last=Sterne |first=Peter |date=2024-03-18 |title=As ceasefire politics have gone mainstream, fractures have emerged in the Democratic Party |url=https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2024/03/ceasefire-politics-have-gone-mainstream-fractures-have-emerged-democratic-party/395009/ |access-date=2025-02-22 |website=City & State NY |language=en |quote="Even the progressive pro-Israel group J Street, which had originally endorsed Bowman’s reelection, pulled its endorsement after he referred to Israel’s actions in Gaza as a “genocide.”"}}</ref> its rejection of Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions and human rights organizations' allegations of a Gaza genocide,<ref name=":3" /><ref name=":7">{{Cite web |last=Beinart |first=Peter |date=2017-04-04 |title=IfNotNow Is The Jewish Black Lives Matter |url=https://forward.com/opinion/368082/ifnotnow-is-the-jewish-black-lives-matter/ |access-date=2025-02-22 |website=The Forward |language=en |quote="J Street opposes the boycott, sanctions and divestment movement."}}</ref> and past efforts against Palestinian statehood.<ref name=":12">{{cite news |last=Mozgovaya |first=Natasha |author-link=Natasha Mozgovaya |date=2011-09-08 |title=J Street opposes Palestinian statehood bid at UN |url=https://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/j-street-opposes-palestinian-statehood-bid-at-un-1.383314 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150511011954/http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/j-street-opposes-palestinian-statehood-bid-at-un-1.383314 |archive-date=May 11, 2015 |access-date=2011-09-09 |work=Haaretz}}</ref><ref name=":13">{{Cite news |last=Hayden |first=Tom |date=2011-09-16 |title=J Street Opposes Palestine's UN Bid; US Increasingly Isolated |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/j-street-opposes-palestines-un-bid-us-increasingly-isolated/ |access-date=2025-02-22 |language=en-US |issn=0027-8378}}</ref><ref name=":14">{{Cite web |last=Mozgovaya |first=Natasha |date=9 September 2011 |title=Palestinian Envoy to U.S. 'Disappointed' With J Street's Objection to UN Bid |url=https://www.haaretz.com/2011-09-09/ty-article/palestinian-envoy-to-u-s-disappointed-with-j-streets-objection-to-un-bid/0000017f-f0d5-d223-a97f-fddd48160000 |website=Haaretz}}</ref>

==Etymology== J Street, as an American lobby organization aimed at Washington leaders and policymakers, derived its name from the alphabetically named street plan of Washington, D.C.: ''J'' Street is missing from the grid (the street naming jumps from I Street to K Street since I and J were not yet considered to be distinct letters at the time the Washington street plan was created).<ref name="No J">{{cite web |url=http://www.snopes.com/history/american/jstreet.asp |title=No 'J' Street in Washington, DC |work=Snopes |date=May 27, 2007 |access-date=April 30, 2008}}</ref> Also, by association, the letter ''J'' is a reference to "Jewish". Further, K Street is a street in downtown Washington on which many influential lobbying firms are located, and that become synonymous for Washington's formidable lobbying establishment. Consequently, the choice of the name reflects the desire of J Street's founders and donors to bring a message to Washington that, metaphorically like the missing "J Street" of the D.C. grid, has thus far been absent.<ref name="Besser2008-03-26"/>

==Political vision== J Street's stated aim is to provide a political home for pro-Israel, pro-peace Americans who believe that a "two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is essential to Israel's survival as the national home of the Jewish people and as a vibrant democracy". J Street strongly opposes Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions.<ref name=":9" /><ref name=":10" /><ref name=":11" />

According to its executive director, Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street is proud of AIPAC's accomplishments, but the two groups have different priorities rather than different views.<ref name="Abramowitz2008-04-15">{{cite news |first=Michael |last=Abramowitz |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/14/AR2008041402647.html |title=Jewish Liberals to Launch A Counterpoint to AIPAC |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=April 15, 2008 |access-date=April 29, 2008 |archive-date=October 9, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181009134736/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/14/AR2008041402647.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Besser2008-03-26">{{cite news |first=James |last=Besser |url=http://www.thejewishweek.com/viewArticle/c39_a5882/News/International.html |title=New PAC To Offer Pols A Dovish Mideast View |work=The Jewish Week |date=March 26, 2008 |access-date=April 29, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080403074343/http://www.thejewishweek.com/viewArticle/c39_a5882/News/International.html  |archive-date=April 3, 2008}}</ref><ref name=RosnerGuestJeremy>{{cite news |first=Shmuel |last=Rosner |author-link=Shmuel Rosner |url=https://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/rosnerGuest.jhtml?itemNo=987196 |title=Rosner's Guest: Jeremy Ben-Ami |work=Haaretz |date=May 26, 2008 |access-date=May 26, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080527173233/http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/rosnerGuest.jhtml?itemNo=987196 |archive-date=May 27, 2008}}</ref> Explaining the need for a new lobbying group, Ben-Ami stated: "Israel's interests will be best served when the United States makes it a major foreign policy priority to help Israel achieve a real and lasting peace...."<ref name="Kamiya2008-04-29">{{cite news |first=Gary |last=Kamiya |url=http://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2008/04/29/j_street/ |title=Taking Back the Debate Over Israel |work=Salon |date=April 29, 2008 |access-date=April 30, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080501174418/http://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2008/04/29/j_street/ |archive-date=May 1, 2008 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> Alan Solomont, one of the founders of J Street and a former national finance chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), described the need for J Street in the following way: "We have heard the voices of neocons, and right-of-center Jewish leaders and Christian evangelicals, and the mainstream views of the American Jewish community have not been heard."<ref name="Abramowitz2008-04-15" /> During its first conference, Ben-Ami said, "The party and the viewpoint that we're closest to in Israeli politics is actually Kadima."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.jpost.com/International/J-Streets-Ben-Ami-Our-stance-is-like-Kadimas |title=J Street's Ben-Ami: Our stance is like Kadima's |author=Hilary Leila Kreiger |work=The Jerusalem Post |date=October 28, 2009 |access-date=March 27, 2017 |archive-date=March 28, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170328021556/http://www.jpost.com/International/J-Streets-Ben-Ami-Our-stance-is-like-Kadimas |url-status=live }}</ref> According to Peter Frey, a financier and chairman of J Street's board, "J Street is a Zionist organization, It's 'pro-Israel, pro-peace' — it starts with 'pro-Israel.'"<ref>{{Cite news |date=2024-04-08 |title=J Street Seeks a Middle Path on Gaza. Is That Possible Anymore? (Published 2024) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/08/us/j-street-lobby-israel-gaza.html |access-date=2025-07-31 |language=en}}</ref>

''The Washington Post'' described the perceived differences between J Street and AIPAC: "While both groups call themselves bipartisan, AIPAC has won support from an overwhelming majority of Republican Jews, while J Street is presenting itself as an alternative for Democrats who have grown uncomfortable with both Netanyahu's policies and the conservatives' flocking to AIPAC."<ref>{{cite news |author=Ben Terris |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/jeremy-ben-ami-winning-a-place-at-the-table-for-j-street/2015/03/26/1acb118e-d33e-11e4-8fce-3941fc548f1c_story.html |title=Jeremy Ben-Ami, winning a place at the table for J Street |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=March 26, 2015 |access-date=March 28, 2017 |archive-date=January 26, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170126055159/https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/jeremy-ben-ami-winning-a-place-at-the-table-for-j-street/2015/03/26/1acb118e-d33e-11e4-8fce-3941fc548f1c_story.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 2011, J Street opposed recognizing Palestine as an independent state at the United Nations.<ref name=":12" /> J Street endorsed the nuclear disarmament deal with Iran, which Obama supported and Netanyahu and AIPAC opposed. In 2016 the political focus of J Street was to unseat Republican senators who led U.S. Congressional opposition to the Iran deal.<ref>{{cite news |agency=JTA |author= |url=http://forward.com/news/breaking-news/330249/j-street-takes-aim-at-gop-senators-who-opposed-iran-deal/ |title=J Street Takes Aim at GOP Senators Who Opposed Iran Deal |work=The Forward |date=January 17, 2016 |access-date=January 18, 2016 |archive-date=January 23, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160123174557/http://forward.com/news/breaking-news/330249/j-street-takes-aim-at-gop-senators-who-opposed-iran-deal/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author= |url=http://forward.com/opinion/330258/how-jews-are-reacting-to-new-era-of-ties-with-iran/ |title=How Jews Across the Political Spectrum Are Reacting to a New Iran Era |work=The Forward |date=January 17, 2016 |access-date=March 28, 2017 |archive-date=April 27, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170427224644/http://forward.com/opinion/330258/how-jews-are-reacting-to-new-era-of-ties-with-iran/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

=== 23-state solution === Following the Gaza War, J Street proposed a "23-state solution" that would involve the normalization of relations between Israel and 22 Arab nations. The plan would include rebuilding Gaza, reunifying Gaza and the West Bank, establishing a Palestinian state, and normalizing relations between Sunni states and Israel.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The 23-State Solution |url=https://jstreet.org/the-23-state-solution/ |access-date=2026-05-21 |website=J Street |language=en-US}}</ref> In its roadmap, J Street emphasized its views that Hamas should disarm, Israel's annexation of the West Bank should be reversed, and the Palestinian Authority should be "strengthened."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hamama |first=Liam |date=2026-03-13 |title=A Roadmap to the 23-State Solution – Regional Peace and a Palestinian State |url=https://jstreet.org/a-roadmap-to-the-23-state-solution/ |access-date=2026-05-21 |website=J Street |language=en-US}}</ref>

J Street and J Street PAC, founded in April 2008, exist as separate legal entities with different political functions. The J Street Education Fund joined the J Street family of organizations in 2009:

* J Street – a 501(c)(4) nonprofit advocacy group which aims to "support strong American leadership to end the Arab-Israeli and Palestinian-Israeli conflicts peacefully and diplomatically".<ref name="JStreetAboutUs">{{cite web |title=About ''J Street'' |url=http://jstreet.org/about |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160824092700/http://jstreet.org/about |archive-date=August 24, 2016 |access-date=April 29, 2008 |work=J Street}}</ref> * The J Street PAC – a political action committee for political and financial support to candidates seeking election who agree with J Street's goals.<ref name=JStreetPACAboutUs>{{cite web|url=http://www.jstreetpac.org/pac/about_the_pac |title=About the ''J Street PAC'' |work=J Street Political Action Committee |access-date=April 20, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080425020127/http://www.jstreetpac.org/pac/about_the_pac |archive-date=April 25, 2008 }}</ref> * The J Street Education Fund, Inc. – a 501(c)(3) charitable organization for education about a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and to advance a liberal Zionist vision for a Jewish democratic state. * J Street U (formerly Union of Progressive Zionists) – the student organizing arm of J Street, with chapters on university and college campuses.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.jstreetu.org/about/who-we-are |title = About J Street U - Who We Are |work = J Street U |access-date = April 6, 2013 |archive-date = July 4, 2013 |archive-url = https://archive.today/20130704044232/http://www.jstreetu.org/about/who-we-are |url-status = live }}</ref> J Street's founding executive director is Jeremy Ben-Ami, a former domestic policy adviser in the Clinton Administration.<ref name="Abramowitz2008-04-15"/>

J Street's advisory council consists of former public officials, policy experts, community leaders and academics, including Daniel Levy, a former Israeli advisor who drafted the Geneva Initiative, Franklin Fisher and Debra DeLee of Americans for Peace Now, Marcia Freedman of Brit Tzedek v'Shalom, Democratic Middle East foreign policy expert Robert Malley, former Israeli foreign minister Shlomo Ben-Ami, former U.S. ambassador to Israel Samuel W. Lewis, former Rhode Island governor and Republican U.S. senator Lincoln Chafee.<ref name="Deveson2008-04-16">{{cite news |last=Deveson |first=Max |date=April 16, 2008 |title=Jewish lobby gains new voice |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7349371.stm |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306044927/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7349371.stm |archive-date=March 6, 2019 |access-date=April 26, 2008 |work=BBC News}}</ref><ref name="JStreetAdvisors">{{cite web|url=http://www.jstreet.org/supporters/advisory_council |title=The ''J Street'' Advisory Council |work=J Street |access-date=April 29, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080420194928/http://jstreet.org/supporters/advisory_council |archive-date=April 20, 2008 }}</ref> and Hannah Rosenthal, former head of the Office to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism.

J Street's rabbinic cabinet consists of North American rabbis, cantors and cantorial students. The group is co-chaired by Rabbis John Rosove of Temple Israel of Hollywood and John Friedman of Durham's Judea Reform Congregation.<ref>[http://jstreet.org/supporters/rabbinic-cabinet "Rabbinic Cabinet"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121114114224/http://jstreet.org/supporters/rabbinic-cabinet |date=November 14, 2012 }}. J Street.</ref>

==Activities==

===Political fundraising=== The J Street PAC acts as a traditional political action committee raising funds to support a limited number of candidates for Senate and Congressional races. J Street lobbies for and against Israel-related bills and legislation.

For the 2008 Congressional elections, the ''J Street PAC'' raised $600,000 and, according to J Street, 33 of the 41 candidates it backed won their seats.<ref>{{cite news |author=Leonard Doyle |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=April 18, 2009 |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/5178883/US-Jewish-lobby-challenged-by--pro-peace-rival.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090421085325/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/5178883/US-Jewish-lobby-challenged-by--pro-peace-rival.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 21, 2009 |title=US Jewish lobby challenged by 'pro-peace' rival}}</ref>

J Street's first-year budget for fiscal 2009 was $1.5 million.<ref name="Deveson2008-04-16" /> This is a modest figure for a PAC, though Gary Kamiya writes that J Street hopes to raise significant money online, following the blueprint of MoveOn and the Barack Obama presidential campaign.<ref name="Kamiya2008-04-29" />

In 2010, J Street PAC endorsed 61 candidates—3 for the Senate and 58 for the House. 45 of the PAC's candidates won. The J Street PAC distributed over $1.5 million to its candidates, more than any other pro-Israel PAC in the two-year cycle.

Confidential IRS documents obtained by ''The Washington Times'' in 2010 showed that George Soros had been a donor to J Street since 2008. The approximately $750,000 from Soros and his family, together with donations from Hong Kong-based businesswoman Consolacion Esdicul, amounted to about 15% of J Street's funding in its early years.<ref name="washlakesoros">{{cite news |last=Lake |first=Eli |author-link=Eli Lake |date=September 24, 2010 |title=Soros revealed as funder of liberal Jewish-American lobby |url=http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/sep/24/soros-funder-liberal-jewish-american-lobby/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101007143910/http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/sep/24/soros-funder-liberal-jewish-american-lobby/ |archive-date=October 7, 2010 |access-date=October 11, 2010 |work=The Washington Times}}</ref> In previous statements and on its web site J Street had seemed to deny receiving support from foreign interests and from Soros, a ''bête noire'' to conservatives.<ref name="posteggensoros">{{cite news |last=Eggen |first=Dan |date=September 29, 2010 |title=On George Soros, J Street acknowledges a wrong turn |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/29/AR2010092906378.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120528232915/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/29/AR2010092906378.html |archive-date=May 28, 2012 |access-date=October 11, 2010 |newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Kampeas |first=Ron |author-link=Ron Kampeas |date=September 28, 2010 |title=Insiders: Why was J Street so scared of Soros? |url=https://jta.org/news/article/2010/09/28/2741066/insiders-soros-bogeyman-so-why-was-j-street-scared |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101001220330/http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/09/28/2741066/insiders-soros-bogeyman-so-why-was-j-street-scared |archive-date=October 1, 2010 |access-date=October 11, 2010 |work=Jewish Telegraphic Agency}}</ref> Jeremy Ben-Ami apologized for earlier "misleading" statements regarding funding from Soros. Ben-Ami also clarified that donors to 501(c)(4) organizations are promised confidentiality by law and challenged critics to make public the contributors to opposing organizations.<ref>{{cite press release |title=Explanation of George Soros & J Street Funding |date=September 26, 2010 |work=J Street}}</ref> Rabbi Steve Gutow, a president of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, called J Street "irresponsible" for its handling of the issue.<ref name="posteggensoros" />

In the 2014 election cycle, J Street PAC contributed over $2.4 million to its 95 endorsed candidates, the most in history by a pro-Israel PAC.<ref>[http://2014.jstreet.org/JStreetPAC "2014 Election Cycle at a Glance"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402152933/http://2014.jstreet.org/JStreetPAC |date=April 2, 2015 }}. J Street.</ref>

In the 2016 election cycle, J Street PAC distributed $3.6 million to its 124 endorsed candidates, and not a single incumbent Iran deal supporter was unseated by a deal detractor.<ref>{{cite web |title=Our Track Record |work=J Street PAC |url=https://donate.jstreetpac.org/our-track-record/ |access-date=March 28, 2017 |archive-date=April 15, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160415145646/https://donate.jstreetpac.org/our-track-record/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Critics have pointed out that according to Federal Election Commission filings in 2009, dozens of Arab and Muslim Americans and Iranian advocacy organizations donated tens of thousands of dollars to J Street, representing "a small fraction" of the group's fund-raising. Donors included Lebanese-American businessman Richard Abdoo, who is a board member of Amideast and a former board member of the Arab American Institute, and Genevieve Lynch, who is also a member of the National Iranian American Council board. More than 20% of the citizens of Israel are Arab,<ref>{{cite press release |title=Population of Israel on the Eve of 2021 |url=https://www.cbs.gov.il/he/mediarelease/DocLib/2020/438/11_20_438e.pdf |date=December 31, 2020 |publisher=Israel Central Bureau of Statistics |accessdate=2021-05-24 |archive-date=May 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210512151619/https://www.cbs.gov.il/he/mediarelease/DocLib/2020/438/11_20_438e.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> most of whom are Muslim.

===Other projects and activities=== In July 2010 J Street supported the construction of the Cordoba House cultural center and mosque near the World Trade Center site in New York.<ref>{{cite news |date=August 4, 2010 |title=Vote Clears Way for Ground Zero Mosque |url=http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/vote_clears_way_for_ground_zero_mosque/20010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120303053644/http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/national_news/vote_clears_way_for_ground_zero_mosque/20010 |archive-date=March 3, 2012 |access-date=August 17, 2010 |work=Baltimore Jewish Times |agency=Jewish Telegraphic Agency}}</ref> President Jeremy Ben-Ami released a statement saying: "The Muslim community has an equal right to build a community center wherever it is legal to do so."<ref>{{cite web |date=July 30, 2010 |title=J Street's Statement on Cordoba House Controversy |url=http://www.jstreet.org/blog/?p=1177 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100801214616/http://www.jstreet.org/blog/?p=1177 |archive-date=August 1, 2010 |access-date=August 1, 2010 |work=J Street}}</ref>

In September 2010, J Street started a project "They Don't Speak For Us", which criticizes the Emergency Committee for Israel, a right-wing advocacy group created by William Kristol and Gary Bauer.<ref name="Washington Jewish Week">{{cite news |author=Adam Kredo |title=To tell the truth:J Street treads on partisan territory as it attacks new pro-Israel group as out-of-step |url=http://washingtonjewishweek.com/main.asp?SectionID=4&SubSectionID=4&ArticleID=13420&TM=38113 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100919001746/http://washingtonjewishweek.com/main.asp?SectionID=4&SubSectionID=4&ArticleID=13420&TM=38113 |archive-date=September 19, 2010 |access-date=2010-09-19}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=2010-07-13 |title=Conservatives launch group to attack supporters of Obama's Israel policies |url=https://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/07/13/2740043/conservatives-lanch-pro-israel-group |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120924101858/http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/07/13/2740043/conservatives-lanch-pro-israel-group |archive-date=2012-09-24 |work=Jewish Telegraphic Agency}}</ref>

In May 2012, a J Street delegation visited Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas, headed by Executive Director Jeremy Ben-Ami.<ref>{{cite news |author= |url=https://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=269656 |title=J Street delegation visits Abbas in Ramallah |work=The Jerusalem Post |access-date=May 13, 2012 |archive-date=May 13, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120513041632/http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=269656 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In November 2012, J Street lobbied the U.S. Senate against a group of bills that would have penalized the Palestinian National Authority if it used its recently elevated status of "observer" at the United Nations to bring international charges against Israel.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=294713 |title=US Senate doesn't pass penalties for Palestinians |author=Hilary Leila Krieger |work=The Jerusalem Post |date=December 5, 2012 |access-date=December 5, 2012 |archive-date=December 6, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121206065606/http://www.jpost.com/International/Article.aspx?id=294713 |url-status=live}}</ref>

During the 2023–present Gaza war, J Street U led efforts against both right-wing Zionism and left-wing anti-Zionism on college campuses, including by rejecting the platforming of officials affiliated with the Netanyahu administration as well as calls for boycotts, divestments, and sanctions against Israel. Simultaneously, J Street U has led talks promoting a two-state solution aligned with a liberal Zionist vision for Jewish democracy in Israel. J Street U has eschewed calls for an Israeli, Palestinian, or binational one-state solution, while defending the civil rights of student protestors, such as those involved in the pro-Palestinian encampment movement.

In November 2024, J Street supported Senate resolutions introduced by Bernie Sanders to block U.S. arm sales to Israel.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Tress |first=Luke |date=2024-11-20 |title=Progressive Jewish groups back Senate resolutions against arms sales to Israel |url=https://www.jta.org/2024/11/19/politics/progressive-jewish-groups-back-senate-resolutions-against-arms-sales-to-israel/ |access-date=2026-03-18 |website=The Forward |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Kornbluh |first=Jacob |date=2026-03-13 |title=Amid revolt against ‘Israel lobby,’ J Street seeks elusive middle ground in primaries |url=https://forward.com/news/812101/j-street-aipac-israel-congress-2026/ |access-date=2026-03-18 |website=The Forward |language=en}}</ref>

On August 3, 2025, J-Street founder Ben-Ami wrote on his Substack, "Until now, I have tried to deflect and defend when challenged to call this genocide. I have, however, been persuaded rationally by legal and scholarly arguments that international courts will one day find that Israel has broken the international genocide convention", marking a potential shift in J Street's position.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Magid |first1=Jacob |title=J Street head says he’s now convinced Israel committing genocide in Gaza |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/j-street-head-says-hes-now-convinced-israel-committing-genocide-in-gaza/ |access-date=August 8, 2025 |work=The Times of Israel |date=August 5, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Ben-Ami |first1=Jeremy |title=Genocide |url=https://jeremybenami.substack.com/p/genocide |website=Word on the Street |publisher=Substack |access-date=August 8, 2025 |date=August 3, 2025}}</ref>

==Relationship with Israeli and U.S. governments== According to Nathan Guttman, "J Street and its supporters have never made a secret of their opposition to Netanyahu and his policies."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://forward.com/news/israel/217231/netanyahu-s-reelection-pushes-j-street-to-the-le/ |title=Netanyahu's Reelection Pushes J Street to the Left |first=Nathan |last=Guttman |work=The Forward |date=March 22, 2015 |access-date=January 23, 2016 |archive-date=January 23, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160123174557/http://forward.com/news/israel/217231/netanyahu-s-reelection-pushes-j-street-to-the-le/ |url-status=live }}</ref> On October 22, 2009, then-opposition leader of the Knesset, Tzipi Livni, sent a letter congratulating J Street on its inaugural event. She said she would not be able to attend but that Kadima would be "well represented" by Meir Sheetrit, Shlomo Molla, and Haim Ramon.<ref>{{cite news |author=Herb Keinon |url=https://www.jpost.com/Home/Article.aspx?id=158363 |title=Livni sends support letter to J Street |date=October 23, 2009 |work=The Jerusalem Post |access-date=March 4, 2010|author-link = Herb Keinon}}</ref>

The Israeli Embassy stated that Ambassador Michael Oren would not attend J Street's first national conference because J Street supports positions that may "impair" Israel's interest.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://jta.org/news/article/2009/10/22/1008655/livni-backs-j-street-in-letter |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091025083523/http://jta.org/news/article/2009/10/22/1008655/livni-backs-j-street-in-letter |url-status=dead |archive-date=October 25, 2009 |title=Livni letter backs J Street |work=Jewish Telegraphic Agency |date=October 22, 2009 |access-date=October 22, 2009 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.jpost.com/Home/Article.aspx?id=158056 |title=Michael Oren rejects J Street conference invite |last=Krieger |first=Hilary Leila |date=October 20, 2009 |work=The Jerusalem Post |access-date=March 4, 2010}}</ref> In April 2010, Oren had a meeting with J Street Executive Director Jeremy Ben-Ami to discuss the issues.<ref>{{cite news |last=Mozgovaya |first=Natasha |author-link=Natasha Mozgovaya |date=April 16, 2010 |title=Israel envoy hosts J Street chief in bid to end rift |work=Haaretz |url=https://www.haaretz.com/news/israel-envoy-hosts-j-street-chief-in-bid-to-end-rift-1.284418 |access-date=January 19, 2013 |archive-date=October 24, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121024111743/http://www.haaretz.com/news/israel-envoy-hosts-j-street-chief-in-bid-to-end-rift-1.284418 |url-status=dead }}</ref> After leaving his role as Israeli ambassador to the U.S. and campaigning for an MK position in the Knesset, Oren described his view as follows: "We have to show greater flexibility on the peace issue. Israel is willing to go a serious distance on peace."<ref>{{cite news |author=Jeffrey Goldberg |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/03/undoing-the-damage-netanyahu-has-done-to-us-israel-relations/387817/ |title=Undoing Netanyahu's Damage to U.S.-Israel Relations |work=The Atlantic |date=March 15, 2015 |author-link=Jeffrey Goldberg |access-date=March 7, 2017 |archive-date=March 28, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170328020635/https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2015/03/undoing-the-damage-netanyahu-has-done-to-us-israel-relations/387817/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In February 2010 the Israeli Foreign Ministry refused to meet with visiting U.S. congressmembers with their J Street escorts.<ref>{{cite news |author=Melissa Apter |url=https://www.jta.org/2010/02/18/news-opinion/politics/j-street-congressional-group-snubbed-blocked-from-gaza |title=J Street congressional group snubbed, blocked from Gaza |date=February 17, 2010 |work=Jewish Telegraphic Agency |access-date=March 4, 2010 |archive-date=January 23, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160123174557/http://www.jta.org/2010/02/18/news-opinion/politics/j-street-congressional-group-snubbed-blocked-from-gaza |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite press release |title=Deputy FM Ayalon addresses Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations |url=http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/About+the+Ministry/MFA+Spokesman/2010/Ayalon-addresses-Conference-of-Presidents-16-Feb-2010.htm |agency=Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs |date=February 16, 2010 |access-date=February 18, 2010 |archive-date=February 21, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100221220800/http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/About+the+Ministry/MFA+Spokesman/2010/Ayalon-addresses-Conference-of-Presidents-16-Feb-2010.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> In ''Haaretz'', columnist Bradley Burston wrote that the Foreign Ministry's refusal to meet with the U.S. congressmembers was "a gratuitous move breathtaking in its haughtiness, its ignorance of and disrespect for the United States and the American Jewish community". He said that the Foreign Ministry considered J Street "guilty of the crime of explicitly calling itself pro-Israel, while not agreeing wholeheartedly with everything the government of Israel says and does".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.haaretz.com/news/i-envy-the-people-who-hate-israel-1.263559 |title=I envy the people who hate Israel |first=Bradley |last=Burston |author-link=Bradley Burston |work=Haaretz |date=February 19, 2010 |access-date=January 19, 2013 |archive-date=October 31, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121031072231/http://www.haaretz.com/news/i-envy-the-people-who-hate-israel-1.263559 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

During a panel organized by the Knesset Immigration, Absorption and Public Diplomacy Committee, MK Danny Danon (Likud) and MK Otniel Schneller (Kadima) argued that J Street was not a pro-Israel organization, and proposed a statement to that effect which did not pass.<ref>{{cite news |author=Rebecca Anna Stoil |url=https://www.jpost.com/Video-Articles/Video/Raucous-Knesset-committee-debates-J-Street |title=Raucous Knesset committee debates J Street |work=The Jerusalem Post |date=March 24, 2011 |access-date=March 30, 2015 |archive-date=April 2, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402160848/http://www.jpost.com/Video-Articles/Video/Raucous-Knesset-committee-debates-J-Street |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Goldberg">{{cite news |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/03/goldblog-is-a-pro-j-street-blog/73009/ |title=Goldblog is a Pro-J Street Blog |last=Goldberg |first=Jeffrey |author-link=Jeffrey Goldberg |work=The Atlantic |date=March 28, 2011 |access-date=March 29, 2011 |archive-date=April 25, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110425082043/http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/03/goldblog-is-a-pro-j-street-blog/73009/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Jeffrey Goldberg at ''The Atlantic'' described Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu's repeated refusal to meet with representatives of J Street as a "farce".<ref name="Goldberg" />

In May 2013, ''Yedioth Ahronoth'' reported that the Israeli government appears to be building closer ties to J Street, with a group of J Street representatives scheduled to meet President Shimon Peres.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4378135,00.html |title=Israel eyeing closer ties with J Street |first=Itamar |last=Eichner |date=May 9, 2013 |work=YnetNews |access-date=May 10, 2013 |archive-date=May 9, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130509235935/http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4378135,00.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

On March 17, 2015, Netanyahu won a resounding victory in Israeli elections. His denial of a two state solution happening on his watch and comments he made that are considered by some to be "racist" motivated J Street at its convention to make clear its opposition to the occupation, opposition to BDS, opposition to American Jewish support of Jewish settlements in the West Bank and to efforts by organizations like Hillel to limit the discussion on Israel and the peace process. Liberal Knesset Member Stav Shaffir encouraged J Street to hone the message of the pro-peace camp in Israel as well as the U.S.<ref>{{cite news |author=Nathan Guttman |url=http://forward.com/news/israel/217456/j-street-newly-combative-takes-on-the-jewish-estab/ |title=J Street, Newly Combative, Takes On the Jewish Establishment |work=The Forward |date=March 25, 2015 |access-date=January 18, 2016 |archive-date=January 23, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160123174557/http://forward.com/news/israel/217456/j-street-newly-combative-takes-on-the-jewish-estab/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

In February 2017, ''The New York Times'' reported that David Friedman, U.S. president Donald Trump's pick to be Ambassador to Israel, would formally apologize for previously labeling supporters of J Street as "worse than ''kapos''" during his conformation hearing.<ref>{{cite news |author= |title=Trump's Israel Envoy Pick to Apologize for Calling J Street Supporters 'Kapos' |url=https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/1.771873 |work=Haaretz |date=February 15, 2017 |access-date=February 15, 2017 |archive-date=February 15, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170215143416/http://www.haaretz.com/us-news/1.771873 |url-status=dead }}</ref> J Street urged those who oppose Friedman's appointment to write to their senators and reject his nomination,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Maltz |first1=Judy |title=Maligned by Trump's Pick for Israel Envoy, J Street Mobilizes to Block David Friedman's Appointment |url=https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/2017-02-12/ty-article/.premium/j-street-mobilizes-to-block-trumps-pick-for-ambassador-to-israel/0000017f-f35e-d8a1-a5ff-f3de2ea50000 |work=Haaretz |date=February 12, 2017 |access-date=February 15, 2017 |archive-date=February 16, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170216025326/http://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-1.771255 |url-status=live }}</ref> collecting more than 600 signatures from American rabbis and cantors.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Maltz |first1=Judy |title=Over 600 Rabbis and Cantors Sign Petition Opposing David Friedman as U.S. Ambassador to Israel |url=https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/1.771542 |work=Haaretz |date=February 13, 2017 |access-date=February 15, 2017 |archive-date=February 16, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170216031323/http://www.haaretz.com/us-news/1.771542 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Reception==

=== Liberal Zionist perspectives === When J Street was initially founded in 2008, Israeli-American writer and analyst Gershom Gorenberg wrote in the ''American Prospect'' that J Street "might change not only the political map in Washington but the actual map in the Middle East".<ref name="Gorenberg2008-04-15">{{cite news |last=Gorenberg |first=Gershom |author-link=Gershom Gorenberg |date=April 15, 2008 |title=J Street on the Map |url=http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=j_street_on_the_map |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110810202405/http://prospect.org/cs/articles?article=j_street_on_the_map |archive-date=August 10, 2011 |access-date=April 30, 2008 |work=American Prospect}}</ref>

In 2008, Ken Wald, a political scientist at the University of Florida, predicted the group would be attacked by the "Jewish right". According to BBC News, Wald warned that J Street would "get hammered and accused of being anti-Israel. A lot will have to do with the way they actually frame their arguments."<ref name="Besser2008-03-26" /><ref name="Deveson2008-04-16" />

In April 2009, ''The Washington Post'' called J Street "Washington's leading pro-Israel PAC", citing the group's impressive fund raising efforts in its first year and its record of electoral success, including 33 victories by J Street-supported candidates for Congress.<ref name="Eggen" />

In 2014, ''The Economist'' wrote that many liberal Jews in America are opposed to the occupation and distressed by Israel's increasing religious nationalism; those who oppose the policies of Israeli governments but support the State of Israel gravitate to organizations like J Street, whose dovish members include former officials of President Clinton's and President Obama's administrations.<ref>{{cite news |author= |date=August 2, 2014 |title=Us and Them |url=https://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21610312-pummelling-gaza-has-cost-israel-sympathy-not-just-europe-also-among-americans |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170918094856/https://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21610312-pummelling-gaza-has-cost-israel-sympathy-not-just-europe-also-among-americans |archive-date=September 18, 2017 |access-date=September 1, 2017 |newspaper=The Economist}}</ref>

In March 2015 ''The Forward'' said of J Street: "Since its inception ... the organization has disrupted the debate about what it means to be pro-Israel."<ref>{{cite news |author=Liam Hoare |date=March 21, 2015 |title=the Rocky Rise of J Street |url=http://forward.com/culture/216940/the-rocky-rise-of-j-street/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170328200723/http://forward.com/culture/216940/the-rocky-rise-of-j-street/ |archive-date=March 28, 2017 |access-date=March 28, 2017 |work=The Forward}}</ref> NPR's Mara Liasson described J Street's role in American Jewish dialogue on Israel: "J Street is the pro-two-state group and anti-Netanyahu, pro-nuclear-deal and generally much more supportive of Obama than AIPAC is."<ref>{{cite news |author=Mara Liasson |author-link=Mara Liasson |date=March 23, 2015 |title=In Defending Two-State Solution, White House Chief Of Staff Slams Netanyahu |url=https://www.npr.org/2015/03/23/394906507/chief-of-staff-slams-netanyahu-in-defending-two-state-solution |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180820110841/https://www.npr.org/2015/03/23/394906507/chief-of-staff-slams-netanyahu-in-defending-two-state-solution |archive-date=August 20, 2018 |access-date=April 2, 2018 |work=All Things Considered |publisher=NPR}}</ref>

Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, called J Street's reaction<ref>{{cite web |date=December 28, 2008 |title=Gaza: Ceasefire now! |url=http://jstreet.org/gaza-stop-violence1/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170328200733/http://jstreet.org/gaza-stop-violence1/ |archive-date=March 28, 2017 |access-date=March 28, 2017 |work=J Street}}</ref> to the 2008-2009 Israeli invasion of Gaza "morally deficient, profoundly out of touch with Jewish sentiment and also appallingly naïve".<ref>{{cite news |author=Eric Yoffie |author-link=Eric Yoffie |date=December 31, 2008 |title=On Gaza, Sense and Centrism |url=http://forward.com/opinion/14847/on-gaza-sense-and-centrism-03081/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170317022735/http://forward.com/opinion/14847/on-gaza-sense-and-centrism-03081/ |archive-date=March 17, 2017 |access-date=March 28, 2017 |work=The Forward}}</ref> J Street responded stating, "It is hard for us to understand how the leading reform rabbi in North America could call our effort to articulate a nuanced view on these difficult issues 'morally deficient'. If our views are 'naive' and 'morally deficient', then so are the views of scores of Israeli journalists, security analysts, distinguished authors, and retired IDF officers who have posed the same questions about the Gaza attack as we have."<ref>{{cite web |date=January 4, 2009 |title=Statement in Response to Rabbi Eric Yoffie's Comments in The Forward on December 31 |url=http://jstreet.org/statement-in-response-to-rabbi-eric-yoffies-comments-in-the-forward-on-december-31/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170328195441/http://jstreet.org/statement-in-response-to-rabbi-eric-yoffies-comments-in-the-forward-on-december-31/ |archive-date=March 28, 2017 |access-date=March 28, 2017 |work=J Street}}</ref> Despite this rebuttal, J Street subsequently invited Yoffie to its 2009 convention, and he praised the organization's stance on the 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict, which was closer to that of other American Jewish organizations.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Nathan-Kazis |first1=Josh |date=July 30, 2014 |title=J Street's Gaza War Support Wins 'Moderate' Praise — But Alienates Some Backers |url=http://forward.com/news/israel/203111/j-streets-gaza-war-support-wins-moderate-praise/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150502041842/http://forward.com/news/israel/203111/j-streets-gaza-war-support-wins-moderate-praise/ |archive-date=May 2, 2015 |access-date=July 30, 2014 |work=The Forward}}</ref>

Chuck Freilich, former deputy national security adviser in Israel, writing in ''The Jerusalem Post'' in February 2013, said, "J Street leads only to a dead end" since "only Israelis bear the responsibility for determining their future."<ref>{{cite news |author=Chuck Freilich |date=February 24, 2013 |title=J Street is a dead end |url=https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/J-Street-is-a-dead-end |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202234259/http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/J-Street-is-a-dead-end |archive-date=February 2, 2017 |access-date=March 27, 2017 |work=The Jerusalem Post}}</ref>

=== Anti- and non-Zionist perspectives === At J Street's inception in 2008, Noah Pollak at ''Commentary'' predicted that its efforts would fall flat and show there are no "great battalions of American Jewish doves languishing in voicelessness".<ref name="Pollak2008-04-15">{{cite news |last=Pollak |first=Noah |date=April 15, 2008 |title=Taking It to the (J) Street |url=http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/pollak/3364 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080420053831/http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/pollak/3364 |archive-date=April 20, 2008 |access-date=May 2, 2008 |work=Commentary}}</ref>

In 2011, progressives and anti-Zionists criticized J Street's opposition to Palestinian statehood and recognition of Palestine in the United Nations.<ref name=":12" /><ref name=":13" /> Civil rights activist and influential New Left figure Tom Hayden wrote in ''The Nation'' that "J Street's decision means there is virtually no dissent in the mainstream American Jewish community from the intransigent positions of AIPAC and the right-wing Netanyahu government."<ref name=":13" /> Maen Rashid Areikat, head of the PLO General Mission to the US, expressed disappointment with J Street's position, stating "[W]e thought J Street was going to be a different Jewish organization and play a different role...."<ref name=":14" />

In an April 2012 interview, Norman Finkelstein described J Street as the "hopeless" "loyal opposition" to the Israel lobby and Israeli governing coalition. He reiterated Ben-Ami's claims that the group was politically aligned with the centrist Zionist party Kadima.<ref>{{cite news |last=Mozgovaya |first=Natasha |author-link=Natasha Mozgovaya |date=April 5, 2012 |title=Norman Finkelstein bids farewell to Israel bashing |url=https://www.haaretz.com/blogs/focus-u-s-a/norman-finkelstein-bids-farewell-to-israel-bashing-1.422684 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120406170812/http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/focus-u-s-a/norman-finkelstein-bids-farewell-to-israel-bashing-1.422684 |archive-date=April 6, 2012 |access-date=April 5, 2012 |work=Haaretz}}</ref>

In August 2012, ''The Electronic Intifada'' critiqued an article published by J Street which referenced a "demographic threat from a stateless Palestinian population," citing it as an example of racism and anti-Palestinian bigotry within J Street.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Abunimah |first=Ali |date=2012-08-19 |title=Teaching young people to hate: the ugly face of J Street's anti-Palestinian bigotry exposed |url=https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/teaching-young-people-hate-ugly-face-j-streets-anti-palestinian-bigotry-exposed |access-date=2025-02-22 |website=The Electronic Intifada |language=en}}</ref>

In December 2013, Jamie Stern-Weiner, a PhD candidate at the University of Oxford, said that "J Street has opposed all efforts to raise the cost of occupation for Israel," including ICC investigations, boycotts and divestments, Israel Apartheid Week protests, and recognition of Palestinian statehood.<ref name=":15">{{Cite web |last=Stern-Weiner |first=Jamie |date=12 December 2013 |title=J Street: Israel's Loyal Opposition |url=https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/29936 |access-date=2025-02-22 |website=Jadaliyya |language=en}}</ref> He additionally criticized J Street Vice President for Policy and Strategy Hadar Susskind having said "J Street unconditionally supports and lobbies for robust U.S. assistance to Israel", indicating that the organization is not designed to challenge Israeli apartheid and militarism, or support Palestinian liberation.<ref name=":15" />

In 2017, from a non-Zionist perspective, Peter Beinart warned that J Street's limited discussion of Israeli offensives and its opposition to BDS puts it at a disadvantage compared to IfNotNow. In particular, he lamented that this weakens J Street's ability to advocate for a two-state solution, compared to IfNotNow's agnosticism between one- and two-state solutions.<ref name=":7" /> Since then, Beinart has shifted toward an anti-Zionist position which declares the two-state solution "dead" and calls for an entirely new regime in Palestine which gives Palestinian Arabs and Jews equality under the law.<ref>{{Cite web |title=A Conversation With Peter Beinart {{!}} Opinion {{!}} The Harvard Crimson |url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/2/2/covit-beinart-oct-seven/ |access-date=2025-04-29 |website=www.thecrimson.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Journalist Peter Beinart discusses American Jewish identity, Israel-Hamas war |url=https://www.dukechronicle.com/article/2024/01/duke-university-peter-beinart-israel-hamas-zionism-american-jewish-identity-evolving-views-palestine |access-date=2025-04-29 |website=The Chronicle |language=en-US}}</ref>

In 2021, members of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) critiqued US Representative Jamaal Bowman's participation in a J Street delegation to Israel to meet with Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, President Isaac Herzog, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, and the Knesset, noting continued apartheid, occupation, and state violence against Palestinians exacerbated by the current Israeli government.<ref name=":2" /> In December 2021, DSA rescinded their national endorsement of Bowman, due to this delegation as well as other concerns, although the New York City chapter continued to back his campaign in the 2024 congressional elections based on a perceived strengthening of Bowman's anti-Zionist positions.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |last2= |date=2 December 2021 |title=On the Question of Expelling Congressman Bowman |url=https://www.dsausa.org/en/statements/on-the-question-of-expelling-rep-bowman/ |access-date=2025-02-22 |website=Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) |language=en}}</ref>

In 2023, M. Muhannad Ayyash wrote in Al-Shabaka, "By calling on Israel to 'give up' territory, J Street implicitly acknowledges ... the foundational logic of liberal Zionism that Israel has a claim to the land from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Muhannad Ayyash |first=M. |date=2023-06-14 |title=Liberal Zionism: A Pillar of Israel's Settler Colonial Project |url=https://al-shabaka.org/briefs/liberal-zionism-a-pillar-of-israels-settler-colonial-project/ |access-date=2025-02-22 |website=Al-Shabaka |language=en-US}}</ref>

In October 2023, Sarah Lazare and Adam Johnson of ''The Nation'' criticized J Street for attempting to stifle calls for a ceasefire in the Gaza war.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Lazare |first1=Sarah |last2=Johnson |first2=Adam |date=2023-10-16 |title=It's Time for Dems to Stop Hand-Wringing and Demand That Israel End Its Bombing |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/world/democrats-israel-gaza-bombing/ |access-date=2025-02-22 |language=en-US |issn=0027-8378}}</ref> ''The Intercept'' reported that the lobby group made active efforts to "break down" resistance to US military aid to Israel and reject ceasefire proposals through congressional lobbying.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Grim |first1=Ryan |last2=Thakker |first2=Prem |last3=Lacy |first3=Akela |date=2023-10-13 |title=J Street to Democrats: Back Resolution Supporting Gaza War or Lose Endorsement |url=https://theintercept.com/2023/10/13/j-street-israel-gaza-resolution/ |access-date=2025-02-22 |website=The Intercept |language=en-US}}</ref>

In February 2024, Mari Cohen of ''Jewish Currents'' critiqued J Street's lack of support for a ceasefire during the Gaza war, and unendorsement of pro-Palestine congresspeople. Quoting Stefanie Fox of Jewish Voice for Peace: "In punishing the few Democratic members brave enough to echo the demands of the vast majority of Democratic voters, in a way they are working hand in glove with AIPAC and DMFI to punish support for Palestinian rights."<ref name=":1" /> J Street has refused to endorse a variety of politicians for their stances on the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, including Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar,<ref name=":0" /> and Jamaal Bowman.<ref name=":3" /><ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |last2= |first2= |date=30 January 2024 |title=J Street pulls Jamaal Bowman endorsement over anti-Israel rhetoric since October 7 |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/j-street-pulls-jamaal-bowman-endorsement-over-anti-israel-rhetoric/ |access-date=2025-02-22 |website=The Times of Israel |language=en-US}}</ref>

In Esther Kaplan's coverage of Jewish Voice for Peace, she quotes Fox saying that, as US and Israeli governments "were weaponizing Jewish grief and identity to justify [the Gaza genocide ... a] whole new wave of people have seen these liberal Zionist organizations for what they are."<ref name=":5">{{Cite web |last=Kaplan |first=Esther |date=Spring 2024 |title=Gaza and the Rise of the Jewish Left |url=https://hammerandhope.org/article/gaza-jewish-left |access-date=2025-02-22 |website=Hammer & Hope}}</ref>

In May 2024, ''Mondoweiss'' critiqued J Street for their support for Israeli military aid, Palestinian demilitarization, and rejection of right of return, characterizing its conception of a two-state solution as resembling a reservation system. Additionally, they criticized "its attempt to create a humane lobby group for Israel, without questioning the manifestly unjust ... settlement and expulsion project that created Israel in the first place".<ref name=":6">{{Cite web |last1=Solomon |first1=Abba |last2=Solomon |first2=Norman |date=2024-05-26 |title=The dead end of liberal American Zionism |url=https://mondoweiss.net/2024/05/the-dead-end-of-liberal-american-zionism/ |access-date=2025-02-22 |website=Mondoweiss |language=en-US |quote="J Street has rigorously lobbied for the U.S. aid that provides Israel with the weaponry to inflict mass casualties."}}</ref>

=== Conservative perspectives === James Kirchick, writing in ''The New Republic'', called J Street's labeling of AIPAC as "right wing" "ridiculous", further asserting that some of J Street's positions, such as advocating negotiations with Hamas, are not popular with most American Jews.<ref>{{Cite web |date=May 18, 2008 |title=Street Cred? |url=http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=175293ef-7f70-408b-a68a-ffffdb56d7bf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080518141815/http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=175293ef-7f70-408b-a68a-ffffdb56d7bf |archive-date=May 18, 2008}}</ref> According to a March 2008 ''Haaretz''-Dialog poll, the majority of Israelis do support direct talks with Hamas,<ref>{{cite news |author=Kevin Peraino |author-link=Kevin Peraino |date=March 6, 2008 |title=Israelis Want to Talk to Hamas |url=http://www.newsweek.com/id/119881 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080706175308/http://www.newsweek.com/id/119881 |archive-date=July 6, 2008 |access-date=July 3, 2008 |work=Newsweek}}</ref> although this referred solely to the issue of kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit.<ref>{{cite news |author=Yossi Verter |date=February 27, 2008 |title=Poll: Most Israelis back direct talks with Hamas on Shalit |url=https://www.haaretz.com/news/poll-most-israelis-back-direct-talks-with-hamas-on-shalit-1.240188 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110307091513/http://www.haaretz.com/news/poll-most-israelis-back-direct-talks-with-hamas-on-shalit-1.240188 |url-status=dead |archive-date=March 7, 2011 |access-date=19 January 2014 |work=Haaretz}}</ref> Kirchick also reacted against J Street's endorsement of the play ''Seven Jewish Children'', which critics accused of being antisemitic.<ref name="Kirchick Jpost">{{cite news |author=James Kirchick |author-link=James Kirchick |date=April 12, 2009 |title=Self-loathing on J Street |url=https://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/Self-loathing-on-J-Street |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171207135817/http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/Self-loathing-on-J-Street |archive-date=December 7, 2017 |access-date=March 27, 2017 |work=The Jerusalem Post}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Monica Hesse |date=March 17, 2009 |title=Jewish Children' Comes to D.C. Already Upstaged by Controversy |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/16/AR2009031603255.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202063758/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/16/AR2009031603255.html |archive-date=February 2, 2017 |access-date=September 1, 2017 |newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Allison Hoffman |date=March 29, 2009 |title='Seven Jewish Children' provokes US debate - among Jews |url=https://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewish-News/Seven-Jewish-Children-provokes-US-debate-among-Jews |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170328105550/http://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewish-News/Seven-Jewish-Children-provokes-US-debate-among-Jews |archive-date=March 28, 2017 |access-date=March 27, 2017 |work=The Jerusalem Post}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Jan Ravensbergen |date=May 4, 2009 |title=Packed house for provocative play |url=https://montrealgazette.com/Entertainment/Packed+house+provocative+play/1560162/story.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090507173847/http://www.montrealgazette.com/Entertainment/Packed+house+provocative+play/1560162/story.html |archive-date=May 7, 2009 |access-date=October 4, 2018 |work=The Gazette |location=Montreal}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Cnaan Liphshiz |date=May 17, 2009 |title=Liverpool cuts funding for festival that includes 'anti-Semitic' play |url=https://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/liverpool-cuts-funding-for-festival-that-includes-anti-semitic-play-1.276146 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120712193736/http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/liverpool-cuts-funding-for-festival-that-includes-anti-semitic-play-1.276146 |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 12, 2012 |access-date=January 19, 2013 |work=Haaretz}}</ref>

According to Caroline Glick, deputy managing editor of ''The Jerusalem Post'', J Street is anything but pro-Israel: "Through their actions, J Street and its allies have made clear that their institutional interests are served by weakening Israel. Their mission is to harm Israel's standing in Washington and weaken the influence of the mainstream American Jewish community that supports Israel." Lenny Ben-David, former director of the Israeli branch of AIPAC, said J Street hides "its real anti-Israel face behind a 'pro-Israel' mask".<ref>{{cite news |author=Tzippe Barrow |date=March 27, 2011 |title=Israeli Knesset Confronts 'J Street' |url=http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/insideisrael/2011/March/Israeli-Knesset-Confronts-J-Street |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160503081027/http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/insideisrael/2011/March/Israeli-Knesset-Confronts-J-Street/ |archive-date=May 3, 2016 |access-date=May 9, 2011 |work=CBN News}}</ref> Barry Rubin suggested that J Street is an anti-Israel front for Iranian interests, masquerading as a Zionist organization.<ref>Barry Rubin, [https://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2009/08/exposing-j-street-fraud-why-is-pro.html "Exposing the J Street Fraud: Why is a 'pro-Israel' Lobby Closely Cooperating with an Iranian Regime Front Group?"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101020093736/http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2009/08/exposing-j-street-fraud-why-is-pro.html|date=October 20, 2010}}, August 24, 2009. "Lenny Ben David has written a wonderful article on the J Street fraud, the anti-Israel lobby with the thinnest guise of being a pro-Israel lobby. ... Why should a National Iranian American Council board member give at least $10,000 to J Street PAC? Perhaps it is because of the very close relationship between the two organizations. ... In other words, J Street is getting money and working with the group that supports President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the world's most powerful antisemite who seeks to wipe Israel off the map."</ref> Political commentator Alan Dershowitz said, "It is a fraud in advertising to call J Street pro-Israel," and claimed "J Street has done more damage to Israel than any [other] American organization."<ref name="Donig" />

In August 2022, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) tweeted that "George Soros has a long history of backing anti-Israel groups...Now he's giving $1 million to help @jstreetdotorg support anti-Israel candidates and attack pro-Israel Democrats." In response to the tweet, the left-wing Jewish organization IfNotNow denounced AIPAC for antisemitism, tweeting that "AIPAC is the antisemitic far right...They are not a Jewish org, nor claim to be one."<ref>{{cite web |date=August 29, 2022 |title=AIPAC accused George Soros of undermining American politics. Is that antisemitic? |url=https://forward.com/opinion/515927/aipac-accused-george-soros-american-politics-antisemitism/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230406064537/https://forward.com/opinion/515927/aipac-accused-george-soros-american-politics-antisemitism/ |archive-date=April 6, 2023 |accessdate=2023-04-06 |publisher=The Forward}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=August 26, 2022 |title=In ridiculous claim, left-wing Jewish group calls AIPAC 'antisemitic' |url=https://www.jpost.com/bds-threat/article-715593 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230406064538/https://www.jpost.com/bds-threat/article-715593 |archive-date=April 6, 2023 |accessdate=2023-04-06 |publisher=The Jerusalem Post}}</ref>

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==Further reading== {{refbegin|40em}} * Lichblau, Eric. [https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/31/us/politics/j-street-a-lobbying-group-is-being-heard-as-moderate-voice-on-israel.html "J Street, a Lobbying Group, Is Being Heard as Moderate Voice on Israel"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170329045616/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/31/us/politics/j-street-a-lobbying-group-is-being-heard-as-moderate-voice-on-israel.html |date=March 29, 2017 }}, ''The New York Times'', May 30, 2012. * Kirsch, Jonathan. [http://www.jewishjournal.com/twelve_twelve/article/the_j_street_zionist_20111117/ "The J Street Zionist"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111122003451/http://www.jewishjournal.com/twelve_twelve/article/the_j_street_zionist_20111117/ |date=November 22, 2011 }}, ''The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles'', November 17, 2011. * Hoffman, Allison. [http://www.tabletmag.com/news-and-politics/48730/heads-up/ "Heads Up: J Street chief Jeremy Ben-Ami calls the plays for the first self-confident alternative Jewish establishment"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101031154154/http://www.tabletmag.com/news-and-politics/48730/heads-up/ |date=October 31, 2010 }}, ''Tablet Magazine'', October 28, 2010. * Kirchick, James. [http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/the-fork-j-street "The Fork in J Street: Will the new Israel lobby disavow its extreme left flank?"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091101113613/http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/the-fork-j-street |date=November 1, 2009 }}, ''The New Republic'', October 31, 2009. * Goldberg, Jeffrey. [http://jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/10/j_streets_ben-ami_on_being_a_z.php "J Street's Ben-Ami on Zionism and Military Aid to Israel"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091025040151/http://jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com/archives/2009/10/j_streets_ben-ami_on_being_a_z.php |date=October 25, 2009 }}, ''The Atlantic'', October 23, 2009. * Traub, James. [https://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/magazine/13JStreet-t.html "The New Israel Lobby"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170312032235/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/magazine/13JStreet-t.html |date=March 12, 2017 }} ''The New York Times'', September 13, 2009 * Guttman, Nathan. [http://www.forward.com/articles/113438/ "J Street Makes a Strategic Acquisition"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090906203600/http://www.forward.com/articles/113438/ |date=September 6, 2009 }}, ''The Forward'', September 4, 2009 *{{cite news |first=Shmuel |last=Rosner |author-link=Shmuel Rosner |url=https://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/rosnerGuest.jhtml?itemNo=987196 |title=Rosner's Guest: Jeremy Ben-Ami |work=Haaretz |date=May 26, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080527173233/http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/rosnerGuest.jhtml?itemNo=987196 |archive-date=May 27, 2008 }} * Ben-Ami, Jeremy. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/08/AR2008050801521.html "5 Myths on Who's Really 'Pro-Israel'"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170207104953/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/08/AR2008050801521.html |date=February 7, 2017 }} ''The Washington Post'', May 8, 2008 * Lichfield, Gideon. [http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=10172 "Hurdles on J Street"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516195141/http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=10172 |date=May 16, 2008 }} ''Prospect (UK)'', April 30, 2008 * Rozen, Laura. [https://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/04/7968_new_liberal_pro.html "J Street Hopes to Prod Washington MidEast Policy Towards Center"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090211154729/http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/04/7968_new_liberal_pro.html |date=February 11, 2009 }} ''Mother Jones'' blog, April 15, 2008 {{refend}}

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