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J Street goes on the offensive against AIPAC-backed candidates

AIPAC has spent heavily since launching its super PAC, United Democracy Project, ahead of the 2022 midterms, and is the top outside spender in this election cycle.

A visitor holds an AIPAC folder in an elevator in Rayburn House Office Building on March 12, 2024 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC; Illustrative.
Aisha Wahab speaks during the Bay Area Abortion Rights Coalition commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade at City Hall in San Francisco, California, on Jan. 25, 2023.

California special election becomes battleground over AIPAC's influence in Democratic Party

Jeremy Ben-Ami, president of J Street, speaks at the group's national conference in 2018.

J Street defends College Democrats co-sponsorship amid backlash over Hasan Piker speech

Brad Lander, candidate for New York’s 10th Congressional District, speaks to the media while standing next to New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani during a watch party after winning the primary elections in Brooklyn, New York, U.S., June 23, 2026.

Takeaways from the NY primaries: Shifting Jewish power centers, Mamdani the Kingmaker and more


Proposed limit on US aid to Israel tests the pro-Israel diaspora - opinion

The pro-Israel diaspora have every reason to be concerned as the US House of Representatives debate placing limits on the financial aid they provide to Israel.

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference in Washington in 2015.

What J Street means for Progressives' views on Israel - analysis

J Street, with its predictable talking points and focus on a two-state solution, should not be dismissed as a one-trick pony with little impact.

A J Street panel meeting

Abbas to J Street: US must rescind declaration of PLO as terror group

"A one-state solution, an apartheid state... is something neither, we nor the entire world would accept. A one-state solution will only perpetuate the conflict," Abbas said.

THEN-US VICE-PRESIDENT Joe Biden shakes hands with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah in 2016.

Palestinian Authority head Mahmoud Abbas to address J Street conference

J Street, a liberal Jewish Middle East policy group, is spearheading a bid to keep Biden to his promise of restoring US relations with the Palestinians.

THEN-US VICE-PRESIDENT Joe Biden shakes hands with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah in 2016.

Groups back bill that restricts Israeli spending of US aid

U.S. assistance to Israel, $3.8 billion a year, overwhelmingly goes to weapons systems.

The US Capitol Building can be seen from behind fencing with barbed wire in Washington, US, January 28, 2021

J Street to present Jimmy Carter with peacemaker award

Carter is being awarded for brokering the 1979 Egypt-Israel peace.

EGYPTIAN LEADER Anwar Sadat, US president Jimmy Carter and prime minister Menachem Begin meet at Camp David in September 1978

Far-left Jewish groups' opposition of IHRA's antisemitism hurts us

They don’t want universities to use it. They don’t want states and cities to adopt it. And they want the federal government to stop considering it.

Plants in beds spell out the school's name on the roof of the library at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, US, November 27, 2017.

Republicans Jews say 30% voted for Trump, J-Street says only 21%

It's not only the candidates who are disputing the election results.

Israeli settlers blow the shofar as the pray for a Trump win outside the Cave of Patriarchs, Hebron. November 2, 2020

Jewish support for Biden higher than for Clinton, Obama - J Street poll

Only 22% of Jewish voters support US President Donald Trump in both states.

US President Donald Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden participate in their first 2020 presidential campaign debate held on the campus of the Cleveland Clinic at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, US, September 29, 2020.

Pro-Israel groups audition Dems seeking top congress foreign policy seat

Democrats are expected to retain their majority and control of committees after the Nov. 3 election.

U.S. President Donald Trump delivers his State of the Union address to a joint session of the U.S. Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S. January 30, 2018