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Friends,

A quick reminder that today at 2pm Eastern / 11am Pacific, we’ll be
hosting an important Zoom conversation with leading activists and experts
examining the forces and media environment driving Israeli politics and
public opinion about the war in Gaza. [ [link removed] ]Register to join us here >>

We’ll be joined by leading political analyst and pollster Dr. Dahlia
Scheindlin, Maya Roman, who has tirelessly advocated for the release of
hostages, including her own cousins, and Alon-Lee Green, solidarity
activist and the co-director of Standing Together, to help us understand
the turmoil and dynamics on the ground.

While Israelis and the international community – including Americans and
American Jews – remain at odds about the war on Gaza, the tides are
changing within Israeli society and support for Netanyahu has plummeted.
While a political reckoning is well underway, support for a comprehensive
peace initiative that would provide security and sovereignty to both
Israelis and Palestinians could also gain traction in due time.

To hear more about the present moment, attitude and tensions taking hold
in Israel and what they might mean for the future, [ [link removed] ]register here for
today’s can’t-miss conversation >>

Thank you, and we hope to see you shortly,

Nate Wolfson
Director of Communications Operations, J Street

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[ [link removed] ]Graphic for Israeli public opinion webinar with Dr. Dahlia Scheindlin,
Maya Roman and Alon-Lee Green

Friends,

With the world watching on in horror as the humanitarian catastrophe in
Gaza expands, there’s a growing disconnect between the views of the
Israeli public – still reeling from the horror of October 7 and impacted
by the continued trauma of a country at war – and those watching from
abroad, including pro-Israel Americans.

“It’s not that Israelis don’t care about global attitudes,” wrote
political analyst Dr. Dahlia Scheindlin in The Guardian about this
phenomenon, but rather that they see “their suspicions that the world is
always against them have come true.”

“External pressure probably won’t change Israelis’ minds on its own,” she
wrote, but it does add to the growing sense that their government is
“lethally incompetent” and willing to “sacrifice democracy and hostages
while turning the country and its people into global pariahs."

To examine the media, political and social forces shaping Israeli public
opinion, we’re joined on Tuesday by Dr. Dahlia Scheindlin herself as well
as Maya Roman, a progressive activist whose cousin was held by Hamas, and
Alon-Lee Green, whose group Standing Together has been holding joint
Jewish-Arab bilateral ceasefire rallies across Israel.

The Gaza War:
The Forces Shaping Israeli Public Opinion

[ [link removed] ]Register

Tuesday, March 5
2pm Eastern | 11am Pacific

Dr. Dahlia Scheindlin is one of Israel’s leading political analysts and
pollsters. She recently published this [ [link removed] ]must-read piece in The Guardian
on Israeli attitudes toward the war amid growing contempt for Netanyahu
and this [ [link removed] ]New York Times piece about public opinion on hostage
negotiations.

Maya Roman is a lecturer at Tel Aviv University, founder of the feminist
news organization “Politically Corret” and an advocate pressing for the
release of the remaining hostages in Gaza, after Hamas took her cousin,
Yarden, from her home in Kibbutz Be'eri. Yarden was released in November’s
temporary ceasefire, which led to the release of over 100 hostages, while
her sister-in-law Carmel Gat remains in captivity.

Alon-Lee Green is a leading solidarity advocate and the co-director of
Standing Together, a grassroots movement mobilizing Jewish and Palestinian
citizens of Israel in pursuit of equality. The group continues to advocate
against the war, pressing for an urgent bilateral ceasefire to bring
hostages home.

We hope to see you on Tuesday for this important conversation. [ [link removed] ]Register
now to ensure you don’t miss out >>

– J Street Events


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