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This Week: Tell Trump: You Don’t Speak for Us 💪 | Passover Lessons for
Fighting Modern Day Pharaohs ✊ | Tragedies in Gaza and the West Bank ⚠️ |
Huckabee Confirmed – Despite Massive Democratic Opposition 🚨 | Policy
Center Corner 🔍 | This Week’s Must Reads 📖 | Our Pro-Democracy To-Do List
🗳️ | And much more.

💪 Tell Trump: You Don’t Speak for Us: Since he entered office, Trump has
been exploiting genuine fears about antisemitism as cover for his
anti-democratic assault on higher education. It’s time our community
stands up and pushes back.

* Together, we’re saying the president doesn’t speak for us: Not when he
threatens research funding. Not when he tramples procedural rights and
due process. Not when he deports peaceful protesters. [ [link removed] ]Add your name
now >>

*  The fight against those fueling antisemitism must be taken seriously
– and we cannot allow Trump and the MAGA movement to hijack it for
their own distorted agenda.

[ [link removed] ]Tell Trump: You don't speak for us.

✊ Passover Lessons for Fighting Modern Day Pharaohs: Four Passover lessons
to share and send to family and friends, joining you at your Seder table.
[ [link removed] ]Read the full piece here >>

 1. Pharaohs are Bad for the Jews: Jewish history is packed with stories
of suffering at the hands of tyrants. The Egyptian Pharaohs were just
the beginning. In the Seder, we read that “in every generation, they
rise up against us to destroy us." Maintaining our freedom requires
standing up to modern-day tyrants and would-be Pharaohs.

 2. “Next Year in Jerusalem” and the Dream of Returning Home: Jewish
longing for return to Jerusalem and the land of Israel has been part
of Jewish tradition and liturgy for centuries. But, one people’s
connectivity to a land does not negate another’s to the same land.

 3. Nachshon and the Need for Courageous Leadership: The Jewish people
hesitated on the shores of the Red Sea. Nachshon took a first step
into the waters and they miraculously parted. Too many leaders –
university presidents, corporate and media executives, communal
leaders – are bending the knee. We need modern-day Nachshons, who will
plunge in and speak truth to power.

 4. Drops of Wine and Empathy: As we recount the ten plagues during the
seder, we traditionally spill one drop of wine from our cups for each
plague to remember that our joy at our own liberation is diminished by
the suffering of others, even our worst enemies. The suffering of
one’s own people provides no justification to oppress another people.

* Interested in more resources for your progressive seder?

[ [link removed] ]Link to Haggadah Supplement with readings.

⚠️ Tragedies in Gaza and the West Bank: On Tuesday, Trump met with
Netanyahu at the White House. He made no mention of the 14-year-old
Palestinian-American [ [link removed] ]shot and killed by Israeli soldiers, nor the
clearly marked, clearly lit ambulance convoy [ [link removed] ]fired upon by Israeli
forces. Instead, he continued his calls for displacing Palestinians from
Gaza.

* Our Response: “It is deeply disturbing that this administration
continues to turn a blind eye to such horrors, and to the pleas of
hostage families and Jewish Americans who want President Trump to
press Prime Minister Netanyahu back into the ceasefire and hostage
release deal.” [ [link removed] ]Read our full statement >>

🚨 Huckabee Confirmed – Despite Massive Democratic Opposition: Mike
Huckabee has told us what he believes in many times: annexation, embrace
of extremist settlers and total indifference to Israel’s democratic future
and Palestinian Rights.

* Overwhelming Democratic Opposition: “It’s deeply heartening to see
wall-to-wall Democratic opposition in the Senate to Governor
Huckabee’s nomination, with 46 out of 47 senators in the Democratic
caucus voting against the nomination, including every single Democrat
on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.”

* Our Response: “This appointment plays to the Evangelical, Christian
Zionist base of today’s Republican Party and has little to do with
actual concern for the Jewish people or the safety of the Jewish
homeland.” [ [link removed] ]Read our statement >>

🔍 Policy Center Corner: The latest from the [ [link removed] ]J Street Policy Center.

* Netanyahu’s War of Survival: J Street Policy Fellow Yael Patir and J
Street Policy Intern Liam Hamama write, “The majority of the Israeli
public, including many of its reservists, explicitly prioritize the
lives of the hostages over any other war aim, which could result in
concerningly low rates of reservists reporting for duty and widespread
protests.” [ [link removed] ]Read the powerful piece here >>

* The Iran Tipping Point: Why 2025 Could Bring a Deal or a War. Ilan
Goldenberg, J Street’s Senior Vice President and Chief Policy Officer,
writes, “I’ve been working on and following Iran for the past 15 years
since the start of the Obama Administration. As the Trump
Administration heads into indirect negotiations with Iran this weekend
in Oman, I cannot recall a time where things were as unclear as they
are today, and where both the likelihood of a deal and of a conflict
seemed so high.” [ [link removed] ]Read the full piece >>

📖 This Week’s Must-Reads (And Listens):

* My Jewish Moms Group Ousted Me Because I Work for J Street. Is This
What Communal Life Has Come To? In a heartfelt piece, Emily Kaiman, J
Street’s Deputy Director of Jewish Communal Engagement, writes,
“Jewish identity must not be subject to loyalty tests. It’s a sacred
inheritance, shaped by centuries of debate, resilience and moral
wrestling. If we narrow our tent to extend only over those who say
what we want to hear – if we exile one another over differences – we
will lose more than just membership in Facebook groups. We will lose
the very heart of our community.” [ [link removed] ]Read in The Forward here >>

* Deluzio Calls for Renewed Peace Efforts After Visiting Sites
Devastated by Hamas: “[Congressman Chris Deluzio] traveled to Israel
on a trip organized by J Street’s Len Hill Education Travel Program,
led by Rep. Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut and accompanied by Jeremy
Ben-Ami, president of J Street.” [ [link removed] ]Read here >>

* The University President Willing to Fight Trump [Podcast]: “President
Trump has frozen billions of dollars in federal funds in an attempt to
rid higher education of what he calls its woke ideology. Rachel Abrams
speaks to the president of Princeton University, Christopher L.
Eisgruber, who has vowed to fight.” [ [link removed] ]Listen here >>

🗳️ Our Pro-Democracy To-Do List:

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 ✅  We Showed Up for Democracy: Our movement held our signs high as we
marched in Hands Off Rallies across the country. Keep your eyes peeled for
future J Street rallies to be a part of.

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