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This Week: Another Horrific Antisemitic Terror Attack ⚠️ | J Street
Mourns, Honors Lives of Judith Weinstein-Haggai and Gadi Haggai 🕯️ |
Trump-Netanyahu Aid Plan Is Entirely Insufficient 🌾 | We Reject Trump’s
New Travel Ban 🧳 | An Open Letter to the American Jewish Establishment 📄
‍| A Reckoning is Coming in Israeli Society 🇮🇱 | Next Saturday Join the NO
KINGS National Day of Action 👑 | This Week’s Must-Reads 📖 | Our
Pro-Democracy To-Do List 🗳️ | And much more.

⚠️  Another Horrific Antisemitic Terror Attack: Last Sunday, we were
horrified by news of another horrific antisemitic terror attack on a
peaceful hostage solidarity walk in Boulder, Colorado during which twelve
people were injured by an assailant with incendiary devices shouting “End
Zionists.”

* Our Response: “Right now, some of the worst fears of our community are
being realized here on our shores. This is the second act of
anti-Israel, antisemitic terror in the past two weeks. This growing
climate of violence, fear and intimidation cannot be allowed to
escalate any further,” J Street Senior Vice President and Chief Policy
Officer Ilan Goldenberg wrote. [ [link removed] ]Read more >>

* Authoritarianism Does Not Protect Jews: “There's a bright-red line
between free speech and political violence. These attacks are horrific
and our hearts are with the victims of this sickening attack," J
Street Senior Vice President and Chief of Staff Adina Vogel Ayalon
told Newsweek. “We must also not allow this attack to be used to
justify the Trump Administration's ongoing authoritarian attacks on
higher education and medical research that have been undertaken under
the guise of fighting antisemitism. These actions trivialize the very
real issue of antisemitism and do nothing to make our Jewish
communities safer.” [ [link removed] ]Read more >>

🕯️  J Street Mourns, Honors Lives of Judith Weinstein-Haggai and Gadi
Haggai: Following the recovery of the bodies of Israeli-American hostages
Judi and Gadi, Adina wrote, “We stand with the family of Judi and Gadi,
who said today, ‘Our hearts will not be whole until all hostages return.’
There are still 56 hostages in Hamas captivity in Gaza, and each and every
one’s family is enduring unbearable grief as they fight tirelessly to
embrace their children or give their loved ones a proper burial.” [ [link removed] ]Read
more >>

🌾  Trump-Netanyahu Aid Plan Is Entirely Insufficient: Dozens of people
have once again been reported killed in desperate, chaotic scenes at or
near aid distribution sites set up by the US and Israeli-backed ‘Gaza
Humanitarian Foundation’ (GHF).

* Our Response: “It is beyond maddening that right now, thousands of
tons of essential supplies – food, baby formula and women’s hygiene
supplies – are sitting in trucks just miles away from those who need
them, accompanied by personnel with the expertise and experience to
deliver them. We urge the Israeli government to let aid in while
working with those groups to ensure it reaches those who need it most
and is not stolen by Hamas or other gangs,” Ilan wrote. [ [link removed] ]Read more
>>

* Our Advocacy: Representatives Jayapal, Raskin, Keating, Foushee and
Balint introduced a House resolution this week urging the immediate
delivery of humanitarian aid into Gaza. Over 90 House Democrats have
cosponsored the resolution in its first week, and this follows the
introduction of a Senate companion resolution led by Senator Welch and
supported by 46 out of 47 Democrats.

* Dig Deeper: Larry Garber, J Street Policy Fellow and former head of
USAID’s West Bank-Gaza mission, writes, "Without doubt, Gaza’s
population welcomes aid that becomes available from whatever source,
but the number of meals required far exceeds GHF’s capabilities and
the civilian casualties suffered en route to the hubs may discourage
some Palestinians from making the trek in the future." [ [link removed] ]Read more >>

🧳  We Reject Trump’s New Travel Ban: J Street Director of Government
Affairs Hannah Morris wrote, “J Street strongly rejects the Trump
Administration’s ongoing efforts to demonize immigrants and politicize the
US immigration system while catastrophically failing to address the very
real issues the majority of Americans face. These nonsensical blanket
travel bans echo President Trump’s first-term ‘Muslim Ban,’ which
undermines the US’s image as a welcoming nation, and will only serve to
punish legitimate travel for tourism, education, work, family reunion and
immigration purposes.” [ [link removed] ]Read more >>

📄  On Unity: An Open Letter to the American Jewish Establishment: “I know
Jewish communal leaders worry deeply about the damage that an open
argument in Jewish America about Israel can do to our community. I worry
more about the impact on Jewish America of NOT having this argument. Of
not standing up and saying that the path being pursued by Bibi Netanyahu
and the Kahanists and racists in his government is beyond the pale.”
[ [link removed] ]Read Jeremy’s full Word on the Street Substack here >>

‍🇮🇱  A Reckoning is Coming in Israeli Society: Ilan writes, “I had the
opportunity to spend 10 days in Israel and the Palestinian Territories
recently as part of a J Street delegation – the first of what I expect
will be many such trips. What was most striking was that in all of my
years of visiting the region I had never seen Israeli society so unmoored
and untethered. It was in many ways depressing but I also came away
hopeful.” [ [link removed] ]Read the full Dialogue and Dissonance Substack >>

👑  Next Saturday Join the NO KINGS National Day of Action: Next Saturday,
our movement is preparing to organize, march and stand against Trump’s
authoritarian agenda. J Street is proud to join with pro-democracy groups
all across the country to defend our rights, our democracy and our
communities. [ [link removed] ]Find a NO KINGS event in your area >>

* Come prepared and [ [link removed] ]wear your J Street swag! >>

📖  This Week’s Must-Reads:

* [ [link removed] ]How My Pro-Israel Life Led Me to J Street: Board Member of the
Jewish Federation of the Sacramento Region Todd Kaufman writes, "Like
me (and 90 percent of American Jews), J Street understands that it is
possible to be pro-Israel and still publicly disagree with the Israeli
government on what is in the country’s best interests, whether it is
related to its war strategy or the health of its democracy."

* [ [link removed] ]With Zionism, Its Time To Go Hard on the Problem, Soft on the
People: “Demonizing all members of a group, particularly one as ill
defined as ‘Zionists,’ is usually counterproductive. When that group
is closely linked to a single community (with a long history of being
scapegoated by a hostile majority), the slope to bigotry becomes more
than merely slippery,” Mik Moore writes.

* [ [link removed] ]The Two Things I Fear Most After the Horrifying Attack on Jews in
Boulder: “I don’t know how to break this cycle. But I do strongly
suspect that as a first step, American Jews — and Americans more
generally — need to insist on our right to participate in civic life.
That can mean running to raise awareness of the plight of the many
hostages still in Gaza. It can mean attending an event for Jewish
professionals, or showing up at a pro-Palestine protest, or writing an
op-ed,” Emily Tamkin writes.

* [ [link removed] ]Trump and Netanyahu Were Marching in Lockstep – Until They
Weren’t: “Over the years, there have surely been tensions and
surprises in the U.S.-Israeli relationship. But no administration,
Republican nor Democratic, has acted as independently of Israel on
matters deemed to be vital to Israeli security interests or to the
political interests of an Israeli prime minister,” Aaron David Miller
and Lauren Morganbesser write.

🗳️  Our Pro-Democracy To-Do List:

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to the World Zionist Congress to promote progressive values in Israel and
the diaspora. Right now, the same election is happening in Canada.
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[21][ ] [ [link removed] ]Call your Member of Congress and tell them you oppose the Gaza
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