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This Week: J Street Endorses Full House Democratic Leadership 🏛️ | J
Street Responds to Charlie Kirk Assassination 🇺🇸 | Killing the Negotiators
Won’t Save the Hostages ⚠️ | No More Blank Checks ✍️ | A Horrific
Jerusalem Terror Attack 🕯️| Randi Weingarten on Why Fascists Fear Teachers
🎙️ | Reforming the Palestinian Authority 🔍 | Netanyahu: The Real Patron of
Hamas 🎁 | This Week’s Must-Reads/Listens 📖 | Our Pro-Democracy To-Do List
🗳️ | And much more.

🏛️ J Street Endorses Full House Democratic Leadership: For the first time,
every top-ranking House Democrat is endorsed by J Street. Our endorsees
now comprise 60% of the Democratic Members of the House and
Senate. [ [link removed] ]Read more >>

🇺🇸 J Street Responds to Charlie Kirk Assassination: The horrors of
political violence are tearing at the fabric of our nation and only
pushing us further from the solutions we so desperately need. President
Trump’s response, which appears to be laying the groundwork for
retribution against political opponents and the “radical left,” is a
distressing, flashing warning sign.

* “Whatever one thinks of Charlie Kirk’s views, the murder of the
31-year-old founder of the nation’s leading right-wing youth movement
should shock us all. Another brutal, public shooting on an American
college campus. A wife and two young children whose worlds have been
shattered.” [ [link removed] ]Read more >>

⚠️ Killing the Negotiators Won’t Save the Hostages: Netanyahu’s decision
to target Hamas political leaders as they were reportedly meeting to
consider the ceasefire proposal is the latest sign that his government is
putting endless war above the wellbeing of the hostages and Israel’s own
future. 

* J Street Chief Policy Officer Ilan Goldenberg: “You can vehemently
oppose Hamas’ commitment to terror and its vile leadership and also
recognize that by targeting negotiators, this strike will undermine
what should be the top priority – getting hostages home, ending the
war and surging aid into Gaza.” [ [link removed] ]Read more >>

* Briefing on the Impact of Israel’s Qatar Strikes: In the hours after
the attack, Jeremy, Ilan and J Street Policy Fellow Frank Lowenstein
discussed what the implications could be for the hostages, for the
US’s international standing and for Israel. [ [link removed] ]Watch here >>

✍️ No More Blank Checks: In just the past few weeks, Netanyahu’s
government has launched its reckless Gaza City offensive, brazenly
published maps signaling imminent plans to annex much of the West Bank,
and stood by as violent settlers attack Palestinian communities and force
them from their homes.

* The time has come for Congress to set clear boundaries on arms sales
and transfers to send a clear message: Prime Minister Netanyahu, no
more blank checks. No more military support for the war in Gaza and no
support ever for annexation. [ [link removed] ]Read more >>

* 🔍 Dig Deeper:The J Street Policy Center lays out why the US should
place restrictions on offensive arms sales to Israel. [ [link removed] ]Read here >>

🕯️ A Horrific Jerusalem Terror Attack: On Monday, there was a deadly
shooting in Jerusalem, which killed six people and wounded several more.
On Friday, there was yet another attack, severely injuring two (as of
writing). 

* J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami: “We’re absolutely horrified and
devastated by this attack. Our hearts are with the victims’ families
as we hope for a full recovery for the injured. We’re grateful the
attackers were stopped before more lives were taken. Hamas’ statement
‘welcoming’ this atrocity is grotesque and underscores why the group
must never again hold power in Gaza.” [ [link removed] ]Read more >>

🎙️ Randi Weingarten on Why Fascists Fear Teachers: On Wednesday, Ilan
spoke with Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of
Teachers and Vice Chair of J Street’s Board of Directors. They spoke about
her work countering right-wing authoritarianism and the Trump
Administration’s efforts to target education and free speech under the
guise of fighting antisemitism. [ [link removed] ]Watch the full Word on the Street
Live>>

[ [link removed] ]Randi Weingarten and Ilan Goldenberg gif.

🔍 Reforming the Palestinian Authority: J Street Policy Fellow Larry Garber
writes, “A principal concern for Palestinians has been the absence of
regular elections, which has left political leaders largely
unaccountable.” [ [link removed] ]Read more >>

🎁 Netanyahu: The Real Patron of Hamas. Ilan debunks the argument that
recognition of Palestinian statehood would be a “gift to Hamas.” He
writes, “The truth is the opposite: recognition is meant as a direct
counter to Hamas. And if anyone has consistently empowered Hamas over the
past 15 years, it is Benjamin Netanyahu and his far-right allies.”
[ [link removed] ]Read more >>

📖 This Week’s Must-Reads/Listens:

* [ [link removed] ]Encased in Amber: Biden’s Wars and the Unmaking of Liberal Foreign
Policy
Matt Duss writes in the Nation, “Woodward wants us to believe that,
despite the evidence of our lying eyes, the Biden administration’s
commitment to process was enough. But Trump’s reelection represents a
refutation of that dodge. He is the consequence that the elites
running the Democratic Party are now forced to confront—along with the
rest of us.”

* [ [link removed] ]Homeless and Hungry, Gazans Fear a Repeat of 1948 History
Raja Abdulrahim writes in The New York Times, "Mr. Abu Samra, now 87
and frail, has been stuck in southern Gaza, in a tent of tarps, a
curtain and blankets. Once again, he is scared, hungry and separated
from most of his family, just as he was as a boy. 'I always think,
talk, and dream' of going home, he said."

* [ [link removed] ]Another Bloody Day Reminds Israelis That Netanyahu Has Failed as
'Mr. Security'
Amir Tibon writes in Haaretz, "Netanyahu is trying to distract
Israelis from the endless list of failures he presides over by
highlighting tactical stunts that have little impact on reality. Just
minutes before the army announced the deaths of the soldiers, he
released a bombastic statement about 'collapsing Gaza's skyscrapers.'"

🗳️  Our Pro-Democracy To-Do List:

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