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Friends,

Passover is my favorite holiday, and not just because of the matzah ball
soup and gefilte fish (yes, I’m a fan!).

It’s because in reliving the Passover story, we reaffirm the values core
to our identity. We celebrate our hard-won journey to liberation. We mourn
the pain and loss suffered by those who were our enemies. We pass down to
our children the values of liberation, empathy and justice.

These values are at the very heart of our J Street movement.

For Israel to truly thrive long into the
future as a secure, democratic homeland for the Jewish people, it must
embody those values, and so must US foreign policy. The injustices of the
right-wing vision for endless occupation -- discriminatory evictions,
arbitrary home demolitions, different sets of laws for different people --
violate our core values. They entrench a painful conflict that has taken
too many innocent Israeli and Palestinian lives already.

Lasting freedom, peace and self-determination for Israelis cannot and will
not come at the expense of those same rights for Palestinians.

This Passover, there can be no better expression of our Jewish, democratic
values than to recommit ourselves to the struggle to uphold those values
both at home and in Israel. To work for freedom, peace and the security of
statehood for Israelis and Palestinians alike.

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Right-wing groups may urge us to cast aside our values and endanger our
democracy in support of an over-simplified, black-and-white vision of what
it means to be ‘pro-Israel,’ but we know that will only lead to more
suffering and injustice.

In Israel, turning a blind eye to the settlement movement’s efforts to
build and bulldoze their way to permanent, undemocratic control of the
West Bank not only tramples Palestinian freedoms but pushes us further and
further from Israel’s founding vision as a truly just, democratic homeland
for the Jewish people.

And in the United States, supporting right-wing representatives who
undermine democracy itself threatens everything our community stands for
-- including the shared principles on which the US-Israel relationship is
built.

At J Street, we know that our shared values of freedom, equality and
democracy make us stronger, not weaker. That they must be core to our
vision, not cast aside to defend the indefensible.

Together, we can ensure that US leadership is principled, bold and
effective. We can continue our work to inject nuance, empathy and truth
into a political debate too often dominated by extremism and willful
ignorance.

[ [link removed] ]Friends -- Please consider a Passover contribution, of any
amount, to help fuel the work of the pro-Israel, pro-peace movement. Every
contribution gets us closer to our goal >>

Thank you for all that you do.

Chag Sameach,

Sam Berkman
National Director of Communal Leadership


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advance shared US and Israeli interests as well as Jewish and democratic values,
leading to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.



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