J Street
Jeremy Ben-Ami, president of J Street, speaks at the group's national conference in 2018. (Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
July 21, 2026, 5:30 pm
J Street defends co-sponsoring College Democrats convention featuring Hasan Piker
The liberal pro-Israel group pushed back after critics said its presence at the event legitimized Piker.
By Grace Gilson
J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami at J Street’s 2022 national conference in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 4, 2022. (Courtesy of J Street)
May 26, 2026, 7:38 pm
J Street and Jews backing Mamdani aren’t just criticizing Israel — they are aiding a globalized intifada against their own people
Israel’s envoy spoke a hard truth that needed to be said
By Jonathan S. Tobin
Jeremy Ben-Ami, president of J Street, speaks at the group's national conference in 2018. (Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
May 26, 2026, 12:55 pm
Hundreds of Jewish leaders call on Israeli ambassador to apologize for attack on J Street
The signatories, including prominent rabbis and former U.S. ambassadors, called on Yechiel Leiter to rescind remarks calling the liberal pro-Israel lobby a “cancer.”
By Grace Gilson
Israel's Ambassador to the U.S., Yechiel Leiter, listens during a meeting with President Donald Trump and Lebanon's Ambassador to the U.S. at the White House in Washington, D.C. on April 23, 2026. (Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP)
May 19, 2026, 5:00 pm
Israeli ambassador calls J Street a ‘cancer within Jewish community’
Yechiel Leiter, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, called the liberal pro-Israel lobby “duplicitous” over its opposition to U.S. military aid to Israel.
By Grace Gilson
Members of the national board of J Street U, the liberal Zionist group's campus wing, speak at their 2026 convention in Washington, D.C. (Courtesy of J Street)
May 13, 2026, 12:32 pm
Jewish students wanted to bring J Street to Sarah Lawrence. The student senate said no.
The campus where Ezra Klein was derided as a “Nazi normalizer” is the first to deny a chapter of the liberal Zionist group.
By Andrew Lapin
J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami at J Street’s 2022 national conference in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 4, 2022. (Courtesy of J Street)
April 20, 2026, 2:49 pm
J Street’s Ben-Ami on Israel policy, political endorsements
"I think the real existential threat to Israel as a Jewish and democratic state...is the failure to figure out what to do about the Palestinians."
By David Rullo
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., conclude a news conference announcing the Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium Act in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, March 25, 2026. The legislation aims to “ensure that AI benefits workers, is safe and effective and does not harm communities or destroy the environment." (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call)
April 14, 2026, 4:13 pm
US funding for Israel’s Iron Dome air defense no longer has bipartisan support
The liberal pro-Israel lobby J Steet joined AOC, Ro Khanna and others in arguing Israel should fund its own defense.
By Andrew Lapin
Rep. Summer Lee (Photo courtesy of summerlee.house.gov)
February 19, 2026, 7:06 pm
Rep. Summer Lee endorsed by new pro-Palestinian PAC
Pennsylvania rep is no longer endorsed by J Street.
By David Rullo
February 17, 2026, 11:11 am
J Street’s Aidan Jelinek brings West Bank report to Pittsburgh
J Street assistant regional director urges ‘23-state solution’
By David Rullo
Jeremy Ben-Ami, president of J Street, speaks at the group's national conference in 2018. (Michael Brochstein/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
August 6, 2025, 10:00 am
J Street head ‘persuaded’ by arguments that Israel is committing genocide
Several left-wing Jewish voices now accusing Israel of genocide
By Grace Gilson
Rabbi Jill Jacobs, with microphone, speaks at a rally for Israeli democracy by Israelis and American Jews outside Israel's consulate in Manhattan, March 27, 2023. (T'ruah, via Twitter)
April 28, 2025, 8:56 am
Over 500 rabbis sign letter rejecting Trump’s antisemitism agenda
A similar rabbis’ letter published last week condemned the administration’s “immoral use of the law.”
By Grace Gilson
iStock: Yuliia Bukovska
April 25, 2025, 4:15 pm
J Street isn’t what it claims to be
"When you look beyond the tagline and the rhetoric, J Street is not aligned with the pro-Israel community – in fact, they’re aligned with Israel’s loudest opponents."
By Alli Cardin Medof
Chris Deluzio at Yad Vashem (Photo courtesy of JStreet.org)
April 7, 2025, 3:14 pm
Deluzio calls for renewed peace efforts after visiting sites devastated by Hamas
“I remain convinced that it is in our national interest to have a secure and free Israel, much as it is in our interest to have security and stability for the Palestinians."
By Toby Tabachnick
Nadav Tamir (Photo courtesy of Nadav Tamir)
November 21, 2024, 4:38 pm
‘American support is not a blank check’: An interview with J Street Israel’s Executive Director Nadav Tamir
"If we won’t end occupation, the occupation will end us.”
By Toby Tabachnick
Israeli soldiers seen at a staging area near the Israeli border with Lebanon, Oct. 1, 2024. (David Cohen/Flash90)
November 20, 2024, 10:32 am
Progressive Jewish groups back Senate resolutions against arms sales to Israel
In a shift, J Street is supporting the “resolutions of disapproval” proposed by Sen. Bernie Sanders.
By Luke Tress
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