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Sep 12, 2026
Noa LeviHOST
This timeframe for the next round of talks was further confirmed by a US official, who stated the delay until October.
Noa LeviHOST
In a significant political development within the United States, the liberal Jewish Middle East advocacy group J Street has announced it will invest $3 million its largest super PAC investment to date, to defeat Republican candidates endorsed by APAC.
Noa LeviHOST
J Street president Jeremy Ben-Ami characterized this as a new era for the organization, which typically endorses candidates rather than actively targeting opponents based on an APAC endorsement.
Noa LeviHOST
The $3 million is earmarked for advertisements targeting several Republican figures, including representatives Mike Collins of Georgia, Max Miller of Ohio, Derek Van Orden of Wisconsin, Ryan McKenzie of Pennsylvania, and Marionette Miller-Meeks of Iowa.
Noa LeviHOST
Ben Army cited their competitive races and ideological distance from J Street as reasons for targeting them, noting some also have connections to efforts questioning the 2020 election results.
Noa LeviHOST
APAC issued criticism, questioning J Street's pro-Israel stance and labelling the spending as misleading.
Noa LeviHOST
This action from J Street comes as its own positions have reportedly shifted, with some indications pointing towards supporting a potential phasing out of US military aid to Israel by 2028.
Noa LeviHOST
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Noa LeviHOST
Some residents have stated they will not return, while others are cautiously rebuilding their lives amid ongoing trauma and fear, highlighting the deep community impact and the challenging path to recovery.
Noa LeviHOST
In US political news, The Times of Israel reports that the leader of the liberal Jewish group J Street announced a pledge to spend $3 million against candidates backed by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC.
Noa LeviHOST
This move, according to the report, signals a new era of challenging AIPAC's financial influence in American politics.
Noa LeviHOST
Finally, a video shared on telegram channel Abul Express appears to show an IDF soldier firing at the leg of a Palestinian near Zait Farm in Gilboa.
Noa LeviHOST
A subsequent round of formal discussions is anticipated in Rome in October.
Noa LeviHOST
Turning to US politics, the liberal Jewish Middle East advocacy group J Street has announced a significant shift in strategy.
Noa LeviHOST
According to the group, they will spend $3 million, their largest super PAC investment to date, to actively defeat Republican candidates backed by AIPAC.
Noa LeviHOST
J Street president Jeremy Ben-Ami stated, It's a new era for us.
Noa LeviHOST
In US politics, a significant shift is occurring within advocacy groups concerning Israel.
Noa LeviHOST
J Street, the liberal Jewish Middle East advocacy group, announced it will spend $3 million to defeat Republican candidates who are backed by AIPAC.
Noa LeviHOST
This marks an unusual initiative for J Street, which typically endorses candidates but doesn't directly target opponents based on an APAC endorsement.
Noa LeviHOST
J Street president Jeremy Ben-Ami described it as a new era for the organization, noting this $3 million pledge represents their largest super PAC investment ever.
Emily HiltonGUEST
I think that that's accurate.
Emily HiltonGUEST
I saw J Street also just put out a statement a couple hours ago, and several of these organizations have specifically praised the language of the sanctions for drawing the distinction between-
Rivka BarnardGUEST
between-Israel and the settlements, which goes back to the conversation we were having earlier, that in a certain sense, it allows them to maintain the illusion of that distinction.
Rivka BarnardGUEST
But at the same time, you know, I don't take it as a given that those kinds of organizations would be supporting that or that they would have a few years ago.
Emily HiltonGUEST
And I think also, I, I don't think the UK and the US Jewish context completely maps on.
Emily HiltonGUEST
I think also in general, the Jewish community in the UK tends to be more conservative, is a lot smaller, and also it hasn't got such a sort of cultural secular Jewish life as there is in the US, which I think impacts the political sort of nature of this.
Emily HiltonGUEST
But I do think also, you know, the other thing that is revealing is, of course, like the J Street equivalent organizations in the UK have been also been very welcoming of this and have also said this is really important.
Emily HiltonGUEST
And in some ways you could say that that's actually indicative of a limitation in their politics, particularly because those organizations were either late or, or didn't really fully come out in support of a ceasefire around the genocide in Gaza until 2024 when, you know, thousands and thousands and thousands of Palestinians had been killed by Israel.
IndieHOST
and corrupt people.
IndieHOST
And then you talk about J Street.
IndieHOST
J Street brands itself as pro-Israel, pro-peace, and of course Soros and his children, Jonathan and Andrea, gave the organization three quarters of a million dollars between 2008 and 2010 to get their start, while denying that they did so until two years later it came out that they had to accept responsibility for being less than clear about Mr. Soros' support once he did become a donor.
IndieHOST
They denied, denied, denied until they got caught, and then it was, well, yeah, okay, I guess so.
IndieHOST
All right? Then they talk about Soros' fund management, its own trading records, all right? And...
Syrian GirlGUEST
When is enough enough? Like, what can American people do? Because the government is captured by Israel and the Zionist lobby.
Syrian GirlGUEST
The Israel lobby, like either J Street or AIPAC, are the biggest funders of politicians throughout the U.S.
Syrian GirlGUEST
So is it a democracy where a foreign country can buy
Alex JonesHOST
your politicians? And now that's out in the open.
speaker_0HOST
In his own words, quote, this is discrimination against the Israeli government, against the Jewish people, and I don't understand the rationale of it.
speaker_0HOST
On the flip side, J Street, the American Jewish organization that has a past of not being super friendly towards the rebuilding of Judea and Samaria, are calling for the US to join the UK in these sanctions.
speaker_0HOST
And a statement representative for the organization said, quote, the UK and other of Israel's closest allies are making clear that the status quo is no longer acceptable.
speaker_0HOST
Israel must choose between a permanent occupation and a growing international isolation or a future in which a viable independent Palestinian state lives alongside a secure Israel fully accepted by the world.
Ahmed MoorHOST
Alex, before we get into...
Ahmed MoorHOST
We- we're talking about elections, we're talking about the Jewish vote today, APAC and J Street.
Ahmed MoorHOST
Before we get into all of that, can you describe your beat at Jewish Currents?
Alex KaneGUEST
Sure.
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Alex KaneGUEST
Um, and I think, you know, the question of the Jewish vote wi-will also be really interesting, like what, h-how, what kind of shifts are we gonna see, um, in Florida among Jews?
Ahmed MoorHOST
Right.
Ahmed MoorHOST
And the final topic I wanna get into is AIPAC versus J Street.
Ahmed MoorHOST
Now, for me, these two, um, entities are similar in, in type, although qualitatively, um, different.
Emma VigelandHOST
Frank Lowenstein, who was the U.S. special envoy under Barack Obama for Israel and Palestine, spoke to The New Yorker.
Emma VigelandHOST
He's now at J Street.
Emma VigelandHOST
So he's with the liberal Zionist group.
Emma VigelandHOST
spoke about the fiction of the two-state solution with more clarity than I've heard any Democratic politician do so, so far, including some of our furthest left members who we deeply appreciate.
Seamus MalekafzaliGUEST
It's buried.
Seamus MalekafzaliGUEST
It's it's never coming back, which is why when we talk about the reality situation, the fact that there are still people who believe this to be possible again, that it's possible to make the Israeli public more liberal, more left leaning when that is never been the case for the past 20 some years.
Seamus MalekafzaliGUEST
I mean, yeah, I mean, but also it makes me confused as to why this person is in J Street.
Seamus MalekafzaliGUEST
Like, what is the anticipate is going to happen?
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