Tag: JCPA

The organization will loosen its ties to The Jewish Federations of North America in a bid to free itself to pursue liberal agenda items.

The Muslim head of J Street U unabashedly urges pro-Israel organizations to fight Israel's "Occupation" in order to gain allies.

No one yet knows who is responsible for abu Khaider's death, yet the JCPA immediately drew a target on the map of Israel.

Hubris is what propelled J Street through the starting gate; it's also what slammed the door shut in J Street's face.

American Jewish organizations are going to bat for ObamaCare and are using social media to reach as many people as possible in an effort...

Iran’s newly appointed defense minister, Brig. Gen. Hossein Dehghan, has links to the 1983 U.S. Marine barracks terrorist attack in Beirut that killed 199...

The JCPA went to congress urging the U.S. to restart the "peace talks." It also claims to be the the representative voice of the organized Jewish community. Both ideas are wrong-headed according to many who spoke with The Jewish Press.

Publicly, J Street repeatedly states that Halutz is against the drawing of "red lines," that is, the line in the sand beyond which military action against Iran must be taken. There are commentators who crow that Halutz's opposition to red lines reveals a reluctance to use force against Iran, and that it is an explicit criticism of the Israeli prime minister. J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami wrote: "Gen. Halutz has repeatedly said that … there is nothing to be gained from the public calls for deadlines and red lines." But Halutz, who is definitely against red lines, doesn't like them because he thinks they interfere with effective military strategies. Halutz says that Israel may even have to “go it alone.”

JERUSALEM - The Jewish Council for Public Affairs, an umbrella group of major mainstream U.S. Jewish organizations, has for the first time endorsed the idea of a Palestinian state.