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Friends,

These past few weeks have been excruciating.

The images of violence and starvation in Gaza are too horrific to bear. Hostage families are nearing two years of anguish. Young Israeli soldiers are sent to fight a grinding, unwinnable war.

We’re at a moral reckoning. As Jeremy wrote Sunday, if the Jewish community doesn’t stand up to the extremist fringe that is running Israel, not only is the country’s future in jeopardy and Jews globally at risk – but the very soul of the Jewish people is at stake.

Our history and our values teach us that silence in the face of mass suffering is complicity – and at this moment we have to ask ourselves: Are we doing enough?

Are we as Jewish and pro-Israel Americans meeting this moment with the moral clarity it demands? Are we living up to the values we teach at B’nai Mitzvah and Seder tables and synagogues and summer camps?

At J Street, we are clear we must do more – and I want to lay out some of our plans to enhance and expand our advocacy in the coming weeks. To rally our networks in DC and in communities across the country calling to end the Gaza war, get hostages home and surge humanitarian aid.

🏛️ On Capitol Hill, our advocacy team is rallying support for measures that could deliver real impact on the ground.

We are building support in Congress for full and robust international humanitarian aid programs – and pressing forward to replace the disastrous ‘Gaza Humanitarian Foundation,’ which has resulted in horrific scenes of death and chaos.
We are backing legislation to enhance protections for the safety of humanitarian workers in conflict zones and to stop the misuse of US arms against civilians.
We’re at the forefront of efforts to push back on settler violence: Pressing for a US investigation into the killing of Saif Musallet and building support for the West Bank Violence Prevention Act to sanction violent settlers and those who fund them. Add your name to our petition and call your representative here >>
📍 In congressional districts across the country, we’re organizing to make clear that our community wants this war over, the hostages home and a massive surge in aid.

We want our elected officials to know that this is what the overwhelming majority of Israelis want too, and that Netanyahu himself has prolonged this war to stay in power.
We’re asking our representatives to raise their voices loudly, demanding US leadership to end the war, release the hostages, and surge aid to Gaza.
We’ll be reaching out soon – district by district – on more ways you can get involved.
🇺🇸 In the national debate, we’ll be speaking out more loudly:

We’ll be launching paid social media, email and texting campaigns to rally our community and make clear that the majority oppose the path of endless war and occupation pursued by Netanyahu and his ministers.
On social media and in real life, we’ll be equipping our supporters with the tools to amplify their advocacy and rally our community to speak with moral clarity.
✡️ We’re planning a major mobilization from our Rabbinic and Cantorial Cabinet and beyond to press for urgent moral clarity from Jewish leaders across the country.

In Israel and across America, we’re amplifying the voices of hostage families and peace advocates who are calling for a war-ending hostage deal to get everyone home.
We’ll be organizing local meetings with synagogues, Jewish institutions and other Jewish groups across America to ask them to speak out visibly and publicly.
We’re rallying J Street-aligned rabbis and communal leaders to speak out in sermons, newsletters and other platforms – and providing them with the resources to do so.
Tomorrow, we’re launching a national petition to call for action and press American Jewish leaders to speak out.
We’ll have more to say on how you can join these efforts – and more – in the coming days and weeks.

None of this would be possible without your support, and I want to thank you once again for standing with us in this fight.

Finally, if you missed Jeremy’s Silence is Complicity post on Sunday, please take a moment to read and share within your networks here. It is, in part, a reflection on the ongoing conversation about Israeli Genocide Scholar Dr. Omer Bartov’s recent piece in the New York Times – itself a very painful, confronting but important read.

With hope and resolve,
Adina Vogel Ayalon
Vice President and Chief of Staff, J Street

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