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This week: Keeping the Ceasefire Alive 🕊️ | Saving a Palestinian Village
from Demolition ⚠️ | Victory at the World Zionist Congress 🇮🇱 | This Week
from the Policy Center 📝| This Week’s Must-Reads/Listens 📖 | Our
Pro-Democracy To-Do List 🗳️ | And much more.

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🕊️ Keeping the Ceasefire Alive: On Wednesday, 90 Members of Congress sent
a letter led by Representative Madeleine Dean pressing the Trump
Administration to urgently use its leverage to push forward with the
20-point peace plan amid the tenuous ceasefire and continued flare-ups in
violence. The letter also urges the administration to collaborate with
regional stakeholders to establish effective replacement security and
political institutions in Gaza and outlines how settlement expansion
threatens the viability of the Abraham Accords. [ [link removed] ]Read the full text here
>>

* “This letter sends a clear message to the White House: The United
States must keep up significant pressure on both sides to ensure the
ceasefire holds. We cannot afford to go back to the heartbreak and
bloodshed of the past two years, and strong American leadership can
make sure we don’t,” writes J Street Vice President of Government
Affairs Hannah Morris. [ [link removed] ]Read the full statement here >>

⚠️ Saving a Palestinian Village from Demolition: This week, Israeli
authorities issued demolition orders for 13 buildings – including homes
and a community center – in the village of Umm al-Khair in the South
Hebron Hills. J Street has brought countless community members and
political leaders to this area, known for its history of
Jewish-Palestinian partnership and nonviolent activism. [ [link removed] ]Sign our
petition and call your Member of Congress to demand an immediate halt to
the demolitions >>

🇮🇱 Victory at the World Zionist Congress: This week, Jewish leaders from
around the world convened in Jerusalem for the World Zionist Congress,
where nearly $5 billion is allocated every five years for global Jewish
organizations. J Street proudly represented the progressive Hatikvah Slate
and successfully passed a resolution that bans the World Zionist
Organization from any involvement in settlement construction in Gaza.

* “This Congress sent a message that the majority of the Jewish people
want to choose the path of democracy, pluralism and conflict
resolution,” wrote J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami from the
Congress. [ [link removed] ]Read more >>

* The Future of Zionism Must Be The Path of Rabin, Not the Path of
Netanyahu: “To this day, Rabin's voice calls to us all. His challenge
echoes in this room. ‘Who will finish the work that I began?’ That is
our charge as 21st-century liberal Zionists, Jews who know that
Zionism without peace, justice and democracy cannot endure,” said
Jeremy Ben-Ami in his speech to the World Zionist Labor Alliance.
[ [link removed] ]Watch the full speech here >>

* Inside the Parliament of the Jewish People: “I think it's really
important for us to be visible outside of this conference hall, both
in order to show folks at home that we are here fighting for the
values that we all support, and also to show Israelis who have been
fighting for democracy for years now [...] that they have the support
of Jews across the world,” said Rabbi Jill Jacobs of T’ruah in this
week’s Word on the Street Live. [ [link removed] ]Watch the full conversation here >>

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📝 This Week from the Policy Center: J Street’s Policy Center published
analyses this week on the potential paths ahead for Israel and the region.

* [ [link removed] ]Israel Two Years On: Politics After the Ceasefire
J Street Policy Fellow Yael Patir outlines Israel’s political
landscape as it enters an election year. Facing a fragile coalition, a
corruption trial, a draft crisis and the Trump Administration and
far-right parties pulling him in different directions, Netanyahu is
under more pressure than ever. In the meantime, the mass mobilization
that the hostage movement built has the potential to build significant
momentum for the opposition.

“Among Jewish Israelis, support [for the deal] stands at 73 percent,
while an overwhelming 88 percent of Arab citizens back the deal.
Notably, a majority of coalition voters – 57 percent – also support
the agreement, alongside 91 percent among opposition voters. This rare
consensus cuts across political and demographic lines,” writes Yael.

* [ [link removed] ]The Economic Benefits of the 23-State Solution
J Street Policy and Research Coordinator Avraham Spraragen outlines
the economic stakes of Israel’s diplomatic crossroads: Either pursue
normalization with the major Arab and Muslim countries and create over
$1 trillion in new activity and four million new jobs over the next
decade, or take Netanyahu’s isolationist approach that has already
caused significant economic damage.

“These proven economic benefits demonstrate that a comprehensive
regional agreement, which includes the remaining 16 Arab League
states, would bolster Israel’s economy while the country faces growing
isolation and economic downturn. Instead of Netanyahu’s “Super Sparta”
vision, Israel should embrace a 23-state solution for its own economic
benefit and the flourishing of the entire regional economy, “ writes
Avraham.

📖 This Week’s Must-Reads/Listens:

* [ [link removed] ]Watch: Senator Elissa Slotkin on Trump's Authoritarian Playbook
In a speech at The Brookings Institution this week, national security
expert and Senator Elissa Slotkin of Michigan said, “I believe that
Trump is ready to bring the full weight of the federal government
against Americans he perceives as enemies. Why? Because he has one
goal. Making sure that he and his ilk never have to give up power.”

* [ [link removed] ]The Liberal Camp Should Embrace The Arab Parties
Nadav Tamir, Executive Director of J Street Israel, writes in Times of
Israel, "Every time the center and left exclude Arab representatives,
they weaken themselves and strengthen the very forces they claim to
oppose."

* [ [link removed] ]Listen: The Israeli Right’s Plan to Carve Up Gaza
In his podcast, Ezra Klein says, "In America, the dominant position on
the Israel-Palestine conflict is still a belief, a hope in the
two-state solution. But in Israel, it’s just not. Israeli politics is
well to the right of where America admits, or even realizes, it is."

“I think a full Israeli withdrawal from Gaza is unlikely to happen
anytime soon. Instead, Gaza will end up divided,” Amit Segal, a
prominent right-wing Israeli commentator, tells Klein.

🗳️ Our Pro-Democracy To-Do List:

[14][ ] [ [link removed] ]NEW Tell Congress: Stop Demolitions in Umm al-Khair >>

[16][ ] [ [link removed] ]NEW Tell Congress: No Excuses. Aid Must Flow Freely. >>

[18][ ] [ [link removed] ]NEW Give Voice to Our Community: No Return to Gaza War >>

[20][ ] [ [link removed] ]Tell Congress: Support the West Bank Violence Prevention Act
>>

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