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This week: A Christmas Gift to Extremists 🎄 | Living Out Our Values
Through Action – And Ice Cream🍦 | This Is How We Fight Antisemitism 🕍 |
Word on the Street 🚧 | Save Your Seat at the J Street 2026 Convention 🎟️ |
This Week’s Must-Reads/Listens 📖 | Our Pro-Democracy To-Do List 🗳️ | And
much more.

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🎄 A Christmas Gift to Extremists: While Christians on the West Bank marked
Christmas with their first public celebration in 3 years, the Netanyahu
government announced 19 new illegal West Bank settlements – a move which
was [ [link removed] ]condemned by over a dozen European countries, Canada and Japan.

* [ [link removed] ]Land Grab: Israel’s Escalating Campaign for Control of the West
Bank "The Israeli onslaught has all but vanquished a free Palestinian
existence in the West Bank. While the Palestinian Authority governs
part of the West Bank, the Israeli military remains the occupying
power of the whole territory, and military law supersedes the
authority’s rule." [ [link removed] ]Read the New York Times’ damning investigation
here >> 

🍦 Living Out Our Values Through Action – And Ice Cream: This week, J
Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami sat down with Ben Cohen – activist,
philanthropist and co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s – to discuss how the
company's corporate parent has tried to censor their activism and prevent
them from carrying out their social mission.

“The reality is that business has become the most powerful force in our
society [...] Business controls our elections through campaign
contributions. It controls our legislation through lobbying. It controls
our media and the news we see through ownership. So I think, if we're
going to save our democracy, I think that business needs to stand up,” Ben
said in discussing the ice cream company’s decision to stop selling
products in the West Bank and their bold pushback against parent company
Unilever. [ [link removed] ]Watch the full conversation >>

🕍 This Is How We Fight Antisemitism: Last week, Representatives Jerry
Nadler, Rosa DeLauro, Becca Balint and Maxwell Frost introduced The
Antisemitism Response and Prevention Act (ARPA). This legislation would
provide security funding for faith communities, strengthen national hate
crime tracking and responses, and ensure college students have on-campus
support to prevent and address antisemitism while upholding the First
Amendment right to free speech.

* “At its core, ARPA is about meeting real needs: Protecting
communities, supporting students, coordinating a serious national
response and defending the democratic freedoms that have allowed
Jewish life to flourish in this country. It confronts threats from
both the far right and the fringe left while refusing to weaponize
antisemitism for political gain,” J Street Associate Director of
Government Affairs Bradley Freericks wrote in an email to supporters.

[ [link removed] ]✍️Tell Congress to support the Antisemitism Response and Prevention Act
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🚧 Word on the Street: J Street publishes commentary, video conversations
and policy pieces on our Substack throughout the week. [ [link removed] ]Subscribe here
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* [ [link removed] ]Have You Ever Seen What’s Actually Happening on the West Bank – In
Your Name?
Since October 7, settler attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank
have skyrocketed as the Israeli government expedites settlements in an
effort to obstruct any possibility of a Palestinian state. Settlers
terrorize with impunity – attacking families and burning olive groves
– knowing that the Netanyahu government is apathetic to Palestinian
suffering and that the international Jewish community is largely
unaware of these dynamics.

"When Israel is described as a colonial or oppressive power, many of
us recoil – believing that language fails to reflect Jewish history or
the reality of Israel’s founding. I know just how many American Jews
resist the word 'occupation,' having been told that settlements are
integral to Israel’s security. But most American Jews have never
actually seen what we spend so much time arguing about," writes Jeremy
Ben-Ami. [ [link removed] ]Read the full piece here >>

* [ [link removed] ]What Trump Should Push Bibi on at Mar-a-Lago
Prime Minister Netanyahu will visit President Trump at his winter home
in Mar-a-Lago on December 29. After nearly 3 months of a shaky
ceasefire, the international community expects the two leaders to make
progress on reaching the second phase of the proposed peace plan.

"In the run-up to the meeting, implementing the Gaza peace plan was
clearly issue number one on the agenda for Trump. In recent days,
disturbingly but unsurprisingly, we have started to see reporting that
Netanyahu will lobby Trump to conduct more strikes on Iran," writes J
Street Chief Policy Officer Ilan Goldenberg. [ [link removed] ]Read the full piece
here >>

🎟️ Save Your Seat at the J Street 2026 Convention: From working to press
the ceasefire forward to defending for our democracy at the ballot box, J
Street’s work has never been more important. 

* Our 2026 convention will feature pro-peace leaders from Israel and
Palestine, pro-democracy champions in the House and Senate, and
challengers looking to defeat MAGA incumbents up and down the ballot.
Don't miss out on the largest gathering of our pro-Israel, pro-peace,
pro-democracy movement next year! [ [link removed] ]Learn more and register here >>

📖 This Week’s Must-Reads/Listens:

* [ [link removed] ]Israelis Should Protest the Closure of Army Radio Like They Did
the Judicial Coup
"The government closure of a media outlet is no different than
appointing judges who are beholden to it, ignoring High Court rulings
or firing the attorney general. A free media, like an independent
judiciary, are essential to a functioning democracy," writes Haaretz
in an Editorial.

* [ [link removed] ]Double Temptation of Exodus: Diaspora Jews Mull Aliyah as Israelis
Consider Leaving
"[I]t is a democratic failure that now weighs on Jews in Israel.
Western democracies no longer know how to protect their Jews, and the
Jewish state no longer knows how to protect its democratic rights," J
Street leader Sebastian Levi writes in Jerusalem Post.

* [ [link removed] ]Gaza’s New Normal
“Israel’s policies, Hamas’s refusal to lose more power, and the Trump
administration’s poor attention span are likely to foil the peace
proposal’s more ambitious plans for Gaza’s rehabilitation,” Daniel
Byman writes in Foreign Affairs.

🗳️ Our Pro-Democracy To-Do List:

[16][ ] [ [link removed] ] NEW: Tell Congress: Support the Antisemitism Response and
Prevention Act >> >>

[18][ ]  [ [link removed] ]NEW: Tell Washington: We Cannot Look Away from Gaza >>

[20][ ]  [ [link removed] ]NEW: Tell President Herzog: Don't Pardon Netanyahu >>

[22][ ]  [ [link removed] ]NEW: Renew your J Street Membership for 2026 >>

[24][ ]  [ [link removed] ]Sign up for J Street’s 2026 National Convention >>

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

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

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