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This week: Save Your Seat at the J Street 2026 Convention 🎟️ | Coffee with
The Contrarians ☕️ | This Week from the Policy Center 📝 | Word on the
Street 🚧 | Mark Your Calendars for Solidarity Shabbats 🗓️ | This Week’s
Must-Reads/Listens 📖 | Our Pro-Democracy To-Do List 🗳️ | And much more.

🎟️ Save Your Seat at the J Street 2026 Convention: From working to press
the ceasefire forward to defending 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.
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☕️ Coffee with The Contrarians: This week, J Street President Jeremy
Ben-Ami joined Jennifer Rubin and Norman Eisen on Coffee with The
Contrarians to talk authoritarianism, Trump’s “Board of Peace”, AIPAC and
more.

* “Four or five years ago, AIPAC shifted gears and decided to get
directly into politics. They've now raised $100 million and more per
cycle, mostly from Republican billionaires. And then they take that
money, and they spend it almost exclusively in Democratic primaries.
And they are looking to turn Israel into a wedge issue in the
Democratic Party, which I believe could only serve the partisan
interest of the Republican donors to AIPAC,” Jeremy told viewers.
[ [link removed] ]Watch the full conversation here >>

📝 This Week from the Policy Center: J Street’s Policy Center publishes
timely analyses of policy priorities and the diplomatic role the US plays
in the Middle East.

* [ [link removed] ]Explained: Israel's Deregistration of International Aid
Organizations
The Israeli government is pushing ahead with plans to deregister
international NGOs (INGOs) unless they provide a complete list of
their Palestinian employees, insisting the measure is necessary to
prevent Hamas and other militant groups from infiltrating their
operations. J Street Senior Policy Fellow Larry Garber and J Street
Policy Analyst Liam Hamama assess the implications of this
deregistration on the Gaza humanitarian situation and discuss new
developments with the Rafah crossing:

“In a conflict in which over 500 humanitarian workers have been
killed, the INGOs believe that handing over their staff lists without
agreed-upon parameters for their use would violate their duty of care
to their local staff.”

“Replacing humanitarian organizations with private contractors was the
logic behind the failed effort of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation,
which resulted in hundreds of Palestinian civilian casualties and was
ultimately scrapped once the ceasefire went into effect.” [ [link removed] ]Read the
full piece here >>

🚧 Word on the Street: J Street publishes commentary, video conversations
and policy pieces on our Substack throughout the week. [ [link removed] ]Subscribe here
>>

* [ [link removed] ]Another Boring Week? Not Here!
As Trump announced Phase 2 of the Gaza ceasefire, the new technocratic
government in Gaza looked set to deploy and AIPAC took its first
swings at this year’s Democratic primaries, there was no shortage of
topics for Jeremy and J Street Chief Policy Officer Ilan Goldenberg to
discuss on this week’s Word on the Street Live.

“The idea that somehow [the Board of Peace] is going to be recognized
by anybody or do anything other than what it was initially supposed to
do – which is to help provide some international support for Gaza
reconstruction, demilitarization and redevelopment – is a fantasy of
Trump’s that people are going to let play out, and then will let
disappear into the ether of history,” Ilan said. [ [link removed] ]Watch the full
discussion >>

* [ [link removed] ]Memo to AIPAC: Attacking Tom Malinowski Is No Way To Build American
– or Democratic – Support for Israel
This week, Jeremy called out the hypocrisy in AIPAC’s attack on Tom
Malinowski and reflected on the futility of the organization’s history
of going after pro-Israel, pro-peace Democrats:

“Dumping massive sums into competitive Democratic primaries to take
down thoughtful pro-Israel Democrats who don’t want to give a blank
check to Bibi Netanyahu is not the way to build durable bipartisan
support for Israel in the United States.” [ [link removed] ]Read the full piece here
>>

* [ [link removed] ]The Good, The Ugly and The Insane of This Week’s White House Gaza
Announcements
Jeremy breaks down the White House’s many Gaza announcements of the
past week, honing in on the obstacles the peace process faces and the
potential for an authoritarian sweep posed by Trump’s “Board of
Peace.”

“There is real progress here – especially the move toward technocratic
Palestinian governance and meaningful international engagement. But
the picture remains clouded – with overlapping mandates, outrageous
and illegitimate assertions of power and a frosty Israeli reaction,”
he writes. [ [link removed] ]Read more >>

🗓️ Mark Your Calendars for Solidarity Shabbats: Take a stand as Trump
endangers the communities we care for most, and join J Street in standing
shoulder-to-shoulder with the National Council of Jewish Women and HIAS,
two organizations doing incredible work to live out our Jewish and
democratic values.

* Get involved with Repro Shabbat on February 13-14: Host your own
gathering or join a pre-planned event in your community. Find what
suits you and honor the Jewish value of reproductive freedom.
[ [link removed] ]Learn more from NCJW >>

* One month later, join us for Refugee Shabbat on March 13-14: Register
to join hundreds of Jewish communities in standing up for our
immigrant and refugee neighbors facing extreme dehumanization under
the Trump Administration. [ [link removed] ]Find out how you can participate >>

📖 This Week’s Must-Reads/Listens:

* [ [link removed] ]Netanyahu's 'Total Victory' Is Israel's Security Nightmare, 
“The next war is already on its way. The script is known: Hamas
restores its power, takes advantage of Qatari money to rebuild its
terror infrastructure and waits for an opportunity. The next round
will come with the terrorism backed by Turkey and Qatar, but then
Israel will be more isolated, more divided and weaker. This is what
abandonment looks like. Netanyahu has brought us back to a point worse
than where we were on October 6," Israeli opposition leader and J
Street Convention speaker Yair Golan writes in Haaretz. 

* [ [link removed] ]Is the ‘Board of Peace’ Just Another Trump Scam, or a Real Move
Toward Middle East Peace?
“Realistically, it would be a mistake for any country to put its
security in the hands of a mechanism personally controlled by Trump.
Such a structure — with power concentrated in the hands of one man,
who would oversee all finances and be able to effectively veto any
decision — is incompatible with constitutional government,
transparency and the rule of law,” Dan Perry writes in The Forward.

* [ [link removed] ]Naftali Bennett Has a Dangerous Plan to Dismantle Israel's
Education Ministry
"Bennett speaks in a language that's music to the liberals' ears:
administration, efficiency, empowerment, autonomy, freedom, community.
But this language conceals a dangerous idea: A country that waives its
role in fostering equality, defending the civic space and asserting a
commitment to solidarity," Ayelet Katzir writes in Haaretz.

🗳️ Our Pro-Democracy To-Do List:

[17][ ]  [ [link removed] ]NEW: Tell Congress: End ICE's Fear Campaign >>

[19][ ]  [ [link removed] ]NEW: Tell The Senate: No More Blocking Life Saving Aid >>

[21][ ]  [ [link removed] ]NEW: [ [link removed] ]Tell Congress: Trump Can't Invoke the Insurrection
Act >> 

[24][ ]  [ [link removed] ]NEW: [ [link removed] ]198 Methods of Nonviolent Action to Fight
Authoritarianism >> 

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

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

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

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

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

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

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