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This week: Save Your Seat at the J Street 2026 Convention 🎟️ | We Know
Where This Goes 🗣️ | The End of a Horrible Chapter and an Opening for
Progress 🎗️ | Daniel Biss Makes a Visit to J Street 🌭 | Mark Your
Calendars for Solidarity Shabbats 🗓️ | This Week’s Must-Reads 📖 | 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. 

* "Never in my lifetime has the cost of political inaction been clearer
– or the need for organized, principled engagement more urgent,"
Jeremy wrote in this week’s Substack. [ [link removed] ]Read the full piece here >>

* 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 this year! [ [link removed] ]Learn more and register here >>

Already registered? Help bring more supporters to Convention with our
[ [link removed] ]social media toolkit >>

🗣️ We Know Where This Goes: This week in Minneapolis, Alex Pretti was shot
and killed by ICE agents while lying unarmed on the pavement. Thousands of
miles away, in the South Hebron Hills, [ [link removed] ]dozens of masked settlers
carried out a pogrom – beating Palestinians with clubs and burning the
homes of families who have lived there for generations.

Both of these situations lay bare the consequences of unchecked authority
and years of dehumanization, painfully reminding us of our own history of
persecution and commanding us to speak out.

* “We cannot allow such violence to be normalized – whether it comes at
the hands of agents of the state using lethal force in our streets or
rogue civilians emboldened by extremist ministers to displace entire
communities in occupied territory,” J Street Vice President of
Strategy and Programs Adina Vogel-Ayalon wrote in an email to
supporters.

✍️ [ [link removed] ]Stop Violent ICE Agents and Settler Terrorists ✍️
[ [link removed] ]After you sign, you'll get a follow-up message in your inbox with next
steps to support people and organizations protecting communities on the
ground.

* J Street is proud to partner with over 30 pro-peace, pro-democracy
organizations for a Jews Against ICE Action in Washington, DC on
February 11. Grounded in core Jewish values, this rally makes clear
that there is broad Jewish communal consensus rejecting policies that
dehumanize our neighbors. [ [link removed] ]Learn more about the protest here >>

🎗️ The End of a Horrible Chapter and an Opening for Progress: This week,
the body of Ran Gvili, the last Israeli hostage kidnapped on October 7,
2023, was returned to Israel and laid to rest. With phase one of the
ceasefire officially complete, the burden to advance the 20-point peace
plan laid out by the United States falls on Israeli, Palestinian and
American leadership to shape a better future for the region.

* “Going forward, the US and other mediators must push ahead with
implementing phase two, beginning with fully reopening the Rafah
crossing and surging desperately needed aid and reconstruction
assistance into Gaza. Israel and Hamas must engage in good faith in
the full implementation of the plan,” J Street President Jeremy
Ben-Ami said in a press release. [ [link removed] ]Read the full statement here >>

🌭 Daniel Biss Makes a Visit to J Street: Evanston mayor and J
Street–endorsed congressional candidate for Illinois’ 9th District Daniel
Biss joined Jeremy Ben-Ami and J Street Chief Policy Officer Ilan
Goldenberg to discuss the issues driving his campaign, AIPAC’s
intervention in his contested primary race and ICE’s reign of fear in
American communities in this week’s Word on the Street Live.

* “A lot of political forces out there are trying to ask you to pick one
or the other: Are you for Israel, or are you for justice? And I think
that's a false choice, and a dangerous choice and fundamentally an
unacceptable choice. And so, what I've tried to do in this campaign –
consistent with my values as a human being – is push out those
impulses and reject those entreaties and just say: ‘Here is who I am
and here's what I stand for.’” [ [link removed] ]Watch the full conversation here >>

🗓️ 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:

* [ [link removed] ]Netanyahu Blaming Biden Is a Lie and an Audacious Act of
Ingratitude
"In preparation for this year’s elections, Prime Minister Netanyahu is
crafting an alternative history regarding his responsibility for the
October 7 massacre and also concerning the steadfast support that the
Biden administration provided to Israel in its most difficult moments
over the past two years," J Street Israel Executive Director Nadav
Tamir writes in Times of Israel.

* [ [link removed] ]Israel Went to Extremes to Return Ran Gvili's Body. Why Doesn't It
Accord Dead Palestinians the Same Respect?
"A state that abducted and continues to hold hundreds of bodies – some
buried, some frozen for months and even years – is willing to charge
any price for the return of a single body. To recover Gvili's remains,
the state is permitted to do anything," Gideon Levy writes in Haaretz.

* [ [link removed] ]The IDF Admits It Killed 70,000 Palestinians in Gaza. What Other
Accusations Could Turn Out to Be True?
"The dispute over the number of fatalities may be approaching an end,
but the debate on their identities is still expected to trudge on. The
Israeli public must ask itself what this belated recognition indicates
about the army and the government's credibility regarding Israel's
conduct in Gaza," Nir Hasson writes in Haaretz.

🗳️ Our Pro-Democracy To-Do List:

[15][ ]  [ [link removed] ]NEW: Register for Jews Against ICE Action in Washington, DC
on February 11 >>

[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
>>

[39][ ]  [ [link removed] ]Order J Street Merch >>

[41][ ]  [ [link removed] ]Find pro-Israel, pro-democracy, pro-peace candidates at
JStreetPAC.org >>

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