Volume 56, Number 19 · December 3, 2009
The New J-Lobby for Peace
By Edward Witten
To those who have been supporters both of the state of Israel and of stronger efforts to make peace with the Palestinians, the recent conference organized by the organization called J Street was a fantasy come true. J Street is a nonprofit group founded in April 2008 by, among others, its current executive director, Jeremy Ben-Ami, a Democratic policy adviser in the Clinton administration who has had much experience in public relations. He called it J Street partly as a play on the K Street lobbyists and partly because there is no J Street in Washington and he wanted to suggest that the new organization was filling a gap. Everything about the J Street conference, 'Driving Change, Securing Peace,' that was held in Washington, D.C., in the last week of October was far larger than most expected.
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