COLUMN LEFT: Left Turn at ‘J Street’: New ‘Israel Lobby’

By Ralph Seliger:

 

After a year and a half of planning and preparation, “J Street,” a new progressive Jewish lobby, was launched in the middle of April as a counterweight to the increasingly conservative American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). There is no physical J Street in Washington, DC, but the name conjures up K Street, the actual hub for lobbying on Capitol Hill.

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