Aipac’s brand has become toxic. Can its ‘pro-Israel, pro-peace’ rival J Street move in?

J Street’s liberal Zionist politics are landing with the Democratic establishment but the electorate may have moved on When Daniel Biss addressed his supporters after clinching the Democratic nomination in Illinois’s ninth congressional district this past March, he did something politicians rarely do: he paid homage to a lobby group. “This victory belongs to J Street,” Biss declared. Continue reading...

By Aaron Gell