A New Voice for Israel: Jeremy Ben-Ami, Director of J Street
by Breese | October 23, 2011 - 19:00 - 20:30
Emotions run high when it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the role of the United States in helping to resolve it. Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street founder and former policy advisory to President Clinton, makes a compelling argument for why Israel needs to have an alternative Jewish voice in Washington that might reform American policy and bring about a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine stalemate. Ben-Ami outlines how our current policies towards Israel are largely based on a handful of assumptions that do not hold up against the current realities and how there is an urgent need for a pro-Israel agenda that includes compromise and engagement with the opposition. Ben-Ami’s prescriptive direction for both American policy and conversation within the American Jewish community, was described recently by the New York Times’ Nicholas Kristof as, “a clarion call for American reasonableness in the Middle East.”
Jeremy Ben-Ami
Executive Director of J Street and JStreetPAC
Jeremy Ben-Ami is Executive Director of J Street and JStreetPAC, the political voice of the pro-Israel, pro-peace movement. From 2003-4, he was Policy Director for Howard Dean's presidential campaign; in 2001, he was one of the managers of Mark Green's Mayoral campaign in New York City; and, from 1992 through 1996, he worked for former President Bill Clinton, serving for two years as the President's Deputy Domestic Policy Advisor.
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First Congregational Church
1126 SW Park Avenu
Portland, Oregon
United States
