In 2014, we wrote an article titled “The Blind Alley of J Street and Liberal American Zionism.”

At the time, Benjamin Netanyahu was in his sixth continuous year as Israel’s prime minister, while President Barack Obama was well into his second term.

And J Street, an emerging organization of Jews aligned with the Democratic administration, had momentum as “the political home for pro-Israel, pro-peace Americans.”

From the outset, ever since its founding in 2007, J Street has implicitly offered itself as a liberal alternative to the hardline American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), which was established more than four decades earlier.

An avowed purpose of J Street has been to seek a humane resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict while maintaining fervent allegiance to Israel as “the Jewish state.” 

Source: The Dead End of Liberal American Zionism