I am delighted to bring to DKos, tonight's plenary J-Street Conference session:
"View from the Hill: Congress & the U.S.-Israel Relationship" featuring:
Rep. Jan Schakowsky (IL-09)
Rep. Bob Filner (CA-51)
Rep. Geoff Davis (KY-04)
Rep. Charles Boustany (LA-07) as speakers.
Moderated by Bob Franken, former CNN Correspondent
Scheduled from 5:00-6:15PM:
(livestream webcast embed below the fold)
From JStreet.org / Jewcy.com. Used with permission.
If this works, I'll be back tomorrow at 1:00 to 4:00PM with livestream of:
Plenary Session: Why Two States? Why Now?
Introduction: Representative Robert Wexler (FL-19)
Keynote Speaker: General James L. Jones, U.S. National Security Advisor
Israeli Interests:
Bernard Avishai, Business Consultant; Author
Ami Ayalon, Former Member of Knesset (Labor); Former Head of the Shin Bet
Haim Ramon, Former Member of Knesset (Kadima); Former Vice Prime Minister
American Interests:
Martin Indyk, VP & Dir of Foreign Policy-Brookings Institution & Fmr U.S Ambassador to Israel
Mel Levine, Former Member of Congress (D-CA)
Moderator:
Richard Wolffe, Author, Renegade: The Making of a President; Former Senior White House Correspondent, Newsweek
Organizations supporting and participating in this conference:
J-Street: http://www.jstreet.org/...
J-Street PAC: http://www.jstreetpac.org/...
J-Street Education Fund: http://www.upzshalom.org & http://www.jstreetu.org
ALLEPH - Alliance for Jewish Renewal: http://www.aleph.org
Alliance for Middle East Peace: http://www.allmep.org
Ameinu: http://www.ameinu.net
Americans for Peace Now: http://peacenow.org
Btit Tzedek V’Shalom: http://www.btvshalom.org
Center for World Religions, Diplomacy & Conflict Resolution: http://crdcgmu.wordpress.com
Congress of Secular Jewish Organizations: http://www.csjo.org
Foundation for Middle East Peace: http://www.fmep.org
Israel/Palestinian Center for Research and Information: http://www.ipcri.org
Israel Policy Forum: http://www.israelpolicyforum.org
Jewish Peace Lobby: http://www.peacelobby.org
Masa – Israel Journey: http://www.masaisrael.org
MePeace (Network for Peace): http://www.mepeace.org
Meretz USA: http://www.meretzusa.org
New Israel Fund: http://www.nif.org
The OneVoice Movement: http://www.onevoicemovement.org
Peres Center for Peace: http://www.peres-center.org
Rabbis for Human Rights of North America: http://www.rhr-na.org
Shalom Center: http://www.theshalomcenter.org
Workmen’s Circle/Arbeter Ring: http://www.circle.org
Big news is that the conference was scheduled to have about 1,000 attendees and is now over 1,500. Several session I tried to get into has hotel security not letting more folks in, not because of protester but because of the fire marshall room capacity rules.
Right wing Jews of the so called mainstream organizations that have tried to dismiss or ignore or condemn J-Street have failed. The large majority of American Jews who do support Israel and insist that means a real two state solution with an end to settlements and the occupation having a rising organized voice.