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Aaron Gell

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

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Jeremy Ben-Ami, president of J street, from a press conference where members of Congress unveiled the Two-State Solution Act in Washington DC, on 23 September 2021. Illustration: Guardian Design/Zuma Press/Alamy

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.

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