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US pro-Israel groups in bitter feud over Netanyahu’s far-right government

Netanyahu in Jerusalem earlier this week. The dispute reflects a deepening divide among American Jews about what it is to be pro-Israel.
Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem earlier this week. The dispute reflects a deepening divide among American Jews about what it is to be pro-Israel. Photograph: Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images

A public feud has broken out between the US’s leading pro-Israel lobby groups over who represents the true interests of the Jewish state in Washington under the most rightwing government in its history.

The hardline American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac) has called its smaller and more liberal rival, J Street, a “grave threat” to Israel’s security and accused it of endorsing the country’s “most virulent critics” in Congress.

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