Round up: J Street conference – first full day
I was fortunate enough to get interviews (on video!) with Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf of the Cordoba Initiative and Mona Eltahawy, both incredible thinkers and speakers. The internet at my hostel (and at the conference) is incredibly slow, so I’ll post them once I’m back at home.
More generally, though, the conference this year has a different feel than the last. The moments of complete inspiration are a bit fewer, but there’s much more of a sense of cohesiveness between sessions. J Street has really matured as an organization, and I think a lot of the credit for this goes to the work of the locals, who provide a reference to the real conditions that activists face in attempting to advance the Israel-Palestine discussion on the ground. This isn’t to enforce the view of all Washington politicians as part of a bubble, totally disconnected from the outside world, just to say that a connection to those who are actually the constituents is an invaluable asset for an organization that values its supporters’ views.
Now more than ever, I feel that J Street values mine.
follow us on Twitter
follow us on Facebook
subscribe to our email
Mona Eltahawy Speaks To J-Street, But Who Is She Speaking For?
ikhras.com/2011/03/mona-eltahawy-speaks-to-j-street-but-who-is-she-speaking-for/
When she told the audience “not one anti-Israeli or anti-American sentiment was expressed” during the uprisings in Tunisia, and Egypt (11:40), she was knowingly making a false statement.
—Thabit · March 2nd, 2011 at 12:11 am
@RB:
Is that your J-Street video on youtube? If so, I suggest you put it up here, which might begin an interesting conversation.
If not, you might want to talk to the film maker, because it seems like you are the interviewer also.
—Jonathan1 · March 3rd, 2011 at 5:29 pm
[...] I mentioned in my brief first-day J Street conference round up post, I secured interviews with Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf of the Cordoba Initiative (best known for the [...]
—Interviews with Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf and Mona Eltahawy | Jewschool · March 3rd, 2011 at 9:13 pm
@J1: Which video do you mean?
—renaissanceboy · March 4th, 2011 at 1:01 am
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll0_DVR8pXM
Alright, maybe it’s not your video–the first time I watched I thought it was you asking the questions.
—Jonathan1 · March 4th, 2011 at 3:11 am
Nope, didn’t make that one. I’m in it, but, I was pretty pissed off with how my interviews were edited. Check out my response here.
—renaissanceboy · March 4th, 2011 at 8:31 am
This is why nobody should speak to people with cameras–it might end up with some Max Blumenthal style investigative journalism.
—Jonathan1 · March 5th, 2011 at 7:22 pm