Brit Tzedek v'Shalom, also known as Jewish Alliance for Justice and Peace, is an organization of United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 Jews and describes its members as "deeply committed to Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

's well-being through the achievement of a negotiated

Negotiation

Negotiation is a dialogue between two or more people or parties, intended to reach an understanding, resolve point of difference, or gain advantage in outcome of dialogue, to produce an agreement upon courses of action, to bargain for individual or collective advantage, to craft outcomes to satisfy...

 settlement to the long-standing Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Israeli-Palestinian conflict

The Israeli–Palestinian conflict is the ongoing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. The conflict is wide-ranging, and the term is also used in reference to the earlier phases of the same conflict, between Jewish and Zionist yishuv and the Arab population living in Palestine under Ottoman or...

". They describe this as "necessitating an end to Israel's occupation of land acquired during the 1967 war

Six-Day War

The Six-Day War , also known as the June War, 1967 Arab-Israeli War, or Third Arab-Israeli War, was fought between June 5 and 10, 1967, by Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt , Jordan, and Syria...

 and an end to Palestinian terrorism

Terrorism

Terrorism is the systematic use of terror, especially as a means of coercion. In the international community, however, terrorism has no universally agreed, legally binding, criminal law definition...

". The group endorses a two-state solution

Two-state solution

The two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the consensus solution that is currently under discussion by the key parties to the conflict, most recently at the Annapolis Conference in November 2007...

 to the conflict. The founding president of this organization is Marcia Freedman

Marcia Freedman

Marcia Freedman is an American-Israeli activist on behalf of peace, women's rights, and gay rights. In the early 1970s she helped create and lead the feminist movement in Israel...

.

In 2006, it collaborated with Americans for Peace Now

Americans for Peace Now

Americans for Peace Now , the United States partner of Israel’s Shalom Achshav organization, is an American coalition working to help Israel achieve a secure peace with the Arab states and the Palestinian people...

 and the Israel Policy Forum to lobby Congress against the Palestinian Anti-Terrorism bill (H.R. 4681)http://www.govtrack.us/data/us/bills.text/109/h/h4681.pdf. which was supported by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee

American Israel Public Affairs Committee

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee is a lobbying group that advocates pro-Israel policies to the Congress and Executive Branch of the United States...

 (AIPAC). The bill eventually became law, but in a form that was quite different than the original language proposed by AIPAC.

they list 38 chapters. A press release from October 14, 2006, claims more than 35,000 members.

According to its January 2010 newsletter, it is integrating into J Street

J Street

J Street is a nonprofit liberal advocacy group based in the United States whose stated aim is to promote American leadership to end the Arab-Israeli and Israel-Palestinian conflicts peacefully and diplomatically. It was founded in April 2008....

. This is apparently for strategic coordination, instead of an outright merger.

Further reading

• J Street Makes a Strategic Acquisition, by Nathan Guttman, The Forward, September 4, 2009.