Hundreds of youths on motorcycles waving their party and religious flags gather in downtown Beirut chanting “Shiites, Shiites” and setting fire to tires.

The plan to offset US military aid with money Israel invests in settlements, according to "The Intercept," was ultimately torpedoed by Yael Patir, the group's Israel director, who warned that J Street would lose any influence it has in the Knesset or Israeli politics in general if it endorses conditioning military aid.

"For far too long, BDS has been able to masquerade as a social justice movement in America, while spreading vile Jew-hatred, and inciting hate and violence," says Liora Rez, executive director of anti-Semitism watchdog.

“While you are free to fixate on settlements as a barrier to peace, you are simply wrong in referring to that view as being subject to bipartisan agreement,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo writes in a strong rebuttal to 106 Democrats who had urged him to reverse his declaration on the legality of Israeli settlements.

There are reasons to feel hopeful that the party may, in the near future, seek to rebuild the shattered trust of British Jews.