Our power lies in our commitment to one another.

_{Photo: JVP members gather for Tashlich in Detroit, Michigan (Andrew Mullin)}

A letter from Stefanie Fox, Executive Director of Jewish Voice for Peace

If you’re in fear, grief, shock or rage — I’m right there with you. For over a year we have witnessed the U.S.-backed Israeli genocide of Palestinians, and the campaign of annihilation worsens every second. Now Trump and the far-Right have an unprecedented mantle of power to decimate our communities and continue the genocide. The crises before us are immense. 

The world feels impossible, unbearable. There is lots to say about why we are here, and even more to say about how we keep fighting. But in this moment, I want us to remember that we have one another. And with what we are up against, we will need each other more than ever. 

We come from generations of resistance, of defying the impossible cruelty of societies built on domination. The Right fuels itself on our isolation and rose to power on a politics of despair. The antidote, as always, is organizing. Our power lies in our commitment to one another and in our solidarity. We will not allow our communities to be turned against one another or scapegoated. We refuse to be divided. 

This election cycle suggested that the fight against fascism at home is separate from the fight against genocide abroad. But we know it is the same struggle. There is no way to fight for real, radical, multi-racial democracy in the U.S. without working toward Palestinian liberation. And there was no way to defeat MAGA in this election by fully writing off this movement and the needs of working people. It’s never been clearer that the survival of all of our communities is bound up together. Fighting for freedom for Palestinians is inseparable from the work of liberation everywhere, including for our immigrant, Black and brown, Arab, Muslim, Jewish, trans and queer communities here.

We have what it takes. The frontlines in the fight for a different world are already here. Millions have been in the streets all year, fighting to save lives. We are already organized, already moving in broad coalitions for the wellbeing of all people and the planet.

The task ahead is to level up that organizing, strengthen those coalitions, sharpen our strategy. To build power like never before. To bring new people into our organizations and movements, to know our neighbors, to offer each other protection and mutual aid, to recommit to being in motion, for and with one another. We refuse to succumb to isolation, despair or disorientation. Instead we rely on radical love to fuel our movements for the fights ahead. 

Whatever we are up against next, we are in it together. I believe in us.

With love and commitment,
Stefanie