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9 Organizations condemn Carnegie Mellon University’s censorship of and retaliation against pro-Palestine students
In censoring and retaliating against pro-Palestine students, CMU has violated fundamental protections for free expression, academic freedom, and protest for all of its community members.
JVP Academic Council Condemns Carnegie Mellon University’s Censorship and Punishment of Anti-Zionist Student Speech
The Academic Council of Jewish Voice for Peace condemns Carnegie Mellon University’s decision to curtail student speech and punish students for protected anti-Zionist speech.
Six attacks every single day.
In recent months, as Israel’s far-right government scrambles to consolidate its control over stolen Palestinian land, settler violence has accelerated even further — in both its frequency and its brutality.
In These Times: “What Organizers Today Can Learn From the Socialist Jewish Labor Bund Movement”
“Dissent persists, especially among the Jews involved in organizations like IfNotNow and Jewish Voice for Peace that have flooded into the streets and set up encampments at college campuses demanding an end to U.S. support for the Israeli government and its war machine.”
7 victories against a rampaging Israel.
At the United Auto Workers labor union’s Constitutional Convention on Thursday, around 1,000 delegates voted in favor of divestment of all UAW funds from Israel Bonds. With over 400,000 union members, the UAW will be the first major national labor union to divest — from an estimated $400,000 in holdings.
A land grab the size of NYC.
Since October 2023, Israel has illegally taken control of an additional 1,000 sq km of territory — bigger than the entirety of New York City — that stretches across Gaza, southern Lebanon, and southern Syria.
There’s no “off” switch on the genocide machine.
There is no real ceasefire in Gaza. Instead, Palestinians in Gaza are living through a genocide by another name.
JVP Academic Council endorses the call to boycott the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA)
The Academic Council of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) endorses the call to boycott the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA) in response to the ASA leadership’s anti-democratic refusal to put a member-led resolution on boycotting Israeli academic institutions to a membership vote.
Waging Nonviolence: “How 3 local BDS campaigns won the divestment of millions in Israeli bonds”
“In the wake of the recent victories, we’re seeing unprecedented breakthroughs and possibilities in a variety of communities.”
The Nation: “May Day and the Reclamation of the Jewish Radical Tradition”
“Our work organizing for a free Palestine is deeply connected to hundreds of years of radical Jewish labor organizing.”
Media Roundup: JVP-NYC shuts down Senate office to demand the U.S. block bombs to Israel.
“What I participated in on Monday makes more sense to me and has given me a greater sense of agency than anything I’ve done all year.”
Media Roundup: JVP is organizing everywhere.
“For these activists, the lesson to draw from Jewish history was one of solidarity with the Palestinians, who have been for a century now rendered stateless and rightless at the hands of a powerful, militaristic nation.”
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