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October 16, 2023
All eyes on Gaza. We can’t look away now.
Israeli officials are openly planning to open “the gates of hell” on Gaza.
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Jewish Voice for Peace Statement on Gov. Cuomo’s Executive Order on BDS
This executive order shows how out of touch the political leadership is with the growing numbers of Americans who support the use of nonviolent tactics to achieve freedom and equality for Palestinians.
JVP at University of California-Irvine statement on recent protest
It is for these reasons that JVP at University of California-Irvine supports the protesters and condemns the ludicrous and clearly racist logic of the administrators in dealing with this matter.
JVP on the New Israeli Governing Coalition
The appointment of Avigdor Lieberman as Defense Minister and the inclusion of the Yisrael Beiteinu party in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition will make the proposed new Israeli government the most right-wing in Israel’s history.
Academics around the world sign petition to free Palestinian Astrophysicist Imad Barghouthi
Over 350 academics from around the world have signed a petition to free renowned Palestinian astrophysicist Imad Barghouthi,
Facing the Nakba in 2016
Facing the Nakba, a Jewish Voice for Peace project offers educational resources to American Jews and a general American audience about the history of the Nakba and its implications in Palestine/Israel today.
Strangers in the House: Coming of Age in Occupied Palestine
“(My father) climbed the steps to his own house and opened the door. It was dark and stuffy inside. His wife had closed all the windows and shutters and draped the new furniture with white sheets. It…
Canary Mission
Jewish Voice for Peace unequivocally condemns Canary Mission, a malicious website that seeks to vilify principled activists for Palestinian human rights with targeted campaigns of misinformation, bigotry and slander.
University of California Campuses Speak Out Against President Napolitano & Chancellors
**This page will be updated as more campuses respond*** On April 19th, 2016, President Janet Napolitano and all ten UC Chancellors signed a letter to the leadership of the American Anthropological Association, to “express their…
Visualized: Millennials more likely than older generations to sympathize with Palestinians
A new Pew Research Center Survey found that support for Palestinian is growing among young people and liberal Democrats, and is the highest its been in 15 years. (Graph)
Reflections on JVP-Tucson’s cross-border solidarity seder
On April 29th 2016, Jewish Voice for Peace – Tucson hosted, along with local human rights organizations and activists, the first ever binational, bilingual Passover solidarity seder on both sides of the U.S./Mexico border in Nogales. Into the traditional seder they incorporated modern stories of oppression, struggle, exodus, and liberation, and created a new bilingual Haggadah that centers stories of migration struggles and cross-border solidarity.
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