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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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Standing Against Islamophobia in this Time of Grief
We join people around the world who are grieving from acts of mass violence over the past week–in Beirut, Paris, Palestine, and Raqqa. And not just there… but everywhere. Not just this week, but every week. Each day. Right now.
Escalate Peace!: “Welcoming” AIPAC to Milwaukee
Guest Post by JVP Member Rachel Ida Buff, orginially published by Atlas of Difficult On a brisk Monday evening, members of Milwaukee Jewish Voice for Peace, joined by our allies from Students for Justice in…
Progressives: Netanyahu isn’t one of us
25,000 Jews and Allies tell the Center for American Progress: Netanyahu is No Progressive! After a well documented pressure campaign by AIPAC, the Center for American Progress, a leading liberal think-tank, invited Israeli Prime Minister…
JVP Student Network Solidarity Statement
The Jewish Voice for Peace Student Network stands in solidarity with black students at the University of Missouri, and at schools around the country, who have endured harassment, threats of violence, and an unsafe campus…
JVP DC Metro joins “No US Tax Dollars for Israel” rally
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Kristin Szremski, coalition spokeswoman 202.796.8417; media@ampalestine.org Seth Morrison, coalition spokesman 703.271.0370; sethmorrison30@gmail.com Broad coalition set to protest Israeli Prime Minister outside National Building Museum tonight (WASHINGTON DC 11/09/2015) – An unprecedented…
Open Letter to the Center for American Progress
Initiated by the Arab American Institute and Jewish Voice for Peace Press release here. “I know what America is… America is a thing you can move very easily, move it in the right direction. They won’t get…
Progressives tell Center for American Progress: “You’ve made a mistake.”
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Contact: media@jvp.org | 845-377-8745 Kristin McCarthy, Arab American Institute | kmccarthy@aaiusa.org | 202-652-4978 Progressives tell Center for American Progress: “You’ve made a mistake.” Over 100 progressive leaders and organizations, including Naomi…
Portland Human Rights Commission Upholds Divestment Recommendation
On Wednesday November 4, the Portland Human Rights Commission (HRC), reaffirmed their endorsement of Occupation-Free Portland’s (OFP) request that Caterpillar, G4S, Hewlett-Packard and Motorola Solutions be placed on the City’s Do-Not-Buy list for these companies’ human rights violations in supporting the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands.
Jewish National Fund Protest October 2015
Last weekend, over 300 people gathered together in Chicago to protest the Jewish National Fund’s (JNF) Annual Conference. Over the course of two days, we prayed, chanted, marched, and even danced to expose the Jewish National Fund’s involvement in the mass displacement of Palestinians and call on American Jewish communities to stop supporting the JNF’s ongoing ethnic cleansing.
Will World Religions Stand in Support of Justice from Ferguson to Palestine?
“Where is peace? Wherever you let peace in! I cannot stand here before you today, without praying that the wounds of the holocaust and genocide for all people are healed, and that there is justice for my cousins the Palestinian people.
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