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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.”

The Intercept: “Abdul El-Sayed Becomes First Senate Candidate Backed by Pro-Palestine Jewish Group”
“Abdul has been a stalwart and unapologetic defender of Palestinian rights and freedom, and his campaign has demonstrated a moral consistency that centers justice and equality for all people. This campaign is a historic opportunity to bring a leader into office who will fight for our communities here at home, and to reimagine a US foreign policy that supports freedom and justice, not genocide and apartheid.”

The Nation: “Israel Bonds, Explained”
“This unethical material support for Israeli apartheid, occupation, and genocide has to end. It’s harmful for Palestinians. It’s harmful for Israelis. And it’s harmful to our communities.”

Religion News Service: “Jewish groups rally in support of Milwaukee Muslim leader detained in ICE jail”
“It is very rare, especially since Oct. 7, 2023, to have so many Jews from such a wide variety of perspectives on Israel come together to defend a Palestinian for Palestinian speech.”

Al Jazeera: “‘Not in my name.’: The Jewish communities fighting the consensus on Israel”
“For far too long, American Jewish institutions have supported the actions of the Israeli government and parroted its justification that what it did was done for the sake of Jewish people everywhere. In doing so, they not only engineered support for the Israeli occupation, apartheid and genocide of Palestinians, but they also silenced and excluded Jews who opposed these actions, or tried to hold the Israeli state accountable for its war crimes.”

The Intercept: “New York Comptroller’s Trip to Israel Raised Ethical Concerns, State Commission Said.”
“Officials like Comptroller DiNapoli are responsible for the safeguarding of pension funds through strategic investing that prioritizes the needs of public sector workers and retirees. Instead, Comptroller DiNapoli is investing the NY pension in Israel Bonds — unrestricted loans to the Israeli military and government used for every aspect of violence against Palestinians.”

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.”

Miami Herald: “Miami Beach commissioner funded billboards targeting activists: court filing”
“I stand with Palestinians and millions across the globe, including large numbers of Jews, who demand justice for the Palestinian people and an end to Israel’s genocide.”

Zeteo: “Antisemitism? Really? The 33 Most Absurd Examples Listed in the ADL’s New Database”
“The ADL even labels anti-Zionist Jewish groups, organizing as Jews, motivated by our Jewish traditions of justice to oppose genocide as somehow antisemitic.”
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