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2016 DNC Raises New Questions About How to Make Palestinian Human Rights a Touchstone Progressive Issue
Just four years ago, it would have been unthinkable. But at the 2016 DNC, I witnessed firsthand how the groundswell of support for Palestinian equality made waves inside and outside the convention arena.
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…
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.
al-Aqsa // Temple Mount 101
What’s going on at al-Aqsa/the Temple Mount? The debate over the status of al-Aqsa/the Temple Mount has furthered the misperception that the current violence is yet another cycle in an interminable religious conflict. This is…
June JVP-in-the-News
JVP National: The Guardian: Sheldon Adelson looks to stamp out growing US movement to boycott Israel (June 5, 2015) “Jewish Voice for Peace, a US group which supports sanctions, condemned the legislation for “encouraging illegal…
Anti-BDS summit raised millions to bully the movement for justice
This weekend, Sheldon Adelson hosted a summit in Las Vegas - intended to be secret - to talk about how to fight the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
May JVP in the News
JVP National: Salon: What Israel fears with the successes of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (May 7, 2015) In a statement released by Jewish Voice for Peace, Rabbi Joseph Berman noted: __This legislation, which actually encourages…
April 2015 JVP in the News
JVP Press Highlights: Common Dreams: US lawmakers quietly advance legislation to penalize boycotts of Israel (April 23, 2015) “Rabbi Joseph Berman, federal policy organizer for JVP, declared, “This legislation, which actually encourages illegal settlement building while strengthening…
March JVP in the News
Coverage of the 2015 JVP National Membership Meeting: The Nation: _At a Jewish Voice for Peace Conference: This is What Solidarity Looks Like (March 20, 2015) Nadia Hijab of Al Shabaka, the Palestinian Policy Network, writes about…
Settler colonialism, white supremacy, and the “special relationship” between the U.S. and Israel
February 24, 2015 talk by JVP Deputy Director Cecilie Surasky at Portland State University from Environmental Destruction and the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement: a panel on international resistance. Panelist pictured above, from left: Dr. Michael Yellow Bird,…
February JVP in the News
Highlights of JVP in the media this month: The Washington Post: __Netanyahu doesn__t speak for all American Jews__ (February 20, 2015) JVP__s Executive Director Rebecca Vilkomerson writing about Netanyahu__s upcoming speech to Congress and JVP__s #SkiptheSpeech campaign….
January JVP in the News
Foreign Policy Journal: __The Irrelevance of Liberal Zionism__ (January 5, 2015) JVP friend Richard Falk on the flaws of liberal Zionism and his support for JVP. The Nation: __Breaking Taboos, BDS Gains ground among Academics__…
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