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Tel Rumeidah Support Campaign
The campaign report below was drafted by Riad Arar of Defense for Children International-Palestine. To learn more about the campaign, visit https://www.freedom4telrumeida.com/. Justice now – End the isolation – End the ethnic cleansing – End the…
An Open Letter to the Portland City Council from the JVP Rabbinical Council
We write to you as members of the Jewish Voice for Peace Rabbinical Council to encourage your efforts to place Caterpillar on Portland’s Do Not Buy List. We applaud your ethical commitment to socially responsible…
Columbus City Council resolves to root out Islamophobia
Guest Post by JVP-Central Ohio Chapter When a Columbus City Councilperson announced a community “listening” meeting, JVP Central Ohio members went to present the councilperson with information about Islamophobia and to recommend that City Council…

Tales from Tel Rumeida
I returned to Tel Rumeida today to visit my friend and her mother. While waiting to get through the Shuhada street checkpoint, I ran into a colleague who works with Human Rights Defenders. I overheard a man who was standing next to us saying wahed, wahed, or “one by one.”

Day 1 of Issa Amro’s trial demonstrates international community’s support of Palestinian human rights defender
Today was the first hearing in a military trial against Issa Amro, a Palestinian human rights defender facing a laundry list of charges relating to his nonviolent activism.
Organizing for Palestinian Rights in a time of Trump
On Tuesday, November 8, 2016, the world turned upside down as Donald J. Trump won the electoral college to become President-elect of the United States. In the subsequent days, among grieving, confusion, despondency, resolve, support,…
Letter of Support to University of Michigan SAFE Divestment Initiative
Jewish Voice for Peace stands with Students Allied for Freedom and Equality (SAFE) at the University of Michigan as they call upon their university to divest from corporations complicit in Israel’s occupation, dispossession and oppression of the Palestinian people.

Nine Philly Rabbis & Jewish community members arrested protesting Dakota Access Pipeline at TD Bank
Nine rabbis, rabbinical students and Jewish community members were arrested in a civil disobedience action protesting the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline at a TD Bank on Market Street in Philadelphia Wednesday evening.

Reflections on the School of the Americas Watch Convergence/Encuentro
During the High Holidays 5777 (Oct 2016) JVP members from across the country participated in the School of the Americas Watch convergence at the US/Mexico border.

JVP Members Unite at School of the Americas Watch Convergence/Encuentro
SOAW brought the Convergence to the US/Mexico border this year to draw connections between US Military domination in the Americas and the experience of immigrants crossing into US territory.

Stand with Muslims Against Islamophobia and Racism
Join the Network Against Islamophobia (NAI) in putting these posters and stickers in your homes, in your neighborhood stores, in our communities, around your schools.
Divine In Here: a D’var Torah for JVP
Two weeks ago, I traveled to Camp GUCI Indiana to participate in the JVP Midwest Leadership Development Institute, where I spent the weekend learning with 20 fellow chapter leaders from across the Midwest. I shared the following d’var Torah on Friday evening.
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