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JVP Launches New Arts & Culture Network
The JVP Artist Council is now launching an expanded network of artists and cultural workers. Whether or not a JVP member, and whether a creator of art or a curator, critic, collector, or supporter– joining the JVP Arts & Culture Network Network will allow anyone who’s interested to receive Palestine/Israel-related art news.

An official political blacklist. Yes, it’s really 2016.
The shift has been underway for years now: opponents of Palestinian human rights have de-emphasized actual debate about Israeli policies. Nowhere is this more clear than among those who oppose the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions…

Network Against Islamophobia National Canvassing
The Network Against Islamophobia (NAI), a project of Jewish Voice for Peace, was created to serve as a resource to, and work with, JVP chapters and other groups interested in organizing against Islamophobia and anti-Arab…
Israeli Nationality Law: 1952
Grants citizenship to anyone who immigrates according to the Law of Return, also deprives Palestinian refugees who resided in Palestine before 1948 of the right to acquire residence status or citizenship in Israel.

JVP’s Network Against Islamophobia Statement on Horrifying Attack in Orlando
We are grieving today with and for the Orlando LGTBQ community, and, in particular, the queer and trans Latinx communities that were the targets of this horrifying attack. Our hearts break for all those lost and their loved ones, for all those injured and traumatized.

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…

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.

Statement on Islamophobic Posters at SDSU & UCLA
We strongly condemn the inflammatory and Islamophobic posters that appeared on the campus of San Diego State University (SDSU) on April 14, 2016 and at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) on April 15, 2016….

What shall we do with Haman?
The power to change narratives and evoke new strategies for resisting violence is in our sacred play book, along with the recipe for chocolate chip hamentaschen.
Solidarity Statement in Support of Professor Bill Mullen
We, the undersigned, are deeply disturbed by the attempts to smear those advocating for Palestinians’ rights to racial equality and freedom from occupation with false charges of anti-Semitism. Professor Bill Mullen of Purdue University was recently the…

Branding the Perfect Country: How to make an apartheid state look progressive
[Update, 3/15: Check out the action Storify!] Every year, 400,000 people attend South by Southwest (SXSW) — an international music, film, and interactive media festival which President Obama is headlining. This year, the crowds will…

All The News We Didn’t Print
Ten thousand copies of a special supplement of The New York Times focused on Israel and Palestine were distributed across NYC yesterday, while thousands of on-line versions made their way across the internet. The special supplement, which was a parody, includes such articles as “Congress to Debate US Aid to Israel” and “In the Footsteps of Mandela and King: A Non-Violent Movement Gains Ground Ten Years On,” as well as an editorial, “Our New Editorial Policy: Rethinking Israel-Palestine.”
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