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March 26, 2025
As Israel expands the genocide, repression mounts in the U.S.
As Israel prepares plans for a full-scale ground invasion and occupation of Gaza, its backers in the U.S. are escalating their crackdown on dissent.
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JVP Academic Council Statement on Pomona College Complying with the House Education and Workforce Committee Request
The JVP Academic Council finds that the House Committee’s misunderstanding of “antisemitism” at Pomona College both supports the oppression of Palestinians and makes Jews less safe.
JVP Academic Council Condemns Federal Government’s Attempt to Intimidate U.S. Universities Into Repression
The Task Force’s attack on US universities uses the guise of antisemitism as an excuse to attack a student-led movement for social justice. There is nothing antisemitic about opposing genocide.
JVP Academic Council Open Letter of Deep Concern to the NAIS
The Academic Council of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) writes with deep concern about the NAIS letter of December 12 repudiating Dr. Suzanne Barakat and Dr. Ruha Benjamin for speaking with integrity at the NAIS’s People of Color conference about the Israeli state’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
Jewish Academics Condemn Criminalization of Campus Protest
As Jewish academics, researchers, and higher education professionals, we condemn the growing trend of university administrators suppressing free speech and criminalizing protest for Palestine on college campuses across the country.
JVP Academic Council Statement of Disapproval on Dismissal at the University of Michigan
We urge the University of Michigan to reject the superficial evidence that has been presented for such serious charges against Ms. Dawson and reinstate her at once with an apology.
JVP Academic Council condemns Cornell University President’s attack on its own “Gaza, Indigeneity, Resistance” class
Dear Interim President Kotlikoff: Jewish Voice for Peace’s Academic Advisory Council condemns your attack on a course developed by Prof. Eric Cheyfitz, a distinguished Jewish member of Cornell’s humanities faculty, titled “Gaza, Indigeneity, Resistance.” According…
On Recent Repression of Anti-Genocide and Pro-Palestinian Protest by the NYU Administration
The Academic Council condemns the NYU administration’s deployment of both state powers of policing and the university’s own para-state powers in order to stifle peaceful and lawful speech and assembly in resistance to the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza.
On the Modern Language Association Leadership’s Refusal to Allow Vote on BDS Resolution
The MLA’s actions contravene the most fundamental tenets of scholarly and free inquiry and shared governance.
AN OPEN CALL TO FELLOW JEWISH ACADEMICS FROM JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE ACADEMIC ADVISORY COUNCIL
May 19, 2024 As Jewish academics, researchers, and higher education professionals, we are appalled by, and refuse to accept, the deliberate mis-characterization, and weaponization of persisting fears about Jewish safety and well-being on campuses across…
Jewish Voice for Peace Academic Advisory Council Stands with Palestine Writes Festival
Opposing speech by and about Palestinian lives displays a one-sided view of the situation in Palestine/Israel.
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