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A message from JVP Director Stefanie Fox.
We must refuse to cede one inch before we’ve lost it.

Jewish Voice for Peace Opposes Trump’s Plan to Silence and Deport Anti-War Students
January 29, 2025 – Donald Trump is reportedly planning to continue his violent crusade aimed at gutting freedom and democracy with an Executive Order today calling for the deportation of non-citizen anti-war activists, with a…

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.

JVP & PPP: lawfare is a tool of far-right repression
This investigation was prompted by notorious anti-Palestinian agitator David Abrams and the entire investigation was clearly politically motivated. While we think the charges are outrageous and inaccurate, Jewish Voice for Peace ultimately determined that opposing…

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.

First ceasefire, then Palestinian liberation.
The coming days and weeks during this fragile ceasefire will be critical for the Palestine solidarity movement to turn this temporary agreement into a full halt of the genocide.

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.

On Repression and Unjust Punishment at Pomona College
A statement of the JVP Academic Advisory Council The Jewish Voice for Peace Academic Advisory Council fully endorses the Middle Eastern Studies Association’s letter of November 4, 2024 to “the leaders of the Claremont colleges…

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