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December 5, 2025

$27 million in divestment victories.

The West Bank is in crisis. Palestinians in the West Bank are experiencing the highest rates of settler and state violence in recent history, all while the mainstream media continues to push Palestine out of the news. 

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January 14, 2025 |

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.

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January 14, 2025 |

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…

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December 19, 2024 |

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. 

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December 5, 2024 |

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.

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November 18, 2024 |

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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November 6, 2024 |

Our power lies in our commitment to one another.

We refuse to be divided.

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October 22, 2024 |

Speak truth: These atrocities are crimes against humanity.

As rabbis we have taken on a sacred responsibility to protect our ancient tradition, to support our community, and to offer moral leadership amid crisis. We find ourselves in a horrifying historical moment.

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October 7, 2024 |

Statement: A year of horror, grief and outrage

This has been a year of unspeakable horror, grief and outrage.  And now, after a year of genocide against Palestinians, the Israeli government is waging a campaign of death and destruction that has brought the…

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October 2, 2024 |

On the firing of tenured faculty member Maura Finkelstein by Muhlenberg College

The Academic Advisory Council (AAC) of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) condemns the firing of tenured faculty member Maura Finkelstein by Muhlenberg College’s administration and trustees for speech in support of Palestinian freedom.

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May 26, 2024 |

Another Israeli massacre on displaced Palestinians in Rafah

The Israeli military has just carried out a massacre in Rafah. They bombed displaced families huddled in tents, killing over 35 people with more trapped in the flaming debris. The death toll is still rising. …

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May 13, 2024 |

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…

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May 7, 2024 |

Jewish Voice for Peace Responds to President Biden: You dishonor the memory of our families killed in the Holocaust

Biden’s speech distracts from U.S. complicity in the ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.

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