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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEMedia Contact: Sonya E Meyerson-Knox | sonya@jvp.org | 929-290-0317 STATEMENT BY JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE Just over one year since its last horrific attack on Gaza, the Israeli government launched yet another round of catastrophic bombings, flattening homes and killing Palestinian families. This is the fifth attack by Israel of this magnitude since it…
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“Our collective power is working: The ADL never would have disrupted their US-Israel police exchanges without the power of our multiracial intersectional coalition forcing them into a corner”
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“A large and growing number of American Jews understand that the only just response to apartheid is to join the fight for a future of equality and freedom for all.”
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Demanding that Palestinians sign away their rights to the land and homes they’ve lived in for decades is no offer at all. A solution from a legal system that only allows one ethnic group to make claims to land is no solution.
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“It is disappointing, but not surprising, that the Israeli Supreme Court supports a ban prohibiting MK Yousef Jabareen, an elected member of the Knesset, from attending a speaking tour in the U.S. sponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace. MK Jabareen’s voice, which speaks for the full equality of all people in Israel, is one that Americans very much need to hear.”
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A ceasefire does not end the illegal blockade against Gaza, stop Israel’s ongoing theft of Palestinian land, or abate the Israeli government’s violent oppression of the Palestinian people everywhere. We cannot and will not go back to the status quo of Israeli apartheid and colonialism—all enabled by the Israeli government, and funded by our U.S. government.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Sonya E Meyerson-Knox | sonya@jvp.org | 929-290-0317 We are witnessing a watershed moment of Palestinian resistance in the face of unspeakable Israeli violence. The rampant brutality against Palestinians by the Israeli military, police and mobs—aided, orchestrated and encouraged by the Israeli government, and funded, supported and defended by the U.S…
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We choose the struggle for justice over silence and complicity. We choose to join with Palestinians and the growing global movement in support of the right of return for Palestinians, as part of a shared future of justice, equality and freedom for all people.
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Fifteen progressive Jewish groups from across the world issued a call to action on antisemitism, urging a shift from discussing how antisemitism is defined to instead focusing on how antisemitism can be dismantled.
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The Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism (JDA) is an important alternative to the discredited and dangerous International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance working definition (IHRA), but we emphasize that defining antisemitism does not do the urgently needed work of dismantling antisemitism and all forms of racism.
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The controversial IHRA definition poses a direct censorship threat to Palestinians and Palestinian rights advocates. It can easily be used as a censorship tool that falsely conflates attempts to hold the Israeli government accountable with antisemitism.
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When an occupying army is both judge and jury for the occupied, where does one go for justice? Jewish Voice for Peace supports the rights of Palestinians to protest their inhumane conditions. Issa Amro is one of many Palestinian activists who are being prosecuted on politically motivated charges. If he is convicted by an Israeli court, he is undoubtedly a political prisoner.
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