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Dear Presidents Octoby, Schult, Marcus-Newhall, Chodosh, Klawe, Poon, and Schuster, We are writing to express our concern over recent attacks on freedom of speech at Claremont Colleges, after members of Claremont Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace were falsely accused by administrators and campus security of biased and hateful speech for their protests against…
Read MoreWe, 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 target of a vicious smear campaign that linked him to swastikas and anti-Semitic slurs found outside the American Studies department office at…
Read MoreFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Naomi Dann | media@jvp.org | 845-377-5745 March 15, 2016–The draft statement of principles on intolerance released by the University of California Regents working group fails in its stated goals to provide guidance for UC administrators to challenge all forms of discrimination and hatred. The draft statement, which should be about protecting…
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University of California Faculty Letter Re: Statement of Principles Against Intolerance Read the full text of the letter below. To add your name, fill out the form. For more information, contact tallie@jvp.org Add Your Name to the Letter To: Professor Kathleen Montgomery, Chair UC Committee on Academic Freedom Professor Dan Hare, Chair, University-wide Academic…
Read MoreDear Chairperson Schmidt and Chancellor Milliken, Jewish Voice for Peace urges you to protect the constitutional rights of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapters throughout the CUNY system. Students for Justice in Palestine have a fundamental right to exist on campus, and to freely pursue their goals of supporting Palestinian rights, criticising unjust policies…
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We are deeply concerned with the list of “experts” chosen by the Working Group on the Statement of Principles against Intolerance.
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As Jewish students active in intersectional struggles for justice, we are troubled by recent articles and opinion pieces published in the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, the Jewish Daily Forward, the New York Jewish Week, the Daily Beast, and Haaretz that have suggested that Jewish students on college campuses across the country are ‘threatened’ by student protests…
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In Genesis we read: Jacob woke from his sleep and said, surely God is in this place, and I did not know it! It happened for me like that too. Well, maybe not exactly. Let me tell you what happened: In the summer of 2007, while I was studying to become a rabbi, I lived in the West Bank for two months. One day I planted trees in a destroyed olive grove outside of Nablus.
Read MoreJewish Voice for Peace condemns the reported use by a student government representative at the University of Santa Cruz of the term ‘Jewish agenda’ to describe another student’s opposition to the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement on campus. No student on campus should ever be stigmatized on behalf of their race, religion, ethnicity, or cultural identity.
Read MoreThe Jewish Voice for Peace Student Network stands in solidarity with black students at the University of Missouri, and at schools around the country, who have endured harassment, threats of violence, and an unsafe campus environment for far too long. We support the work of #ConcernedStudent1950 and are keeping students in our thoughts as the…
Read MoreOn October 27, the Regents of the University of California held a public forum seeking input from students & faculty on a new policy denouncing intolerance, including anti-semitism, on campus. Below is the testimony delivered by UC Berkeley student and JVP-member Kelsey Waxman. My name is Kelsey Waxman, and I am a fourth year student…
Read MoreJewish Voice for Peace and its network of campus chapters, students and alumni around the country strongly condemn the acts of intimidation and harassment faced by Students for Justice In Palestine chapters at University of Chicago (U of C) and University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). At the U of C, anonymous posters responded to an SJP campaign to…
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