Study, Organize, Win

Over last two years, JVP members, alongside millions of people of conscience around the world, have been working toward for a ceasefire, an end to genocide, and toward Palestinian liberation. Thousands of people have joined JVP in the process and we must skill up together in service of making our most powerful contribution to the movement for Palestinian liberation.

In the wake of the current ceasefire and as authoritarianism continues to rise in the U.S, this next period will require deeper and more rigorous struggle toward full liberation, accountability, self-determination, and justice for Palestinians. This fall training series is designed to support members in developing organizing skills, political education, and strategic analysis. Whether you’ve joined JVP in the last few weeks, months, or years, or if you’ve been a member for the last decade, you are welcome to join this training series.

Beginning in early November, JVP is launching “Study, Organize, Win (SOW),” a political education and organizing training series that will happen weekly through the fall and winter 2025. Each session includes training or political education, some participatory discussion, and practice with other members.

What will these trainings cover?

Organizing Skills: includes how to bring in new people, how to build and run strategic campaigns, and how to communicate our message effectively
Political Education: includes Palestine and Zionism 101, antisemitism from a collective liberation framework, and understanding the U.S.-Israel alliance so we can better dismantle it.

Who can attend these trainings?

These trainings are for dues-paying JVP members. If you’re not yet a JVP member, or your membership has lapsed, please join here.

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November 6: Intro to JVP’s Theory of Change and How We Organize

Join this intro session and series launch to get clear on JVP’s Theory of Change and Organizing Approach so you can teach them to others. We’ll cover the basics of JVP’s:

Analysis: What upholds the US-Israel alliance?

Strategies: How can we shift the political, cultural, and financial calculus that maintains Israeli genocide and apartheid?

Role: What is our specific task in as Jews in the US?

Approach: What actually is organizing, and how do we do it effectively?

Register here.

November 12: Mass Member Meeting

All current JVP members are invited to the upcoming quarterly Mass Member Meeting. Join fellow members for an exploration of these central questions:

Analysis: How do we understand the ceasefire, the Trump deal and shifts in US conditions?

Strategy: What role do we play in this next phase of the struggle towards ending the genocide and stopping U.S. complicity, as part of the longterm struggle for Palestinian liberation? How do we play our role in showing up to resist authoritarianism in the U.S.?

Organizing: How can we stay as organized as possible to make these contributions, and what can each of us do?

Register here.

November 18: Freedom Trainers: Collective Noncooperation Training For These Times

As individuals, groups, and communities we can refuse to cooperate with official policies and actions nonviolently. When we take away our acquiescence at a massive scale, undemocratic actors can be stopped in their tracks.

We are members of JVP Philly who studied with the Freedom Trainers, a loose network of activists sharing the powerful tools of collective noncompliance and mass noncooperation for this moment in the U.S. These strategies of noncooperation have been used successfully by anti-authoritarian movements around the world. We are thrilled to disseminate these learnings among our fellow JVP member-leaders.

Register here.

November 20: Relational Organizing for Power: How to Have Hard Conversations, with Esther Farmer

As the relentless genocide in Gaza continues, the call to engage our loved ones around Palestinian liberation and the urgency to move them away from Zionism has never been greater. Yet, many of us still struggle with how to approach these conversations effectively.

JVP-NYC’s Hard Conversations team invites you to join us for a virtual workshop on How to Have Hard Conversations. This workshop intends to empower you to have these crucial conversations in your communities.

Register here.

December

December 2: Who Gets to Tell the Story? Centering Blackness in Jewish Cultural Narratives with Efrat Yerday and Bryan Roby

This session is only for people of Black and/or African descent. All faiths or non-faiths welcome. This session is presented by the Black Jewish Liberation Collective and the JVP BIJOCSM Network.

Too often, understandings of Blackness and Jewishness are shaped by American-centric frameworks that erase global histories and uphold whiteness as their default authority. This talk challenges those narratives by centering Black Jewish experiences, confronting the erasure of Black Jewish history, and dismantling the hegemony of white-presenting Jews as cultural gatekeepers. By reframing who gets to tell the story, we open space for more expansive, truthful, and inclusive Jewish narratives.

Register here.

December 4: Antisemitism from a Framework of Collective Liberation with PARCEO

The “Curriculum on Antisemitism from a Framework of Collective Liberation” is devoted to understanding and challenging antisemitism grounded in a deep commitment to justice and dignity for all people. To fight antisemitism alongside all forms of injustice and systems of oppression, we need to make clear what antisemitism is, how it manifests, what it is not, and how it is misused — in the name of fighting antisemitism — to serve an anti-liberatory agenda and to thwart the movement for Palestinian justice.

Register here.

December 8: United Front Practice with Loan Tran from Rising Majority

How do our movements build power together instead of apart? This session introduces the basics of United Front practice— what it is, why it’s needed, and how it shapes the work we’re doing now.

We’ll explore how the Palestine movement can strengthen the broader Left alongside other sectors, and how Rising Majority, a coalition that JVP is part of, is organizing toward a shared long-term vision. We'll dig into the challenges and possibilities of working across differences to build collective power and lasting change.

Register here.

December 10: BDS 101 with Olivia Katbi

In this workshop, Olivia Katbi of the Palestinian-led BDS Movement will give an overview of BDS and the different kinds of BDS campaigns that organizers can choose to take on. She'll also go through a case study breaking down a successful local BDS campaign, showing step by step how the strategy was created and the tactics that were used which eventually led the group to a BDS win. She can also answer questions about BDS, organizing, and campaigning.

Register here.

December 16: Palestinian Histories of Resistance to Zionism with Dr. Abdel Razzaq Takriti

December 21: SWANA-Jewish and Mizrahi Perspectives with JVP SWANA Jewish Organizers

How can a collective liberation lens guide us to engage with SWANA-Jewish and Mizrahi histories and political thought? And how does doing so serve JVP’s organizing mandate? SWANA-Jewish and Mizrahi member-leaders will guide discussion of a broad sampling of primary sources to expand fellow organizers' exposure to these topics. The goals of the workshop are to demonstrate an alternative to flattening, Eurocentric modes of discourse, and to offer a foundation for further exploration.

Register here.

These trainings are in addition to the Daily Power Half-Hour for Gaza.

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