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As U.S.-based rabbis, we are watching the crisis unfold, grieving so many hundreds of lives lost. We call for an immediate end to the violence.
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As rabbis, we condemn the Israeli government’s devastating attack on the people of Jenin.
Read MoreThe Rabbinical Council of Jewish Voice for Peace supports the Anthropology Boycott Resolution being put before the American Anthropology association to be voted upon by members. As rabbis who support nonviolent tactics pursued for the sake of justice, including boycott, divestment, and sanctions, we are encouraged by all actions that hold the Israeli state accountable…
Read MoreThe JVP Rabbinical Council is a network of rabbis, cantors and rabbinical students that supports the mission of JVP, JVP’s thousands of members, the Palestine solidarity movement, and each other. A group of Rabbis started the council in 2011, seeking chevra (camaraderie) with others wanting to take action for justice for Palestinians and Israelis, including…
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We, North American Rabbis, watch with great concern as extensive violence is unleashed on Israel and Palestine once again. We are mindful of our friends in the large, Palestinian community in the United States, Canada and beyond who are grief-stricken by the endless violence perpetrated against their people back home in Palestine. In the last…
Read MoreThe Israeli government’s domination and oppression of Palestinians is the root cause of each of these senseless, tragic deaths
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Over the past four days, the community of Jewish Voice for Peace rabbis has watched Israeli armed forces in full riot gear beating unarmed Muslim worshippers saying prayers for Ramadan at the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Our hearts go out to our Muslim siblings whose Ramadan prayers were so brutally disrupted. We deplore the…
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“We oppose nationalistic quotas and movements to retain Jewish demographic supremacy in Jerusalem and elsewhere in Israel, and in territories that Israel occupies and controls. We further decry the brutal and repressive campaign of violence by Israeli forces to drive residents from their homes to clear the way for settlements, tactics including rubber-coated bullets, ‘skunk water,’ and sound bombs.”
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Omar supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement, and Jewish Voice for Peace is proud to defend her. As the success of the #IStandWithIlhan campaign shows, Ilhan Omar – and everyone who criticizes Israeli violations of Palestinian human rights – will not be silenced.
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We write to express our strong support for the young people organizing the upcoming National Students for Justice in Palestine conference at UCLA. We applaud these students for organizing this conference because we believe strongly in students engaging in their world and working for justice, which includes justice for Palestinians. Students for Justice in Palestine has not only been an important space for students to speak up for the rights of Palestinians, it has also been a crucial space for students to learn about antisemitism.
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The JVP Rabbinical Council expresses outrage at the Israeli military’s killing and maiming of Palestinian protesters along the buffer zone between Gaza and Israel.
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We speak on behalf of a large and growing movement of Jews that numbers in the hundreds of thousands that seeks an equitable and lasting peace for all the peoples of the Holy Land, in particular the Israeli Jews and the Palestinians. We do so from a place of love and in line with Jewish…
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