Blogs

The United States allows inhabitants of 37 countries to enter the United States without a visa, as long as they extend the same privilege to United States citizens and Senator Barbara Boxer is proposing to add Israel to that list - but without requiring equal treatment for Americans traveling to Israel.

Jewish Voice for Peace supports SF bus campaign criticizing Israeli human rights violations, condemns local Jewish Community Relation Council’s attempt to muzzle political speech. 

A number of incidents suggest a cultural shift is emerging that could presage a reexamination of the nature of America’s political ties to Israel.

Like hundreds of others in the overflow crowd last night, I'm completely exhausted after having spent 10 hours straight listening to an extraordinary night of emotional testimony about divestment at UC Berkeley. I'm so proud to tell you that at 5:30 this morning, 

Jewish Voice for Peace's letter to student senators at UC Berkeley.

April 17, 2013

To the attention of the Associated Students of UC Berkeley,

We are writing to you from Jewish Voice for Peace to urge you to pass the Resolution SB 160: A Peaceful Step Towards Neutrality: Targeted Divestment from Companies that Profit from Israel’s Occupation and Settlement Construction.”

The Great Neck Synagogue in suburban New York canceled a planned appearance by Islam critic Pamela Geller, citing security concerns.

TIAA-CREF officials are asking the SEC to allow it to take no action on a shareholder proposal by activist group Jewish Voice for Peace that would require it to consider divesting from companies that contribute to violations of human rights, including companies whose business supports Israel's occupation of the West Bank.

Can a Jewish state be a democratic one and, more to the point, is Israel a democracy?

Today Jewish Voice for Peace honors Holocaust Remembrance Day (Yom HaShoah)

On this day, we reflect on the horrors of World War II and the Nazi genocidal policies that led to the killing of some 11 million including Jews, Gypsies, Socialists, Poles, Soviets, gays, people with disabilities, dissenters and others all deemed unfit or a threat.