News & Updates

JVP's Rabbi Alissa Wise comments in Alex Kane's article covering the Jewish response to the Prawer Plan.

Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) supports right of American Studies Association's National Council to consider boycott of Israeli academic institutions complicit in the violation of Palestinian human rights 

The Israeli Knesset is about to approve the Prawer Plan, which would initiate the forced relocation of 40,000 Bedouin citizens of Israel, and the destruction of dozens of villages. Let Israeli Ambassador Ron Dermer know you are horrified that a transfer plan based on nothing more than ethnic identity is even under consideration: www.jvp.org/Sto

The 140,000 supporter-strong Jewish Voice for Peace today welcomed Secretary of State John Kerry’s commitment to nuclear talks with Iran, and condemned Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu’s continued obstruction of meaningful peace talks with the Palestinians and open contempt of talks with Iran. 

“My Personal Intifada”—Documentary Focusing on Palestine Related Activism—Premieres Monday, November 11, 2013 at 7 PM at Columbia College, demonstrating how Chicago-based Palestinian, Jewish and Israeli activists work to advocate for equality in Palestine.

Today the ADL put out its revised list of top ten U.S. anti-Israel groups, and JVP is included among them.  Much of the material is taken from the longer report the ADL put out about JVP in August, so we are re-posting here our statement in response then.  More coming soon!

JVP's Rebecca Vilkomerson comments on the new Pew Center study on Jewish American life which has been the subject of much handwringing since it came out last week. For many years now, the lament of the organized Jewish community has been that it is not retaining the younger generations. Yet Pew’s results seem to show that one reason big institutions are losing their grip is precisely because a small group of older privileged Jews are trying to dictate the range of beliefs acceptable in the Jewish community.

Civil rights groups and members of Congress are pressing the Justice Department to renew its investigation of a 1985 office bombing that killed Palestinian-American civil rights leader Alex Odeh and injured seven people.

Today is the twenty-eighth anniversary of the murder of Alex Odeh, as he opened the door of the Southern California Regional Office of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC).