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The undersigned members of the Jewish Voice for Peace Rabbinical Council stand with our American Christian colleagues in their recent call

Students partnered with advocacy organization to strategize against TIAA-CREF investments.

Jewish Voice for Peace is proud to be part of a worldwide movement dedicated to the freedom, human rights and equality of all the people of Israel and Palestine.  We are committed to struggling, along with all our allies, to build this movement on the basis of truth, accountability, and respect for the human rights and dignity of all peoples. To that end, it is incumbent upon all of us to vehemently denounce all forms of bigotry, including anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim hatred, and anti-Arab racism.

(October 7, 2012) In the last several days, Greta Berlin, of the Free Gaza Movement, has been accused of anti-semitism due to posting a twitter link to a video entitled, “Zionists Ran the Holocaust and the Concentration Camps.”

The tweet was first widely reported by the Jerusalem Post, citing sources including Gerald Steinberg of the NGO Monitor and Avi Meyer of the Jewish Agency, who are well-known for using accusations of anti-semitism as smears to silence legitimate criticism of Israeli actions.

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Jews Against Islamophobia (JAI), a coalition of three Jewish organizations, condemns the hate-mongering ads, sponsored by the American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI), that will begin appearing in New York City subway stations the last week of September.

Studies commissioned to improve relations find that some Muslims feel their rights have been suppressed and some Jews think anti-Israel protests have become anti-Semitic.

Last week, activists came together in protest of the city of Los Angeles' efforts to renew contracts with Veolia.

A group of Jewish activists from New York organised a demonstration to promote “social and economic justice” over Rosh Hashanah.