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Jewish Voice for Peace strongly opposes the latest legislative effort to discourage the growing movement for justice and equality for Palestinians. The Combatting BDS Act of 2016 (S. 2531/H.R. 4514), introduced February 10, 2016, aims to encourage and authorize legislation at the state level to divest state funds from companies that boycott Israel.
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In December 2014, rank-and-file members of Local 2865 of the United Auto Workers voted to support boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) of Israel. With their vote, they honored the call of Palestinian civil society, and joined millions of people the world over who are taking non-violent action to protest Israel’s human rights abuses.
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Palestinians can’t #LiveThere, So Don’t Go There. Over 150,000 people around the world have joined with a coalition of human rights and corporate responsibility groups to demand that Airbnb immediately end the illegal practice of listing vacation rentals in Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. Download a custom #StolenHomes poster with your city. Affordable housing and anti-gentrification…
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As Jewish students active in intersectional struggles for justice, we are troubled by recent articles and opinion pieces published in the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, the Jewish Daily Forward, the New York Jewish Week, the Daily Beast, and Haaretz that have suggested that Jewish students on college campuses across the country are ‘threatened’ by student protests…
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JVP members across the country are rekindling our commitment to challenge, through words and actions, Islamophobia and racism in all their manifestations. Find an action near you.
Read MoreFor more than a year, we have struggled to reconcile your righteous stand on challenging U.S. domestic racism with your stated commitment to Zionism and defense of Israel.
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In Genesis we read: Jacob woke from his sleep and said, surely God is in this place, and I did not know it! It happened for me like that too. Well, maybe not exactly. Let me tell you what happened: In the summer of 2007, while I was studying to become a rabbi, I lived in the West Bank for two months. One day I planted trees in a destroyed olive grove outside of Nablus.
Read MoreFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Kristin Szremski, coalition spokeswoman 202.796.8417; media@ampalestine.org Seth Morrison, coalition spokesman 703.271.0370; sethmorrison30@gmail.com Broad coalition set to protest Israeli Prime Minister outside National Building Museum tonight (WASHINGTON DC 11/09/2015) – An unprecedented coalition of 38 faith-based and social justice organizations and their supporters are set to rally and protest from 5-8 p.m.…
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Hundreds of Chicago-Area Jews, Palestinians and Allies March to Protest Displacement and Violence Against Palestinians October 25, 2015 (Chicago, IL)– 25 members of Jewish Voice for Peace disrupted the Jewish National Fund’s Annual Conference in the lobby of the Downtown Fairmont Hotel, while 250 Chicago-area Jews, Palestinians and allies joined together to march outside the…
Read MoreI this moment of intensified violence in Israel/Palestine, it is more important than ever to understand the occupation, dispossession, and apartheid that has been the status quo for decades and is at the root of the current violence.
Read MoreFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: baltimore@jewishvoiceforpeace.org Baltimore Activists Demand Cardin End Military Aid to Israel October 22, 2015– On Thursday, members of the Baltimore community publicly demanded an immediate end to US military aid to Israel outside of the office of Senator Benjamin Cardin, the Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Despite concerted advocacy…
Read MoreNetanyahu’s shameless exploitation of the Shoah to stoke fear of Palestinians contributes to the ongoing state-sponsored demonization and dehumanization of the Palestinian people.
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