Jewish Voice for Peace

Rabbis protest during a sit-in at the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., October 18, 2023. (Rachael Warriner)

Palestinians are asking, ‘Are you with us?’ American Jews are showing we are

As a rabbinical student, I am taking action alongside thousands to challenge the idea that Jewish safety must come at the expense of Palestinian liberation.

By Josie Felt November 3, 2023

Shatzi Weisberger at a pro-Palestine demonstration in New York, June 26, 2022. (Gili Getz)

‘Love in organizing’: A tribute to a queer Jew for Palestine

Shatzi Weisberger died at 92 after a lifetime of organizing for LGBTQ, Black, and Palestinian liberation. Her memory will fuel us in the struggles ahead.

By Theo Rehm January 5, 2023

Pro-Palestine activists protest outside Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, demanding the company does not change its hate speech policy to conflate anti-Zionism with antisemitism, February 25, 2021. (Courtesy of Facebook, We Need To Talk Campaign)

Is Facebook about to crack down on criticism of Zionism?

Palestine advocates have long charged Facebook with suppressing criticism of Israel. Now they fear the company will escalate its censorship using a single keyword.

By Oren Ziv and Alex Kane March 25, 2021

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Screenshots of a Jewish Voice for Peace panel on antisemitism, featuring commentator Peter Beinart, Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, historian Barbara Ransby, and scholar Marc Lamont Hill.

Panel on racism seeks to dispel notion that anti-Zionism is antisemitism

A discussion hosted by Jewish Voice for Peace attempts to link the fight against antisemitism with the greater struggle against all forms of oppression.

By Mairav Zonszein December 18, 2020

Samelys López, candidate for New York's 15th Congressional District. 'We have to work together to fight all forms of oppression, whether it's white nationalism or antisemitism, or whether it's advocating for Palestinian human rights.' (Courtesy of Corey Torpie Photography via López for the People)

Meet the South Bronx congressional candidate speaking out on Palestinian rights

With endorsements from progressives, Samelys Lopez hopes to bring her brand of working-class politics to Washington. That includes supporting Palestinian rights and the right to boycott Israel.

By Alex Kane May 26, 2020

Hundreds of American Jews protest against ICE raids at an Amazon store in New York City, August 11, 2019. (Gili Getz)

+972 Magazine’s 25 most-read posts of 2019

From climate catastrophe in Israel-Palestine to the crackdown in Kashmir to the dark past and present of Israeli arms exports — here are our most popular articles from the last year.

By +972 Magazine December 24, 2019

Naomi Klein. (Photo: Troy Page/Truthout)

WATCH: Naomi Klein talks climate justice, Palestine, and white supremacy

'If we look to Israel-Palestine, we see a really terrifying example of how to lose your humanity, how to fail to share land, and the monstrousness it requires to fail to share.'

By Edo Konrad December 8, 2019

American Jewish activists protest outside the Birthright offices in New York, April 5, 2019. (GIli Getz)

In these dark times, young American Jews are a ray of hope

The recent campaigns taking aim at Birthright and the American political establishment are more than symbolic — they are sowing the seeds of a powerful resistance movement against Israel’s occupation. By Oren Kroll-Zeldin Passover is a celebration of freedom, justice, and liberation. In Hebrew it is referred to as zman heruteynu, the season of our freedom.…

By +972 Magazine April 24, 2019

Rebecca Vilkomerson, Director of Jewish Voice for Peace, at the organization's offices in Brooklyn, NY, January 23, 2019 (Kevin Hagen for +972 Magazine)

JVP just declared itself anti-Zionist and it’s already shifting the conversation

‘We often play the role of being able to say things that the rest of the movement cannot,’ Jewish Voice for Peace director Rebecca Vilkomerson says in a wide-ranging interview about the group’s decision to come out as opposed to Zionism, how to fight the conflation of anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism, and recent attacks on Black-Palestine…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man January 30, 2019

Members of Jewish-American anti-occupation group IfNotNow protest Trump's decision to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, Washington D.C., May 14, 2018. (Gili Getz)

Fed up with myths, these American Jews are challenging their Israel education

They grew up on the myths of a heroic Jewish state, joined Zionist organizations, and learned the talking points. But something along the way made them question everything. By Tom Pessah Some of the strangest encounters I had in the years I spent living and studying in the United States were with American Jews. I often felt…

By +972 Magazine January 13, 2019

A Palestinian woman walks by a grafitti sign calling to boycott Israel on a street in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on February 11, 2015. (Miriam Alster/Flash 90)

When support for Israel means abandoning universal values

On a recent trip to Germany, Jewish Israeli filmmaker Udi Aloni finds himself defending the Palestinians’ right to resist Israeli apartheid and occupation. Before pledging unconditional loyalty to Israel, he says, people should ask themselves what values they are helping promote. By Udi Aloni My daughter Yuli and I set out on a journey in Berlin…

By +972 Magazine September 14, 2018

Joint List MK Yousef Jabareen seen in the Knesset. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)

Knesset bars Arab MK from JVP-sponsored trip to U.S.

MK Yousef Jabareen was supposed to travel across the United States for a series of lectures on the political reality in Israel. The Knesset decided to put the kibosh on the trip — because it is sponsored by Jewish Voice for Peace. The Knesset has forbidden an Arab member of Knesset from traveling to the…

By Edo Konrad March 14, 2018

Israeli BDS activists take part in an anti-corruption demonstration in Tel Aviv's Habima Square, December 9th, 2017. (Hagar Shezaf)

Why has Israel banned Jewish leftists but not members of Nazi-linked groups?

Israel has banned leaders and key activists from Jewish Voice for Peace, the American Friends Service Committee, and the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, among other groups that support BDS, from entering the country. So why doesn’t it extend the same restrictions to members of Nazi-affiliated groups? Israel’s latest step in its self-described “offensive” against the Boycott, Divestment…

By Natasha Roth-Rowland January 8, 2018