Tag Archives: Jewish Voice for Peace

University report on Jewish campus life slammed as biased and harmful to academic freedom

Posted on July 25, 2012 by Alex Kane

Jewish Voice for Peace has criticized a report on Jewish campus life at the University of California for its ‘poor methodology and bias.’

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In three cities, pension fund TIAA-CREF urged to end complicity in Israeli occupation

Posted on July 17, 2012 by Alex Kane

TIAA-CREF partially divested from Caterpillar, but they remain deeply invested in companies complicit in the Israeli occupation. BDS activists rallied in three cities on Tuesday to pressure the pension fund to divest from Northrop Grumman, Caterpillar, Veolia, Elbit, Motorola Solutions and Hewlett-Packard.

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Jews Say No! and JVP condemn support for NYPD chief Ray Kelly

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Alex Kane

Progressive Jewish groups are condemning the JCRC’s support for Ray Kelly and the NYPD. ‘We stand with the Muslim community,’ a press release says.

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Greek consulate, governor confirm ‘powerful’ pressure on Greece led to flotilla ban

Posted on July 4, 2011 by Alex Kane

For the past few days, speculation has run rampant that the Greek government, presiding over a country in dire economic straits, was heavily pressured into issuing an order that banned the “Freedom Flotilla” ships from sailing out towards Gaza. And … Continue reading →

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Jewish left continues to take on the Simon Wiesenthal Center

Posted on April 7, 2011 by Alex Kane

A coalition of progressive Jewish organizations on both coasts yesterday slammed the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s honoring of the civil rights-era Freedom Riders while “engaging in anti-Muslim bigotry that is no less destructive than that against which the Freedom Riders protested,” … Continue reading →

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‘JVP’ in NYT– and Zionist leader hearts ‘our barbarian’ Mubarak…

Posted on February 4, 2011 by Matthew Taylor

The NYT finally gives Jewish Voice for Peace some well-deserved ink: The [Jewish Voice for Peace] activists say they are not working against Israel, but against Israeli government policies they believe are discriminatory. Exactly right. It’s a decent article for … Continue reading →

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The Anti-Defamation League should own up or pack up

Posted on November 18, 2010 by Mohammad Talat and Tom Pessah

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), founded in 1913, was long one of the nation’s foremost civil rights organizations. Primarily established to fight anti-Semitism, it became revered for combating hate and bigotry in many forms. In its later years, however, it got … Continue reading →

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In tribute to the ‘Young, Jewish, and Proud’

Posted on November 16, 2010 by Mohammad Talat

Last Monday a group of Jewish youth calling themselves Young, Jewish, and Proud (YJP) debuted by coordinating a widely covered disruption of Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to the Jewish Federation National Assembly (JFNA) in New Orleans. In the extensive coverage and exchanges that … Continue reading →

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Right-wing Israel advocacy group StandWithUs attacks Jewish Voice for Peace meeting with pepper spray

Posted on November 15, 2010 by Adam Horowitz

From a JVP press release: Last night, up to a dozen members of San Francisco Voice for Israel/StandWithUs, a right-wing Israeli advocacy group with a documented track record of aggressively taunting and intimidating grassroots peace activists, attended a Bay Area … Continue reading →

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Brooklyn church crowd goes with the idealists on BDS

Posted on November 12, 2010 by Rob Buchanan

I went to the ‘Jewish Perspectives on the Boycott/Divestment/Sanctions movement’ event in Park Slope last night. It was at the Church of Gethsemane, an appealingly humble Presbyterian Church on 8th avenue. The lady who’d arranged the event said they’d asked … Continue reading →

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A perspective on the Jewish Federation General Assembly from its only Palestinian attendee

Posted on November 12, 2010 by Shereen Naser

My name is Shereen Naser, I am a young Palestinian-American woman, and I attended the 79th General Assembly of the Jewish Federations of North America. Don’t ask me why, I’m still not entirely sure. I think when I first made … Continue reading →

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In Haaretz: Young Jews tell Bibi, “Israel is delegitimizing itself”

Posted on November 12, 2010 by Matthew Taylor

My oped in Haaretz dropped today on the Netanyahu speech disruption. Check it out: Netanyahu had sharp words for the protesters. “Attempts by our enemies and their misguided fellow travelers to delegitimize the Jewish state must be countered,” he said … Continue reading →

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Why I disrupted Bibi’s speech – A response to Ben Sales at New Voices

Posted on November 10, 2010 by Matthew Taylor

Ben Sales, editor of New Voices, posted a lengthy critique of the protesters who disrupted Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech at the General Assembly. Here’s my response, which I submitted as a comment to his blog: As one of the protesters who … Continue reading →

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Jewish Values vs. Israeli Policies: Why five young Jews disrupted PM Netanyahu in New Orleans

Posted on November 9, 2010 by Rae Abileah

Being young and Jewish and realizing what Israel’s occupation is really like, contrary to what we may have been taught in our religious schools or high school trips to the holy land, can be a lonely journey. It can be … Continue reading →

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Video of activists disrupting Netanyahu at Jewish Federations General Assembly

Posted on November 9, 2010 by Adam Horowitz

And here is an AP report on the protest: Dana Milbank, for one, wasn’t too impressed with Netanyahu’s response. From the Washington Post website: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu needs a mulligan after his speech to the Jewish Federation in … Continue reading →

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Brooklyn-Jenin: Wars of the Jews

Posted on November 5, 2010 by Udi Aloni

America, America How odd are the leaders Jewish right-wing in the United States. On the one hand, they raise six million dollars to finance a PR war over Jews like me, members of Jewish Voice for Peace. This is an … Continue reading →

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Caterpillar freeze and ‘Jewish Voice for Peace’ honor suggest advance of boycott movement

Posted on October 30, 2010 by Philip Weiss

This is important and I’ve been sitting on it, sorry. Four points: –Caterpillar has temporarily stopped delivering bulldozers to Israel. JPost: Caterpillar, the company which supplies the IDF with bulldozers, has announced that it is delaying the supply of D9 … Continue reading →

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Jewish organizations debate BDS in online forum

Posted on October 28, 2010 by Adam Horowitz

Zeek, a Jewish journal of thought and culture, has hosted a liberal Jewish exchange on the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. Jewish Voice for Peace speaks in favor of BDS, while the New Israel Fund speaks against. Below are two … Continue reading →

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The ADL’s ‘top ten’ list is consistent with its history of muzzling dissent on Israel at all costs

Posted on October 27, 2010 by Alaa Milbes

Recently, the Anti-Defamation League came out with a statement placing Students for Justice in Palestine on its top 10 anti-Israel organizations in the United States. As ADL has a history of spying and attempting to crush pro-Palestine, anti-apartheid activists working … Continue reading →

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ADL concession: JVP and ISM and SJP are affecting the ‘mainstream discussion’

Posted on October 15, 2010 by Philip Weiss

The crisis continues. Recognizing the significance of the movement questioning the policies of Israel inside American and Jewish life now , the Anti-Defamation League has compiled a list of the “top ten anti-Israel groups” in the U.S. It includes many … Continue reading →

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Jewish groups denounce ‘Museum of Tolerance’ builder Simon Wiesenthal Center for support of Islamophobia

Posted on September 17, 2010 by Alex Kane

A coalition of four Jewish groups, backed by a wide array of peace and justice organizations, held a demonstration Sept. 16 outside the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Museum of Tolerance in New York, denouncing the organization’s opposition to the Islamic community … Continue reading →

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