Four students at the University of Rochester are facing up to seven years in jail for putting up posters around campus accusing a small number of faculty members of enabling the genocide in Gaza.
Mondoweiss speaks with Rebecca Vilkomerson, co-author of the book “Solidarity Is the Political Version of Love: Lessons from Jewish Anti-Zionist Organizing,” about the evolution of Jewish Voice for Peace and the state of anti-Zionist organizing.
In the wake of Joe Biden’s historic decision to step down, Palestine solidarity groups highlighting his complicity in the Gaza genocide and calling on Kamala Harris to embrace a permanent ceasefire and an end to U.S. weapons shipments to Israel.
An student organizer with Columbia’s Gaza Solidarity Encampment talks to Mondoweiss about the importance of centering Palestine, the campus movement exploding across the U.S., and what happens next.
State Dept. official Josh Paul resigned over the Biden administration’s Gaza policy. In a statement announcing his departure he called U.S. policy, “shortsighted, destructive, unjust, and contradictory to the very values that we publicly espouse.”
President Biden is headed to Tel Aviv and Jordan to firm up support before an expected Israeli escalation in Gaza.
JVP activists in Philadelphia seek to cut off funding to Israeli settlements and are starting close to home by targeting megadonor Jeffrey Yass.
In addition to the rally, JVP also released a petition that has already been signed by over 15,000 people. It calls on Israel to lift its embargo on Gaza in response to the COVID-19 crisis. “This crisis has been building since Israel’s life-threatening blockade began 13 years ago, and the U.S. is complicit,” it reads.
Last week, Jewish and Palestinian student activists with the group Jewish Voice for Peace were in Iowa to demand that Democratic candidates stop funding Israel’s occupation and embrace Palestinian rights.