Jewish voice for peace

More than half of the estimated 700 Jewish protesters and like-minded allies who overwhelmed a federal building in Oakland, California on Monday while demanding a cease-fire in Gaza were arrested for refusing to leave the sit-in.

… while Lord Sydenham warned: “What we have done, by concessions not to the Jewish people but to a Zionist extreme section, is to start a running sore in the East, and no-one can tell how far that sore will extend.” It extends all the way to this horror-show 106 years later. What the latest […]

(MEE) — Fourteen American Jews were arrested by the New York Police Department after blocking the entrance to US Senator Chuck Schumer’s New York office on Thursday, the latest Jewish-led civil disobedience action aimed at pushing members of Congress to condemn Israel’s killing of Palestinian protesters in Gaza. Chanting “Free, Free Gaza” and singing Jewish prayers while […]

NEW YORK – Students at Barnard College just voted overwhelmingly to ask the school’s administration to divest from and boycott eight companies that do business with Israel and profit from the Israeli government’s treatment of Palestinians.

For the past 18 years, Taglit-Birthright Israel has offered Jews from 67 countries across the world a free trip to visit Israel, claiming that it is their “birthright” to visit the country.
Various periodic schemes are set up to allow Jews, 80 percent of accepted applicants being from the US and Canada, to visit Israel and go on trips and tour the country.

Protesters demonstrate against a state-sanctioned backlash against the movement for Palestinian human rights. New York City, June 9, 2016. (Photo: Erik McGregor/Pacific Press/ Sipa/AP)
Five boycott, divestment and sanctions supporters were prohibited from boarding a flight on Monday from the US to Israel reportedly because of their involvement in the BDS movement, the Jewish Voice for Peace group said.
Three of the five are JVP members, an organization that promotes human rights for Palestinians. Of that group, one of them is a rabbi.

Students and supporters protest Fordham University’s ban on Students for Justice in Palestine, a student group which advocates the rights of Palestinians. (Photo: Joe Catron/MintPress)
NEW YORK — Nearly a hundred students and community members rallied on Fordham University’s Manhattan campus before marching to nearby Columbus Circle on Monday.

An ultra Orthodox Jew holds a Palestinian flag during a protest against Israel’s air strikes on Gaza in London.
Jewish scholars and students have released statements urging the US House of Representatives and President Obama to reject the controversial “Antisemitism Awareness Act”.

By Jeff Blankfort | Dissident Voice | September 26, 2016 There is massive opposition to Israeli actions in the United States today, particularly importantly in the Jewish community, where there’s been an enormous shift in that discourse. So you still have organizations, right-wing organizations like AIPAC that include very wealthy donors, no doubt, but they […]

There is massive opposition to Israeli actions in the United States today, particularly importantly in the Jewish community, where there’s been an enormous shift in that discourse.
So you still have organizations, right-wing organizations like AIPAC that include very wealthy donors, no doubt, but they no longer can even make the claim–which was probably never true, but it certainly is no longer true–that they speak for the majority, let alone all, of the Jewish community.