Rabbi Alissa Wise is Deputy Director at Jewish Voice for Peace.
Alissa Wise
By Alissa Wise
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Opinion The Importance of JVP’s Anti-Semitism Panel With Linda Sarsour
In this week’s Torah portion Jacob, paralyzed by fear, divides his community in two, for fear his brother Esau would destroy them. At least if they destroy one group, he rationalizes, another group will live. Out of his fear,Jacob gathered gifts to pacify his brother Esau. But when Jacob approached his brother, Esau ran to…
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Opinion Smearing Linda Sarsour Is The Opposite Of Fighting For Racial Justice
Linda Sarsour is many things. As she often introduces herself, she’s unapologetically Muslim-American, Palestinian-American and from Brooklyn, New York. And she’s also a critical leader in the fight against all forms of oppression, including anti-Semitism. Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), of which I am the Deputy Director, recently released an anthology called On Antisemitism. In…
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Opinion I’m The First Jew Banned From Israel For Supporting BDS
Long before I was barred from boarding a flight to Israel due to my political beliefs, I felt conflicted about my decision to show up at the Dulles International Airport this past Sunday. I was bound for Israel and Palestine as part of an interfaith delegation co-sponsored by my organization, Jewish Voice for Peace, along…
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Community JVP: Reactions To Our Parade Protest Were ‘Cruel,’ ‘Homophobic,’ and ‘Hyperbolic’
The role of direct action in movements for justice has always been to agitate and provoke, to dramatize urgent issues and invite people to take a side. In fact, that was precisely our goal in organizing the waves of disruptions this past Sunday at the Celebrate Israel parade in New York City, the day before…
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Opinion We’re Nobody’s ‘Jew-Washing’ Pawns
In his latest column, Philologos correctly parses the linguistic problems with Yitzhak Santis and Gerald M. Steinberg’s invented term, “Jew-washing.” His political analysis, alas, fails miserably. Philologos has it completely wrong when he speaks of the “anti-Semitism in boycotts of Israel.” To begin with, Santis and Steinberg did not use the term “Jew-washing” in reference…
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