Welcome to the Forward’s coverage of Jewish Voice for Peace, an American anti-Zionist group which advocates for Palestinians and supports a boycott of Israel over its role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Special Report What it’s really like to be Jewish on a campus ‘hotspot’ of antisemitism
A year at George Washington University shows what is often missed by national groups sounding the alarm over the safety of Jewish students
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News As conflict in Gaza rages again, a shift in the American Jewish response
When Israel responded to Hamas rocket fire from Gaza with air strikes and a ground invasion of the seaside enclave in the summer of 2014, the Union for Reform Judaism published a prayer defending the operation Israel called Protective Edge. “This is not easy. It is not desired,” read the prayer written by Alden Solovy,…
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Fast Forward Tensions flare at L.A. anti-annexation rally
With the Covid-19 pandemic surging in Southern California and the state teetering on the verge of another lockdown, scores of protestors formed a car caravan around the Israeli consulate in Los Angeles to protest Israel’s annexation of the West Bank planned for that day. The protest started on the ground early Wednesday morning, July 1,…
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Fast Forward Rashida Tlaib Attended Jewish Voice for Peace Shabbat Service After Cancellation Of Israel Trip
(JTA) — Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., joined a Friday night Shabbat service in a Detroit park arranged to show the freshman congresswoman support after she was denied entrance to Israel. The program in Detroit’s Pallister Park, attended by about 60 people, according to The Detroit News, was organized by Jewish Voice for Peace Action, the…
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Breaking News Boston JCRC Says Members Can’t Work With Anti-Zionists, Setting Up Showdown
(JTA) — Boston’s Jewish Community Relations Council passed a resolution saying its members cannot partner with Jewish groups that are anti-Zionist, setting up a showdown with one of its members, the local branch of the Workmen’s Circle. The resolution, approved on Thursday evening, states that working with Jewish anti-Zionist groups, specifically by co-sponsoring events or…
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News Jews Fight For Immigrants — But Face Fierce Backlash From Anti-Israel Activists
This article has been updated to add details in paragraphs four through nine about pro-Palestinian activists’ affiliation with the Tucson chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace. Tucson Jews for Justice is one of many Jewish “resistance” groups that have emerged nationwide to focus on domestic policy in the wake of President Trump’s election. The group…
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News Durham JCC Calls Police On Jewish Group That’s Critical Of Israel
Jewish community tensions over the Durham, North Carolina city council’s April vote to ban police officers from educational programs in Israel spilled over last week after police escorted two members of the group Jewish Voice for Peace out of the Jewish Community Center when they tried to hand out flyers criticizing local Jewish leaders. The…
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Opinion For A Century, White Supremacists Have Smeared the ADL. Now, The Left Has Picked Up The Habit
The Anti-Defamation League is the world’s leading institution fighting anti-Semitism. But in 2018, it has fielded staunch criticism from the left as well as the right. The situation on the left came to a head in April, after two black men were arrested in a Philadelphia Starbucks for no reason other than being black. Starbucks…
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Opinion I’m a UCLA professor. Why didn’t the administration stop last night’s egregious violence?
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News ‘Everyone gets to be uncomfortable’: How Jewish students at Brown kept antisemitism at bay
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Opinion Student activists aren’t antisemites; they’re partners in a dance of death
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Fast Forward Marjorie Taylor Greene says she opposed antisemitism bill because it rejects ‘Gospel’ that ‘the Jews’ handed Jesus to executioners
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Culture Israeli fans were warned against attending Eurovision. They came anyway — to heal from Oct. 7
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