This is 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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Fast Forward Rasmea Odeh And Linda Sarsour Slam ‘Zionists’ At Jewish Voice For Peace Summit
(JTA) — A Palestinian woman who is being forced to leave the United States for not telling immigration authorities that she was imprisoned in Israel for two terror attacks told a U.S. Jewish group that they must stop the “Zionists” from their “land grab.” Rasmea Odeh was the keynote speaker on Sunday in Chicago at a summit of the…
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News This Week in Chicago: Poetry, Mussar and Jewish Voice For Peace
This week in Chicago, like Jews everywhere, you’ll be stocking up on your Passover supplies. It’s not quite time to panic over seder preparations yet, so here’s a list of a few things that are going on, if you’re not tempted by the smell of bacon that will be emanating from the University of Illinois-Chicago…
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News JVP Plan To Feature Convicted Terrorist As Speaker Upended By Deportation Agreement
Jewish Voice for Peace, a group already controversial among establishment Jews for its support of an Israel boycott, attracted extra attention this month thanks to a featured speaker at its upcoming biennial conference here. Rasmea Odeh, who was convicted in 1970 for a 1969 bombing at a Jerusalem supermarket that left two dead, was scheduled…
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Fast Forward Groups Quarrel Over Memorial Service At Jewish Voice For Peace Conference
(JTA) — Two Israel advocacy groups faced off, when a pro-BDS group denied the request of an anti-BDS group to hold a memorial service at a conference it had organized. Jewish Voice for Peace, which is organizing the confab, said however that it had already planned its own general memorial event. The Israel advocacy group StandWithUs had asked…
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Israel News American Critics Of Israel Anguished By Ban On Boycott Backers
American Jews who love Israel and see boycott as a tool to change the country for the better are anguished over a new Israeli law that could ban them from visiting the country they cherish. Israel’s parliament passed a law February 6 to ban advocates of the movement to boycott, divest from and sanction Israel,…
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Fast Forward In Chicago, Trump’s Actions Are Growing a Widening Coalition of Protesters
Worries have evaporated among organizers about how to follow up on the January 21 Chicago Women’s March, which drew 250,000 protesters. Contrary to widespread concern about losing the energy that coalesced around the massive outpouring that took place in Chicago and other cities nationwide that day, said Donna Gutman, president of the North Shore chapter…
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News Undeterred by Berlin Attack, Jews and Muslims in Chicago March for Syrian Refugees
About 50 Jews and Muslims demonstrated in front of Chicago’s Trump Tower Wednesday evening to demand that Governor Bruce Rauner reverse his position against allowing Syrian refugees into the state of Illinois. “East Aleppo is about to fall,” said Eli Massey of Jewish Voice for Peace, one of the march’s sponsors. “It’s important for Illinois…
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News Standing With Muslims: Chicago Jews Grapple With Challenge on Eve of Trump Era
Amid the rising fears that minorities harbor about the coming Trump era, Jewish leaders here are fiercely debating: What is to be done? Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s personal appeal to Trump in a December 7 meeting to preserve the Delayed Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program and give up his plans for large-scale deportations of immigrants…
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