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Americans for Peace Now: Don't Co-Sponsor AIPAC's Bills for Iran War

Robert Naiman | Posted 05.06.2013 | World
Read More: Avaaz, Iran, Congress, President Obama, Aipac, Jewish Voice for Peace, Lindsey Graham, Chuck Hagel, Americans for Peace Now, Israel, World News
Robert Naiman

Lobbyists from AIPAC are pressing your senators and representative to support legislation that if adopted as written would push the United States significantly closer to war with Iran.

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AIPAC Does Not Speak for Me

Rebecca Vilkomerson | Posted 05.04.2013 | Politics
Read More: Sequestration, Iran, Palestine, Israel, Jewish Voice for Peace, Aipac, Avaaz, AIPAC Lobby, United States Relations With Isreal, Isreali-Palestinian Crisis, Jewish Americans, Politics News
Rebecca Vilkomerson

For too long, AIPAC has derived much of its power by purporting to speak in the name of the American Jewish community. AIPAC is, of course, free to continue to push military build-up and endless settlement expansion. But it can no longer claim to do so in our name.

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Rabbis Support Protestant Leaders' Call To End Unconditional Military Aid To Israel

Rabbi Alissa Wise | Posted 12.22.2012 | Religion
Read More: Military Aid, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Jewish Voice for Peace, Israel, American Jews, Judaism, Religion News
Rabbi Alissa Wise

We regret that some Jewish organizations opted to disengage from their Christian colleagues on this painful issue that is of such deep concern to both faith communities.

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Why Is The Republican Jewish Coalition Attacking Me?

Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb | Posted 11.04.2012 | Religion
Read More: Religion and Politics, Judaism, Republican Jewish Coalition, Jewish Republicans, Jewish Voice for Peace, American Judaism, Peace, Jewish Voters, Religion News
Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb

Apparently, leading a civilian diplomacy delegation to Iran and supporting the work of Jewish Voice for Peace is enough to make a person a pariah. The RJC is taking advantage of the Jewish divide on Israel to bring more people to Romney.

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Lawmakers Slammed For Resolution Equating Israel Protests With Hate Speech

AP | HANNAH DREIER | Posted 08.30.2012 | Los Angeles
Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Jewish Voice for Peace, National Lawyers Guild, Video, Anti-Israel Protests, College Free Speech, University Free Speech, Cair, Linda Halderman, Hate Speech, First Amendment, Israel-Palestine Debate, Bonnie Lowenthal, Anti-Semitism Resolution, Los Angeles News

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- A state lawmaker on Wednesday promised to introduce a fix to an Assembly resolution that stirred controversy a day earlier becau...

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Why I Work With Christians To Divest From the Occupation

Rabbi Alissa Wise | Posted 09.22.2012 | Religion
Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israeli Settlements, Bds, Bds Movement, Interfaith, Israel, Jewish Voice for Peace, Interfaith Engagement, Presbyterian Church, Judaism, Religion News
Rabbi Alissa Wise

At first glance, my work as a rabbi may look untraditional. Instead of serving a congregation, I do my rabbinic work by organizing for justice and equality for all the people of Israel and Palestine.

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The Washington Delusion

Rebecca Vilkomerson | Posted 07.27.2011 | World
Read More: Palestine, Israel, Jewish Voice for Peace, Obama, Bds, Israel 1967 Borders, World News
Rebecca Vilkomerson

On the same day of Obama's Mideast speech, the Israeli organization Peace Now reported that construction had begun on 294 new homes in settlements, with the approval of Israel's Defense Ministry.

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Behind The Tony Kushner Story

Rabbi Arthur Waskow | Posted 07.10.2011 | World
Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Tony Kushner, Israel, Gaza, Hamas, Peace in the Middle East, Israeli Settlements, Jewish Voice for Peace, Cuny Tony Kushner, The Shalom Center, Middle East Peace Process, Middle East Peace, World News
Rabbi Arthur Waskow

Last night, the executive committee of the CUNY Board of Trustees reversed the Board's refusal of an honorary degree to Tony Kushner. Behind the original decision and reversal are three stories.

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Remarks to JStreet on BDS

Rebecca Vilkomerson | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Jewish Voice for Peace, Bds, J Street Conference, Politics News
Rebecca Vilkomerson

One of the strengths of the BDS movement is that it is both loose and broad, all sorts of campaigns and targets fit within it, depending upon local priorities and conditions.

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Shilling for the Israeli Occupation: The ADL's New Mission Statement?

Ahmed Rehab | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Zionism, Jvp, Adl, Mas, Cair, Abe Foxman, Anti-Israel, Israel, Jewish Voice for Peace, Answer, Anti-Defamation League, Politics News
Ahmed Rehab

An organization that describes itself as "the nation's premier civil rights/human relations agency" is spending its resources decrying American organizations that are not blindly supportive of a foreign government it likes to align itself with.

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Let Us Join Those Who Refuse

Rebecca Vilkomerson | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Jewish Voice for Peace, Divestment, Israel, Tiaa-Cref, Catepillar, World News
Rebecca Vilkomerson

Tisha B'Av fell on the same day as the first TIAA CREF annual meeting since Jewish Voice for Peace initiated a campaign to get TIAA CREF to divest its holdings from companies that profit from Israel's occupation of Palestinian land.

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Hamas Lawmaker: Gaza Flotilla Did More Than 10,000 Rockets

Robert Naiman | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Turkey, Israeli Settlements, Gaza, West Bank, Gaza Flotilla, New York Times, Palestine, Israel, Organization of the Islamic Conference, Jewish Voice for Peace, Hamas, Wall Street Journal, East Jerusalem, World News
Robert Naiman

Who now doubts that strategic nonviolent action can transform the politics of the Israel/Palestine conflict?

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MidEast Peace: Pessimism from the Right and the Left

Eileen Read | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Ronald Lauder, Stephen Walt, Bret Stephens, Jewish Voice for Peace, ForeignPolicy.Com, Wall Street Journal, Jewish, Palestinians, Middle East Peace, Daniel Pipes, J Street, Muslim, Arab, American Israel Political Action Committee, American Jewish Committee, Middle East, Tikun Olam, Jew, John Mearsheimer, Middle East Peace Process, Israel, Aipac, Aaron David Miller, New Republic, Foreign Policy, Israeli, Martin Peretz, World News
Eileen Read

Why is it that merely talking about talking about peace brings instant backlash? Four of the most controversial writers on the Middle East - pessimist...

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Jew vs. Jew? Protests, Threats Reach Fever Pitch over Israel

Michael Gould-Wartofsky | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Jewish Politics, Kach, Jewish Community, West Bank, American Jews for a Just Peace, Kahane Movement, Jews Say No, Stand With US, Jewish Voice for Peace, Israel Defense Forces, New York Jews, Americans for Peace Now, Meir Kahane, Zionism, Iran, Gaza, Camp Jabotinsky, Middle East, New Israel Fund, Saeb Erekat, Hebron, Gabi Ashkenazi, New York News, Violence, Friends of the IDF, Goldstone Report, Negotiations, Bibi Netanyahu, Protest, Diaspora, Palestine, Americans for a Safe Israel, Joe Biden, Idf, Waldorf-Astoria, Settlements, Palestinians, Palestinian Authority, J Street, Jews Against the Occupation, Settlers, East Jerusalem, Jewish Defense Organization, Israel, Israeli Apartheid Week, New York News
Michael Gould-Wartofsky

This week, New York City's Jewish community is riven by protests, counterprotests, and now, threats of Jew-on-Jew intimidation over the question of Israel and the Palestinians.

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American Jews Call for Immediate Ceasefire, End of Gaza Blockade

Robert Naiman | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Gaza Blockade, J Street, Gaza, Israel Gaza Airstrikes, Obama, Jewish Voice for Peace, Hamas, Israel, Foreign Policy, World News
Robert Naiman

Expressing views that are surely representative of American Jews as a whole, here's what some American Jews are saying about the violence in Gaza.

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