Writer Robert Rosenthal, publisher of The Progressive Jew, breaks down the powerful myths that the Israeli government and allied organizations use to deny Palestinian people agency and keep Jewish supporters uninformed as to the reality of Palestinian suffering. He...
Take it from the voter herself: Zohran Mamdani is a mensch. Activist and professor Rosalind Petchesky defends NYC Mayor Mamdani against Islamophobic and fearmongering attacks through her personal experience serving on his campaign and facing arrest with him for...
On October 18, 2023, Israelis Against Apartheid released an open letter calling for an “immediate end” to “the ongoing massive Israeli military assault on the people of Gaza.” With 1,800 Israeli signatures and counting, the letter makes it clear that many Israelis...
Promised Land Museum Founder and physician, Steve Feldman, released a new book, Bent Toward Justice. The book tells the story of a Polish Jew in America who is confronted with an internal upheaval that challenges his beliefs about Palestinians being the enemy of the...
Jewish students in Columbia were amongst the first to speak out in 2024 against Israel’s actions in the Gaza strip. In April 2024, on the first night of Passover, the students held a Seder dinner at the pro-Palestine and anti-genocide encampments on their campus. At...
Morgan Bassichis is a Jewish American artist and activist who works with Jewish Voice for Peace. Bassichis is well-known for being a comedian and writer but has also been vocal about advocacy. In a speech titled “'Not in Our Name: On Jews Rejecting Zionism,” Bassichis...
Jewish Voices Respond to Protect Human Rights Israel has declared six Palestinian organizations as terrorist groups. The groups include civil society associations, human rights institutions, and unions operating in the West Bank. Some religious leaders, politicians,...
Jewish people, communities, and organizations around the world are calling for an end to Israel’s violence against Palestinian people. Since Oct. 7, 2023, Israel has killed more than 26,000 Palestinian men, women, and children while displacing nearly 2 million...
Shatzi Weisberger was a Jewish American death educator, nurse, and activist. She advocated for justice through the civil rights movement, the anti-nuclear movement, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, Black Lives Matter, and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP). She became a...
Wrestling with Zionism is a theater project incubated by Jewish Voice for Peace – New York City in which JVP-NYC members share their personal stories about Israel-Palestine. Video title: Wrestling with Zionism Created by: Jewish Voice for Peace Video length: 00:04:46...
“One day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.” —Omar El Akkad, Journalist Why We Record: Defying Fragmentation and Erasure in...
“What I saw today made me feel ashamed to be Jewish” – Don Pardo, former Director of Mossad Tamir Pardo, the former Director of Mossad from 2011–2016, recently toured the West Bank, after which he delivered a sobering assessment of the mistreatment of Palestinian...
The Akevot Institute for Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Research published a previously suppressed IDF intelligence report dating from 1948. This report contradicts the Israeli narrative about the major factor in the displacement of Israel’s Arab residents during the...
David Sheen is a Toronto-born, Haifa-based investigative journalist, who has worked for dozens of local, regional, and international news outlets, from Haaretz to Electronic Intifada, since 2010. He has focused extensively on the Israeli far-right, including the...
In the Knesset, who is left-wing? Who is right-wing? Are these terms even useful? Investigative journalist, David Sheen, gave a series of lectures for an international audience; he threw out the traditional breakdown of Israeli politics in favor of a new alignment...