Shatzi Weisberger

Shatzi Weisberger

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...

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Rabbi Barry H. Block

Rabbi Barry H. Block

Rabbi Barry H. Block serves the Congregation B’nai Israel in Little Rock, Arkansas and has served as Board member of the Central Conference of American Rabbis. He is also editor of The Mussar Torah Commentary: A Spiritual Path to Living a Meaningful and Ethical Life...

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Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz

Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz

Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz was a Jewish writer, political activist, and the founding executive director of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice. In her book The colors of Jews: racial politics and radical diasporism (2007), she described radical diasporism—where Jews...

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Wolfe Erlichman

Wolfe Erlichman

Wolfe Erlichman is a member of Independent Jewish Voices Canada. In a public statement, he criticizes the way the Holocaust has been used to promote a commitment to Israel instead of promoting universal human rights. He calls on Jewish Canadians to stand up for...

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Steve Berman

Steve Berman

Steve Berman has been involved with several Jewish communal organizations and works in the commercial real estate business. He was formerly on the Board of Councilors for The Carter Center. In a 2023 op-ed for Forward, Berman described his relationship to Israel and...

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Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf

Naomi Wolf is a Jewish American public personality, author of eleven books, and journalist. In 2014, she described leaving synagogue when what she called an “Unholy War” in Gaza was not addressed. She wrote: “I mourn genocide in Gaza because I am the granddaughter of...

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Ayelet

Ayelet

Ayelet is a 16-year-old trans teen and activist in the Mesarvot network, an Israeli organization that supports war resisters and political objectors. She wrote a letter to the Refuser Solidarity Network to share her accounts of Israel’s pinkwashing (displaying...

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Etan Nechin

Etan Nechin

Etan Nechin is an Israeli journalist whose writing has appeared in The New York Times, Haaretz, Vice, Jacobin, Jewish Currents, and more. He is the online editor of The Bare Life Review: a Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Literature. In a 2020 op-ed for Forward,...

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Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield

Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield

Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield are the Jewish American founders of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. The duo came under fire in 2021 when they announced they would halt ice cream sales in the illegally occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. Cohen responded: “If I care...

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Perspectives on the One State

Perspectives on the One State

Voices for Justice in Palestine hosted a webinar with Palestinian American political analyst Yousef Munayyer and Jewish American journalist Peter Beinart entitled “Perspectives on the One State: Where do we go from here?” The conversation was moderated by Reverend...

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Why War? The Formation of Israel in Palestine

Why War? The Formation of Israel in Palestine

Since October 7, 2023, the world has watched the government of Israel drop more than 6,000 bombs and launch more than 7,000 missiles into the territory of Gaza, causing damage the equivalent of 2 nuclear bombs. The military operation is in retaliation to a Hamas-led...

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A Burglary Motivated by Racism

A Burglary Motivated by Racism

Haaaretz journalists Gideon Levy and Alex Levac reported on a West Bank burglary case in 2020 in which a small Palestinian business was repeatedly burglarized by Jewish settlers. Was this burglary motivated by racism? Mohammed Mahmadi, 29, left his restaurant job in...

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Curt’s Hebron

Curt’s Hebron

Curtis Bell, President of Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East, spoke to the First Unitarian Church’s Department of Social Justice about his two months in Hebron and what he learned about the Palestinian experience under Israeli occupation. Video...

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Virginia Tech GPSS

Virginia Tech GPSS

The Graduate and Professional Student Senate (GPSS) at Virginia Tech passed a resolution in October 2021 demanding that the University’s administration enact an academic boycott of Israel and institutions “complicit in maintaining the Israeli occupation.” The...

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