VJP Intern Amber Smith

VJP Intern Amber Smith

Amber Smith is a member for Voices for Justice in Palestine (VJP) who traveled to Palestine-Israel in October 2022 and shared what she witnessed in a VJP e-newsletter. She described the heavy militarization of the Israeli occupation forces, the way good quality water...

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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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