Jewish Voice for Peace

Current Actions

  • Tell the signers of the Toronto Declaration,"You Speak for Me"

    Sign the petition below and stand by over 1,000 cultural producers who have signed on to the Toronto Declaration which objects to the Toronto International Film Festival's celebratory spotlight on Tel Aviv. Such a celebratory honor is part of an explicit, openly-stated Israeli effort to divert public attention from the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem. It does not call for boycott and it does not delegitimize Israel.

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  • Ask Barack for "New Policies, New Faces" for Middle East peace

    Obama has proposed to make an early and sustained push to support peace between Israel and the Palestinians, and has pledged to talk to Iran without preconditions. A sustained push by the United States for Israeli-Palestinian peace would force on to the table fundamental issues that must be resolved, like Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank. Even Israeli Prime Minister Olmert said recently that Israel must withdraw from nearly all the West Bank as well as East Jerusalem to attain peace with the Palestinians. [1] And an early push for talks with Iran could help establish security in Iraq and Afghanistan. But we can't assume this is the direction U.S. policy will move. 

  • Tell Barack Obama

    Tell him something.

  • Defend academic freedom. Defend the right to talk about boycott, divestment, and sanctions.

    On Thursday, August 20 the LA Times published an op-ed in which Ben Gurion University Professor Neve Gordon wrote that the question that kept him up at night, both as a parent and as an Israeli citizen, was how to ensure that his two children as well as the children of his Palestinian neighbors do not grow up in an apartheid regime. He concluded that the only thing that the only workable solution would be "massive international pressure." (1) Following the publication of the article there has been such a vehement and aggressive attack against Gordon in Israel (2), that we believe "massive international pressure" will be needed to keep him from being fired from his job.

    We are protecting here more than one person and one job. Help us protect the ability to talk openly about the Israeli occupation and about nonviolent options to address it, such a boycott, divestment, and sanctions.

    When you sign this email, we will send copies to the Israeli Minister of Education, the leadership of Ben Gurion University, and to Neve Gordon himself.


  • Tell the New York Mets to say no to Hebron’s racist, violent settlers

    The New York Mets are allowing the Hebron Fund, a Brooklyn-based non-profit supporting violent and racist Israeli settlers living in the West Bank City of Hebron, to hold a fundraiser at Citi Field on November 21st. Tell the Mets to cancel this event.

    Please send the letter below, or better yet, add or edit it to make it your own!

  • Tell the US Consulate in Jerusalem about Mohammad Othman

    DEC 6 UPDATE: Mohammad Othman is in 'administrative detention,' technically until December 22. But on December 15 a new hearing will likely call for an extension. Your calls and emails are still needed!

    On November 23, 2009, after 61 days in jail, Mohammad Othman has received his first administrative detention order for a three month period -- a period where Mohammad will be held without charge or trial. The judicial review of the order is scheduled to take place tomorrow, November 25th, at the Military Court of Administrative Detainees in Ofer Military Base, near the West Bank city of Ramallah, and we need you to take action right now. Tell the US Consul General in Jerusalem to send a representative to the hearing. His harassment must stop. He should either be tried in a court of law where he can defend himself or he should be released.

  • Tell President Obama to demand that Israel free Bil’in nonviolent leader Abdallah Abu Rahmah

    On December 10, 2009 at 2 AM, the Israeli military surrounded the Ramallah home of Abdallah Abu Rahmah, a high school teacher and the Coordinator of Bil’in’s Popular Committee Against the Wall and Settlements, and arrested him. Abu Rahmah is among the leaders of the West Bank village of Bil’in’s nearly five-year nonviolent struggle of protests, lawsuits and boycotts aiming to save the village’s land from Israel’s wall and expanding settlements. Tell President Obama to demand that Israel free Bil’in nonviolent leader Abdullah Abu Rahmah! (Your letter will be cc'ed to the American Consulate in East Jerusalem).

  • Tell Egypt you stand in solidarity with Gaza

    Please tell Egypt to let the Freedom Marchers enter Gaza this coming December 31 and to stop building another separation wall between Egypt and Gaza. Your emails will be sent to the Palestine Division in the Egyptians Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Cairo, and to the Egyptian Embassy in the US.

    If you are not in the US, please send this email, and additionally please email the Egyptian Consulate in your country. Contact your local consulate here:
    http://www.mfa.gov.eg/MFA_Portal/en-GB/mfa_websits/, and copy and paste the suggested text below.

    If you've already sent this email and wish to send a second email, please click the 'send your message button' (no need to to provide all contact info again)

    Thanks!

  • Thank your Congressperson for standing up for Gaza

    Last December, we asked you to make one phone call to Congress for the sake of Gaza. Many of you did, and 54 Congresspeople heard you loud and clear. That's the number of Congressional Representatives who signed onto the Jim McDermott and Keith Ellison letter to President Obama -- sent this week -- which criticizes Israel's blockade of Gaza as "de facto collective punishment" leading to the "unabated suffering of Gazan civilians," and calling for a lifting of the restrictions imposed by the blockade.

    We are sending you this email because you live in one of the 54 Congressional Districts represented in the letter. Would you send a quick email thanking your Congresspeson?