Articles by Jewish Voice for Peace
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Northern Gaza: “Coffins Have Run Out”–The Holocaust of Our Time
The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
23 Oct 2024 – A campaign of mass slaughter and ethnic cleansing is underway. “The injured bleed out in the streets, coffins have run out.” Hundreds of thousands are being starved. Essential aid like food and medicine hasn’t entered the north of Gaza in three weeks. The Israeli military is burning down U.N. schools where Palestinians have been sheltering.
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Gaza Burns as Wall Street Booms
The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
15 Oct 2024 – Palestinians are being burned alive by Israeli bombs. U.S.-based defense contractors and big banks’ profits soar. Yesterday morning, 500 Jews and allies shut down the New York Stock Exchange to demand the U.S. stop arming Israel and profiting from genocide.
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One Year of Unspeakable Loss
Jewish Voice for Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
7 Oct 2024 – After a year of genocide against Palestinians, Israel is waging a campaign of terror that has brought the entire region closer to all-out war. A year of impunity for Israeli genocide has landed us here.
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The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
Monday [23 Sep] was the deadliest day in Lebanon in decades. In a single day, Israeli strikes in Beirut and across south Lebanon killed over 500 people, including at least 50 children, with countless more buried under the rubble. Tens of thousands have been forced to flee their homes as the death toll continues to rise.
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The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2024
19 Sep 2024 – Israel carried out two terrorist attacks across Lebanon this week, bringing the entire region ever closer to the brink of all out war. These are the actions of a rogue state and the direct result of a climate of total impunity.
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A Brief Guide to Israel’s Cultural Genocide
The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
28 Aug 2024 – Since its genocide against Palestinians in Gaza began, the Israeli military has destroyed hundreds of historical and religious sites, and centers of culture and learning like libraries, archives, and museums.
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Thousands Shut Down the US Capitol to Protest Israel’s Genocide
The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
25 Jul 2024 – Thousands of people of conscience from across the US turned out to protest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to D.C. this week — including hundreds of American Jews who were arrested while engaged in prayerful civil disobedience, demanding an immediate arms embargo on Israel.
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Israel Is a Core Pillar of U.S. Dominance
The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
19 Jun 2024 – Over the last eight months, Israel’s genocide has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and reduced most of Gaza to rubble. In the face of all this horror, many of us are asking ourselves: How could the U.S. government continue to support this?
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Israel Is a Rogue State – Who Will Stop Them?
The Wire - Jewish Voice for Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
On 26 May 2024, the Israeli military carried out an unspeakable massacre in a humanitarian zone in Rafah, bombing tent camps filled with displaced men, women, and children, and killing at least 45 Palestinians. Hundreds of others were wounded. The images from that night will never leave us.
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The U.S. Ultimatum to Israel
The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
8 May 2024 – “The U.S. has suspended the shipment of weapons to Israel,” US Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, just told the Senate. “We are examining the short-term security support in the context of the events in Rafah; we have not yet decided how to proceed.” This is huge.
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Will They Crush the Biggest Student Movement Since Vietnam?
The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
1 May 2024 – Gaza solidarity encampments sprung up on over a hundred university campuses across the U.S. It’s the biggest student movement since the anti-Vietnam War protests in the 1960s. In response to the peaceful protests against genocide, many school administrations have invited police onto campus for violent crackdowns.
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Rafah: The Penultimate Step in Israel’s March of Genocide
The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
On Sunday [11 Feb], while 100 million Americans watched the Super Bowl, Israel unleashed the next stage in its genocide of Palestinians. Netanyahu ordered soldiers a ground entry into the city of Rafah, on Gaza’s southern border with Egypt, the last refuge for 1.5 million Palestinians displaced by the ongoing Israeli genocide.
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This Holocaust Remembrance Day, ‘Never Again’ Is Now
The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
27 Jan 2024 – Today, Gaza is a shell of its former self. Entire neighborhoods have been wiped from the face of the Earth, replaced by a gray wasteland unfit for human life: bustling markets and crowded cafes, libraries home to thousands of precious books, bakeries filled with the smell of fresh bread — all of it turned to ash by Zionist IDF forces.
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All of Palestine Is under Attack
The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
24 Oct 2023 – For many of us, it’s impossible to imagine the scale of death and destruction in Gaza. Let us be clear: This is genocide. This isn’t a war on Hamas. It’s a war on the Palestinian people.
→ read full articleThe Root of Violence Is Oppression
Jewish Voice for Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
7 Oct 2023 – Following 16 years of Israeli military blockade, Palestinian fighters from Gaza launched an unprecedented assault, in which hundreds of Israelis were killed and wounded, and civilians kidnapped. The Israeli government declared war, launching airstrikes, killing hundreds of Palestinians and wounding thousands, bombing residential buildings and threatening to commit war crimes against besieged Palestinians in Gaza.
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First Ever: 40 Jewish Groups Worldwide Oppose Equating Antisemitism with Criticism of Israel
Jewish Voice for Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
Jewish Voice for Peace proud to stand in global solidarity against harmful definition of antisemitism and with human rights and freedom to protest
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Jewish Voice for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
30 Mar 2018 – Tonight, as Jews across the world gather at the Passover seder to remember our own story as a people questing for a homeland, the Israeli military has yet again unleashed disproportionate violence against demonstrating Palestinians–in the Great March of Return–the latest in a long series of deadly responses to popular protests by Palestinians. It was explicitly planned as a peaceful march along the border of Gaza and Israel, where tent cities are erected.
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Israel Bans Entry to 25 Organizations Connected with the BDS Movement
Rebecca Vilkomerson | Jewish Voice for Peace - The Dawn News,
15 Jan 2018
On Sunday January 8, Israel’s Ministry of Strategic Affairs released a list of 20 international organizations whose members will be prohibited from entering the country because of their support of the Boycott, Divestments and Sanctions Movement -BDS- against Israel.
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Jews for Justice for Palestinians | Jewish Voice for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2016
In the United States, as in Britain, accusations of the prevalence of antisemitism abound and are used as sticks to beat those – protesting too vigorously? – at Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians. But some antisemitism is real and it is important to make the right distinctions, to clarify the difference between expressions of antisemitism and support for Palestinian human rights.
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Israel and Palestine – A Very Short Introduction
Jewish Voice for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
Easy to understand, historically accurate. Why Israelis and Palestinians are fighting, why the US-backed peace process has been an impediment to peace, and what you can do to make a difference. This conflict is essentially about land and human rights, not religion and culture.
→ read full articleAPRIL 28: Associated Students of UC Berkeley Vote to Divest From Companies That Profit From Israeli Occupation of Palestine
Dana Bergen, Jewish Voice for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2010
Every so often, we get a moment when a remarkable future starts to unfold before our eyes. And when it happens, it’s our responsibility to do everything within our power to help it along. One of those moments is happening right now, unbeknownst to most of the world, on the University of California’s Berkeley campus.
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