Jewish Voice for Peace
Vermont - New Hampshire Chapter
CONNECTICUT RIVER PHOTO: MIKE TESSIER
About us
FOR ISRAEL’S OPPRESSION OF PALESTINIANS
Jewish Voice for Peace is the largest progressive Jewish anti-Zionist organization in the world.
We’re organizing a grassroots, multiracial, cross-class, intergenerational movement of U.S. Jews into solidarity with Palestinian freedom struggle.
If you’ve been looking for a political home for Jews on the left in this perilous moment; if you’ve been wanting a Jewish community with justice at the center; if you’ve been looking to turn your rage and grief into meaningful, strategic action:
Join us. You belong here.
JVP VISION
Our Vision
We envision a world where all people — from the U.S. to Palestine — live in freedom, justice, equality, and dignity.
Like generations of Jewish leftists before us, we fight for the liberation of all people. We believe that through organizing, we can and will dismantle the institutions and structures that sustain injustice and grow something new, joyful, beautiful, and life-sustaining in their place.
We picture the concrete of the Apartheid wall in pieces on free Palestinian soil. We picture Israeli jails, prisons, and detention centers emptied and dismantled. We picture the return of Palestinian refugees, reuniting with their families and communities. We picture Palestinians — from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea — living with their inalienable rights respected, building schools and hospitals and planting olive groves with the resources they need.
We imagine Jewish Israelis released from conscripted violence against Palestinians, free from dehumanizing others which in turn diminishes their own humanity. We imagine Jewish Israelis joining Palestinians to build a just society, rooted in equality rather than supremacy, dignity rather than domination, democracy rather than dispossession — a society where every life is precious.
Throughout the Jewish diaspora, we envision our communities beginning to heal from the Zionist movement’s attempts to dilute and erase many of our diasporic histories, languages, and traditions. We envision replacing Jewish institutions that use fear to keep us in line, and the proliferation of thriving and vibrant Jewish communities building safety for ourselves and all our neighbors, grounded in a vision of dignity, power, and love for all people.
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Events
History did not begin on Oct 7th. A Critical Solidarities Series with Amira Haas ### The speakers in this series bring a range of biographical, literary, ethnographic, filmic and discursive frameworks for understanding race, gender and sexuality when it is attuned to Palestine in particular, and not some “civil dialogue between two viewpoints” for a better world. It draws attention also to the paradigms of thinking already developed in the field for engaging anti-/de/colonial, intersectional, and non-supremacist ways of being in/with others in the world.
Hosted by L’Chaim Collective. Register for the physical address of venue
Bring Palestine Cinema Days to your communities! Host a screening of a Palestinian film on November 2 ### Now, you can extend your platform to the “Palestine Cinema Days” festival bringing it beyond Palestine, to the whole world. Stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people by organizing film screenings worldwide. ### These screenings will take place on November 2, the solemn anniversary of the Balfour Declaration. Let’s amplify Palestinian voices, expose false narratives, and inspire collective action toward justice and liberation. ### Please complete the form below as soon as possible to help us streamline the screenings.
Sundays, October 27th - December 1st - BRATTLEBORO, 3:00 - 5:00 PM - Clare Morgana, history professor and journalist, will be leading this course oriented around understanding current events through a historical perspective.
Join a community gathering with Rabbi Cat Zavis, who will discuss the misuse of Judaism to justify the brutal Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories. Drawing on deep Jewish ethical traditions of justice and compassion, Rabbi Zavis will show how the occupation fundamentally contradicts core Jewish values. ### We will explore the rich history of Jewish opposition to occupation and highlight contemporary movements working to honor Judaism’s ethical mandate, “Never Again” for anyone.
Speaker: Dr. Ahlam Abuawad, a postdoctoral fellow in Epidemiology at Dartmouth with expertise in Environmental Health Sciences. Presentation description: Delve into the profound health consequences of environmental injustices faced by a population often depicted as isolated. By unraveling the intricate ties between these communities and the world around them, Dr. Abuawad will expose how environmental degradation and systemic healthcare inequalities transcend borders, calling for a more just and equitable global approach to environmental health.
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