Jewish Voice for Peace
Vermont - New Hampshire Chapter
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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
Do you have a hobby or skill that you enjoy sharing with others? Here is a chance to contribute your talents to ending Israeli apartheid! VCPL will host a family-friendly Apartheid-Free Communities Fair, featuring dozens of Vermont businesses, nonprofits, and groups that have endorsed the AFC pledge to oppose Israeli apartheid. We are seeking musicians, artists, performers, and creatives of all stripes to bring their talents to the fair.
SURROUND THE UNITED NATIONS WHILE THEY ARE MEETING. GAZA IS BLEEDING
When: the First and Third Sundays in October and November, 1- 3 p.m., followed by audience discussion. See press release attached
Divestment is the act of withdrawing financial support or investment from entities, industries, or countries causing harm or injustice. Many are aware of it from the South African anti-apartheid movement. More recently it has been used in campaigns to end fossil fuel use, the U.S. prison, border, and surveillance industries as well as military occupation and apartheid in Palestine/Israel. In this program, Noam Perry, will particularly focus on how it is working in the struggle for human rights in Palestine/Israel, and how we as individuals and in our communities can use this tactic. ###. Noam Perry is the Strategic Research Coordinator of AFSC's Action Center for Corporate Accountability. He coordinates the Investigate project, researching corporate complicity in state violence and human rights violations, including the U.S. prison, border, and surveillance industries as well as military occupation and apartheid in Palestine/Israel. ###. Before joining AFSC, Noam was teaching in the Human Rights program at San José State University. Born and raised in Tel Aviv, Noam holds a B.Sc. in Physics and M.A. in Geography from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Ph.D. in Law and Public Policy from Northeastern University in Boston.
Join us for a powerful and timely conversation with Miko Peled— Israeli-American author, human rights activist, and son of a celebrated Israeli general—who has become one of the most compelling voices for Palestinian freedom and justice.
From 1:00 - 4:00 PM - Life Aid for Palestine, a benefit concert for Middle East Children's Alliance, the Good Shepherd Collective, and the Palestinian writer and journalist Yusuf el-Mobayed and his family in Gaza, featuring performers including Patty Carpenter, Scott Ainslie, Samirah Evans, Dan DeWalt, Kwartetto Mambo, John Sheldon, Michel Moushabeck, Joel Veena, Firas Zriek (by video), and Seyir.
Beginning at 1:00 PM - Labor Day March and Rally - An Injury to One is an Injury to All. Join unions and social movement organizations to rally against Trump and the billionaire class this Labor Day in Burlington. We will assemble at Battery Park, march through the city, and return to Battery Park for a concluding rally and family-friendly picnic. Now is the time to mobilize against the Trump regime’s relentless assault on workers and the oppressed. We know that an injury to one is an injury to all. So, we will unite to defend our democracy and everyone’s rights as well as our jobs, wages, and benefits.
All are welcome to meet Sanders on Saturday, August 30, 6:00-8:00 pm at Heberton Hall, 60 Winter St., Keene, whether you bring food to share or just show up. Concord, NH, resident Bob Sanders began an epic bicycle journey from San Francisco to Portsmouth on May 30. Despite being hit by a jeep in Idaho, which laid him up for a month, 70-year old Sanders has continued his dual mission of cycling across the country and heightening awareness about the war in Gaza.
Wednesday, August 27th - LOCATION TBA at 5:30 PM - Co-Op Food Stores Board of Directors Meeting. Especially if you are a Co-Op member, join Upper Valley for Palestine’s BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) Working Group as we present our petition at the monthly board of directors meeting. Come 15 minutes early if you can and meet us outside. Wear your keffiyehs or other clothing and buttons in support of Palestine and BDS.
The Greater Bennington Peace & Justice Center is sponsoring its annual "peace contingent" in the Bennington Battle Day parade. Bennington for a Free Palestine will join this event, and is inviting folks to turn out! Wear red, white, green or black. Bring signs, posters and pots & pans. Please RSVP if you plan to join to maryansj@hotmail.com. https://maps.app.goo.gl/TZtd2Zom3MyMNZnn7
An evening of gratitude with Mohsen Madawi and friends from 4-6PM
Thank you for joining us in creating limbs. Your participation attests to the love we can create together in the face of horrors perpetrated by genocide. We will be gathering tomorrow by the Museum of Anti-Modern Art at Bread and Puppet Theatre around the fire pit. We will be laying the limbs to rest in the earth and lighting the fire that will glaze them till dawn. Join us in this ceremony. Bring a song to share or your openness to listen, reflect, and sit in prayer and contemplate on our ability to regrow and regenerate what has been lost. In the following phase, the fired limbs will be prepared for display, exhibited, and sold to raise funds towards the Ghassan Abu Sitta Children's fund for reconstructive limb surgery in Gaza and Lebanon. We will be in touch. In solidarity and light, Unidentified Body Parts Collective
Shaul Magid, author of The Necessity of Exile, will speak at the UVJC. Magid's book focuses on the relationship of American Jews to Israel, a theme that is important to all Jews -- positive or negative.
The Palestine Film Series, hosted by Upper Valley for Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace VT-NH, continues with . This is the film the BBC refused to air. Directed by Karim Shah, the film is a forensic investigation into Israeli military attacks on hospitals in Gaza and targeting, detainment and torture of medics throughout Gaza. Free and open to the public. Masks appreciated as well as light potluck fare.
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