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
The Gaza Monologues are testimonies written by ASHTAR Theater's youth in 2010, after the first war on the Gaza Strip. Tragically, these Monologues are still accurate today, revealing the horrors, hopes and resilience of courageous Gazans to a wider audience and highlighting the voices of the children of Gaza. The December 7th performance will feature monologues from 2010, 2014 and 2023. The December 21st performance will feature an entirely different slate of monologues written in November 2024. Both venues are wheelchair accessible and both performances will be livestreamed.
An original play by Chrystal Devon. Please join us for this hour long dramatic reading with a Q&A discussion following the performance. The performance is free, but we will be collecting donations for a grassroots effort in Gaza to feed hungry families.
1st & 3rd Sundays in January & February - 4PM to 6PM * THE NAKBA & TANTURA * Discussion to follow each film in the series
1st & 3rd Sundays in January & February - 4PM to 6PM * THE PRESENT & LYD * Discussion to follow each film in the series
1st & 3rd Sundays in January & February - 4PM to 6PM. * FROM GROUND ZERO. *. Discussion to follow each film in the series
1st & 3rd Sundays in January & February - 4PM to 6PM *. WE TEACH LIFE, SIR &. WHERE THE OLIVE TREES WEEP. * Discussion to follow each film in the series
Rabbis for Human Rights & Achvat Amim invitation for a Winter Solidarity Visit Dates: December 19th 2024- January 5th, 2025 ACHVAT AMIM 19-DAY WINTER PROGRAMMING
Please Join Us for this wonderful event benefiting World Central Kitchen. An evening of poetry, music, dance, and light middle eastern food. Words: Carlene Kucharczyk, Ellen Goldstein, Anne Macksoud, Nathalie Kramer, Leon Dunkley; High School students: Jane Stout, Tua Shaw. Dance: Peggy Brightman, Hope Yeager, Nicole Conte Stevens, Vali Stuntz, Laura Leavitt, Suzy Malerich. Music: Paula Boyle, Stephen Stuntz, Michael Zsoldos, Ryan Newswange, John McHugh, Leon Dunkley.
Speakers Hamed Bakir and Mousa Ishaq will talk about what is going on and answer your questions. Moderated by Henry Nichols Desserts offered. (for a zoom link email duncandnichols@gmail.com)
Not In My Name, an organization of NH Jews committed to an immediate ceasefire and peace in Israel/Palestine, is presenting two films that address the Palestine/Israel crisis through a personal lens. ##### The filmmakers of Where Olive Trees Weep journeyed to the occupied West Bank in 2022. Background to the current crisis is given as the film examines the lives of people they met. The Palestinians share their stories of intergenerational pain, trauma and resilience.
The Gaza Monologues are testimonies written by ASHTAR Theater's youth in 2010, after the first war on the Gaza Strip. Tragically, these Monologues are still accurate today, revealing the horrors, hopes and resilience of courageous Gazans to a wider audience and highlighting the voices of the children of Gaza. The December 7th performance will feature monologues from 2010, 2014 and 2023. The December 21st performance will feature an entirely different slate of monologues written in November 2024. Both venues are wheelchair accessible and both performances will be livestreamed.
Peace activists will gather from 1:00 to 5:00 pm for the vigil. Granite Staters are invited to join Veterans and supporters in a fast and a vigil to remember the innocent children of Gaza whose lives have been cut short. The Palestine Director of Human Rights Watch, Omar Shakir, said, “Israel’s use of starvation as a weapon of war has proven deadly for children in Gaza.” The vigil organizers will fast on Tuesday, Nov. 26, to show solidarity with the children of Palestine. Speakers representing various faith and social service communities will be presenting throughout the afternoon. Attendees are also invited to speak. Granite Staters can join by fasting for one or more meals, or they can make donations to organizations that are working to alleviate the anguish of the people of Gaza, especially the children. Donations can be made to UNICEF, OXFAM, Save the Children, the American Friends Service Committee, the UN World Food Program, and UNRWA USA.
Join Mohammed and Majed Sawalha, directors of The Palestinian House of Friendship, for a conversation about the current situation on the West Bank in Palestine. The Sawalhas and PHF are in Nablus and have "on the ground" insight about the Israeli onslaught and war against the Palestinian people on the West Bank. They will share an update on the terror campaign being waged by the Israeli army and settlers, and how PHF is carrying out its life affirming activities for children and their families. We'll also hear about a new initiative PHF has implemented involving workshops to educate and activate democracy building. Please register below and join us on November 24th.
Not In My Name, an organization of NH Jews committed to an immediate ceasefire and peace in Israel/Palestine, is presenting two films that address the Palestine/Israel crisis through a personal lens. ##### Israelism follows two American Jews raised to unconditionally love Israel. When they witness the brutal way Israel treats Palestinians, their lives take sharp left turns.
The entire event will begin at 6:00 and end at 8:30 PM. There will be a free movie screening of Children of Shatila (1998), a Palestinian documentary, as well as a short film I Am From Palestine.
Sundays Until 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.
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.
Palestinian Poet Mosab Abu Toha, one of the most gifted voices coming from Gaza, will be reading from his new book, Forest of Noise . Tickets are free but limited. Go here now to reserve your seat.
Hosted by L’Chaim Collective. Register for the physical address of venue
Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism Today with the Vermont Tempest Collective. Ashley Smith leads a discussion of his article in Tempest Magazine.
From Ireland to Palestine: Lessons in Anti-Imperialist Organizing. Join us for a report back from a historic Palestinian delegation to the north of Ireland, where organizers got to share experiences of resisting colonization and state violence, strategies and tactics for the homeland and diaspora, the strength and leadership of political prisoners, and how to hold pain and grief while remaining steadfast in the struggle.
History did not begin on Oct 7th. A Critical Solidarities Series with Amira Haas. Amira Hass is the only Ha'Aretz journalist who has lived for many decades in the West Bank from where she has fearlessly reported what the world needs to hear, but her own government doesn't want its people to know.### 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.
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