Jewish Voice for Peace

The Wire, by JVP Every week, we cover important news from Palestine, the United States, and the Palestine solidarity movement — and provide ways to take action.

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Our job is to refuse to allow Trump’s attacks to divide us or scare us into silence, and to keep driving a wedge between the politicians and institutions who continue to support genocide, and the majority of Americans who oppose their tax dollars being used to starve children and massacre families.

The work of the U.S.-based Palestine solidarity movement is far from over, and that work is more under threat than ever before.

Our opposition is resorting to authoritarian tactics because they fear our power.

Because of this seachange in public opinion, and the ways in which our movements are making serious gains at cracking the US-Israel alliance, the Trump administration is turning to strongman tactics to quell popular support for Palestine.

And the Palestine solidarity movement is harnessing this popular outrage in order to force a shift in U.S. policy at the highest levels: ending U.S. arms to Israel, and ending the genocide.

Here in the US, more than half of Americans hold an unfavorable view of Israel. Unable to look away from the crimes our tax dollars are funding, more Americans than ever before are calling for an end to U.S. support to Israel.

In July, several of those states agreed to immediately stop arms transfers to Israel and prevent vessels carrying arms to Israel from docking at their ports. Dockworkers from France to Italy to Greece have refused to load arms components bound for Israel.

While Netanyahu addressed a nearly-empty room at the United Nations last week, Columbia and South Africa convened over 30 countries to coordinate legal, diplomatic, and economic measures to bring Israel’s genocide to an end.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is an international fugitive who was forced to largely avoid European airspace during his recent trip to NYC, fearing that he could be detained in line with the ICC arrest warrant issued against him in 2024.

Today, Israel is more isolated than it’s ever been.

Because when we confront authoritarianism with truth and humanity on our side, we win — proving that a better world isn’t just imaginable, it’s possible.

We stand with the students and faculty who are boldly confronting their administrations, exposing these crackdowns for what they are: authoritarian responses to principled dissent.

Across campuses, student protesters are showing that true safety comes not from repression, but from solidarity. Their actions are a powerful testament to resistance, courage, and the ongoing struggle for collective liberation.

"...have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally ‘yes, they do.’"

Judge William G. Young who presided over the case said, "This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US...

The AAUP and the Middle Eastern Studies Association filed the lawsuit to stop the Trump administration from targeting noncitizen students and faculty for their political beliefs, mainly their pro-Palestinian views, through widespread arrests, detentions, and deportations.

In a landmark decision on Tuesday, a federal court ruled that the Trump administration engaged in an illegal scheme to deport pro-Palestine campus activists in retaliation for their constitutionally protected speech in order to intimidate the student movement for Palestinian liberation.

Israeli settlers burn Palestinian home, fell olive trees in West Bank There have been more than 2,400 settler attacks on Palestinian property since October 2023, with over 3,000 displaced.

On Wednesday morning in the West Bank, the Israeli military opened fire on Palestinians, wounding two young men, as settlers set fire to a Palestinian home.

Israel must be sanctioned for its violence against Palestinians from Gaza to the West Bank.

Human Rights Group Visits Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, Calls for His Release Israel has held hospital director Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya in its torture camps for nine months.

Israel is holding more than 100 Palestinian medical workers from Gaza hostage without charge or trial. It is systematically torturing & starving them, including Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, who has contracted scabies & is being denied medical treatment by Israel.

In Gaza, We Are Literally Losing Our Ability to Speak The human mind, faced with relentless pain, erects invisible barricades. Here, amid genocide, one of them is the ability to express our trauma out loud.

"I often know what I want to say, but the words just don’t come. My thoughts get tangled, and even when I try to speak, my voice falters or dies in my throat." In Gaza, people are so traumatized that they're losing their ability to speak—literally.

Global Sumud Flotilla vows to keep sailing ‘until Gaza is free’ following Israel’s interception of over 40 of its vessels Following Israel’s interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla, organizers have vowed that they will continue “to sail until Gaza is free.” They’ve already announced that the next mission will send...

Following Israel’s interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla, organizers have vowed that they will continue “to sail until Gaza is free.” They’ve already announced that the next mission will send a thousand ships to Gaza.

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This year, more than ever before, it is all of us or none of us. May we all be inscribed in the book of life. G’mar Chatimah Tova.

“We cast off the despair of this moment that keeps us from working towards Palestinian freedom.

We cast off feeling daunted by the task ahead, knowing we can build the strength to keep going together.”

“We cast off anti-Arab, anti-Muslim, and anti-Palestinian racism that harms us and our siblings in this struggle. We must continue to do better."

“We cast off the shame of not knowing the names of cities in Gaza, like Jabalia, Khan Yunis, Deir al-Balah, or Rafa––until they were bombed. We will remember these names, knowing Gaza will rebuild!"

“We cast off the isolation that keeps us from caring for one another and acting in solidarity."

“We cast off the feeling that we don’t know enough to speak our minds. Our ancestors taught us about the horrors of genocide, displacement, ethnic cleansing, and persecution. We know we must continue to say Never Again—Never Again for Anyone—and that includes Palestinians."

“We cast off Jewish supremacy that claims death and destruction in our name.

“We cast off fear that silences us when we know we must speak up against war, genocide, and occupation."

“We cast off shame of our complicity that our tax dollars fund the weapons that are killing tens of thousands of innocent people in Gaza and the West Bank, and now Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen. We recommit to working to end US military funding to Israel."