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
10AM - 7PM -- For everyone interested in the struggle to free Palestine. It will include plenaries and workshops designed to provide education for both new and experienced activists on topics from “Palestine 101” to “Labor for Palestine.” ### Help organize our movement state-wide, laying out how to launch and build campaigns for Apartheid Free Communities, Apartheid Free Ballot Resolutions, and Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions against the apartheid state of Israel.
The Vermont Peace/Antiwar Coalition (VPAC), including the Burlington branch of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, is pleased to sponsor a dramatic reading of an original play by one of our members, Crystal Zevon, called One Family in Gaza. This non-fiction drama is based on the friendship between Zevon and a young father in the Gaza Strip. The story is told through their correspondence since the fall of 2023, reflecting Zevon’s efforts to help the family, intertwined with short news reports that give context to the letters. The main focus is the messages received from the young father which, while telling a story that in some ways reflects universal truths about living through any war, offers insights into this particular conflict. Not unlike The Diary of Anne Frank, the piece is a rare telling of a war experience in real time, calling upon us to never forget our common humanity.
JVP VT/NH Tashlich: join your nearest event for this Jewish New Year ritual. These are two of hundreds of JVP Tashlich actions across the country honoring the sanctity of every human being and mourning every life lost.
JVP VT/NH Tashlich: join your nearest event for this Jewish New Year ritual. These are two of hundreds of JVP Tashlich actions across the country honoring the sanctity of every human being and mourning every life lost.
Where Olive Trees Weep: "The filmmakers 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 universally human stories of intergenerational pain, trauma and resilience."
The Humanizing Palestine Lecture Series - Palestinian Walks: Notes on a Vanishing Landscape by Raja Shehadeh.
POTLUCK Starts at 5:30 followed by PRESENTATION at 7:00 This is a hybrid meeting. To join on zoom contact: Maggie Fogarty MFogarty@afsc.org for the link.
Join a conversation with three scholars on the histories of prisons and torture across the global Middle East.
Israelism: "When two young American Jews raised to unconditionally love Israel witness the brutal way Israel treats Palestinians, their lives take sharp left turns. ISRAELISM uniquely explores how Jewish attitudes towards Israel are changing dramatically, with massive consequences for the region and for Judaism itself."
A Just Vision series of online conversations providing crucial context for events unfolding in Israel-Palestine. Free
With Drs. Seema Jilani and Arham Ali
Monthly Book Reading group.
EVERY WEDNESDAY from the Palestine Film Institute, Film of the week online on Wednesdays at 5PM
Perspectives
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