Bay Area Jews for Palestinian liberation & Judaism beyond Zionism. JVP Action is now doing business as JVP, as a 501c4. Our 501c3 work continues in JVP Lab.
I want to take a moment to speak to all those who came out into the streets, onto encampments on college campuses and to the front lines; to the musicians and cultural producers, the filmmakers, artists and authors; to the tech workers who refused to be complicit and silent; and to the new independent journalists who creatively opened new vistas, challenged the Zionist narrative and built the narrative of the oppressed. You paid with your jobs, your degrees, your visas, and your safety. You did not do it for reward. You did it because you could see, and once you saw, you could not unsee.
It is time to reckon with Scott Wiener’s record on Palestine.
This is the first time in 40 years that San Francisco’s congressional seat has been open & truly competitive.
This is the only elected seat in the city that has decisive impacts abroad — including in Palestine. 🧵
@TyeGregory This thorough report makes it difficult for Scott to run from his horrendous record, which, like that of Tye Gregory, includes calling people who dare to criticize Israel's genocide and ethnic cleansing or who want to teach accurately about Palestine, "Hamas supporters"
@TyeGregory@nadiarahmansf A horrifying white nationalist attack on a mosque should prompt us all (Jews and everyone else) to confront anti-Muslim hate directly.
Instead, criticism of Zionism is once again called “blaming the Jews”. It’s cheap, disingenuous, and wrong.
does iran have a right to defend itself? does palestine? does lebanon? or is it just israel and america who get to claim self defense as they engage in wars of conquest?
I can’t describe how dispiriting it is to have this sociopath who just learned about Judaism declare that those of us who’ve lived this tradition our entire lives are not real Jews because we interpret our history to mean we should oppose oppression rather than embrace it.
For the past two years the Israeli government has expanded its wars of aggression across the region — bombing Lebanon, Iran, Syria and Yemen — in an attempt to distract global attention from its ongoing genocide of Palestinians. Under Trump, the U.S. has bombed Iran, Iraq, Syria, Nigeria and Yemen, and enacted violent regime change in Venezuela, all while carrying out an unchecked assault on immigrants and trans people and the decimation of civil liberties.
Jewish Voice for Peace denounces the immoral and illegal war on Iran launched by the United States and Israel last night. These attacks expand the endless wars that could destroy the lives of tens of millions of people. We stand in solidarity with the people of Iran and against the U.S. and Israeli government’s imperial warmongering.
so far, Eric Swalwell, Matt Mahan, Tom Steyer, Scott Wiener, Newsom's press office, David Axelrod, CNN's most gullible reporter, and more fell for this, and @daniellurie's office is stonewalling b/c they don't want to admit they fucked up. institutional left-smearing in action!
We are drawing a line as the threat of war and militarism expands. We will sacrifice no one, and we will fight for everyone.
You can endorse this letter, email your congress members, and hit the streets.
Endorse here: https://t.co/CrgcSi56MU
NO WAR ON VENEZUELA! NO TO WARS! NO TO BOMBS!
From the Rising Majority coalition:
Join us in condemning the illegal military actions on Venezuela and demand an immediate release of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cicilia Flores.
There can be billions for war, for more than two years of genocide in Gaza, and for military occupations around the world while millions lose healthcare, while millions go hungry, and while millions suffer. It’s time to fund life, not death.