Conference that will feature JVP seminar promises opportunity for open discussion of Israel.

Israeli soldiers shoot to kill with "Made in the USA" tear gas canisters.

The prosecution of the Irvine 11 points to increasing intolerance and Islamophobia in the US.

Activist: Israeli government won't protect its own citizens

I'm writing to you right now from a press room in Ramallah in the West Bank.

Members of youth section of Jewish Voice for Peace disrupt New York event

This is a statement from Jewish Voice for Peace-NY, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice, and Jews Say No!

YJP organizers interviewed in Other Voices

Take action on defunding of UNESCO: Click here to tell Congress to change this punitive law

This is a guest post by Rabbi Brant Rosen, Chair of JVP’s Rabbinical Council and the Rabbi of Jewish Reconstructionist Congregation in Evanston, IL.

What does Chabad Rabbi Manis Friedman have that I don’t have?

The Jewish Federation of the East Bay gloats about cancellation of the Palestinian children’s art show.

Berkeley, CA’s Middle East Children’s Alliance broke the news yesterday that the exhibit of children’s artwork from Gaza that they had worked on for months with Oakland’s Children’s Museum of Art was suddenly canceled by the board before the planned September 24 opening reception.

The first part of this post, an account of Salem’s music center 2011 end-of-year concert held recently in the village municipality building, was written by Ikhlas (Yasmin) Gebara, the young poet from Salem (a village just outside of Nablus).

As reported here, during home demolitions in the cave-dweller village of Mufakarah, two young women who resisted nonviolently were arrested and charged with “assaulting soldiers” under the Israeli Occupation’s draconian martial law.

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IDF policy requires a criminal investigation be launched immediately when military operations in the occupied Palestinian territories cause death.

Who’s Afraid of Women’s Song?