"The only recognizable feature of hope is action" - Grace Paley
When two parties have a dispute there are really only three ways to end it. They can negotiate a mutually agreeable outcome, or they can fight it out until the stronger party prevails, or,...
Jewish Voice for Peace New Haven joins national JVP and the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) in grief, shock, and outrage over the murders of three Muslim students in Chapel Hill. We have...
Last week, in his State of the Union address, President Obama declared the US was nearing an agreement with Iran over nuclear weapons. Some members of the Senate, from both parties, have been itching...
Today, Ashkenazi Jews dominate all major economic, cultural and political institutions. Mizrachi Jews are a disadvantaged lower caste, though they amount to 50% of Israeli citizens. Palestinian citizens are even more disadvantaged, with at...
So there is a kind of “quiet” now in Gaza, but it is far from “peace.” Palestinians have a legal right to be free of occupation and to resist if the occupier refuses to...
Rachel Corrie was raised in Olympia, WA. As a teen-ager, she wondered what would be her calling in life, where would she fit in and make her mark. Rachel kept a diary and later...
NEW HAVEN JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE SAYS END THE BOMBING END THE BLOCKADE OF GAZA END THE OCCUPATION Israel in Gaza: A Statement by the JVP Rabbinical Council by Rabbi Brant Rosen July 25,...
Distributed August 31, 2014 500,000 Israelis live in West Bank settlements. Palestinians have been cordoned off into many isolated population zones akin to Native American reservations and South African Bantustans. Read more>>
