Who We Are
Northern New Jersey JVP (NNJ JVP) is a pod/chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace, a national, grassroots organization inspired by Jewish tradition to work for a just and lasting peace according to principles of human rights, equality, and international law for all the people of Israel and Palestine.
The JVP family of organizations has restructured. JVP Action, our 501c4 organization, is now doing business as JVP. JVP Lab, our 501c3 organization, continues separately and remains focused on our nonpartisan educational and cultural work. Learn more at jvp.org/jvporgs.
From Our Blog
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Support the Earth! Support Palestine!
Jewish Voice for Peace is an organization committed to justice for the Palestinian people. So why are we joining the March to End Fossil Fuels? Of course, environmental catastrophe threatens the very existence of life on Earth, and thus everyone needs to be deeply concerned about addressing climate change. Beyond this general commitment that we……
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Response to Abbas
Mahmoud Abbas’ reprehensible antisemitic statement actively harms the struggle against Israeli apartheid by serving as a distraction from Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians and by empowering Zionist claims of Palestinian antisemitism. Indeed, as approximately 200 Palestinian academics, writers, activists, and people of all walks of life said in a public statement, “The Palestinian people are……
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What’s Going On in Israel and Palestine? Why should you be concerned?
Why should you be concerned? Israel has long promoted itself as the only democracy in the Middle East—Is that really true? Not for the millions of Palestinian people who live under Israeli occupation. Israeli oppression of Palestinians has been long-standing, going back more than 75 years. In 1948, Israel subjected the indigenous population of Palestine……
Upcoming Events
Nov 2026
Monthly Organizing Meeting—October/November 2026 – 11/08/2026 at 3:30 pm - 5:30 pmJVP NNJ Book Club: Paradiso 17 – 11/10/2026 at 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
Weaponizing Water to Erase Palestine – 11/15/2026 at 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Dec 2026
The Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document That Fails Them – 12/03/2026 at 12:15 pm - 1:15 pmThe Jewish Labor Bund and Its Legacy: A Conversation with Molly Crabapple – 12/13/2026 at 2:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Feb 2027
Discriminating against Dissent: The Weaponization of Civil Rights Law to Repress Campus Speech on Palestine – 02/09/2027 at 12:15 pm - 1:15 pmApr 2027
The Othered Woman: How White Feminism Harms Muslim Women – 04/13/2027 at 12:15 pm - 1:15 pmVoices from the Holy Land Film Salon
Weaponizing Water to Erase Palestine
Sunday, November 15th, 3:00–5:00 p.m.
Water is life—and Israel’s systematic theft, restriction, and destruction of Palestinian water resources is extinguishing both daily survival and an entire way of life. While Israeli settlers building ‘Eretz Israel’ consume over 350 liters of water per person daily, West Bank Palestinians survive on a fraction of that. In the Gaza Strip, where the population has only a few liters of clean water per capita per day, Israel’s deliberate deprivation of water has triggered a severe health crisis and been denounced as a genocidal act. Our panel will discuss Israel’s use of water as a weapon of ethnic cleansing and genocide, and how we can respond.
For information and registration, go to this link.
