Who We Are
Northern New Jersey JVP (NNJ JVP) is a 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.
From Our Blog
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NYC Climate March and Rally: 9/17/23
Reflecting on the recent NYC climate march and rally, I note:
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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……
Upcoming Events
JVP Book Club
They Called Me a Lioness:
A Palestinian Girl’s Fight for Freedom
Sunday, April 6th, 1:00–3:00 p.m.
The “One Book, Many Communities” campaign is back for 2025! This year Librarians and Archivists with Palestine have selected They Called Me a Lioness by Ahed Tamimi and Dena Takruri as their title.
In this memoir, Ahed Tamimi shares her experience growing up under Israeli occupation in the West Bank, her unexpected rise to fame, and experience as an imprisoned Palestinian youth. Kirkus Reviews describes the account as “passionately argued [and] profoundly empathetic.”
We have participated in this several times and will again this year with our newly formed book club. Everyone is invited to participate.
Meeting format to be decided—possibly hybrid. Keep watching this space!
