Jewish Voice for Peace

Jewish Voice for Peace is affiliated with the United for Peace and Justice.^[1]

Advocacy for the Ceasefire Now Resolution

Adalah Justice Project Ceasefire Now Letter

On January 26, 2024, Adalah Justice Project "sponsored" a letter with Democratic Socialists of America, MPower Change, Jewish Voice for Peace Action urging people to send a letter to Congress "demonstrat[ing] mass support" for the Ceasefire Now Resolution.^[2]

OPEN LETTER BY BIJOCSM TO DEFUND THE POLICE

The Jewish Voice for Peace was behind a letter to defund police from "BIJOCSM" (Black Jew, Indigenous Jew, Non-Black Jew of Color, Sephardim or Mizrahim Jew) dated June 24 2020 that said in part: "As BIJOSCM, we call on all American Jews to divest from police, and urge that all Jewish institutions, community centers, synagogues and Jewish spaces of prayer end their partnerships with the police."^[3] The contact was listed as Ari Belathar-Kulikovsky.

Signatories

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History

This organization, formed in 1996, is one of several newer Jewish leftist and/or radical organizations that appeared on the ideological scene after the demise of earlier groups such as Breira, New Jewish Agenda, and the older Jews for Justice or Jews for Urban Justice that were both national and local in scope.

A nice summary of the history of JVP is found at the www.frontpagemagazine.com data collection on the Left known as www.discoverthenetwork.org. (DTN). Because their information is usually very accurate, KW is using some of it to fill in our own data gaps or to enhance them. For specific information purposes here, KW has taken the names of people mentioned by DTN and added them here.

Julia Kaplan - co-founder, University of California, San Francisco Bay Area, 1996
Julie Iny- co-founder, UC, SF
Rachel Eisner - co-founder, UC, SF

Mitchell Plitnick - Director of Education and Policy, from 2003-2008, DTN described him as a "Former Sixities radical"
Rebecca Vilkomerson - 2010 National Director (her name will show up in other anti-Israel organizations). Active since 2002.

JVP Advisory Board

Tony Kushner - the far-left, extremely anti-Israel playwright/author and leader of a gay movement in the entertainment field
Ed Asner
Adrienne Rich
Ronnie Gilbert - an old CPUSA sympathizer if not member, of Pete Seeger's group, The Weavers
Naomi Klein - one of the most viciously anti-Israel feminists in the movement
Noam Chomsky
Howard Zinn (d - 2010)

DTN remarked that "JVP" "has worked with

Mark Levine - far left writer, not the nationally known radio show host and attorney Mark Levin
Joel Beinin - an old-line Maoist Marxist
Robert Meeropol - the marxist son of the late executed Soviet spies, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Michael Ratner - one of the most hardcore marxist leaders/members of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) and the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), a NLG off-shoot

External links

United for Peace and Justice website

References

[1] Affiliates

[2] Write Your Members of Congress: Sign onto the Ceasefire Now resolution (accessed January 27, 2024)

[3] OPEN LETTER BY BIJOCSM TO DEFUND THE POLICE (Accessed on September 14 2020)

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