Sign the Petition Against the Deportation of African Refugees in Israel
Almost 20,000 African refugees have been forcibly deported from Israel over the last five years. About 40,000 of these asylum seekers remain–the grand majority of them from Eritrea and Sudan. In...
View ArticleDurham Activists Want the City to Become the First in the U.S. to Condemn...
Since 9/11, high-ranking American police officers from all over the country have been sent to Israel for counterterrorism training, a practice critics find problematic due to Israeli security forces’...
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It’s Time For Jewish Communities To Stop Investing In The Police – The Forward
By Lara Haft in The Forward Growing up, I remember regularly seeing cops at the door of my synagogue and patrolling in their police cars outside. My family and older members of the synagogue explained...
View ArticleAbolishing Prisons and Ending Racism
How to think and what to do about race in order to abolish prisons By Anonymous In 2010, I had a 4-month long psychotic episode during which time I broke several laws, including public disturbance,...
View ArticleImagining Abolition with Haredim
By Ben Ratskoff Because Haredi communities have historically detached their work in Jewish law from the carceral Israeli state, their perspectives on incarceration seem worth exploring in order to...
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Durham Unanimously Votes for Nation’s First Ban on Police Exchanges with Israel
PRESS RELEASE For immediate release April 16, 2018 Press contact: Sonya Meyerson-Knox | 929.290.0317 | sonya@jvp.org Durham City Council prevents the militarization of its police following a...
View ArticleHow Policing in the U.S. and Security in Israel Are Connected
BY LINCOLN ANTHONY BLADES, Teen Vogue On June 19, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley announced that America would withdraw from the UN Human...
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Stop the Deadly Exchange Between the U.S. and Israel #ApartheidIsNotSecurity
By Jewish Voice for Peace Deputy Director Stefanie Fox Israel has made something very clear in the last few weeks: “national security” is a watchword for unfettered apartheid. Israel has launched more...
View ArticleRevealed: Deputy Director Of Ice Was Sent By The ADL For Training With The...
For more information, visit https://deadlyexchange.org/immigration-and-customs-enforcement-ice-and-deadly-exchange/ Why does the ADL protest Trump’s family separation policies, while also sending ICE...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to Mayor Peduto
We are dismayed by your recent participation in the International Conference of Mayors in Israel, sponsored by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. It is clear from the press reports that your...
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