“Never Again for Anyone”: 100 Jewish Activists Arrested at Trump Tower
Over 300 protesters with Jewish Voice for Peace demanded the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil.
They held banners reading “opposing fascism is a Jewish tradition.”
“I refuse to allow this administration to use our names as Jews to carry out a fascist agenda." It has far-right white supremacists that do the Nazi salute, & Trump is fine with that.
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/3/14/jvp_sitin_trump_tower_mahmoud_khalil
Email campaign Jewish Voice for Peace
"Email Congress: Demand the release of student activist Mahmoud Khalil"
"These are the actions of a fascist government, & we must fiercely resist & speak out, & generate overwhelming public outrage & pressure to ensure Mahmoud's release...
"and to demand that elected officials & universities start protecting students from the reach of the Trump regime."
#MahmoudKhalil #JewishVoiceforPeace #USPol #Autocracy #StudentProtests .
Report: 98 anti-genocide demonstrators from Jewish Voice for Peace were arrested after taking over Trump's hotel in New York on Thursday.
Hundreds were protesting against the arrest & detention of activist Mahmoud Khalil without a warrant.
#MahmoudKhalil #Trump #JewishVoiceforPeace #USPol #Autocracy #Racism .
#JewishVoiceForPeace #Khalil
Khalil is a test case. If they get away with this, we are going to start getting disappeared for having unapproved opinions like what happened in the USSR under Stalin.
#Jewish protesters flood #TrumpTower's lobby to demand the #ColumbiaUniversity #activist's release
by Cedar Attanasio, AP, 3/13/2025
New York — "Demonstrators from a Jewish group filled the lobby of #TrumpTower on Thursday to denounce the immigration arrest of #MahmoudKhalil, a #ProPalestinian activist who helped lead protests against #Israel at Columbia University.
"The demonstrators from Jewish Voice for Peace wore red shirts reading 'Jews say stop arming Israel' and held up banners as they chanted 'Bring Mahmoud home now!' on the lower level of the Fifth Avenue building's public atrium.
"After warning the protesters to leave, police said they arrested 98 people who stayed on various charges, including trespassing, obstruction and resisting arrest.
"Khalil, a 30-year-old permanent U.S. resident who is married to an American citizen and who hasn't been charged with breaking any laws, was arrested outside his New York City apartment Saturday and faces deportation. He's being held at an immigration detention center in Louisiana."
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2025/03/13/campus-protests-immigration-arrest/82367512007/
#JewishVoiceForPeace #FreeMahmoud #FreeMahmoudKhalil #FreePalestine #ResistFascism #ResistRacism #BringMahmoudHomeNow #StopArmingIsrael #NotInOurName #VeteransAgainsFascism
This is exactly the stand to make right now and is giving us hope around the World
“As Jews, we’re here today mere hours before the holiday of Purim begins – a holiday where we honor Esther who used her voice to speak out and demand that the king not commit genocide,” the woman said in the video. “Today we are using her same courage to speak out.”
#protest #genocide #gaza #palestine #resistance #GoodTrouble #JewishVoiceForPeace
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/13/us/mahmoud-khalil-protesters-arrested-trump-tower/index.html
Expect the Oligarch Press to break out the "Good Jew/Bad Jew" narrative.
Bravo Jewish Voice For Peace, taking it right where it hurts Trump, his properties!
#ColumbiaUniversity Bent Over Backward to Appease #RightWing, #ProIsrael Attacks — And #Trump Still Cut #FederalFunding
Instead of #outrage, the school’s interim president responded to the cuts by vowing to continue its misguided crackdown.
by Natasha Lennard, March 8 2025
"Columbia University could hardly have been more draconian in the last year and a half since students began speaking out against Israel’s assault on #Gaza.
In early November 2023, four months before the Columbia #GazaSolidarity encampment even began, the university banned its chapters of #StudentsForJusticeInPalestine and #JewishVoiceForPeace. A few hundred students from the groups had had the audacity to walk out from classes and hold a “die-in” protest on campus — some of the most widely celebrated nonviolent protest tactics available.
"The crackdown was just getting started.
Since then, the university has ordered police raids on campus three times, leading to the arrests of over 100 students. Last week, the school expelled four students, three from #BarnardCollege one from Columbia. Many dozens of students have faced discipline and suspensions for participating in pro-Palestine protests and speech.
"Professors have been slandered before Congress, censured, removed from positions, and reportedly pushed into retirement over their support for Palestine and criticism of Israel. The campus has been essentially locked down for almost a year.
"Again and again, Columbia has shown a willingness to throw #students, #faculty, #FreeSpeech, and academic freedom under the bus in acquiescence to a #RightWing, #ProIsrael narrative that treats support for Palestinians as an affront to Jewish safety.
"For all Columbia’s #appeasement, President Donald Trump’s Federal Task Force to Combat Antisemitism announced last week that it would cancel $400 million in #FederalGrants and contracts to the university.
"'Columbia has worked overtime to appease,' wrote Layla, a student at Columbia’s School of Social Work, who asked to withhold her last name having faced doxxing attacks and harassment from Zionist groups. 'Students are miserable. Campus is a #panopticon. And their funding was still cut.'
"The Trump administration can be expected to use its perverted conception of antisemitism to further its explicit plans to decimate, #corporatize, and #ReWhiten #HigherEducation. The shame here lies with university leaderships — at Columbia and schools nationwide — that have failed to stand up for their purported missions of #CriticalThinking and #AcademicFreedom. Instead, they have put some of their most vulnerable community members, particularly international students and students of color, at risk.
"There is no appeasing a political force like the #TrumpianRight, intent on a program of destruction. And there is no appeasing a nationalist #Zionist worldview that, defying reason, sees #antisemitism in every call for #Palestinian freedom. Columbia is proof of the failure of caving in; the administration has offered up a platter of repression for more than a year and is still slated to lose $400 million."
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2025/03/08/columbia-trump-funding-gaza-israel/
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/jrNva
#Fascism #Appeasement #FreePalestine #Gaza #RightToProtest #Censorship #Fascism #ICE #ACAB #Authoritarianism #USPol #FreeSpeech
#Israel wants to steal even more of #Palestine
from #TheWire
[online publication of #JewishVoiceForPeace #JVP in #USA]
Other items:
Tell Congress: End U.S. weapons to Israel.
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Fighting fascism at home & abroad
An Online Course & Learning Community held and hosted by Comrades Education
CO-SPONSORS: US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, Jewish Voice for Peace, Adalah Justice Project, Highlander Center, SURJ, Catalyst Project & Rabbis for Ceasefire [see website comradesDOTeducation]
https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2025/02/27/israel-wants-to-steal-even-more-of-palestine/
#PermanentCeasfireNow
#GazaBelongsToPalestine
#AllEyesOnWestBank
#EndTheOccupation #SettlersOut
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
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Anti-Israel Groups Recruiting Celebrities To Sign ‘Unbranded’ $200K NYT Ad Opposing Trump’s Gaza Plan https://www.inbella.com/895272/anti-israel-groups-recruiting-celebrities-to-sign-unbranded-200k-nyt-ad-opposing-trumps-gaza-plan/ #AntiIsrael #AntiSemitism #CelebritiesNews #DonaldTrump #Gaza #Jewish #JewishCommunity #JewishVoiceForPeace #NewYorkTimes #TheNewYorkTimes
The #FarRight Group Building a List of Pro-Palestine Activists to Deport
#BetarUS said it has shared with the Trump administration a list of the “names of hundreds of terror supporters.”
"This conflation of speech critical to #Israel with #antisemitism or support of Hamas will do little to protect Jews in the United States from hate, said #JonahRubin, with #JewishVoiceForPeace, a progressive #JewishAmerican group that advocates for #Palestinian #HumanRights."
Jonah Valdez
February 6 2025
"The premise behind Trump’s more recent order is rooted in #ProjectEsther: a treatise by the authors of #Project2025. The document was billed as 'a blueprint to counter antisemitism' and offered strategies to target and silence critics of Israel, including deportation. A fact sheet about the executive order related by the Trump administration mirrored language from Project Esther and laid bare the order’s intent to 'cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers on college campuses,' vowing to deport 'all the resident aliens who joined in the pro-jihadist protests.'
"Such ideas are increasingly gaining purchase in conservative discourse. Pledges to deport supporters of Palestinian rights were a key part of the Republican Party’s platform. A congressional bill introduced last May called for similar measures.
"#Academia is a key focus of Project Esther and Trump’s executive orders. While the most recent order instructs all agencies within the executive branch to take part in the crackdown, it encourages #surveillance in specific areas, such as #universities and even K-12 schools, where administrators are being told to monitor and report #InternationalStudents for possible deportation.
"On Monday, the Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights launched investigations into five schools — #ColumbiaUniversity; #UCLABerkley; #NorthwesternUniversity; #UniversityOfMinnesota, Twin Cities; and #PortlandStateUniversity — for #antisemitism, the first use of the executive order.
"'Americans and college students that visit the United States should be able to protest the #Israeli government’s human rights violations in the same way that the United United Nations, the International Criminal Court [#ICC], #AmnestyInternational, #HumanRightsWatch, and other respected institutions have for the past several years, without fear of retaliation,' said Robert McCaw, a leader with the Council on American-Islamic Relations who heads the government affairs department. He decried the order’s fact sheet of peddling anti-Muslim terms such as 'pro-Jihad.'"
"Trump’s efforts have inspired a grassroots campaign to identify possible targets for deportation. On #SocialMedia, groups such as #MothersAgainstCollegeAntisemitism and the #ChicagoJewishAlliance have shared links to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement tip line and called on people to report 'foreign students and faculty who support Hamas' and 'students on visas who are suspected of engaging in pro-terror activities,' respectively."
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2025/02/06/betar-palestine-school-activists-target-deport-trump/
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/fCZve
#McCarthyism #HumanRightsAreNeverWrong #DontSnitch #ICE #ICERaids #ICEArrests #Deportation #CollegeStudents #FreeSpeech #Censorship #Fascism #AuthoritarianRule #authoritarianism #USPol
#Trump has #BDS'd and #JVP'd the entire #Gaza Strip because #KamalaHarris refused to articulate any "policy initiative," they said
@Peter_Link @palestine @israel
>> #JewishVoiceForPeace Opposes #Trump’s Plan to Silence and Deport Anti-War Students
#JVP actively campaigned against #Biden & #KamalaHarris and bears significant responsibility for siphoning votes away from #Harris.
"Although 3rd-party candidates don't stand a chance…, I’m grateful that both #CornelWest and #JillStein have been clear on the need for a new #US policy"
#Palestine Is a Core #Election2024 Issue
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Pageantry in color-coordinated outfits by #JewishVoiceForPeace #JVP
Tastefully arranged posters held by strategically placed actors donning custom-designed t-shirts for a glamorous photo shoot.
Wish ALL #protests looked like this 😂 So colorful and lively!
#BDS #BDSMovement #BDSHorseshoe](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/113/937/461/337/931/680/original/afb7db34a7a9c0e1.png "[sarcasm]
Pageantry in color-coordinated outfits by #JewishVoiceForPeace #JVP
Tastefully arranged posters held by strategically placed actors donning custom-designed t-shirts for a glamorous photo shoot.
Wish ALL #protests looked like this 😂 So colorful and lively!
#BDS #BDSMovement #BDSHorseshoe")
Act now to protect student activists against deportation and attack. - JVP
Action appeal from Jewish Voice for Peace [directed toward the Board of Regents of the University of California]
January 30, 2025
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#StopArmingIsrael
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSea is #NotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #politics
#USA #US #USPolitics #Trump
#media #news #press #JVP #JewishVoiceForPeace @palestine @israel
Jewish Voice for Peace Opposes Trump’s Plan to Silence and Deport Anti-War Students
Press Release
January 29, 2025
"This Executive Order should be taken as the sham that it is. Trump, the far-Right, and ultra-conservative groups like the Heritage Foundation have never protected Jewish people; they are not concerned with Jewish safety, nor do their actions protect Jewish communities."
#ProtestIsNotACrime
#DefendStudentProtesters
#StopArmingIsrael
#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSea is #NotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#Gaza #Israel #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia #politics
#USA #US #USPolitics #Trump
#media #news #press #JVP #JewishVoiceForPeace @palestine @israel
#HealthWorkers Plan #GlobalDayOfAction to Demand 'End to the #Genocide in #Gaza' - Monday, January 6th, 2025
"After witnessing 15 months of relentless violence and destruction in Gaza, we can no longer carry on as if everything is normal," said organizer #DoctorsAgainstGenocide.
Brett Wilkins
Jan 03, 2025
"As Israel's 15-month annihilation of Gaza continues with intensified attacks on medical infrastructure and workers, an international coalition of advocacy groups is planning a #SickFromGenocide global day of action on Monday 'to take a stand against the targeted attacks on healthcare.'
"Organizer Doctors Against Genocide (#DAG) and co-sponsors including #HealthcareWorkersForPalestine, #PalestinianYouthMovement, #DoNoHarmCoalition, #LaborForPalestine, #JewishVoiceForPeace Health Advisory Council, and others are calling on healthcare workers around the world to take a day of mental health leave 'to reflect on the immense moral injury of funding a genocide and engage the most important aspect of treatment: publicly demanding an end to the genocide in Gaza.'
"Monday's day of action is set to include a '#SickFromGenocide' global vigil and pop-up clinics in cities across the United States, whose government gives Israel billions of dollars in weapons support each year.
"'For 15 months, we have watched in horror as children and families have been obliterated by unrelenting attacks,' DAG said in a statement Friday. 'Hospitals, the bedrock of lifesaving care, have been turned into death traps. The recent bombing and burning of #KamalAdwanHospital and the arrest of our colleague, the pediatrician Dr. #HussamAbuSafiya,exemplify the deliberate targeting of healthcare workers and facilities—tactics designed to accelerate the annihilation and forced displacement of the Palestinian people in Gaza.'"
Read more:
https://www.commondreams.org/news/doctors-against-genocide-protest
#FreePalestine #GazaGenocide #Genocide #BibiIsAWarCriminal #IsraeliWarCrimes #HumanRightsAreNeverWrong #StopArmingIsrael #IDF #GenevaConvention #HumanRightsViolations #NoWar #WorldWarBibi
