⚠️ HAPPENING NOW AT NYC'S GRAND CENTRAL STATION: THOUSANDS OF JEWS AND ALLIES HOLD AN EMERGENCY SIT-IN, DEMANDING A CEASEFIRE IN GAZA. WE'RE TAKING OVER THE GRAND CONCOURSE. WE'RE REFUSING TO ALLOW A GENOCIDE BE CARRIED OUT IN OUR NAMES. CEASEFIRE NOW! NEVER AGAIN FOR ANYONE! ⚠️
Breaking: Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg is interrupting President Biden demanding a CEASEFIRE NOW. She is speaking on behalf of thousands of American Jews who say Not In Our Name! We refuse to allow a genocide be carried out in our names.
Ceasefire Now to save lives!
This is what genocide looks like. These are the 2913 Palestinian children killed by the Israeli military this month, as of Thursday, October 26. As the Israeli airstrikes on Gaza intensify, we recognize with horror and grief that this death toll is already inaccurate.
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HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds of American Jews are holding a sit-in at Congress — and we won’t leave until Congress calls for a ceasefire in Gaza. As thousands of U.S. Jews protest outside, over 350 are inside, including two dozen rabbis, holding prayerful resistance.
⚠️ HAPPENING NOW AT THE STATUE OF LIBERTY: Hundreds of Jews and allies are holding an emergency sit-in, taking over the island to demand a ceasefire in Gaza. We refuse to allow a genocide to be carried out in our names. Ceasefire now to save lives! Never again for anyone! ⚠️
BREAKING: 400 American Jews mark Netanyahu's arrival by refusing to leave Congress until our government listens to the will of the people and STOPS ARMING ISRAEL!
The footage of Israeli soldiers torturing and humiliating detained Palestinian men in Gaza is horrific.
We’ve seen terrible images like this from genocides throughout history. We know what this leads to. Never again means never again for anyone.
The footage of Israeli soldiers torturing Palestinian men in the West Bank is horrific. The Israeli military has brutally abused Palestinian prisoners for decades.
As the Israeli military wages a genocidal war in Gaza, its soldiers are no longer hiding this abuse from the public.
Breaking:
@hrw
has confirmed—based on verified video & witness accounts—that Israel used white phosphorus in Gaza & Lebanon. White phosphorus causes excruciating burns—causing lifelong suffering—& can set homes afire. Its use in populated areas is unlawful
We, descendants of Holocaust survivors, call on the world on this Holocaust Remembrance Day to join us in working to end the Israeli government’s genocide against the Palestinian people, enabled and supported by the US government.
We’re deeply disturbed by reports of the Israeli military carrying out field executions of Palestinians as well as horrific images of Palestinians, including children, detained under atrocious conditions in Al-Yarmouk Stadium.
This is day 80 of the Israeli government’s genocide
500 Jews and allies took over the Statue of Liberty in a sit-in to demand
@POTUS
call for a ceasefire in Gaza.
After shutting down Grand Central Station, we took over the Statue of Liberty — because we won't be silent while the Israeli military wages a genocidal war in our name!
Thousands are sitting in at Grand Central Station demanding a
#CeasefireNOW
.
In just two weeks, more than 7,000 Palestinians and 1,400 Israelis were killed. Right now, Israeli warplanes are flattening entire neighborhoods in Gaza. This is what the US government is supporting.
BREAKING: 1,500 Jews, Palestinians, rabbis, imams, pastors, parents, and elected officials for a ceasefire are risking arrest at the Manhattan Bridge.
We represent the majority of people in the US. 66% of Americans and 80% of Democrats want the bombing of Gaza to stop.
The Israeli government may have just declared war, but its war on Palestinians started over 75 years ago. Israeli apartheid and occupation — and United States complicity in that oppression — are the source of all this violence.
Read our statement:
In a huge win for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement, one of the world's largest pension funds, announced it divested almost half a billion from Israel Bonds. Norway’s pension fund divested the entirety of their Israel Bond holdings. 🧵
HAPPENING NOW: Thousands are shutting down the Manhattan Bridge on the busiest travel day of the year, refusing to leave until Biden calls for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza.
We will make business as usual impossible until the US stops funding and fueling a genocide.
"I also think that as a Jewish person, I was fed a huge amount of lies about Israel my entire life. They never tell you, that oh by the way, there were people there. They make it seem like it was just sitting there, oh the f*cking door’s open!" -Seth Rogen
The Israeli military is bombing Rafah, the most densely populated area in the world, while Americans watch the Super Bowl. This is intentional. This is genocide.
We're demanding the world watching the
#superbowl
turn their eyes to
#Rafah
.
#alleyesongaza
#CeasefireNOW
JEWS SAY: STOP THE GENOCIDE OF PALESTINIANS!
Over two-thousand Jews protested in front of the offices and homes of elected officials in NYC, San Francisco, Chicago, Seattle, Indiana, Florida, and Los Angeles to demand action to prevent the genocide of Palestinians.
Arrests are beginning as over 400 American Jews refuse to leave Congress, but we won’t leave until our government STOPS ARMING ISRAEL and ENDS THE GENOCIDE of Palestinians in Gaza!
"I am here on behalf of hundreds of thousands of American Jews who say: Not in our name! Ceasefire now! Let Gaza live!"
-Elena Stein of JVP outside the UN in a demonstration organized by
@lsarsour
#CeasefireNow
#LetGazaLive
BREAKING: Hours before the annual White House Hanukkah party, 18 Jewish elders chain themselves to the White House gates demanding
@POTUS
stop funding and arming the genocide in Gaza.
Follow
@JewishElders
for more
For 75 years, the Israeli government has illegally occupied Palestinian land and ethnically cleansed their communities.
Now, Gaza is facing genocide with full support from the U.S. and we're here as Jews to refuse complicity and say never again, for anyone.
It is morally unjust for the Israeli government to label the 12,000 lost Palestinian lives as terrorists. Thousands of whom were children. Every minute we wait to take urgent action, more civilians are being killed.
Ceasefire now!
Israeli member of Parliament Yair Lapid says:
"The majority of the 12,000 dead Palestinians were terrorists."
That means he's calling children terrorists. Babies. As other leaders says doctors, journalists, and UN workers are Hamas.
Today, President Biden dishonored the memories of our families killed in the Holocaust.
The enduring lesson of that tragedy is that Never Again must mean Never Again for Anyone.
Let us be clear: The atrocities committed by the Israeli military in al-Shifa hospital are the direct result of the US government’s continued support. 🧵
Palestinians uncovered a second mass grave in Gaza with over 300 bodies, the majority Palestinian children and the elderly. The Israeli military killed and discarded them during its assault on the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.
This is a pattern. This is what a well-funded
The Israeli military has killed more Palestinian children in the past two weeks than in all previous military offensives in Gaza in the last 17 years combined. 🧵
Support South Africa's case charging Israel with genocide against Palestinians at the World Court. Urge the Biden administration to stop undermining the international community’s attempts to hold the Israeli government accountable for its mass atrocities.
ALL EYES ON RAFAH.
The Israeli military has just carried out a massacre in Rafah. They bombed displaced families huddled in tents, killing over 35 people with more trapped in the flaming debris. The death toll is still rising.
We will never forget the images emerging from
HAPPENING NOW: Secret service are arresting 18 Jewish elders who chained themselves to the White House gates before the
@POTUS
Hanukkah Party. They are demanding a ceasefire in Gaza.
Follow
@JewishElders
for more
“As the largest anti-Zionist Jewish organization in the world, we unequivocally reject the conflation of antisemitism with anti-Zionism and reaffirm in the strongest terms that there is no place for antisemitism in our movements.”
Our full statement:
BREAKING: Palestinian youth, descendants of Holocaust survivors, doctors, and climate activists disrupt the biggest fundraiser in the history of the Democratic Party at NYC’s iconic Radio City Music Hall calling on
@POTUS
to Stop Arming Israel
Every single one of these deaths was preventable. 2913 children. When we say Never Again—for anyone, this is who we mean. Never Again is right now.
5/5 source: Gaza Ministry of Health
While 500 Jews, rabbis, and descendants of Holocaust survivors chant “Let Gaza live” and get arrested inside, a crowd of 10k sings outside.
We won’t stop until our demands of a ceasefire are met!
This is ethnic cleansing. From Gaza to the occupied West Bank, genocidal violence against Palestinians is allowed, permitted, and facilitated not only by the Israeli government, but by the United States.
We demand a ceasefire now to save lives. To stop a genocide. The Israeli military has already erased 47 Palestinian families from Gaza’s population registry; all members of the family, from all generations, are dead. These are their children. This is loss beyond measure.
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The U.S. is also responsible for the horror in Gaza. 80% of the bombs that the Israeli military drops on Gaza, that are used to kill these children, are American-made. We are called on to do everything we can to stop this genocide.
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The Israeli military just bombed Al-Ahli hospital, where refugees in Gaza were sheltering after being displaced. Over 500 people killed in an instant.
These atrocities must stop. This is genocide.
CEASEFIRE NOW!
“The scene is too horrific to even film” a journalist in strip right now.
Israel just bombed Angelica’s hospital. Killing hundreds in one second. The same hospital that homeless Palestinians were at.
Can you imagine these are refugees too? They’re slaughtering refugees.
To students everywhere who are using their voices and platforms to organize, protest, and stand up for an end to the ongoing genocide in Palestine: We see your strength, we are moved by your courage, and we stand in solidarity with each of you.
As anti-Zionist Jews, we’re doing everything we can to stop the Israeli government’s genocide in Gaza and stand in solidarity with Palestinians struggling for their freedom. We all have a part to play when it comes to ending Israeli apartheid and oppression. 🧵
Israeli government officials express their genocidal intentions loud and clear.
Anything but a call for a ceasefire is an endorsement of this violence.
More from Haaretz:
Today, 500 Jews were arrested and 10k took to the streets to support and to demand a ceasefire and an end to Palestinian genocide.
We shut down congress to draw mass attention to the U.S. complicity in Israel's ongoing oppression of Palestinians. But our work isn't done. 🧵
This July 4th, we contemplate parallels between the colonization of Turtle Island (“North America”) and Palestine.
Supporting Palestinians’ right to return and right to self-determination in their homeland goes hand in hand with supporting Indigenous people’s demand for
⚠️⚠️⚠️ 300+ ARRESTS HAPPENING NOW INSIDE CONGRESS: HUNDREDS OF JEWS AND ALLIES ARE GETTING ARRESTED FOR DEMANDING OUR GOVERNMENT STOP ARMING ISRAEL. CEASEFIRE NOW — END THE PALESTINIAN GENOCIDE.
Today, more than ever, Jewish Voice for Peace stands with
@Ilhan
under nearly constant attack by far right politicians and not defended nearly enough by fellow Democrats. Show her support NOW.
#IStandWithIlhan
#StandWithIlhan
ALL OUT TO PROTEST CONGRESS AND THE WHITE HOUSE THIS WEEK!
The past tells us that Israeli state atrocities against Palestinians only stop once there is a sufficient mass outcry from the international community. We need to bring our fullest force to D.C.
24 hours later in Jabaliya refugee camp, another attack, another Israeli bombing. The US govt. funds the weapons used by the Israeli military as it bombs refugees who have nowhere to go, no way to seek shelter. We will not be complicit. We will not be silent.
Ceasefire now!
The Israeli military just destroyed an entire neighborhood in Gaza in an instant. In the Jabaliya refugee camp, Israeli airstrikes killed 400 Palestinians, and hundreds more are still missing under the rubble.
As we continue to demand a ceasefire in Gaza and fight for a future where everyone is free and equal and safe, we refuse to forget these children's lives. We will always affirm that every life is precious.
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Last week, we were able to chip at the Western media’s wall of silence that surrounds Palestinians sharing their experiences and calling for their liberation. The cracks in the narrative are showing —we must keep pushing, until Palestinians are FREE.
CEASEFIRE NOW!
ALL OUT TO DC! Join thousands on July 24th as we take to the streets of DC and come together in the largest rejection of a foreign diplomatic visit in US history!
We honor the life of Aaron Bushnell, who joins a small number of political activists and protestors who chose the act of self-immolation as their final act of solidarity with the causes they believed in and atrocities they fought.
During Hanukkah, a coalition of settler groups funded by the state of Israel held a conference to discuss a “practical” plan to build the first settlements in Gaza, all while the Israeli government is actively waging a genocidal war on Palestinians.
THIS is ethnic cleansing.
Keep your eyes on the occupied West Bank. The Israeli government is counting on the West Bank falling out of the international spotlight, but we won’t let that happen. 🧵
Israeli military is currently bulldozing the civilian infrastructure in Tulkarem refugee camp, just like it did in Jenin refugee camp four weeks ago, just like it did to all of Gaza, just like it did to the Palestinian towns and cities in 1948.
This is what genocide looks like. These are the 2913 Palestinian children killed by the Israeli military this month, as of Thursday, October 26. As the Israeli airstrikes on Gaza intensify, we recognize with horror and grief that this death toll is already inaccurate.
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Every single one of these deaths was preventable. And all were made possible by U.S. complicity in the Israeli military's genocide of Palestinians.
Enough. CEASEFIRE NOW!
GAZA UPDATE: There is no update to the number of Palestinian fatalities today as Israeli forces are besieging hospitals and cut telecommunications.
The current number of Palestinian child fatalities in Gaza is unknown.
There are only two days left before the Israeli government resumes its genocidal onslaught on the people of Gaza – with US funding and weapons.
We are taking over the Manhattan Bridge in the biggest civil disobedience in NYC since the Iraq war to demand: Permanent ceasefire NOW
We’re here to say: not in our names, and never again. And we’ll continue our civil disobedience until Congress calls for a ceasefire in Gaza, or until they force us to leave.
Yesterday, the Israeli government ended its yearly cycle of state holidays that sequentially commemorates the Holocaust, Israeli militarism, and the creation of the state of Israel.
The sequencing of these holidays was intentionally designed to conclude and obscure May 15, the
The Israeli military just destroyed an entire neighborhood in Gaza in an instant. In the Jabaliya refugee camp, Israeli airstrikes killed 400 Palestinians, and hundreds more are still missing under the rubble.
🚨 Early reports indicate a new massacre of Palestinians in
#Gaza
's Jabaliya refugee camp.
Jabaliya is the largest refugee camp in Palestine.
It was established in 1948 to house some 35,000 Palestinians expelled from Yaffa and other villages in southern Palestine.
Forced migration is ethnic cleansing: the Israeli government uses terms like “voluntary emigration” to refer to their genocidal policy, but their efforts to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from their homeland is as intentional now as it was 75 years ago during the Nakba. 🧵
Netanyahu’s speech was as racist as it was devoid of fact — filled with anti-Palestinian and Islamophobic diatribes, the appalling use of Israeli captives as fodder for his own political survival, and the slander of anti-war Americans.
Palestinians will rebuild and return to their homes in Gaza. The siege will end. Palestinians will live in freedom and dignity in their own land.
While we demand an end to the Israeli government’s genocide and an embargo on sending US weapons to the Israeli military, we know
“Do you want your kids to grow up defending the side of the oppressors?”
Jews around the world must contemplate this question, which Mariam Afifi asked the Israeli officer who arrested her last night.
JVP is building Jewish community beyond Zionism. Join us.
#SaveSheikhJarrah
This Taylor Swift stan took a stand in solidarity with Palestinians!
Today 2 years ago, the 19yo Israeli girl behind
@LegitTayUpdates
was released from prison after refusing to join the Israeli military.
During her 2-month sentence, she still gave her updates from the inside.
Those attacking Glazer are making his point for him. He wants to apply the lessons of the Holocaust to the horrors that “confront us in the present,” while his detractors want nothing more than to avert our attention from the Israeli government’s genocide of Palestinians.
More than 450 Jewish creatives, executives and Hollywood professionals have signed an open letter denouncing Jonathan Glazer’s “The Zone of Interest” Oscar speech.
MASS EXODUS FROM ZIONISM: As the Senate votes to send an additional $14.1 billion in weapons to Israel, thousands of US Jews are shutting down the streets of New York City in an emergency Passover seder insisting the Senate Majority Leader stop arming the Israeli government.
Last night at Columbia University, hundreds of Jewish students and their classmates gathered at the Gaza solidarity encampment and celebrated the beginning of Shabbat with song and prayer. Directly after, Muslim students held Jummah prayer, the Friday prayer offered in community.
Yesterday, the Israeli military bombed one of UNRWA’s aid distribution centers, killing at least six people. These attacks are deliberate and they are war crimes. 🧵
To argue that Angela Davis is unworthy of a civil rights award is beyond shameful. And to dance around the fact that it’s due to her outspoken support of Palestinian rights makes it outrageous.
"We refuse to accept a world where the mass slaughter of Palestinians is viewed as acceptable, normal, and profitable. We refuse Columbia University’s complicity in genocide.”
PRESS RELEASE:
Columbia University Threatens Students with the National Guard After Refusing to Bargain in Good Faith.
We refuse to concede to cowardly threats and blatant intimidation by university administration. We will continue to peacefully protest.
#cu4palestine
BREAKING: Thousands of Jews and allies are taking over the AIPAC HQ in NYC during the workday. With over 30,000 Palestinians killed by Israeli forces in Gaza, we demand our electeds stop answering to a far-Right group and start listening to their constituents.
#DumpAIPAC
now!
We are devastated to be marking 150 days of genocide.
As of today, 30,631 people, including 12,000 children, have been murdered by the Israeli military.
We will always bear witness. We will never forget. Ceasefire NOW!
Looks like some anti-Zionist Jews corrected billboards as an act of solidarity with UC Berkeley law students under attack for their support of Palestinian freedom. Thank you to those who bravely wrote the truth in the dead of night ✊
We're devastated by the news of the over 100 bomb threats called into synagogues this weekend.
These violent threats coincide with numerous bad faith attacks trying to pit Jews against our Black, Arab, Muslim, and Palestinian community members and neighbors. We reject this.
"Palestinian people live in a state of permanent refugeehood and displacement. This, too, is a refugee crisis, and they, too, deserve freedom and dignity."
@Ilhan
with an oped today
@washingtonpost
We can no longer keep track of the number of Palestinians murdered by the Israeli regime in the last 48 hours alone. As the death toll climbs—at least 8 killed since Monday—remember this carnage is funded by US tax dollars. *Now* is the time to channel our rage into action…
Zionist orgs like JewBelong & others that support the Israeli government’s propaganda, work to dehumanize Palestinians and justify the Israeli government's attacks on Palestinians. We know the truth, and we know that the ongoing genocide of Palestinians can never be justified.
You’re shocked israelis are raping Palestinian hostages.
I am shocked you’re just learning that.
Israelis have been sexually assaulting Palestinians for the past 76 years.
There’s an endless number of testimonies that’s been submitted over the years, but israel’s above the law.
More testimony continues to surface detailing US-backed Israeli war crimes. Last week, an anonymous Israeli doctor released a devastating letter detailing the conditions at Sde Teiman, an Israeli concentration camp currently holding over 800 Palestinians from Gaza. 🧵