Jewish Voice for Peace - Portland, OR

The Senate could vote as early as TOMORROW on Joint Resolutions of Disapproval to block over $450 million worth of bombs and bulldozers to Israel.

Right now, the Israeli military is flattening southern Lebanon, ethnically cleansing Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, and accelerating its genocide in Gaza. And while there is a shaky ceasefire with Iran, thousands of Iranians have been killed in US-Israeli airstrikes as part of an illegal and immoral war. The US-Israel war machine is threatening the lives of millions of people across Iran, Lebanon, and Palestine and it is long past time for us to stop arming Israel.

Act now before the Senate vote. jvp.org/senatevote

Nearly 100 anti-Zionist Jews and allies gathered with us on April 5 for our Liberation Seder 

Together, we told a story our ancestors, and their ancestors before them, have told for  generations. We also recognized that the stories we inherit contain multitudes. We challenged ourselves to wrestle with the contradictions within this particular story and ask: what does it mean to know oppression intimately, while also being capable of perpetuating it onto others?

At a time when organizing can feel urgent, exhausting, and relentless, it was powerful to gather with both new and familiar faces and remember that connection is part of the work. There was something deeply grounding about being together, sharing food, reflection, grief, joy, and hope.

It would have been enough simply to know that we continue to show up for one another, continue planting seeds of Judaism beyond Zionism, and continue building toward a free Palestine.

We also turned our values into material support: we raised $2,305.42, with $1,416.71 going directly to and $888.71 going to

Portland State University is hosting a leadership institute run by the Brandeis University President’s Initiative on Antisemitism, an initiative that repeatedly blurs the line between antisemitism and Palestinian solidarity.
At Brandeis, student organizing for Palestinian freedom is branded as hate speech. Protest language is wrongly labeled antisemitic. Student groups have lost recognition.
When criticism of a nation-state is treated as hatred of Jews, everyone loses, including:
Jewish students who dissent from Israeli government policy
Palestinian students advocating for their own freedom
The integrity of academic freedom itself
Antisemitism is real and rising. It must be confronted with precision, not by stretching the definition so that it chills speech and weakens the fight against actual hate.
As Jews, students, faculty, and Portland community members, we are calling on PSU to uphold academic freedom and reject frameworks that conflate political speech with antisemitism.
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