Jewish Voice for Peace

Our guiding principle is that United States foreign policy must be based on promoting peace, democracy, human rights, and respect for international law. Strives to serve as voice of the American Jews who support a peaceful resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and an end to Israel’s Occupation of Palestinian land. Although many mainstream American Jewish organizations continue to call for “unwavering support” of Israel, JVP demonstrates that those groups are not representative. We further prove that criticizing Israeli policy is not anti-Semitic, and that Jewish tradition requires justice for Palestinians and Jews. We help unmask the true forces behind the continuation of hostilities in the Middle East, which are not primarily the “Jewish lobby”, as it is often called, but the arms brokers, oil & gas dealers, and forces of the Religious Right who benefit, directly or indirectly, from continued conflict and foreign intervention in the region.JVP has become the largest grassroots Jewish peace group in the United States. We mobilize a national and international constituency of Jews to push for a change in Israeli and U.S. policies. Our dedicated volunteer activists spearhead our campaigns and programs, which include lobbying, direct actions, media activism, education and outreach, and solidarity work. We employ a full time staff of three. We sponsor a daily email service, Jewish Peace News, with thousands of subscribers throughout the world.

Location

1611 Telegraph Avenue, Suite 500
Oakland, CA 94612