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FMEP Fellow Ahmed Moor speaks with Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) Executive Director Stefanie Fox about the evolution of JVP as a Jewish anti-Zionist organization in the US, strategies for growing the movement, and navigating uncomfortable coalition partners, including on the political far-right. They also discuss how JVP thinks thinks about accountability to Palestinian partners, how it approaches electoral work and the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement (BDS), and how to counter the ubiquitous claim that US bases its support for Israel on a commitment to protecting Jewish people rather than on U.S. geopolitical and corporate interests. Stefanie Fox, MPH (she/her) is the Executive Director of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), a U.S. based, grassroots membership organization mobilizing Jewish communities into the movement for Palestinian rights and freedom and towards a vision of Judaism beyond Zionism. Prior to her 16 years at JVP JVP, Stefanie spent a decade doing racial and economic justice work as a grassroots community organizer, public health practitioner, and policy researcher and analyst. She has written extensively for print media with publications in outlets like Time, Boston Review, The Nation, and has appeared on MSNBC, Al Jazeera English, CNN, and more. Ahmed Moor is a Palestinian-American writer born in Gaza and a 2025 Fellow at FMEP. He is an advisory board member of the US Campaign for Palestinian rights, co-editor of After Zionism (Saqi Books) and is currently writing a book about Palestine. He also currently serves on the board of the Independence Media Foundation. His work has been published in The Guardian, The London Review of Books, The Nation, and elsewhere. He earned a BA at the University of Pennsylvania and an MPP at Harvard University. Original music by Jalal Yaquoub.
In a time when Jewish trauma is being weaponized and used to justify the Israeli genocide against Palestinians, the book An Anti-Zionist Path to Embodied Jewish Healing: Somatic Practices to Heal Historical Wounds, Unlearn Oppression, and Create a Liberated World to Come presents a liberatory model for Jewish healing firmly rooted in Jewish spiritual values. In this book based conversation the panel discusses the intersection of healing and activism that can make our organizing movements more healing and our healing more political to strengthen our collective work for a free Palestine and a Jewishness beyond Zionism. Over the last year and a half, many of us activists and organizers have felt hopeless, despairing, and angry that we have not been able to stop this genocidal violence being carried out in our names. Sometimes we take these feelings out on each other by being overly critical and unkind, which leads to fractures inside our movements. At this time of rising fascism when the Trump administration is exploiting the fractures on the Left to create division, we can incorporate body-based healing to strengthen our collective power that moves us closer to a liberated world and a free Palestine. Wendy Elisheva Somerson (Wes) is a queer non-binary, disabled, cat- loving Ashkenazi Jewish somatic healer, writer, activist, and visual artist residing on Duwamish and Coast Salish land. One of the founders of the Seattle chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace, they have been active in Palestinian solidarity work for more than two decades. As a politicized healer, Wes works at the intersection of personal and collective healing with individuals, groups, and organizations. They are the creator and facilitator of Ruach, an ongoing anti-Zionist, body-based Jewish healing group. Cecilie Surasky is the Director of Communications and Narrative at the Othering & Belonging Institute (OBI) at UC Berkeley, a global research and advocacy organization focused on understanding the structures of exclusion and building a world where all people belong. Cecilie's career spans decades of mobilizing politically marginalized communities, and she's proud of her role in building a co-liberation movement as the founding communications and later deputy director of Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP). She draws from her own family's journey with traumatic grief, belonging and resilience. Penny Rosenwasser, Ph.D., is a lifelong heartfelt rabble-rouser for justice. A queer/lesbian white Jewish intersectional feminist, Penny is author of the award-winning Hope into Practice, Jewish women choosing justice despite our fears. She was a founding Board member and early leader of Jewish Voice for Peace, co-teaches an Antisemitism/Anti-Arabism class with a Palestinian colleague at City College of San Francisco, and serves on the Advisory Council of the Center for Jewish Nonviolence. An educator, public speaker, fundraiser and facilitator, Penny organized events for the Middle East Children's Alliance for 32 years and is a racial justice leader at Kehilla synagogue. The post An Anti-Zionist Path to Embodied Jewish Healing: A conversation about the intersection of healing and activism with Wendy Elisheva Somerson (Wes), Cecilie Surasky, and Penny Rosenwaswer appeared first on KPFA.
Dear friends,'Have you seen my free movie "Conspiracy" yet? The movie has been accepted at 16 film festivals so far. It concerns the JFK assassination, Watergate and the death of Marilyn Monroe. In each the CIA played an important role. With the release of over 77,000 documents from that period, with the redactions removed, we see that the CIA and FBI knew a great deal about Oswald and were tracking his movements long before the Kennedy assassination day. They lied about this to the Warren commission and to subsequent congressional inquiries.I go into this in more detail in my podcast 'The CIA and the murder of John F. Kennedy' which you can listen to above.To view the free Conspiracy movie click here.Meanwhile, the attempt to ethnically cleanse Gaza and the genocide against the Palestinian people continues unabated. The latest assault is an attempt to starve them to death. Over 33,000 children have been murdered by the insane right-wing Israeli government with the full support of the Israeli people with weapons supplied by our government, both Democrats and Republicans.This cannot help but remind me of the original genocide carried out by the Nazis against the Jews of Europe. Tragically, the same silence prevails by the corporate and CIA controlled main stream media today as it did during the original Holocaust.During that time even the major Jewish leaders, who knew about the Shoah, kept silent supposedly not wanting to provoke American anti-semitism or embarrass President Roosevelt who had several notable anti-semites in his cabinet. Zionist organizations played a big role in hushing up the Holocaust and preventing Jews from going to the United States and Britain since their focus was getting them to go to Palestine to build the nascent state of Israel. As a result few Jews fleeing Hitler were admitted to the U.S. And shamefully the rail lines to the concentration camps were never cut. lnstead, our bombers were tasked with dropping bombs on German civilians in a failed attempt to demoralize them.As a Jewish person who was educated in the Zionist system I became aware that Zionism is a supremacist system like that formerly used in South Africa and whose purpose is to destroy and/or segregate the indigenous peoples (in this case the Palestinians) in order for fanatical settlers to grab their land.More on this is in an upcoming podcast including my individual path from Zionism to opposition to Zionism.Meanwhile, I urge you to protest Israel's genocide in Gaza with U.S. supplied weapons and the terror attacks on Iran by Israel and Trump. Support the organizations resisting this like Jewish Voice for Peace, an organization of Jews for a just peace in the Middle East and open to people of all faiths. Urge your Congressman and any organizations you belong to help stop this genocide.Regards,Roger This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit rogerrudenstein.substack.com
Solidarity Is the Political Version of Love: Lessons from Jewish Anti-Zionist Organizing was published last year by Haymarket Books. The two authors, Rebecca Vilkomerson and Rabbi Alissa Wise, were both staff leaders of Jewish Voice for Peace from 2010 to 2020. In the book, they ask what the politics of solidarity look like in practice, and how left-wing organizations can grow—in numbers and power—while remaining accountable to the broader movements of which they are a part. Rebecca and Alissa were in Vancouver on January 26. We bring you excerpts from that evening.
Today, on the Hudson Mohawk Magazine, First, Mark Dunlea reports on President Trump's push to cut food safety nets. Then, Blaise Bryant shares Medicaid stories from the folks in the disability community. Later on, Willie Terry takes us back to the history fair with the theme "The World of James Knapp: Black Life in Gilded Age Albany." After that, Marsha Lazarus talks with Sheilah, who folks can call for stress free moving. Finally, Jewish Voice for Peace Albany member Branda Miller talks about the groups fundraiser for food for Gaza and local undocumented people.
Jewish Voice for Peace Albany is addressing hunger with their current campaign, a Solidarity fundraiser for Gaza Soup Kitchen and Soul Fire Farm. While Gaza Soup Kitchen is working on supplying food for people in need of food in Gaza, Soul Fire Farm will be supplying food for local, undocumented families. JVP-Albany member Branda Miller spoke about this campaign and food justice in the context of the Fourth of July with Sina Basila Hickey for Hudson Mohawk Magazine. Learn more: linktr.ee/jvpalbany
Today, we're speaking with Matt Bowles, a longtime Palestinian human rights activist.With a Master's Degree in International Peace and Conflict Resolution, Matt has over two decades of human rights and activism experience. He led activist delegations to monitor human rights abuses in the north of Ireland, co-founded an organization to stop U.S. aid to Israel, organized solidarity delegations to the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and did solidarity work with the indigenous Zapatista communities in Chiapas, Mexico.In the past few years, many more people around the world have tuned in to the injustice that has been happening in Palestine for the past 75 years. If you want to understand the origins of this injustice AND what you can do to help stop it, this episode is for you. I first became immersed in the struggle for Palestinian liberation in 2017, when I visited the West Bank and saw the Israeli soldiers at checkpoints, the humiliation of people, the treatment of Arabs like second-class citizens, and the Israeli system of apartheid with my own eyes. Matt has been working on Palestinian solidarity since 1998. It has been so helpful to hear the perspective of someone with this much longer view on the struggle. Become a Going Places member for as little as $6 a month. Visit our reimagined platform at goingplacesmedia.com to learn more.Thanks to our Founding Member: RISE Travel Institute, a nonprofit with a mission to create a more just and equitable world through travel education.What you'll learn in this episode:Current moment in the Palestinian human rights advocacyTravel media's sanitized version of seeing the worldHow Matt's Palestinian advocacy started with the Black liberation struggle in the USBritain's first and last colony (is the same?)The gap in awareness between what Palestine is and what the media showsThe power asymmetry and the longest military occupation in modern historyConfronting antisemitism and misrepresentationWhat the Rwandan, Guatemalan, and Cambodian genocides can teach usMatt dismantles "It's too complicated"Why do we give states more rights than people?The origins of this settler colonial projectWhy the US shifted its Palestine stance in 1967The history of Palestinian nonviolent resistance Why is there zero accountability for the State of Israel's actions?US law enforcement training with IOFWhat can an individual do? A lot!What gives Matt hope todayWhy Yulia believes that Gaza will change the worldFeatured on the show:Listen to Matt's Maverick Show podcastFollow @maverickshowpod on InstagramSubscribe to Matt's Monday Minute newsletter Learn more about the International Solidarity MovementLearn more about Jewish Voice for PeaceLearn more about If Not NowLearn more about the Boycott, Divest, and Sanctions...
We speak with JFREJ's Alicia Singham Goodwin and JVPA's Beth Miller on the collective Jewish effort to help Zohran Mamdani win the Democratic primary for Mayor of New York City.Guests Socials:Jews For Zohran@JewsForZohran on IGAlicia Singham Goodwin Politcal Director of Jews for Racial and Economic Justice@AliciaThilani on XBeth Miller Political Director of Jewish Voice for Peace Action@beth_avedon on X@bethavedon on IG@bethavedon.bsky.social on BlueSkyShow SocialsX @BeyondThePaleFM IG @BeyondThePaleFMFB @BeyondThePaleFMHosts@RafaelShimunov on Twitter@rafaelshimunov.bsky.social on BlueSky@ShoB on Twitter@Rafternoon on IG@shob18 on IGSupport the ShowBecome a BAI Buddy of Beyond The Pale at wbai.allyrafundraising.comLeave us a voicemail, we'll play it on airRecord a question or statement to play on air at (917) 740-8971 or via the Spotify app.You can also listen to our show live, every Friday after @DemocracyNow at 9AM on WBAI 99.5 FM NY.Thank you to our radio engineer, Michael G Haskins, and our researcher Margo Flug.
Viola Raheb in conversation with Brant Rosen, Mitri Raheb and Mohammed Abu-NimerRELIGION AND ETHICS IN TIMES OF WARCan religion be a recourse for peace and justiceIn times of conflict and war, religions and their ethical foundations occupy a complex and often contradictory role. While rooted in moral teachings that advocate for compassion, the sanctity of life, and forgiveness, religions also have the potential to become powerful forces for peace. Religious leaders and organizations can champion non-violence, provide humanitarian aid, and alleviate suffering, elevating peace as a moral imperative. Yet paradoxically, these same traditions are sometimes invoked to justify war—through interpretations of ‘just war' theories or the dehumanization of others. Religion and ethics can act as both constraints on violence and catalysts for conflict, depending on the context and interpretation. This challenge is compounded by the marginalization of voices within religious communities that advocate against war and violence, making it urgent to amplify these perspectives and foster cross-faith dialogue.With a special focus on the Israel-Palestine conflict, the panel discussion seeks to explore these pressing issues, identify pathways for collective action, and uphold peace as a universal value.Brant Rosen, is a Reconstructionist rabbi, writer, and activist based in the United States. He is the founder and rabbi of Tzedek Chicago, a congregation grounded in social justice and anti-Zionist principles. Rosen is a co-founder of the Jewish Voice for Peace Rabbinical Council and the author of Wrestling in the Daylight: A Rabbi's Path to Palestinian Solidarity.Mitri Raheb, is a Palestinian Lutheran pastor, theologian, and prominent Christian leader based in Bethlehem. He is the founder and president of Dar al-Kalima University and the author of numerous books on Middle Eastern Christianity and Palestinian identity. Raheb is an advocate for peace, justice, and cultural empowerment in the Palestinian territories.Mohammed Abu-Nimer, is a peacebuilding scholar and practitioner, specializing in conflict resolution and interfaith dialogue. He is a professor at the School of International Service at American University in Washington, D.C., and Senior Advisor at the KAICIID Dialogue Centre. Abu-Nimer has led peace and dialogue initiatives across the Middle East, South Asia, and Africa.Viola Raheb, scholar of religious studies lecturer, writer and Senior Fellow at BKF
Joining Mike in the Hitting Left studio are two members of Chicago Jewish Voice for Peace, Benjamin Teller and Jimmy Rothschild. Jimmy Rothschild is a community organizer based in Chicago who's been active with Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) and other progressive Jewish organizations. Benjamin Teller is among six members of JVP Chicago who started an indefinite hunger strike on June 16, 2025, to protest the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
In a powerful interview, author Sarah Schulman reflects on decades of activism, from fighting AIDS to advocating for Palestinian liberation, revealing key lessons learned along the way.SAVE THE DATE July 16th 7pm EDT: Laura hosts an online conversation just for our donors. It's a chance to connect, ask questions, and hear what's coming up behind the scenes. Make a one off donation or become a sustaining member by making it monthly go to LauraFlanders.org/donate. This show is made possible by you! Description: What is “solidarity” and what does it require? Giving up on perfection, for one thing, says Sarah Schulman, author of “Conflict is Not Abuse,” and so much more. Award-winning writer, teacher, playwright and activist, Schulman's latest book is “The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity”, in which she reflects on years of experiments and learning, from the 1980s to today. In this episode, find out what role GRITtv, an earlier iteration of Flanders' show, played in the movement for Palestinian liberation, and hear a discussion of the Harlem artist Alice Neel. Schulman sits on the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace. Her non-fiction books include “Conflict is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair” and “Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993”. Also in this episode, a commentary from Laura on the assassination of Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman, a strategic progressive who practiced solidarity.“When I confronted the Israeli occupation of Palestine, something resonated for me emotionally between that and the AIDS experience. What I felt was similar was that people who were endangered were being falsely depicted as dangerous.” - Sarah Schulman“Right now we're in the middle of a cataclysm of fascism and there's no quick fix. And we have to understand that the idea that you can go in and just fix it is a supremacy concept.” - Sarah SchulmanGuests: Sarah Schulman, Writer & AIDS Historian; Author, The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity This show is made possible by you! To become a sustaining member go to LauraFlanders.org/donate Watch the special report released on YouTube June 20th 5pm ET; PBS World Channel June 22nd, and on over 300 public stations across the country (check your listings, or search here via zipcode). Listen: Episode airing on community radio (check here to see if your station airs the show) & available as a podcast June 25th.Full Uncut Conversation Release: While our weekly shows are edited to time for broadcast on Public TV and community radio, we offer to our members and podcast subscribers the full uncut conversation. Full Episode Notes are located HERE. RESOURCES-Related Laura Flanders Show Episodes:• Organizing for Ceasefire Through Policy & Protest: Meet the People of JVP & NY Assemblymember Mamdani: Watch, Listen: Full Conversation, Episode• Jacqueline Woodson & Catherine Gund: Breathing Through Chaos & the “Meanwhile”: Watch, Listen: Full Conversation, Episode• GRITtv: Sarah Schulman: Emerging Palestinian Queer Movement: Watch Related Articles and Resources:• ‘They're Coming After All of Us.' You Might as Well Tell the Truth. The longtime activist and writer Sarah Schulman on why now is the time to stand up to people you oppose. By Lydia Polgreen, Produced by Vishakha Darbha, April 10, 2025, The Opinion - New York Times• The Vault: ACT UP protesters tue up traffic in lower Manhattan in 1988, NY Eyewitness News ABC 7• Jewish peace activists hold sit-in protest at Grand Central to demand ceasefire in Israel-Hamas conflict, October 27, 2023, PIX11 News-NY• Alice Neel Documentary on the life and work of Alice Need (1900—1984), American portrait painter. November 18, 2009, Official Trailer• Jim Hubbard and Sarah Schulman Present, United In Anger, A History of ACT-UP, a film by Jim Hubbard. Learn More Laura Flanders and Friends Crew: Laura Flanders, along with Sabrina Artel, Jeremiah Cothren, Veronica Delgado, Janet Hernandez, Jeannie Hopper, Gina Kim, Sarah Miller, Nat Needham, David Neuman, and Rory O'Conner. FOLLOW Laura Flanders and FriendsInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/lauraflandersandfriends/Blueky: https://bsky.app/profile/lfandfriends.bsky.socialFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/LauraFlandersAndFriends/Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lauraflandersandfriendsYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFLRxVeYcB1H7DbuYZQG-lgLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lauraflandersandfriendsPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/lauraflandersandfriendsACCESSIBILITY - The broadcast edition of this episode is available with closed captioned by clicking here for our YouTube Channel
On June 16, six members of Jewish Voice for Peace in Chicago—Ash Bohrer, Becca Lubow, Avey Rips, Seph Mozes, Audrey Gladson, and Benjamin Teller—began an indefinite hunger strike to demand an end to the genocide in Gaza, unconditional military aid for Israel, and the blockade of food and medical aid to the 2.3 million Palestinians now living amongst the rubble. In this urgent episode of The Marc Steiner Show, Marc speaks with two of the Chicago hunger strikers, Ash Bohrer and Avey Rips, about their act of protest and how far they're willing to go to stop Israel's slaughter of Palestinians.Guests:Ash Bohrer is a scholar-activist based in Chicago. Professionally, Bohrer is currently Assistant Professor of Gender and Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. In addition to their academic work, Ash is deeply involved in social movements for intersectional and anti-capitalist liberation; at the moment, most of that work is centered at Jewish Voice for Peace.Avey Rips is a graduate student in English at Northwestern University, where they were arrested for protecting students from the police last spring. They are the child of refugees who fled sectarian violence in Azerbaijan.Additional resources:Shane Burley, In These Times, “Chicago Jewish activists embark on indefinite hunger strike over Gaza”Jewish Voice for Peace – Chicago website, Instagram, TikTokFollow The Marc Steiner Show on Spotify Follow The Marc Steiner Show on Apple PodcastsHelp us continue producing The Marc Steiner Show by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer.Sign up for our newsletterFollow us on BlueskyLike us on FacebookFollow us on TwitterDonate to support this podcast Credits:Host: Marc SteinerProducer: Rosette SewaliAudio Post-Production: Stephen FrankStudio Recording: Cameron Granadino
On June 16, six members of Jewish Voice for Peace in Chicago—Ash Bohrer, Becca Lubow, Avey Rips, Seph Mozes, Audrey Gladson, and Benjamin Teller—began an indefinite hunger strike to demand an end to the genocide in Gaza, unconditional military aid for Israel, and the blockade of food and medical aid to the 2.3 million Palestinians now living amongst the rubble. In this urgent episode of The Marc Steiner Show, Marc speaks with two of the Chicago hunger strikers, Ash Bohrer and Avey Rips, about their act of protest and how far they're willing to go to stop Israel's slaughter of Palestinians.Guests:Ash Bohrer is a scholar-activist based in Chicago. Professionally, Bohrer is currently Assistant Professor of Gender and Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. In addition to their academic work, Ash is deeply involved in social movements for intersectional and anti-capitalist liberation; at the moment, most of that work is centered at Jewish Voice for Peace.Avey Rips is a graduate student in English at Northwestern University, where they were arrested for protecting students from the police last spring. They are the child of refugees who fled sectarian violence in Azerbaijan.Additional resources:Shane Burley, In These Times, “Chicago Jewish activists embark on indefinite hunger strike over Gaza”Jewish Voice for Peace – Chicago website, Instagram, TikTokFollow The Marc Steiner Show on SpotifyFollow The Marc Steiner Show on Apple PodcastsHelp us continue producing The Marc Steiner Show by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer.Sign up for our newsletterFollow us on BlueskyLike us on FacebookFollow us on TwitterDonate to support this podcastCredits:Host: Marc SteinerProducer: Rosette SewaliAudio Post-Production: Stephen FrankStudio Recording: Cameron Granadino
As fascist threats escalate globally, activist and playwright Sarah Schulman argues that achieving real change requires embracing imperfection and rejecting "supremacy concepts" – listen as she explains what this means for social justice movements today.Description: What is “solidarity” and what does it require? Giving up on perfection, for one thing, says Sarah Schulman, author of “Conflict is Not Abuse,” and so much more. Award-winning writer, teacher, playwright and activist, Schulman's latest book is “The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity”, in which she reflects on years of experiments and learning, from the 1980s to today. In this episode, find out what role GRITtv, an earlier iteration of Flanders' show, played in the movement for Palestinian liberation, and hear a discussion of the Harlem artist Alice Neel. Schulman sits on the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace. Her non-fiction books include “Conflict is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair” and “Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993”. Also in this episode, a commentary from Laura on the assassination of Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman, a strategic progressive who practiced solidarity.“When I confronted the Israeli occupation of Palestine, something resonated for me emotionally between that and the AIDS experience. What I felt was similar was that people who were endangered were being falsely depicted as dangerous.” - Sarah Schulman“Right now we're in the middle of a cataclysm of fascism and there's no quick fix. And we have to understand that the idea that you can go in and just fix it is a supremacy concept.” - Sarah SchulmanGuests: Sarah Schulman, Writer & AIDS Historian; Author, The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity This show is made possible by you! To become a sustaining member go to LauraFlanders.org/donate Full Conversation Release: While our weekly shows are edited to time for broadcast on Public TV and community radio, we offer to our members and podcast subscribers the full uncut conversation. These audio exclusives are made possible thanks to our member supporters.Watch the special report released on YouTube June 20th 5pm ET; PBS World Channel June 22nd, and on over 300 public stations across the country (check your listings, or search here via zipcode). Listen: Episode airing on community radio (check here to see if your station airs the show) & available as a podcast June 25th. Full Episode Notes are located HERE. RESOURCES-Related Laura Flanders Show Episodes:• Organizing for Ceasefire Through Policy & Protest: Meet the People of JVP & NY Assemblymember Mamdani: Watch, Listen: Full Conversation, Episode• Jacqueline Woodson & Catherine Gund: Breathing Through Chaos & the “Meanwhile”: Watch, Listen: Full Conversation, Episode• GRITtv: Sarah Schulman: Emerging Palestinian Queer Movement: Watch Related Articles and Resources:• ‘They're Coming After All of Us.' You Might as Well Tell the Truth. The longtime activist and writer Sarah Schulman on why now is the time to stand up to people you oppose. By Lydia Polgreen, Produced by Vishakha Darbha, April 10, 2025, The Opinion - New York Times• The Vault: ACT UP protesters tue up traffic in lower Manhattan in 1988, NY Eyewitness News ABC 7• Jewish peace activists hold sit-in protest at Grand Central to demand ceasefire in Israel-Hamas conflict, October 27, 2023, PIX11 News-NY• Alice Neel Documentary on the life and work of Alice Need (1900—1984), American portrait painter. November 18, 2009, Official Trailer• Jim Hubbard and Sarah Schulman Present, United In Anger, A History of ACT-UP, a film by Jim Hubbard. Learn More Laura Flanders and Friends Crew: Laura Flanders, along with Sabrina Artel, Jeremiah Cothren, Veronica Delgado, Janet Hernandez, Jeannie Hopper, Gina Kim, Sarah Miller, Nat Needham, David Neuman, and Rory O'Conner. FOLLOW Laura Flanders and FriendsInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/lauraflandersandfriends/Blueky: https://bsky.app/profile/lfandfriends.bsky.socialFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/LauraFlandersAndFriends/Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lauraflandersandfriendsYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFLRxVeYcB1H7DbuYZQG-lgLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lauraflandersandfriendsPatreon: https://www.patreon.com/lauraflandersandfriendsACCESSIBILITY - The broadcast edition of this episode is available with closed captioned by clicking here for our YouTube Channel
In this News Brief, we are joined by Ashley Bohrer and Ben Teller of Jewish Voice for Peace Chicago to discuss media indifference to the US and Israel-imposed starvation of Palestinians, how sectarianism is central to the ADL's strategy, and why six JVP activists have decided to hunger strike to draw more attention to the Israeli and US-made famine in Gaza.
On Saturday June 14, as President Trump presided over a military parade on his birthday in the nation's Capitol, millions of Americans joined together in communities across the country under the banner of No Kings to fight to save Democracy in the United State sand to oppose authoritarian rule. In Troy, despite a morning downpour, more than 1300 individuals rallied in Riverfront Park, with other protests taking place throughout the Capital District later during the day. 75 protests took place statewide. In this report, we hear from three co-chairs of the Troy and Albany Indivisible, starting with Brian Paz Hernandez, then Marianna Achlaoug and Dr. Mary Panzetta, followed by Ava Agree of the local Jewish Voice for Peace.
Send us a text Since it's founding in 1996, Jewish Voice for Peace has advocated for Palestinian freedom and an end to Israeli occupation, apartheid and war. In early May, JVP held its first national meeting since 2017. Some 2,000 members attended the national meeting in Baltimore, which JVP said was the largest gathering of anti-Zionist Jews in history. The convention drew well-known figures including Angela Davis, writer Naomi Klein, Congressman Rashida Tlaib, journalist Amy Goodman and others to discuss and organize how to end U.S. support for the ongoing genocide in Gaza in the face of increasing government repression. This episode airs some of the speeches from that meeting. It includes remarks by Stephanie Fox, executive director of JVP, and Dr. Thaer Ahmad, a board-certified emergency medicine physician at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Chicago who has provided emergency care to wounded patients in Gaza.
More than 300 people turned out in downtown Troy for the Memorial Day Rally against fascism organized by Indivisible Troy, opposing the ICE raids and attacks on immigrants and the constitution. We hear from Karen Zigler, several indivisible organiers, Jen from Jewish Voice for Peace, Eyad Alkurabi of Palestinian Rights Committee, Assemblymember Phil Steck, Troy City Council President Sue Steel, Jim Mounteer, Eduardo Hernandez of Citizen Action, law professor Mary Lynch, and Rudy Stegemoeller and Diane Geary of Common Farms, among others. Unedited.
Israel was quick to label the killing of two of its embassy staff in Washington DC this week as antisemitic. Other officials in the West have followed suit. But as its war in Gaza expands, does criticising Israel amount to antisemitism? And does this narrative serve any purpose? In this episode: Phyllis Bennis, International Adviser at Jewish Voice for Peace. Saba-Nur Cheema, Political Scientist at Goethe University Frankfurt. Gideon Levy, Columnist at Haaretz Newspaper. Host: Tom McRae Connect with us:@AJEPodcasts on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook
At this very moment, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip who have managed to survive Israel's scorched-earth siege and bombing are being deliberately starved to death as a result of Israel's 11-week blockade preventing food and aid from entering Gaza. As Jem Bartholemew writes at The Guardian, “The UN's humanitarian chief, Tom Fletcher, told the BBC [Tuesday] morning that 14,000 babies could die in Gaza in 48 hours if aid did not reach them in time. Five aid trucks entered Gaza on Monday but Fletcher described this as a “drop in the ocean” and totally inadequate for the population's needs.” In response to this dire humanitarian crisis, students at multiple university campuses in the US have launched hunger strikes in solidarity with the starving people of Gaza. In this urgent episode, we speak with four hunger strikers at the University of Oregon (UO), including: Cole, Sadie, and Efron, three undergraduate students who are all members of Jewish Voice for Peace - UO and who just completed a 60-hour solidarity hunger strike; and Phia, a Palestinian-American undergraduate student who has organized with JVP-UO on the hunger strike and who currently remains on hunger strike herself.Additional links/info: UO Gaza Hunger Strike Instagram and TikTok UO Gaza Hunger Strike: Community Calls to Action! Press Release: University of Oregon Students, Faculty, and Staff Launch “UO Gaza Hunger Strike” Campaign Protesting Mass Starvation and Genocide Jewish Voice for Peace - UO Instagram Nathan Wilk, KLCC, “University of Oregon protesters begin hunger strike for Gaza” Michael Arria, Mondoweiss, “Students across the U.S. are going on hunger strike as Israeli-engineered famine takes hold in Gaza” Syma Mohammed, Middle East Eye, “US: UCLA student hospitalised during hunger strike for Gaza” Jem Bartholemew, The Guardian, “First Thing: UN says 14,000 babies could die in Gaza in next 48 hours under Israeli aid blockade” Ronen Bergman & Natan Odenheimer, The New York Times, “In private, some Israeli officers admit that Gaza is on the brink of starvation” Maximillian Alvarez, Working People / The Real News Network, “‘The raids happened Wednesday, finals started Thursday': FBI agents raid homes of pro-Palestine students at University of Michigan” Maximillian Alvarez, Working People / The Real News Network, “‘A tremendous chilling effect': Columbia students describe dystopian reality on campus amid Trump attacks” Maximillian Alvarez, Working People / The Real News Network, “‘People are hiding in their apartments': Inside Trump's assault on universities” Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network, “‘Worse' than McCarthyism: Trump's war on higher education, free speech, and political dissent” Permanent links below… Leave us a voicemail and we might play it on the show! Labor Radio / Podcast Network website, Facebook page, and Twitter page In These Times website, Facebook page, and Twitter page The Real News Network website, YouTube channel, podcast feeds, Facebook page, and Twitter page Featured Music… Jules Taylor, “Working People” Theme Song Audio Post-Production: Jules Taylor
At this very moment, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip who have managed to survive Israel's scorched-earth siege and bombing are being deliberately starved to death as a result of Israel's 11-week blockade preventing food and aid from entering Gaza. As Jem Bartholemew writes at The Guardian, “The UN's humanitarian chief, Tom Fletcher, told the BBC [Tuesday] morning that 14,000 babies could die in Gaza in 48 hours if aid did not reach them in time. Five aid trucks entered Gaza on Monday but Fletcher described this as a “drop in the ocean” and totally inadequate for the population's needs.” In response to this dire humanitarian crisis, students at multiple university campuses in the US have launched hunger strikes in solidarity with the starving people of Gaza. In this urgent episode, we speak with four hunger strikers at the University of Oregon (UO), including: Cole, Sadie, and Efron, three undergraduate students who are all members of Jewish Voice for Peace - UO and who just completed a 60-hour solidarity hunger strike; and Phia, a Palestinian-American undergraduate student who has organized with JVP-UO on the hunger strike and who currently remains on hunger strike herself.Additional links/info:UO Gaza Hunger Strike Instagram and TikTokUO Gaza Hunger Strike: Community Calls to Action!Press Release: University of Oregon Students, Faculty, and Staff Launch “UO Gaza Hunger Strike” Campaign Protesting Mass Starvation and GenocideJewish Voice for Peace - UO InstagramNathan Wilk, KLCC, “University of Oregon protesters begin hunger strike for Gaza”Michael Arria, Mondoweiss, “Students across the U.S. are going on hunger strike as Israeli-engineered famine takes hold in Gaza”Syma Mohammed, Middle East Eye, “US: UCLA student hospitalised during hunger strike for Gaza”Jem Bartholemew, The Guardian, “First Thing: UN says 14,000 babies could die in Gaza in next 48 hours under Israeli aid blockade”Ronen Bergman & Natan Odenheimer, The New York Times, “In private, some Israeli officers admit that Gaza is on the brink of starvation”Maximillian Alvarez, Working People / The Real News Network, “‘The raids happened Wednesday, finals started Thursday': FBI agents raid homes of pro-Palestine students at University of Michigan”Maximillian Alvarez, Working People / The Real News Network, “‘A tremendous chilling effect': Columbia students describe dystopian reality on campus amid Trump attacks”Maximillian Alvarez, Working People / The Real News Network, “‘People are hiding in their apartments': Inside Trump's assault on universities” Maximillian Alvarez, The Real News Network, “‘Worse' than McCarthyism: Trump's war on higher education, free speech, and political dissent”Audio Post-Production: Jules TaylorHelp us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer.Sign up for our newsletterLike us on FacebookFollow us on TwitterDonate to support this podcast
Wendy Elisheva Somerson (wes) is a non-binary Jewish somatic healer, writer, visual artist, and activist who helped found the Seattle chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace. They facilitate Ruach, body-based Jewish healing groups held in an anti-Zionist, anti-racist, and feminist framework. As part of a movement of anti-Zionist Jews, they support Jewish healing from historical trauma and promote a liberatory future for Judaism and Jewishness beyond Zionism that includes a free Palestine. Today on the show we discuss their new book An Anti-Zionist Path to Embodied Jewish Healing: Somatic Practices to Heal Historical Wounds, Unlearn Oppression, and Create a Liberated World to Come. https://wendysomerson.net/ Topics 00:00 Introduction and Guest Welcome01:09 Discussing the Book: An Anti-Zionist Path to Embodied Jewish Healing01:36 Genocide in Palestine: Context and Impact04:07 Zionism and Jewish Historical Trauma06:07 Embodied Jewish Healing: Concepts and Practices09:26 Technology and Disembodiment10:32 Anti-Zionism as a Path to Healing16:12 Spiritual and Ethical Responsibilities26:42 Activism and Jewish Faith30:05 Resources and Community for Anti-Zionism31:46 Somatic Healing Practices36:58 Hope and Solidarity for the Future40:07 Conclusion and Farewell Support the mission of SAND and the production of this podcast by becoming a SAND Member Join SAND June 3–9 for the FREE global film premiere of The Eternal Song and the 7-day online gathering with Indigenous voices
Alice Rothchild's path to becoming an anti-Zionist Jew took many years, many hard conversations, and required a lot of critical self-reflection. But she is part of a growing, powerful chorus of Jewish voices around the world speaking out against Israel's Occupation of Palestine and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians—and she is urging others to join that chorus. “The time is long overdue for liberal Zionists to find the courage to take a long hard look at their uncritical support for the actions of the Israeli state as it becomes increasingly indefensible and destabilizing, a pariah state that has lost its claim to be a so-called democracy (however flawed) that is endangering Jews in the country and abroad as well as Palestinians everywhere,” Rothchild writes in Common Dreams. In the latest installment of The Marc Steiner Show's ongoing series “Not in Our Name,” Marc speaks with Rothchild about her path to anti-Zionism, the endgame of Israel's genocidal assault on Gaza, and the need to liberate Jewish identity from the Zionist state of Israel.Alice Rothchild is a physician, author, and filmmaker with an interest in human rights and social justice. She practiced ob-gyn for almost 40 years and served as Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Harvard Medical School. She is the author of numerous books, including: Broken Promises, Broken Dreams: Stories of Jewish and Palestinian Trauma and Resilience; Condition Critical: Life and Death in Israel/Palestine; Old Enough to Know, a 2024 Arab American Book Award winner; and Inspired and Outraged: The Making of a Feminist Physician. Rothchild is a member of the Jewish Voice for Peace Health Advisory Council and a mentor-liaison for We Are Not Numbers.Producer: Rosette SewaliStudio Production: David HebdenAudio Post-Production: Alina NehlichHelp us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer.Sign up for our newsletterLike us on FacebookFollow us on TwitterDonate to support this podcast
Alice Rothchild's path to becoming an anti-Zionist Jew took many years, many hard conversations, and required a lot of critical self-reflection. But she is part of a growing, powerful chorus of Jewish voices around the world speaking out against Israel's Occupation of Palestine and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians—and she is urging others to join that chorus. “The time is long overdue for liberal Zionists to find the courage to take a long hard look at their uncritical support for the actions of the Israeli state as it becomes increasingly indefensible and destabilizing, a pariah state that has lost its claim to be a so-called democracy (however flawed) that is endangering Jews in the country and abroad as well as Palestinians everywhere,” Rothchild writes in Common Dreams. In the latest installment of The Marc Steiner Show's ongoing series “Not in Our Name,” Marc speaks with Rothchild about her path to anti-Zionism, the endgame of Israel's genocidal assault on Gaza, and the need to liberate Jewish identity from the Zionist state of Israel.Alice Rothchild is a physician, author, and filmmaker with an interest in human rights and social justice. She practiced ob-gyn for almost 40 years and served as Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Harvard Medical School. She is the author of numerous books, including: Broken Promises, Broken Dreams: Stories of Jewish and Palestinian Trauma and Resilience; Condition Critical: Life and Death in Israel/Palestine; Old Enough to Know, a 2024 Arab American Book Award winner; and Inspired and Outraged: The Making of a Feminist Physician. Rothchild is a member of the Jewish Voice for Peace Health Advisory Council and a mentor-liaison for We Are Not Numbers.Producer: Rosette SewaliStudio Production: David HebdenAudio Post-Production: Alina NehlichHelp us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer.Sign up for our newsletterLike us on FacebookFollow us on TwitterDonate to support this podcast
Dr. Feroze Sidhwa discusses Gaza with Clint Borgen. Dr. Sidhaw is a Trauma Surgeon, based in California, with experience in Gaza, Ukraine, the West Bank, Zimbabwe, Haiti, Dominican Republic, and Burkina Faso. He received his Masters in Public Health from Harvard and his Medical Degree from the University of Texas Medical School.Take Action: Urge Congress to meet with American doctors who served in Gaza.Mentioned: Read the letter U.S. doctors sent to Congress.Official podcast of The Borgen Project, an international organization that works at the political level to improve living conditions for people impacted by war, famine and poverty.borgenproject.orgGuest BioDr. Feroze Sidhwa is a general, trauma, and critical care surgeon in California. He is triple-board certified in general surgery, trauma/surgical critical care, and neurocritical care, and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and of the International College of Surgeons.Feroze is also a humanitarian surgeon. He has worked most extensively in Palestine, but has also worked in Ukraine three times with the International Medical Corps and Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, and in Zimbabwe, Haiti, Dominican Republic, and Burkina Faso. He has helped edit books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict published by University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), O/R Books (London, UK), and the Institute for Palestine Studies (Washington, DC). He is widely published in the medical literature, including in The Journal of the American College of Surgeons, Annals of Surgery, World Journal of Surgery, Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Surgical Infections, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, JAMA Pediatrics, Journal of Pediatric Surgery, and Journal of Laproendoscopic and Advanced Surgical Techniques, among others. Feroze has spoken on humanitarian relief work and its political implications at the Harvard FXB Center for Health and Human Rights, the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, as the keynote speaker of the Stanford 31st Annual Trauma Critical Care Symposium, at UChicago Medicine Trauma Grand Rounds, at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine, University of Chicago Law School, Johns Hopkins University and School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, MIT, Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, SUNY Downstate College of Medicine, NYU, the Hawaii Medical Association, and the University of Hawaii A. John Burns School of Medicine. He has also spoken widely in the community, mostly in the San Francisco Bay Area but also with Jewish Voice for Peace Phoenix and Tucson, Massachusetts Peace Action, the 2024 Democratic National Convention, and elsewhere.Lay publications about Feroze's humanitarian surgical work and its political implications include:New York Times, October 9, 2024. “65 Doctors, Nurses and Paramedics: What We Saw in Gaza”Haaretz (Israel), October 17, 2024. “65 אנשי רפואה לניו יורק טיימס: אלה המחזות שראינו בעזה”Politico, July 19, 2024. “We Volunteered at a Gaza Hospital. What We Saw Was Unspeakable.”CommonDreams.org, May 23, 2024. “The Atlantic's Sloppy Reporting on UN Gaza Statistics Jeopardizes Its Credibility”CommonDreams.org, April 11, 2024. “As Surgeons, We Have Never Seen Cruelty Like Israel's Genocide in Gaza”Columbia Daily Spectator, January 29, 2025. “In Gaza, a ‘political' ethical problem is still an ethical problem.”Feroze is the primary author of two open letters to the Biden-Harris administration regarding the United States' role in the Israeli assault on Gaza that followed the October 7, 2023 attacks on Israel, as well as the appendices accompanying those letters. These letters were updated and sent to the Trump transition team on November 15, 2024.Feroze has appeared on CNN's Amanpour, PBS, MSNBC's Ayman Mohyeldin Reports, Democracy Now!, CNN international, the Australia Broadcasting Corporation, DropSite News, NPR, and the BBC World News, as well as a variety of radio programs and podcasts. He has been quoted widely in mainstream and alternative media, including on CBS Sunday Morning News, ABC News, Reuters, the Washington Post, Mother Jones, the New Republic, Mainchi Newspaper (Japan), Local Call (Israel), the Huffington Post, the New Statesman, NRK (Norway), the Guardian, the Independent, Pass Blue, and Democracy Now! Dr. Sidhwa serves as a peer reviewer for the Journal of the American College of Surgeons on global surgical topics and as an external expert reviewer for Human Rights Watch.Feroze was born in Houston, TX to Parsi parents who left Pakistan to find a better life. They moved to the UK and then in the United States. Feroze grew up in Flint, MI. After graduating from Johns Hopkins University in 2004 with a bachelor's degree in public health he lived in Haifa, Israel for one year, working with a Palestinian-Jewish cooperative in the city. He then taught middle school in east Baltimore for one year before starting medical school at the University of Texas School of Medicine at San Antonio. During his time in medical school he also obtained a Master of Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health.After finishing medical school, Feroze joined the general surgery residency program at Boston Medical Center. During his residency he completed a surgical research fellowship at Boston Children's Hospital. During that time Feroze treated victims of the Boston Marathon Bombing. After finishing residency in 2018 he began his one-year trauma/surgical critical care fellowship at Cooper University Healthcare in Camden, NJ. After completing his fellowship, he moved to California where he now practices as a trauma surgeon at a county hospital and as a general surgeon in the Veterans Affairs Northern California Health Care System.Dr. Sidhwa critiques the United States' role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through a unique lens. He is a secular American with no ethnic or religious ties to the Middle East. He has a broad knowledge of Israeli and American academic work on the conflict, and closely follows the technical humanitarian, human rights, medical, political, economic, and environmental research done on the topic by Israeli, Palestinian, and international agencies. His public health degrees afford him a broad understanding of how these different areas affect the people of the region. He has no interest in any particular political solution to the conflict. And, most importantly to him, he has seen the conflict in person, seen what it is doing to Palestinians and to Israelis, and has treated its victims with his own hands.
At the 2025 National Membership Meeting of Jewish Voice for Peace in Baltimore, MD, thousands of anti-Zionist Jews gathered to reaffirm their opposition to Israel's occupation of Palestine and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians—and to reject the antisemitic notion that the political ideology of Zionism represents all Jews. In this vital and wide-ranging discussion recorded during the JVP gathering in Baltimore, TRNN's Marc Steiner sits down with self-identified Palestinian Jews Esther Farmer and Ariella Aïsha Azoulay to discuss the complexities of Jewish identity and belonging today, the historical origins of Israel, and “the way that Zionism destroyed both Palestine and the diverse modes of Jewish life” that predate and reject the Zionist project.Ariella Aïsha Azoulay is a Palestinian Jew of African origins, film essayist, curator, and professor of modern culture and comparative literature at Brown University. She is the author of numerous books, including: Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism; The Civil Contract of Photography; and From Palestine to Israel: A Photographic Record of Destruction and State Formation, 1947-1950. Esther Farmer is a Palestinian Jew and native Brooklynite passionate about using theater as a tool for community development. She is former Ombudsman and Manager for the New York City Housing Authority, former United Nations representative for the International Association for Community Development and was an original founder of Teamsters for a Democratic Union. She is also a Jewish Voice for Peace NYC chapter leader and the director and playwright of “Wrestling with Zionism.”Producer: Rosette SewaliStudio Production: Cameron GranadinoAudio Post-Production: Alina NehlichHelp TRNN continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer.Sign up for our newsletterFollow us on BlueskyLike us on FacebookFollow us on TwitterDonate to support this podcast
At the 2025 National Membership Meeting of Jewish Voice for Peace in Baltimore, MD, thousands of anti-Zionist Jews gathered to reaffirm their opposition to Israel's occupation of Palestine and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians—and to reject the antisemitic notion that the political ideology of Zionism represents all Jews. In this vital and wide-ranging discussion recorded during the JVP gathering in Baltimore, TRNN's Marc Steiner sits down with self-identified Palestinian Jews Esther Farmer and Ariella Aïsha Azoulay to discuss the complexities of Jewish identity and belonging today, the historical origins of Israel, and “the way that Zionism destroyed both Palestine and the diverse modes of Jewish life” that predate and reject the Zionist project.Ariella Aïsha Azoulay is a Palestinian Jew of African origins, film essayist, curator, and professor of modern culture and comparative literature at Brown University. She is the author of numerous books, including: Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism; The Civil Contract of Photography; and From Palestine to Israel: A Photographic Record of Destruction and State Formation, 1947-1950. Esther Farmer is a Palestinian Jew and native Brooklynite passionate about using theater as a tool for community development. She is former Ombudsman and Manager for the New York City Housing Authority, former United Nations representative for the International Association for Community Development and was an original founder of Teamsters for a Democratic Union. She is also a Jewish Voice for Peace NYC chapter leader and the director and playwright of “Wrestling with Zionism.”Producer: Rosette SewaliStudio Production: Cameron GranadinoAudio Post-Production: Alina NehlichHelp TRNN continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer.Sign up for our newsletterFollow us on BlueskyLike us on FacebookFollow us on TwitterDonate to support this podcast
Today, on the Hudson Mohawk Magazine, Mark Dunlea brings us part of the EcoAction Committee of the Green Party's presentation on Zero Waste by Chris Burger who is Chair of both NY State and National Sierra Club Zero Waste Committees. Then, Moses Nagel speaks with Barbara Smith about the Trump administration's list of forbidden books (which she is on with one of her books), the conversation about the male loneliness epidemic and the recent national meeting of Jewish Voice for Peace. Later on, Aundrea Cunliffe speaks with protesters at an event hosted by the Albany County Republican Committee with keynote speaker Elise Stefanik After that, Twon Wood is in the studio to Promote his 3rd installment of Hill Bomber, a Comic book art series consisting of Twon's illustrations inspired by his experiences in Skateboarding, Comedy and life. Finally, for the 100th Poetry Segment, Thom Francis goes all the way to the beginning to his very first interview with Dan wilcox. Co-hosts: Caelan McPherson & Vinny DamaPoleto Engineer: Jalaya Reid
Barbara Smith is a scholar and activist who resides in the Capital District. She is the author of books such as The Truth That Never Hurts and Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around. She recently spoke with Hudson Mohawk Magazine's Moses Nagel about a range of topics including the Trump administrations list of forbidden books, the conversation about the male loneliness epidemic and the recent national meeting of Jewish Voice for Peace.
Today we have an interview with anti zionist JVP activist Dr Wendy Elisheva Somerson (Wes) who will be talking about their brand new book called “An Anti-Zionist Path to Embodied Jewish Healing: Somatic Practices to Heal Historical Wounds, Unlearn Oppression, and Create a Liberated World to Come” This book is an Unapologetically anti-Zionist book that is firmly rooted in Jewish spiritual values and a liberatory model for healing for all activists and in particular for anti zionists and Zionist “An Ani-Zionist path to Embodied Jewish Healing” provides Body-based tools and faith-based practices for processing trauma, reclaiming our agency, and building a world where “never again” means “never again for anyone” Deftly addressing how ancestral grief from colonialism lives on in all our bodies and keeps us from feeling safe—and how that fear can become enacted on other people, Somerson also addresses how Israel manipulates its citizens to remain stuck in trauma and fear from the Holocaust and anti semitism and asks how do we reconcile a history of persecution with the state power of Israel today? Somerson's book An Anti-Zionist Path to Embodied Jewish Healing shows us how thru somatic healing we can strengthen our movement to build effective solidarity and purposeful power. They do this by showing how oppressive systems that exist outside of us also exist in our own bodies and how somatic healing and healing justice can help us find our aliveness to better understand our relationship to collective power to become better activists rooted in creating solidarities and collective power that will last and not turn against itself. Wendy Elisheva Somerson (Wes) is a queer non-binary, disabled, Ashkenazi Jewish somatic healer, writer, activist, and visual artist and One of the founders of the Seattle chapter of Jewish Voice for Peace. They have been active in Palestinian solidarity work for over two decades. As a politicized healer, Wes works at the intersection of personal and collective healing with individuals, groups, and organizations. The post Antizionist healing with Wes Somerson appeared first on KPFA.
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) has openly vowed to pour $100 million into campaigns to defeat progressive representatives like Cori Bush who have spoken out against Israel's genocidal war on Gaza and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. As Chris McGreal writes in The Guardian, “after it played a leading role in unseating New York congressman Jamaal Bowman, another progressive Democrat who criticised the scale of Palestinian civilian deaths in Gaza… AIPAC pumped $8.5m into the race in Missouri's first congressional district to support [Wesley] Bell through its campaign funding arm, the United Democracy Project (UDP), after Bush angered some pro-Israel groups as one of the first members of Congress to call for a ceasefire after the 7 October Hamas attack on Israel.” After Bush was unseated in August, she vowed to keep fighting for justice, and she put AIPAC on notice: “AIPAC,” she told supporters, “I'm coming to tear your kingdom down.”At the 2025 National Membership Meeting of Jewish Voice for Peace in Baltimore, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez sits down with the former Congresswoman and key member of “The Squad” to discuss her re-election loss, the undue influence of organizations like AIPAC on our democracy, and Bush's plan for fighting back.Studio Production: Kayla Rivara, Rosette SewaliPost-Production: Cameron GranadinoHelp TRNN continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer.Sign up for our newsletterFollow us on BlueskyLike us on FacebookFollow us on TwitterDonate to support this podcast
A dystopian reality has gripped America's colleges and universities: ICE agents are snatching and disappearing international students in broad daylight; student visas are being revoked en masse overnight; funding cuts and freezes are upending countless careers and our entire public research infrastructure; students are being expelled and faculty fired for speaking out against Israel's US-backed genocidal war on Gaza and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. An all-out assault on higher ed and the people who live, learn, and work there is being led by the federal government and aided by law enforcement, internet vigilantes, and even university administrators. Today's climate of repression recalls that of McCarthyism and the height of the anti-communist Red Scare in the 1950s, but leading scholars of McCarthyism and political repression say that the attacks on higher education, free speech, and political repression we're seeing today are “worse” and “much broader.” In this installment of The Real News Network podcast, TRNN Editor-in-Chief Maximillian Alvarez speaks with a panel of scholars about the Trump administration's authoritarian war on higher education in America, the historical roots of the attacks we're seeing play out today, and what lessons we can draw from history about how to fight it. Panelists include: Ellen Schrecker, a historian and author who has written extensively about McCarthyism and American higher education, and a member of the American Association of University Professors national committee on academic freedom and tenure. Schrecker is the author and co-editor of numerous books, including: The Right To Learn: Resisting the Right-Wing Attack on Academic Freedom; The Lost Promise: American Universities in the 1960s; No Ivory Tower: McCarthyism and the Universities; and Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in AmericaDavid Palumbo-Liu, Louise Hewlett Nixon Professor in Comparative Literature at Stanford University, host of the podcast Speaking Out of Place, and author of several books, including: Speaking Out of Place: Getting Our Political Voices Back; The Deliverance of Others: Reading Literature in a Global Age; and Asian/American: Historical Crossings of a Racial FrontierAlan Wald, H. Chandler Davis Collegiate Professor Emeritus of English Literature and American Culture at the University of Michigan. Wald is an editor of Against the Current and Science & Society, he serves as a member of the academic council of Jewish Voice for Peace, and he is the author of a trilogy of books from the University of North Carolina Press: Exiles from a Future Time: The Forging of the Mid-Twentieth-Century Literary Left; Trinity of Passion: The Literary Left and the Antifascist Crusade; and American Night: The Literary Left in the Era of the Cold WarStudio Production: David HebdenAudio Post-Production: Jules TaylorHelp
Author Sarah Schulman talks with Emmy Winner Charlotte Robinson host of OUTTAKE VOICES™ about her new book “The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity” published by Penguin Random House. Schulman is a longtime social activist from the fight for abortion rights in post-Franco Spain to NYC's AIDS activism in the 1990s to campus protest movements against Israel's war on Gaza and beyond bringing her own experience growing up as a queer female artist in male-dominated culture industries. In these challenging times as our democracy is at a moral crossroad, this must-read book couldn't be more timely. For those who seek to combat injustice, solidarity with the oppressed is one of the highest ideals yet it does not come without complication. In this searing yet uplifting book Sarah delves into the intricate and often misunderstood concept of solidarity to provide a new vision for what it means to engage in this work and why it matters. Here in America with this new administration we're beginning to understand and realize that the only people that will save us from this authoritarian regime are ourselves. Drawing parallels between queer, Jewish, feminist and artistic struggles for justice Schulman challenges the traditional notion of solidarity as a simple union of equals arguing that in today's world of globalized power structures true solidarity requires the collaboration of bystanders and conflicted perpetrators with the excluded and oppressed. Currently in America we are learning that action comes at a cost and it is not always as effective as we would like it to be but doing nothing is far more dangerous. We talked to Sarah about these current issues and her inspiration for writing “The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity”. Sarah Schulman is a novelist, playwright, screenwriter, nonfiction writer and AIDS historian. Her books include The Gentrification of the Mind, Conflict Is Not Abuse and Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987–1993 and the novels The Cosmopolitans and Maggie Terry. Schulman's honors include a Fulbright in Judaic Studies, a Guggenheim in Playwriting and honors from Lambda Literary, the Publishing Triangle, NLGJA: The Association of LGBTQ+ Journalists, the American Library Association and others. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, New York, Harper's Magazine, The Atlantic, The Nation, The New Republic, The New York Times and The Guardian. Schulman holds an endowed chair in creative writing at Northwestern University and is on the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace. For More Info… LISTEN: 600+ LGBTQ Chats @OUTTAKE VOICES
Suzi talks to Alan Wald, Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan and a member of the academic council of Jewish Voice for Peace, to unpack the Trump offensive against higher education — a campaign that escalated after last spring's clampdown on student encampments protesting the Israel–US war on Gaza. Since October 7, universities have cracked down on protests under the guise of protecting “Jewish student safety.” What does it mean when many of those protesting are themselves Jewish? And, despite the repression, these crackdowns haven't earned universities any favor with the government. Congressional hearings forced the resignation of university presidents, and now the Trump administration is threatening to withdraw federal research funds. Columbia University buckled, while Harvard, Princeton, and others are holding the line and fighting back. At the center of it all is the redefinition and weaponization of antisemitism as a political tool used to quash criticism of Israeli policy and chill speech. This isn't just censorship. It's an authoritarian bid to impose ideological control over the academy. Alan Wald has tracked this turn — its roots, its enablers, and its eerie echoes of McCarthyism. He helps us understand where we are — and what it means. Jacobin Radio with Suzi Weissman features conversations with leading thinkers and activists, with a focus on labor, the economy, and protest movements.
Jewish Voice for Peace - Albany chapter, held a rally for liberation in Townsend Park on Thursday, April 17 to honor the Jewish celebration of Passover and to stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine, as well as with immigrants under increasing attack in the United States. We hear from representatives of Jewish Voice for Peace (Jessie Sander, Mark Mishler, Ava Berman with Blue Carreker) and the NY Immigration Coalition (Jahaira Roldan). Karen Beetle, and others.
Today, on the Hudson Mohawk Magazine, Mark Dunlea reports on the air permit renewal for the Wheelabrator garbage incinerator in Hudson Falls. Then, Mark Dunlea speaks with Jewish Voice for Peace about their Rally for Liberation on April 17. Later on, on Armao on the Brink, Rosemary Armao talks about Trump with broadcaster Linda Ellerbee. After that, A'Livija Mullins-Richard and Mary Keating recap the Sanctuary's Critical Conversations: Environmental Justice event with Aaron Mair and Benita Law-Diao. Finally, we hear about the Soil Factory in Ithaca Co-hosts: Benno Greene & Mark Dunlea. Engineer: Jalaya Reid
In the first half of this episode of CODEPINK Radio, Marcy Winograd is joined by Brooke Lober and Barry Trachtenberg of Jewish Voice for Peace. Together, they unpack Project Esther—the Heritage Foundation's troubling blueprint to suppress dissent and promote a Christian Zionist agenda across the country. In the second half, we turn to Los Angeles, where local activists testify before the school board, calling for an end to its partnership with the Anti-Defamation League. We also hear from Erik Sperling, executive director of Just Foreign Policy, and Dr. Aisha Jumaan, founder of the Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation, who speak out on Trump's undeclared war on Yemen and the ongoing congressional efforts to bring it to an end.
Jewish Voice for Peace - Albany chapter, together with Capital Region immigrant rights and solidarity organizations and members of the Capital Region's Jewish, Christian, Palestinian, Muslim, and Arab American communities will hold a rally for liberation in Townsend Park in downtown Albany on Thursday, April 17 starting at 5:30 PM to honor the Jewish celebration of Passover and to stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine, as well as with immigrants under increasing attack in the United States. Ava Agree of JVP talks with Mark Dunlea for Hudson Mohawk Magazine.
Jewish opposition to Israel, so visible recently through the spectacular actions of groups like Jewish Voice for Peace, is not a recent phenomenon. Historian Marjorie Feld argues that what may seem like unprecedented criticism of Israel by U.S. Jews is part of a long tradition of dissent, which has been repressed by establishment Jewish organizations and frequently erased by historians. (Encore presentation.) Resources: Marjorie N. Feld, The Threshold of Dissent: A History of American Jewish Critics of Zionism NYU Press, 2024 Photo credit: Marcy Winograd The post U.S. Jewish Anti-Zionism appeared first on KPFA.
After breaking the ceasefire deal, Israel is continuing its ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and beyond, and threatening to further ignite wider conflict by bombing Syria and Lebanon. In just one 48-hour period after the end of the ceasefire, a combination of bombings from the air and a ground invasion killed over 500 Palestinians in just 48 hours. Though both countries are increasingly isolated in public opinion and on the world stage, the U.S. government continues to provide full financial, political, diplomatic, material and military support to its genocidal client regime.The movement in the United States against genocide has been met first with contempt, mockery and dismissal, and then with outright attacks. The disappearances and government kidnappings of student leaders like Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk, Badar Khan Suri, and too many others come with promises of more from the Trump administration, which has revoked the student visas of at least 300 international students for exercising the right to free speech and for taking a stand against genocide. Rather than be silenced and deterred, the movement is continuing on and strengthening. A Gallup poll released last month shows that support among Americans for Israel is at its lowest point in 25 years, with just 46% saying their “sympathies in the Middle East situation” are with Israelis rather than Palestinians. That poll was taken in early February, before Israel broke the ceasefire and before Mahmoud Khalil was taken by the government.The work of the Palestine solidarity movement has taken on many flavors. From rallies and protests to blockades and disruptions of politicians, art shows and benefit concerts to boycotts and encampments and so much more, we are at an historic point in the struggle for justice, against genocide and for Palestinian liberation. Last week, the film The Encampments opened in New York City to packed theaters and rave reviews. Featuring Mahmoud Khalil and others, The Encampments blows away the mainstream narratives of what started on Columbia's campus in April 2024 and spread across the country and the world. It exposes the University administration and New York government for their treatment of people calling for an end to genocide, showing exclusive footage taken in the encampment. The film is currently or soon will be showing in about a dozen states across the country, with more to come.And on Saturday, April 5th, a mass march on Washington will demand a permanent ceasefire, an arms embargo against Israel and an end to repression of anti-genocide activists. Buses are headed to DC from as far away as New Hampshire, Michigan and Tampa, Florida for the event organized by a broad coalition that includes the Palestinian Youth Movement, The People's Forum, ANSWER Coalition, DSA, Jewish Voice for Peace, American Muslims for Palestine and many more.Support the show
00:08 — Rabbi Alissa Wise is an organizational consultant, community organizer, educator, and ritual leader. From 2011-2021 was Organizing Co-Director, Deputy Director and Interim Co-Executive Director of JVP. She is currently the Lead Organizer and Co-founder of Rabbis for Ceasefire. Rebecca Vilkomerson is an organizer, fundraiser, organizational development consultant and strategist. From 2009-2019 she was the Executive Director of Jewish Voice for Peace. She is currently the Co-Director of the Funding Freedom project. The post Solidarity is the Political Version of Love appeared first on KPFA.
After Dark with Hosts Rob & Andrew – Jewish activists from Jewish Voice for Peace recently protested at Trump Tower, demanding the release of a pro-Hamas Palestinian detainee. The event highlights growing tensions as radical leftist groups clash with pro-Israel policies. With antisemitic riots erupting on campuses and federal judges intervening, the situation raises serious concerns about national security, immigration, and freedom of speech.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said "Conditions for Palestinians in Gaza are appalling and apocalyptic. What we are seeing may well amount to the gravest international crimes." Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, said, "We are fighting human animals and we are acting accordingly." Prominent Israeli scholars such as Omer Bartov, Raz Segal, Ilan Pappe, Lee Mordechai and Amos Goldberg, have all said Israel's actions in Gaza amount to genocide. Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Jewish Voice for Peace, and other organizations have also reached the same conclusion. Apart from the U.S., Canada, and a few European countries Israel is largely isolated internationally. Arrest warrants for Prime Minister Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant have been issued by the International Criminal Court. Israel's goal in Gaza has been made explicitly clear by Netanyahu on down: eliminate the Palestinians. Recorded at the University of Wisconsin.
Rebecca Vilkomerson will be speaking at the Hudson Library at 3:30pm on March 22nd. The talk is titled “Community Responses to Israel's U.S.-Supported War on Palestinians: Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Campaigns.” Rebecca was Executive Director of Jewish Voice for Peace for ten years. She will be joined for the talk by Riham Barghouti, Palestinian educator and founding member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI).
Columbia County for Palestine, Jewish Voice for Peace Albany, Palestinian Rights Committee of Albany and others are hosting a talk next Saturday, March 22, 2025 at the Hudson, NY public library on Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaigns with Riham Barghouti and Rebecca Vilkomerson, at 3:30 pm. One focus is to “Break the Bonds”: to have New York State wind down the $340 million it holds in risky Israel bonds. As with apartheid South Africa in the 1980s, the aim is to increase non-violent pressure to reduce the violence and force democratic change. Jim McCabe of Columbia County for Palestine talks with Mark Dunlea of Hudson Mohawk Magazine. (full segment)
We arrive on Narkina 5 and see the THX 1138-inspired Imperial prison facility in it's full, sci-fi, terrifying glory. We give our thoughts on this episode, how it connects to the U.S. carceral system, and request that Dedra step on us both. To begin our episode, we talk about the injustice currently being perpetrated by the U.S. Government against Mahmoud Khalil, a student activist and permanent resident, who's currently seeing his 1st Amendment and human rights violated. More information on this situation and how you can take action is below.Free Mahmoud KhalilMother Jones: The Horrific Details of Mahmoud Khalil's Detainment - www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/mamhoud-khalil-detainment-disapperance-trump-white-house-involved-rubio-betar/5Calls: Demand the Release of Mahmoud Khalil Script - https://5calls.org/issue/mahmoud-khalil-deportation-first-amendment/Jewish Voice for Peace: Call Congress: Demand the release of student activist Mahmoud Khalil - https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/resource/call-congress-demand-the-release-of-student-activist-mahmoud-khalil/ACLU releases video of Mahmoud Khalil's Arrest - https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/aclu-releasees-video-of-mahmoud-khalil-s-arrest-234498629999It Could Happen Here: Mahmoud Khalil's Arrest and What Comes Next - https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/mahmoud-khalils-arrest-and-what-comes-270009114/Action Network: Demand the Immediate Release of Palestinian Student Activist Mahmoud Khalil from DHS Detention - https://actionnetwork.org/letters/demand-the-immediate-release-of-columbia-student-pro-palestine-advocate-mahmoud-khalil-from-dhs-detentionYou can buy tickets now to join us in person on May the 4th, 2025 here: http://bit.ly/4jUau1f. Live stream tickets available in April!Where to find us-Web: GitterJaw.comBluesky: @DistantEchoespod.bsky.socialInstagram: @DistantEchoesSWTikTok: @DistantEchoesPodEmail: DistantEchoesSW@gmail.com-Theme Music-失望した by EVA - https://joshlis.bandcamp.comPromoted by @RoyaltyFreePlanetCreative Commons Attribution 3.0 http://bit.ly/RFP_CClicenseAll audio clips are used under Fair Use and belong to their respective copyright owners.
Columbia County for Palestine, Jewish Voice for Peace Albany, Palestinian Rights Committee of Albany and others are hosting a talk on Saturday, March 22, 2025 at the Hudson, NY public library on Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaigns with Riham Barghouti and Rebecca Vilkomerson, at 3:30 pm. One focus is to “Break the Bonds”: to have New York State wind down the $340 million it holds in risky Israel bonds. As with apartheid South Africa in the 1980s, the aim is to increase non-violent pressure to reduce the violence and force democratic change. Jim McCabe of Columbia County for Palestine talks with Mark Dunlea of Hudson Mohawk Magazine. (radio segment)
On Thursday's Mark Levin Show, Sen Chuck Schumer reverses course in the face of massive public condemnation and says he will not vote for a government shutdown. Now, all those Senate Democrats who said they must shutdown the government to save the government, and all the House Democrats who actually voted against the bill, look as pathetic and dishonest as they come. A complete political and PR disaster, and deservedly so. This 11th hour, sudden course reversal fools no one. The Democrat leadership and their lapdogs were against the bill, then for the bill, and now they're all over the place. Also, Israel is facing an attempted coup by its deep state with the former head of Shin Bet threatening to expose private information about Benjamin Netanyahu if he fires the current Shin Bet chief, Ronen Bar, over Bar's failure to prevent the October 7 Hamas attack. There's coordination between deep state operatives and left-wing media to undermine Netanyahu's democratically elected government. Later, Jewish Voice for Peace protestors reportedly flooded into Trump Tower, which the media are calling a Jewish group, is a horrendous anti-Jewish organization. The notoriously antisemitic and anti-Israel Jewish Voice for Peace is a radical left/Marxist organization that seeks the elimination of the state of Israel and is a major force behind the BDS movement. It has received funding from, among others, George Soros. Today, it is insisting on the return of the alien who was among the leaders of the riotous events at Columbia University on behalf of Hamas. Alan Dershowitz calls in to discuss Jewish Voice for Peace's ties to anti-Zionism and terrorism and the radicalization of Mahmoud Khalil. Finally, a judge has ruled that thousands of fired federal workers must be immediately rehired. Professor John Yoo calls in to explain that this ruling constitutes an unwarranted and illegal overreach by the judge. The judge lacks the authority to instruct the government on how to manage its personnel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
That Wellness Podcast with Natalie Deering: Internal Family Systems with a Twist
Longing and heartache—two deeply human experiences that touch us all. In this conversation with Susan Poznyansky, LICSW (they/them), founder of Heart of Caldera (HOC), we explore the tender terrain of what it means to long, ache, and hold space for the parts of us that carry these emotions. Susan and I share a love for lakes—their stillness, their depth—and reflect on the parts of us that feel more cautious around the vastness of the ocean. From this imagery, we dive into the three major themes of longing and heartache:
On this final episode of the Scheer Intelligence podcast hosted on KCRW but continuing on ScheerPost.com, host Robert Scheer welcomes Larry Gross, author and Professor Emeritus of Communication at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. The two cover Zionism, specifically through the lens of Gross, who lived in Israel and personally witnessed the country’s evolution from its earlier claim to progressive idealism under its Labor party founders to the brutalizing occupation of Gaza and the West Bank Palestinians. Although the term Zionism carries negative international weight today, Gross tells the story of his family, who came to Israel after his father left the United States in response to McCarthyism. Israel’s early labor connected and progressive politics represented a symbol of opportunity and hope for the Jewish diaspora community, such as Gross’ family. His father, who worked for, and was friends with then Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, thought Israel was “realizing this dream of the Zionist left, which was the party that had governed Israel… and was purporting to be creating both a Jewish state [and] also a progressive state.” As Gross aged, however, Zionism’s mask slowly began to peel and the ugliness would emerge. “As a teenager growing up in Israel, some of the contradictions were already becoming apparent, ones that today are all too unmistakable,” Gross tells Scheer. Israel has sharply broken from its labor affiliated days after the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin by a Jewish religious fanatic to the ascendancy of Benjamin Netanyahu’s far right Zionist government. Zionism turned on itself and now threatens the very Jews who initially looked upon it with hope. Gross’s family escaped McCarthyism, but now Jews like him in America working in groups like Jewish Voice for Peace, objecting to Israel’s uncontrolled militarism, face a more virulent repression from the Trump Administration inspired by Israel's right-wing militancy. Gross cites the pro-Palestine campus protests and explains, “what is happening in universities today… they are performing anticipatory compliance. They are failing to stand up, just as universities unfortunately did in the 1950s in that era we call McCarthyism, in which they fired people, they refused to hire them, they rewrote policies.” Gross remarks that there are many voices of reason, including many Jews, that speak out against Israel’s atrocities today. “The slogan ‘never again’ has to mean never again, including to Palestinians,” he says.
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