Remarks delivered by Lena Shapiro of Wellesley Jewish Voice for Peace at the Protect Our White House rally on December 9 Hi, I’m Lena and I’m with Wellesley Jewish Voice for Peace. Jewish Voice for Peace is a national organization with chapters on college campuses […]
Originally posted in news@Northeastern For nearly six years—since the so-called Arab Spring of 2011—Syria has descended into a bitter civil war between President Bashar al-Assad’s government forces and rebel fighters. The conflict has caused one of the most severe refugee crises in recent history, with […]
Remarks delivered at the “Protect Our White House (from Racism, Sexism, and Bigotry)” rally, December 9, 2016 In this unstable moment, it is a time for nuance, and not for compromise. There are not simplistic solutions or places we can point the blame–even as we […]
This article appeared in the 2016 Fall Newsletter by Eva Moseley, Cambridge The “A New Day” (AND) network, launched by MAPA’s Palestine-Israel Working Group at a well-attended conference a year ago, organizes its members by Congressional district and works to change US Israel policy. One […]
Paul Shannon, Somerville. Published in the Fall 2016 newsletter; adapted from an article in the AFSC Newsletter While the U.S. media focus on Syria, another disaster is unfolding in Yemen. In Yemen, the U.S. is collaborating with Saudi Arabia to do the killing. Yemen […]
Once again this week, a group of Massachusetts legislators are enjoying lobbyist-paid trips to Israel, underwritten by the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston (JCRC), within months of having acted on amendments filed by JCRC last summer which sought to restrict the right to boycott. “We object to […]
Last week the US Senate rushed passage of the misnamed “Anti-Antisemitism Awareness Act of 2016” by a voice vote with no debate. Rather than targeting real anti-Semitism, the resolution takes aim at activism — especially on campuses — against Israeli government policies that are tightening […]
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