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 Watch Footage from JVP Press Conference
When Israel invaded Gaza, destroying thousands of homes and making tens of thousands of Palestinians homeless, JVP responded by holding a press conference with Rabbis Arik Ascherman and Pam Frydman Baugh, as well as Franciscan friar Louis Vitale and JVP co-director Mitchell Plitnick.
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 Sign Open Letter to Hillel from Jewish Professors
Learn about the dismissal of the student president of the University of Richmond Hillel. Why? She was critical of Israeli policy.
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 Stop Caterpillar Bulldozer Sales to the Israeli Army 
Send a Letter to Caterpillar Dealerships

Hold the Caterpillar Corporation accountable for the criminal use of its products by the Israeli Army.

Israel has used Caterpillar bulldozers to demolish more than 12,000 Palestinian homes; to uproot 385,000 Palestinian olive trees; to kill Rachel Corrie, an American peace activist, as she nonviolently tried to prevent the razing of a Palestinian home; and to build a 25-foot-high wall and fence that will confiscate about 40 percent of the territory of the West Bank.

Urge the Caterpillar board of directors to stop selling bulldozers to Israel.To find out more at about campaign to stop Caterpillar bulldozers sales to the Israeli Army, go to www.CATdestroysHomes.org.

 Speak out Against Racist Statements By Israeli Officials
Add your name to the call

Join a coalition of Jewish and Israeli groups and individuals who have signed on to a petition demanding the resignation of Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Ze'ev Boim and Likud Knesset Member Yehiel Hazan in response to racist remarks they made last week. Boim speculated that Muslims in general and Palestinians in particular might have a genetic predisposition to terrorism. Hazan supported this notion and said that "You can't believe an Arab, even one that is 40 years in his grave."

This demands a response from the Jewish community, a community that knows all too well the damage wrought by statements like these, especially when made by government officials. As children and grandchildren of the Holocaust, we cannot allow those who act as leaders of world Jewry to speak the basest form of ethnic hatred with impunity.

Click here to go to our action page and see the statement.