An Open Letter to Mayor Peduto
Pittsburgh officials and police must not participate in another exchange program with the Israeli state.
read moreRevealed: Deputy Director Of Ice Was Sent By The ADL For Training With The Israeli Military
Why does the ADL protest Trump’s family separation policies, while also sending ICE officers for training in Israel?
read moreStop the Deadly Exchange Between the U.S. and Israel #ApartheidIsNotSecurity
We’ve recently gotten word that it is likely the ADL’s National Counter Terrorism Seminar was on the ground in Israel during the very week that bombs were falling on Gaza and the Knesset was codifying apartheid.
read moreHow Policing in the U.S. and Security in Israel Are Connected
Both nations face accusations of committing human rights violations.
read moreDurham Unanimously Votes for Nation’s First Ban on Police Exchanges with Israel
Durham City Council prevents the militarization of its police following a community-led effort, in first win for Jewish Voice for Peace’s Deadly Exchange campaign
read moreIt’s Time For Jewish Communities To Stop Investing In The Police – The Forward
Keeping vulnerable communities safe requires solidarity, not surveillance, racial profiling, or policing.
read moreDurham Activists Want the City to Become the First in the U.S. to Condemn Exchanges Between Local Cops and Israeli Security Forces
Demilitarize! From Durham2Palestine—a coalition of local activist groups—wants the city council to pass a resolution condemning these exchanges.
read moreSign the Petition Against the Deportation of African Refugees in Israel
Almost 20,000 African refugees have been forcibly deported from Israel over the last five years. About 40,000 of these asylum seekers remain--the grand majority of them from Eritrea and Sudan. In December, 2017, the Israeli government announced plans to forcibly...
read moreTufts Police Chief Travels to Israel for Counterterrorism Seminar
The ADL has been sending delegations of U.S. police officials to the seminar since 2003.
read moreAll of Us or None
This blog post responds to the many inaccuracies in the ADL’s response to our Deadly Exchange Day of Action on November 8th.
read moreDay of Action at the ADL – Media Roundup
15 Cities, 20 Chapters, hundreds on the streets from Las Vegas to Chicago, Los Angeles, NYC, Seattle, Boston and more tell the Anti-Defamation League to stop US/Israel Police Exchanges.
read moreBREAKING: Hundreds of JVP activists across U.S. demonstrating against ADL’s role in U.S.-Israel Deadly Exchange programs
“We want to end Israel’s human rights abuses, not hold them up as a model.”
read moreEnding Deadly Collusion Between U.S. and Israeli Police – In These Times
A new campaign aims to denormalize human rights abuses as Netanyahu and Trump intensify their alliance.
read moreIntercepted Podcast: ‘Merican Psycho
The Intercept’s Alice Speri investigates the militarization of police and how Israel is training American cops.
read moreUS Cops Go To Israel To Learn Abusive Policing Tactics
The Israeli police has branded itself as an anti-terrorism expert, teaching U.S. a trick or two — and America has helped it to get there, some contend.
read moreWhat Were American Police Learning at an Israeli Counter-terror Convention?
In recent months, activists have drawn attention to the ties between Israeli counter-terrorism forces and U.S. law enforcement agencies.
read moreIsrael Security Forces Are Training American Cops Despite History Of Rights Abuses – The Intercept
Thousands of American law enforcement officers frequently travel for training to one of the few countries where policing and militarism are even more deeply intertwined than they are here: Israel.
read moreThe Reinstatement of the 1033 Program
Add this to the long list of Trump administration attacks on people of color: the 1033 Program is back in full effect. The 1033 Program transfers surplus military equipment from the Defense Department to police departments across the country, and was partially limited...
read moreWhat Do Participants Say?
Quotes from participants of deadly exchange programs: why they go, lessons learned, and how program participants bring back those lessons to their work.
read moreOwn It to Fight It: Yes, We U.S. Jews Are Complicit in Violence Against Palestinians and People of Color
As a Jewish organization working in the movement for Palestinian rights, we at Jewish Voice for Peace aren’t strangers to controversy and difficult conversations. But we also know how discomfort can be a catalyst for transformation. 70 years into the ongoing...
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