Below are two editorials from signatories to the survivors’ and descendants’ letter submitted to The Jewish Daily Forward in response to Alvin Rosenfeld’s op-ed which was full of ad hominem attacks on the signers. Neither op-ed was published nor did either author receive a response from The Forward. First is an op-ed by signatory Jesse Strauss and second one from Bruce Ballin. Click here to view a press release about The Forward’s refusal to provide the signers an opportunity to defend themselves agains Rosenfeld’s attack.


Posts Categorized: NEWS & OPINIONS
We Pushed Urban Shield Out of Oakland, But the Struggle Continues!
Category: Israel's Worldwide Role in Repression, NEWS & OPINIONS ,IJAN participated in the Stop Urban Shield Coalition, an important campaign that reflects our work on Israel’s Worldwide Role in Repression and particularly the collaboration between the Israeli military and police forces across the United States. Below is the coalition’s statement upon achieving two major victories.
Letter from Survivors of Nazi Genocide runs in NYTimes–News Coverage
Category: Never Again for Anyone, NEWS & OPINIONS ,A letter signed by 40 survivors of the Nazi genocide and 287 descendants of survivors and victims ran as a half-page ad in the Saturday, August 23rd New York Times. The letter has been getting an overwhelming response. See below for news coverage and other responses.
Raphael Cohen interviewed on Al Jazeera
Across continents, Jews Take Action against Israeli Brutality: JOIN US!
Category: NEWS & OPINIONS, Uncategorized ,From Tel Aviv to Toronto, Los Angeles to London, Chicago to San Francisco Jews Say No to Israeli Genocide We call on Jews all over the world to follow the call from Haider Eid, political activist and commentator, to “besiege Israeli consulates,” and to protest Zionist events attempting to justify Israel’s massacre of Palestinians. Below… Read more »
IJAN Calls on Jews of Conscience to Take Action to Stop Israel: Let Gaza Live!
Category: NEWS & OPINIONS, Uncategorized ,Like so many times before, Jews must take action against Israeli brutality IJAN and Jews Against Genocide call on Jews of Conscience to “lay siege” on Israeli consulates with protests, creative actions, pickets and demonstrations and to protest events that attempt to justify Israel’s brutality against the Palestinian people.
IJAN and Jews Against Genocide call on Jews of Conscience to “lay siege” on Israeli consulates with protests, creative actions, pickets and demonstrations and to protest events that attempt to justify Israel’s brutality against the Palestinian people.
Please email us reports of your actions @ ijan@ijsn.net and jewsagainstgenocide1948@gmail.com.
Jews Against Genocide statement and action
Category: NEWS & OPINIONS, Uncategorized ,We, Jews Against Genocide, came to Yad Vashem, Israel’s memorial of the genocide committed against Jews, to honor the Palestinian children who are dying in a genocide committed by Jews.
We brought dolls to symbolise the children of Gaza, and tried to bring a glimpse of the horror that Gazan’s face, to Israel’s doorstep. We hope to show Israel, and the world, the absurd reality of using the memory of one genocide to justify another.
IJAN and Jews Against Genocide call on Jews of Conscience to “lay siege” on Israeli consulates with protests, creative actions, pickets and demonstrations and to protest events that attempt to justify Israel’s brutality against the Palestinian people.
Please email us reports of your actions @ ijan@ijsn.net and jewsagainstgenocide1948@gmail.com.
Protest Israel’s Escalation of Violence
Category: NEWS & OPINIONS, Uncategorized ,The International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN) condemns Israel’s escalation of violence, as well as the revenge threats by the Israeli government and citizens and Zionist organizations and public figures. We denounce Western states and media claiming this brutality is somehow justified retribution for the deaths of three Jewish settlers from the racist, Jewish-only colony of Gush Etzion in the West Bank of Palestine.
In the space of just a few days, the Gaza Strip has been indiscriminately bombarded by warplanes; upwards of 600 Palestinians have been rounded up and imprisoned, and at least ten Palestinians have been killed—including several children, a pregnant mother, and a seventeen-year old boy whose burnt, mutilated body was found dumped in a forest outside East Jerusalem. These actions expose the terrorism of a racist settler-colonial state. IJAN stands in solidarity with the Palestinian people and defends their right to resist the violence of colonialism and apartheid.
It is urgent that we act: Over the next week, please organize rallies, protests, actions, demonstrations and vigils to protest this latest escalation of Israeli violence.
A New War on Speech
Category: Backlash Defense Overview, NEWS & OPINIONS ,by Selma James and Sara Kershnar Published in Jacobin Campaigns against Rabab Abdulhadi and other activists are calls for state-sponsored political harassment. In the United States, it’s on campuses that the push against Israeli colonialism is having its greatest success. Despite attempts to quash faculty and student speech, the movement continues to surge. Professors worldwide rallied… Read more »
Electronic Intifada: Prisoner solidarity from Palestine to Pelican Bay
Category: NEWS & OPINIONS, Uncategorized ,by Nora Barrows-Friedman http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/nora/prisoner-solidarity-palestine-pelican-bay Persons incarcerated in Pelican Bay prison in northern California are preparing to go on a mass hunger strike starting today, 8 July, demanding the end of human rights violations including long-term solitary confinement. Palestine activism groups are also launching days of action in support of the US hunger strikers in California, strengthening… Read more »
Jadaliyya: In Support of Swarthmore Hillel
Category: NEWS & OPINIONS ,http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/15654/in-support-of-swarthmore-hillel
[The following open letter is from The International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN)]
This past weekend, something incredibly important happened at a small college in Pennsylvania.
In response to Harvard Hillel barring an Israeli speaker because the
university’s Palestine Solidarity Committee had cosponsored the event at
which he was to present, the Hillel at Swarthmore College issued a
sweeping declaration -that it would allow multiple points of view on
Zionism and Palestine within its chapter. In their words,Swarthmore
Hillel would be "a religious and cultural group whose purpose is not to
advocate for one single political view." It would "host and partner with
any speaker at the discretion of itstudent board, regardless of Hillel
International’s Israel guidelines," and would do so in the full
knowledge that "Hillel International’s Israel guidelines privilege only
one perspective on Zionism, and make others unwelcome."