Jewish Voice for Peace — U.S. Jewish anti-Zionist organizing
Founded in 1996, Jewish Voice for Peace is the largest progressive Jewish anti-Zionist organization in the United States, organizing a grassroots movement of American Jews in support of Palestinian freedom.
Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) is a U.S. grassroots organization founded in 1996 in the San Francisco Bay Area. It organizes American Jews — alongside allies — in support of Palestinian rights, and describes itself as the largest progressive Jewish anti-Zionist organization in the world, with chapters and members across the United States.
JVP campaigns against U.S. military funding to Israel, supports the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, and produces educational resources on the history of Palestine and Israel aimed at Jewish and wider American audiences. It formally adopted an anti-Zionist position in 2019, grounding its politics in a critique of Zionism as a form of settler colonialism. In recent years its political advocacy arm has been reorganized as JVP (a 501(c)(4)), while its educational and cultural work continues through JVP Lab (a 501(c)(3)).
Why it matters
- The principal organizational expression of the growing current of American Jewish opposition to Zionism and to U.S. support for Israeli policy.
- Plays a central role in U.S. protest movements, from campus encampments to mass demonstrations against the war on Gaza.
- Its educational materials frame Palestinian rights within Jewish ethical and historical traditions, reaching audiences other organizations often do not.
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Cited work
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