Jewish Voice for Peace Boston

10/13/2026

Please join us to stand out for Palestine:
📍Newton Centre Green
🗓Thursday, October 15 at 4:00 PM

The genocide continues and our tax dollars support it. Keep talking about Palestine!

09/27/2026

Please join us to stand out for Palestine:
📍29 Crafts Street, Newton (Jake Auchincloss’s district office)
🗓Thursday, October 1 at 4:00 PM

The genocide continues and our tax dollars support it. Keep Palestine in the public eye! Tell Rep. Auchincloss to BLOCK THE BOMBS!

09/26/2026

The Jewish holiday of Sukkot teaches that we keep each other safe not by building walls around us, but by creating structures of sanctuary and choosing to live in interconnected community with those around us.

As Sukkot begins tonight, Jews around the world gather in temporary shelters to remember the Biblical story of wandering in the desert, and to mark the harvest.

Right now, the Israeli military continues to create the conditions of societal breakdown by imposing severe restrictions on the entry of heavy equipment that civil defense teams need to rebuild the 92% of homes in Gaza destroyed by the genocide.

Our celebration is intertwined with our grief: our temporary shelters remind us of the precarity of life in Gaza and in the occupied West Bank — how Palestinians’ homes and tents are under constant threat from bombs and bulldozers. This Sukkot, we demand and work towards a day when Palestinians and all people can live in safety in their homes, and when our tax dollars are not going to destroy land and life.

For the past 3 years we have witnessed the US and Israeli governments, administrators at our universities, and news pundits distort our Jewish tradition to justify genocide. Our ancestors, many of whom endured genocide and ethnic cleansing, taught us never to be bystanders in the face of injustice. We stand opposed to the Israeli government’s mass murder of Palestinians and reject our tradition’s exploitation by those who seek death and destruction.

As we reflect on the precarity of our own freedom we remember that our safety is bound up in the safety of everyone around us. We reject Zionism: the political ideology that supports a Jewish supremacist state on Palestinian land. As anti-Zionist Jews, we can’t observe this holiday without committing to end US support for Israeli genocide which imposes this very violence onto Palestinians.

This Sukkot, we invite in those who are committed to collective liberation.

JVP Action, our 501c4 organization, is now doing business as JVP; JVP Lab, our 501c3 organization, continues separately and remains focused on our nonpartisan educational and cultural work.

09/26/2026

🎬 With Hasan in Gaza by Kamal Aljafari
🗓️ Monday, October 19 at 6:30p
📍 Coolidge Corner Theatre

A filmmaker's rediscovered footage from 2001 captures a journey through Gaza, guided by Hasan, while searching for an old prison companion. The tapes reveal intimate moments of Palestinian life during a pivotal time.

🎟️ Tickets available now
⭐️ Co-presented with Palestine Youth Movement

Kamal Aljafari Coolidge Corner Theatre PYM Boston

09/20/2026

🍉 We’re raising funds for Gaza Soup Kitchen Gaza Soup Kitchen 🍉.

🔗 bit.ly/jvpbgazasoupkitchen (case sensitive)

On the high holidays, we declare that the year ahead is not predetermined, that we the people have power to determine through our actions the course of the future. We turn to look within as a way to re-commit to being our better selves.

Following decades of apartheid, nearly three years into Israel’s current genocide in Gaza and two years into Trump’s attempted fascist reign, our grief, rage, and heartbreak knows no end. We take this moment to look within and resolve to stay in the struggle.

We are renewing our collective responsibility. We are recommitting to our vision of a transformed world, to honor the dead and fight for the living. We refuse to be complicit or complacent. We recommit to breaking the chains of oppression in our time, through powerful action and consistent solidarity.

One way that the High Holy Days invite us to do that is by giving tzedakah, a practice of material solidarity toward collective safety and freedom for all people.

We are continuing to raise funds for Gaza Soup Kitchen (GSK), a life-saving, Palestinian-led mutual aid food distribution project. Through the GiveButter website, GSK is able to access the money raised on its behalf on an ongoing basis. While governments stall, grassroots networks are keeping people alive.

Every dollar helps send Palestinians in Gaza hot meals, clean water, and a message of love and solidarity, as they continue to experience the horrors of Israel’s ongoing genocide.

09/17/2026

State officials in Massachusetts continue to endorse a business partnership with an Israeli Artificial Intelligence company, ARC Landing. Eric Paley, secretary of MA Executive Office of Economic Development under the direction of Governor Maura Healy is scheduled to promote ARC Landing at The World Health Innovation Forum in Boston on September 22nd.

Massachusetts residents in must voice their opposition to providing a country that bombs hospitals in Palestine a place in the Massachusetts healthcare industry.

We urge all of Massachusetts residents, taxpayers and healthcare workers to call the Ma Executive Office of Economic Development at (617) 788-3610 and demand the end to the state support of ARC Boston .

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09/09/2026

09/09/2026

As we live our moment to moment lives, we can't forget the moment to moment lives of Palestinians. A snippet from Al-Bustan: In addition to today's demolition of the Al-Risheq family’s home, demolition of a home belonging to the Badran family, which commenced last week, was also completed today. A demolition is also being carried out now at the home of the Fayez Awwad family in Al-Bustan [a home which had one storey demolished a few months ago]. So the toll is now 62 homes in Al-Bustan demolished since 7.10.23.

09/08/2026

TODAY 5-7pm - Protest against Rep Clark for supporting genocide and ecocide in Palestine

The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) is hosting an event on scientific research and public health and have invited Rep Katherine Clark. Meanwhile, Clark has repeatedly voted to send weapons to Israel to continue its genocide of the Palestinian people, causing the horrifying destruction of human and other life forms, along with the poisoning of air, water and land has caused irreparable damage to the planet already in crisis.

This does not line up with UCS's values. They should disinvite Rep Clark. Join us in protest:

Tuesday, Sept 8th
5-7pm
Arlington Town Hall
730 Mass Ave, Arlington, MA

Sponsored by: Arlington for Palestine, Medford for Palestine, Jewish Voice for Peace - Boston, Boston Coalition for Palestine, Community Encampments for Palestine, Boston Democratic Socialists of America, Palestinian House of New England, North Shore for Palestine, and Community Encampments for Palestine