Jewish Voice for Peace - Indiana

04/08/2026

These are intentional war crimes. We need to invoke the 25th Amendment now to stop these violations.

04/02/2026

This year, as we welcome Passover, we welcome you as you are: We welcome your grief, your broken hearts, your rage, your fear, your steadfastness, and all of our dreams of collective liberation.

During the course of the night, we tell our ancestral story of the Israelites’ journey from mitzrayim, the narrow place, to freedom. While tonight our story ends with the Israelites crossing the Red Sea, dancing with Miriam and her timbrels, tasting freedom—we know that the Exodus story doesn’t end there. The Israelites would go on to wander for forty years in the desert, to build and lose empires, killing and displacing people in pursuit of the Promised Land. 

Tonight we acknowledge that the Jewish tradition contains both stories of freedom and of conquest, narratives of supremacy and narratives that teach us about the sacredness of all life. We ask, how does our experience of the Passover story change if we understand that each of us can both experience and perpetrate oppression? Tonight we wrestle with the contradictions in our inheritances.

This year the world feels unfathomably narrow. As we gather for Passover, the Israeli government furthers its genocidal project, destroying life and land all across Palestine, Iran, and Lebanon. As we gather for Passover, modern day Pharoahs are in power all over the world, especially here in the US, with an authoritarian regime that puts more and more lives at risk each day. May our Passover gatherings be acts of refusal. We will not allow our tradition, history, and identity to be fuel for authoritarian crackdown.

It has never been more clear: the journey to liberation will not be realized until it is a journey for collective liberation.

To read and download the anti-Zionist haggadah, go to jvp.org/passover5786 or click the link in our bio. Check your local JVP chapter’s social media for information about local actions and seders.

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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.

04/02/2026

Nationalism is chametz, during Passover and always!

Right now, the Pharaohs of our time are carrying out a campaign of mass slaughter and destruction across Palestine, Iran, and Lebanon — claiming to do so in the name of Judaism. In the U.S., the Trump regime exploits Jewish grief to justify crushing anyone who opposes these atrocities.

Our oppressors are the same. Trump and his profit-driven, billionaire friends who want to turn Gaza into the “Riviera of the Middle East” at the expense of Palestinians are the very individuals leading the crusade to “make America great again” at the expense of everyday people.

This Passover, we cannot celebrate as usual while the Israeli military continues its genocidal campaign in Gaza, and joins the US in replicating its tactics across the entire region. The questions of liberation are not theoretical—this year’s Jewish holiday of liberation calls us to strengthen our commitment to the liberation of the Palestinian people.

During Passover, Jews abstain from eating “chametz,” or foods that are forbidden to consume during the holiday. For many, part of the ritual of beginning the Passover fast from chametz can include donating or burning these foods. This passover, and every day, we strive to build a world free from the US-Israel alliance that is funding and enabling Palestinian genocide. We collectively work towards a future free from Zionism — the colonial ideology built on the premise of “maximum land with minimum Palestinians,” which requires the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from their land — as well as all forms of nationalism.

Check out jvp.org/passover5786 or click the link in our bio to read and download JVP’s anti-Zionist haggadah. Throughout Passover there will be dozens of public JVP seders across the country — check out your local chapter or pod for more info and to attend!

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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.

03/17/2026

02/22/2026

What does resisting militarism look like—from the inside?
Join Jewish-Israeli anti-militarist activist Sahar Vardi for a discussion and Q&A on resisting Israeli militarism in Palestine, global arms exports, and activist safety.
Bloomington | Feb 27 | 5:30PM

Free tickets required
Register via indianafastforgaza.com/join-an-action

12/31/2025

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12/15/2025

On the first night of Hanukkah, we hold close the memory of movement ancestor Marek Edelman (1919-2009) Z’’L, a lifelong anti-Zionist who fought in and survived the Warsaw Ghetto, resisted Na**sm, and maintained his identity as a Polish Jew, refusing to immigrate to occupied Palestine.
Marek Edelman consistently asserted that there was no such thing as a chosen people or a promised land. Despite his remarkable courage and leadership in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the Israeli government has refused to officially recognize his heroism.
A lifelong member of the Jewish Labor Bund, Edelman joined its youth group as a child and later co-founded the Jewish Combat Organization, an underground military resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto that fought against the deportation of Jews to extermination camps. After World War II, he remained in Poland, where he became a cardiologist.
Throughout his life, Edelman was deeply committed to justice. In the 1970s, he joined various workers’ rights, anti-racist, and solidarity movements. Edelman’s unwavering activism and resistance to oppression remain a testament to his extraordinary legacy. Your memory is a blessing, Marek. We carry it with us as we continue to fight fascism wherever we see it.
The Israeli government’s genocide of Palestinians is not over, it is expanding. With funding and support from the US, the Israeli state is entrenching the long-term illegal control and annexation of territory in Gaza. In the face of vicious repression and escalating state violence here in the United States, we renew our commitment to ending the genocide. Our anti-Zionist Jewish ancestors give us strength. May their legacy light the path toward liberation.
The miracle of Hanukkah was that, against all odds, the light endured—it was never extinguished. Hanukkah teaches us to persist, even in the darkest of moments. Inspired by our ancestors and out of a commitment to justice—we keep going.
Originally prepared for Dwell in Revolution: Ancestors for Judaism Beyond Zionism, a zine and portrait project by , ,

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12/07/2025

Holocaust education has worked too well for the Obama speechwriter, since when she rationalizes Israel's genocide, "I sound obscene." Maybe sit with that, Sarah

12/02/2025

"The JVP Academic Council calls upon the interim director of the Borns Jewish Studies program to step down and for Professor Roseman to be invited to return to his position as the program’s director. The university’s senior administration should also issue an unqualified public apology to Sabina Ali."

The Academic Council of Jewish Voice for Peace writes with grave concern about both (i) administrative interference in the Borns Jewish Studies Program of Indiana University Bloomington and (ii) harmful conduct by the program’s interim director against a graduate student who was expressing support...