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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 2d

Boycott, Divest, Sanction: A ceasefire today will not stop Israel’s genocide against Palestinians, only meaningful accountability will.

Our work is not done!

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Boycott, Divest, Sanction: A ceasefire today will not stop Israel’s genocide against Palestinians, only meaningful accountability will.

Our work is not done! The BDS movement calls on our millions of supporters worldwide to escalate pressure to end Israel’s genocide and its decades-old regime of settler-colonialism, apartheid, and ill...

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 2d

And while the single most important thing right now is saving Palestinian life, Trump’s deal does nothing to address the root cause of injustice: Israel’s brutal military rule and oppression of Palestinians.

Read our full statement in the attached images or at jvp.org/ceasefire2025

First ceasefire, then Palestinian liberation

JVP's statement, after President Trump's announcement that Israel and Hamas have agreed to the first phase of ceasefire agreement.

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 2d

First ceasefire, then Palestinian liberation.

Today, after more than two years of the US-backed Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, President Trump announced that Israel and Hamas have agreed to the first phase of ceasefire agreement.

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 2d

In memory of every life lost to Israeli military aggression, we will continue to take action to honor the dead and fight for a world free from genocide, an end to the oppression of Jewish supremacy and Palestinian dehumanization. We will not rest until Palestine is free.

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 2d

That’s why we’ve stood with people of conscience worldwide, refusing to look away from Palestine.

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 2d

We face an Israeli government, backed by the US government and war profiteers who are determined to erase all hope for a Palestinian future—or existence—in any world. What we’re witnessing is genocide, and even if it changes form, their intent is to continue it by other means.

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 2d

The Committee to Protect Journalists has called this the deadliest assault on journalists ever documented.

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 2d

The UN reports that the Israeli military’s “widespread and systematic targeting of children [is] part of a strategy to destroy the biological continuity and future existence of the Palestinian group in Gaza.”

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 2d

More than 67,000 Palestinians have been killed, over 20,000 children, by the Israeli military, and experts at The Lancet estimate the actual number is almost certainly far higher.

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 2d

In the two years since, Palestinians have endured relentless atrocities, committed by the Israeli military, backed by the US and broadcast to the world through our phone screens.

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 2d

With billions of dollars in money for weapons and moral cover from the US, the Israeli military implemented Netanyahu’s plan, turning every means of life in Gaza into machinery of death.

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 2d

From the very beginning of the the Israeli government’s genocide, it was clear it intended to destroy the people of Gaza. “We are fighting human animals,” Israeli minister Yoav Gallant declared on October 9, 2023, “and we are acting accordingly. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel.”

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 2d

Yet, as the Israeli government’s genocide continues unabated, neither will our movement’s efforts to stop it. In the face of mounting repression, we refuse to capitulate. Our movement remains steadfast in our commitment to ending the genocide and to full Palestinian freedom.

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 2d

We have arrived at an unspeakable place: two years of genocide.

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 3d

Today and every day, we call for an immediate ceasefire, an end to the siege on Gaza, and unrestricted access to humanitarian aid. We also call for a complete arms embargo on the Israeli government. Any action short of it only serves to enable the Israeli military to continue the genocide.

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 3d

Last week, an Israeli airstrike hit a tent inside the courtyard of Al-Aqsa hospital, seriously wounding two people. The Gaza Government Media Office said it marked the fifteenth attack on Al-Aqsa hospital over the past two years.

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 3d

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Affairs Commission reports that the Israeli military arrested at least 40 former Palestinian prisoners in the last two weeks who were originally released as part of the most recent exchange deal earlier in 2025.

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 3d

The Israeli military leveled the remaining buildings of Al-Azhar University in Gaza City. Meanwhile, at least 1 more person has died from the Israeli government’s deliberate starvation, bringing the number of Palestinian deaths from malnutrition to 460.

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 3d

On Sunday, the Israeli air force attacked throughout Gaza focused on the Sabra and Shaja'iya neighborhoods in Gaza City, as well as the areas of Khan Yunis, al-Bureij, al-Mu'hazi and Nusayrat.

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 3d

Since Trump ordered the Israeli government to stop bombing Gaza on Friday, the Israeli military conducted over 131 aerial strikes, and 143 raids killing at least 106 people — 65 of them in Gaza City.

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 3d

As all eyes are on the negotiations in Egypt, the Israeli military launched airstrikes that killed over 100 Palestinians as of yesterday morning. This despite Hamas agreeing to release all hostages under the US-facilitated ceasefire plan on Friday.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 4d

After visiting the Global Sumud Flotilla captives in Israel’s Ketziot Prison, one of the occupation’s most notorious facilities, Adalah legal counsel Lubna Tuma described the mistreatment and denial of basic rights that they had been subjected to...

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 4d

🔴 In the past 24 hrs, Gaza’s Health Ministry reported an add'l 21 killed & 96 injured arriving at hospitals. At least 2 aid seekers were killed and 19 were injured.

This brings the recorded death toll from Israeli genocide in Gaza to 67,160 and 169,679 injuries (likely 3-5x higher)

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The Intercept @theintercept.com · 4d

Birth in Gaza often means sharing incubators, giving birth without anesthesia during power outages, and risking infection because water and sanitation systems are destroyed. interc.pt/42vx3lD

A photo illustration of a mother and child, overlaid with the headline, "Mothers in Gaza Give Life to the Next Generation of Palestinians Despite Genocide," and the DEK, "As the Israeli government enters the third year of ethnic cleansing in Gaza, mothers keep bringing new Palestinians into the world."

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 4d

This Sukkot, we invite in those who are committed to collective liberation. We’ll spend the week learning together, eating together, sharing in culture and tradition, as we work towards a liberated Palestine.

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