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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 20h

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 · 20h

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 · 20h

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 · 20h

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 · 20h

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 · 20h

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 · 20h

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

🔴 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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 1d

And as anti-Zionist Jews, we cannot observe this holiday without committing to end US support for Israeli genocide which imposes this very violence onto Palestinians.

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 1d

As we reflect on the precarity of our own freedom this Sukkot, 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.

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 1d

Our tradition at its core teaches us that life is sacred, and we call for a weapons embargo and divestment from the Israeli military out of a commitment to life itself.

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 1d

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.

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 1d

Our ancestors, many of whom endured genocide and ethnic cleansing, taught us never to be bystanders in the face of injustice.

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 1d

For the past 2 years we have witnessed the Israeli government, the US government, administrators at our universities, and news pundits distort our thousands of years-old Jewish tradition to justify genocide.

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 1d

And as the Israeli military uses US tax dollars to destroy lives and homes in Gaza, we know that it is a blessing to be able to mark our sacred holidays.

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 1d

Right now, the Israeli military continues to create the conditions of long-term famine and societal breakdown by systemically razing crucial farming infrastructure in Gaza.

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 1d

Sukkot begins tonight and is a seven-day festival (some diaspora Jews celebrate eight days) at the end of the High Holidays. It honors the harvest and the impermanent dwellings that our ancestors built in the desert after fleeing enslavement.

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 1d

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.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 2d

🚨Update: Adalah, the Legal Center for Arab Minority Rights in Israel, says the IPS will deport another 170 Global Sumud Flotilla participants tomorrow, after already expelling about 170 to Turkey, Italy, and Spain. Out of the 462 people originally detained—including Drop Site journalist Alex...

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The IMEU @theimeu.bsky.social · 5d

“This campaign is a group of workers of conscience going up against a giant multinational corporation, & we’ve been able to move the needle. Because we often underestimate our own power, one of our greatest obstacles is the limit of our own imaginations.”

How Microsoft Workers Helped Halt a Major Contract With the Israeli Military

A grassroots campaign successfully pressured the tech monopoly to take an unprecedented step toward suspending its complicity in the Gaza genocide.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 2d

Kieran Andrieu, a British Palestinian member of the Global Sumud Flotilla, now back in London, shares what happened when he and fellow activists were captured and imprisoned by Israel.

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 2d

Israel has killed more than 100 Palestinians since Hamas agreed on Friday to release all captives as part of the latest U.S. ceasefire proposal.

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