Its Protests Yielding Limited Results, Jewish Voice for Peace Retools to Focus on Swaying Elections - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Its protests yielding limited results, Jewish Voice for Peace retools to focus on swaying elections

(JTA) — Half a year into the Israel-Hamas war that began in October 2023, the executive director of Jewish Voice for Peace might have been riding high. Attention and support for the three-decade-old group was way up. New chapters were forming, and the group’s social media following had tripled, ringing in at 1.3 million on Instagram alone. Suddenly, there were 32,000 dues-paying members – many of whom willing to attend events and protests to bro…

Protests yields limited results, Jewish Voice for Peace retools to focus on swaying elections

Despite another temporary ceasefire, the war is ongoing. And JVP is changing its structure and strategy.

Its protests yielding limited results, Jewish Voice for Peace retools to focus on swaying elections - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Half a year into the Israel-Hamas war that began in October 2023, the executive director of Jewish Voice for Peace might have been riding high. Attention and support for the three-decade-old group was way up. New chapters were forming, and the group’s social media following had tripled, ringing in at 1.3 million on Instagram alone. Suddenly, there were 32,000 dues-paying members – many of whom willing to attend events and protests to broadcast t…

Jewish Voice for Peace restructures, sets its sights on the ballot box

Jewish Voice for Peace, a far-left anti-Israel advocacy group that has built a growing profile in the wake of Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, terror attacks, is pivoting to a new organizational structure that will soon allow it to engage more forcefully in electoral politics.The group recently began the process of consolidating its membership and organizing in an affiliated but lesser-known political nonprofit called Jewish Voice for Peace Action, devoting…

Jewish Activists Conclude Weeks-Long Hunger Strike for Palestine

Several members of Jewish Voice for Peace fasted for eighteen days to pressure lawmakers to stop authorizing arms shipments to Israel. The post Jewish Activists Conclude Weeks-Long Hunger Strike for Palestine appeared first on South Side Weekly.