✊ TAKE ACTION
🔥 Demand the release of student activists who have been abducted by ICE
📢 Seder in the Streets Ritual & Action
🍉 Support Education on Palestine in our Schools (Bay Area)
👩🏼🎓 Educational Opportunities (National and Bay Area)
Take Action
Call Congress: Demand the release of student activists targeted for deportation.
Email Congress: Demand the release of student activists targeted for deportation.
Take Action: Bay Area
Seder in the Streets with Beyt Tikkun, INN, & Rabbis4Ceasefire
TONIGHT Thursday, 4/17 at 4:30pm in SF for a collective Passover ritual and action.
Register here to receive the exact location (it is within 2 blocks of a BART station).
As students and immigrants across the country face deportation for speaking in support of Palestinian lives and the Trump administration openly declares its intention to ethnically cleanse Gaza, the American Jewish community has a choice: will we comply with Trump’s authoritarian agenda, or will we fight antisemitism by protecting civil liberties for all?
Join us to call for the release of student protestors, including Rumeysa Ozturk and Mahmoud Khalil, to protect free speech, and to ensure the right of all people to live in their homes free from fear. We say clearly that deportations for political speech will not support the fight against antisemitism. Rather, we know that Jewish safety is intertwined with that of all marginalized people, including Palestinians both here and in Israel/Palestine.
Let ALL people stay. Let ALL people be free. Let ALL people live.
Support Education on Palestine in our Schools
Please take two important actions to try and stop two bills in Sacramento that threaten accurate education on Palestine in our Public Schools.
Zionist groups have long used Jewish grief and fear as a cudgel to stifle pro-Palestine speech. Though they claim to care about Jewish safety, these groups are deploying Trump regime tactics to silence criticism of Israel. That makes all of us less safe.
AB 1468: This bill would overhaul how ethnic studies is taught across California high schools, including requiring school districts to submit their ethnic studies curriculum to California’s Department of Education for approval.
SB 472: Introduced by the California Legislative Jewish Caucus would require districts to report their Holocaust and genocide education to the state every year. While genocide education seems like a good thing, zionist organizations are trying to police our schools to prevent teaching about the genocide in Gaza and to further insulate Israel from valid criticism.)
PLEASE take these two important actions now:
Tell the CA Assembly Education Committee to stop AB 1468
Tell the CA Senate Education Committee to stop AB 472
Explore & Learn More
Free Films
In light of the current events in Palestine, a large number of filmmakers have made their films about Palestine available online for free. Click here to see a list of films you can view and share.
BAY AREA ONLY
Jewish Voice for Peace Bay Area
Palestine & Zionism 101 Workshop
Amidst the escalated genocide of Palestinians, we hold close to heart our responsibility to continuously sharpen our analysis of Zionism and settler-colonialism. Palestine & Zionism 101 is an opportunity to deeply engage with the history of the colonization of Palestine as well as the history of Palestinian resistance to Zionism.
A 7-week workshop by Jewish Voice for Peace Bay Area
Wednesdays, April 16 – May 28
6:30 – 8:30 pm PT
In person in Oakland at Laney College
Register here (access info linked in registration)
Sliding scale $25-$100 NOTAFLAF (no one turned away for lack of funds)
The registration fee is used to offset the cost of the facility rental and to offer our Palestinian guest speaker an honorarium. Facilitators are JVP Bay Area volunteers and unpaid. This session will feature both lecture style classes and weekly discussion groups to allow more opportunities for reflection and community building.
Palestine & Zionism 101 is designed to provide a robust introduction to the history of Zionist settler-colonialism in Palestine; all educational backgrounds are welcome.
If Not Now
Resisting Project Esther: Political Education Workshop
The Trump administration says it is looking out for Jews and fighting antisemitism. But it is deporting foreign students for their political beliefs, and that is fascism, plain and simple. The threat is growing. More student visas have been revoked, including at UC Berkeley and Stanford. This is just the beginning. There is a large-scale plan, called Project Esther, which has been written by the people who brought us Project 2025, to call everyone who criticizes the war in Gaza a terrorist, and to punish them in the name of protecting Jews. Trump is using false accusations of antisemitism to build up Jewish support for his illegal crackdowns.
This event is an opportunity to learn how to recognize and be prepared for the dangerous and skillful attempts to build broader divisions amongst Jews. This is a large-scale agenda using intimidation to twist criticism of Israel into antisemitism. We will promote a counter-conversation that speaks of shared safety.
Sunday, April 27, 6-8pm PT in San Francisco (and virtually via Zoom)
Register: innmvmt.org/ProjectEstherBay
