In this week’s Action for Peace, we focus on urgent efforts to:
📣 Amplify Jewish voices calling for accountability and moral courage
📵 Challenge Big Tech’s complicity in genocide
🏛️ Protect and strengthen local human rights policies in the Bay Area
📚 Deepen understanding through learning and collective action
Take Action
📣 JEWS DEMAND ACTION: AN INTERNATIONAL MORAL CALL
Thousands of Jews around the world are demanding that governments hold Israel accountable for its war crimes in Gaza. This open letter — addressed to UN Secretary-General António Guterres, world leaders, and permanent representatives — is a courageous appeal for moral clarity and immediate action.
👉 Read Avrum Burg’s powerful statement that inspired this call
👉 Add your name to the open letter
📵 DEMAND BIG TECH CANCEL ITS CONTRACTS WITH ISRAEL
Tech giants like Google, Amazon, and Microsoft are profiting from Israel’s war machine. Tell them: end all contracts that support occupation, apartheid, and genocide.
Take Action – Bay Area
📬 THANK TREASURER LEVY & DEFEND THE ETHICAL INVESTMENT POLICY
Alameda County passed a groundbreaking Ethical Investment Policy to stop investing in human rights abusers, including companies complicit in Israeli apartheid and genocide. But opposition groups are working to weaken the policy in the next phase.
Send Treasurer Henry Levy a thank you note for his principled leadership and insist that human rights language stay strong.
✉️ Email: henry.levy@acgov.org
📬 Mail a card to:
Henry Levy
1221 Oak Street, Room 131
Oakland, CA 94612
Let’s stay vigilant during the Finance Committee formation and consultant selection. This win is not yet permanent.
📚 WORKSHOP: ANTISEMITISM & COLLECTIVE LIBERTATION
🗓️ Thursday, October 26 | ⏰ 4–6 PM PT | 📍 In-person (Berkeley)
Jewish Voice for Peace and Berkeley Families for Collective Liberation invite you to a timely workshop with Nina Mehta from PARCEO. Learn how antisemitism is misused to silence dissent, and how to build honest, justice-rooted responses. You do not need to be a teacher to attend.
👉 Register here »
Explore & Learn More
📰 The Guardian: How U.S. Policy Helped Fuel This War
A detailed interactive timeline shows how Trump’s “peace plan” and U.S. diplomacy paved the way for today’s violence in Gaza.
👉 Explore the article »
