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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 5h

Happy birthday, George. May your memory be a blessing.

Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 5h

We join together to fight for a future where Black people can be free from violence, to live long abundant lives. From the US to Palestine, we must abolish racist police forces that murder with impunity and brutally repress our protests against their violence.

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 5h

Black people deserve to be safe, they deserve to be protected. From Minneapolis to Palestine, our combined struggle against white supremacist state violence only grows stronger.

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 5h

American policing is rooted in enslavement and settler colonialism, and has always been in the business of surveilling and shutting down justice movements.

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 5h

The militarization of US police forces is rooted in America’s war-making all over the world, which includes funding and support for Israel’s occupation and genocide.

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 5h

The US government’s investment in colonialism, militarism, and occupation abroad always circles back to US streets.

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 5h

As we take to the streets for our Palestinian friends and comrades and for everyone terrorized by ICE and fascist US police, we recognize the origin of militarized police brutality should come as no surprise.

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 5h

The Minneapolis resistance sparked worldwide protests for the murders and incarceration of so many Black people at the hands of police, leading to nationwide calls to defund the police.

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 5h

In response, the people of Minneapolis burned the third precinct, and the community continues to occupy an autonomous protest zone where he was murdered.

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 5h

His horrific murder by Minneapolis police enraged millions of people around the world, who flooded the streets to demand justice — not just for George, but for every Black person brutalized by a system built on white supremacist violence.

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 5h

George was a beloved father, son, brother, and a loving friend to many in his community.

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Jewish Voice for Peace @jvp.bsky.social · 5h

Today would have been George Floyd’s 52nd birthday. He should be here celebrating with his loved ones.

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BDS movement @bdsmovement.bsky.social · 1d

Let’s disrupt the global chain of complicity that enables Israel’s crimes against Palestinians.

The BDS movement is calling on you to join the Week of Action against F-35s from 13-18 October.

Send an email to your elected officials now ➡️ loom.ly/qypYlvM

#DisruptComplicity

Join the Week of Action Against F-35 fighter jets

F-35 jets enable Israel to murder Palestinian women, men and children on a daily basis

loom.ly

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Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social · 1d

Dr. Husam Abu Safiya, renowned pediatrician snatched from Kamal Adwan Hospital, added to detainee exchange list

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 2d

BREAKING: Prominent Palestinian journalist Saleh Aljafarawi has been killed by gunmen in Gaza City’s al-Sabra neighbourhood, making him one of more than 270 journalists killed since Israel’s war began in 2023.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/p49p9n

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 2d

If you don’t see the link between ICE and the IDF, you haven’t been paying attention. We are being asked to accept a world where whole communities are made disposable and marked for disappearance. If we accept that for anyone, no one is safe anywhere.

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The IMEU @theimeu.bsky.social · 5d

Palestinians have welcomed a ceasefire in the past, and been devastated when Israel quickly violated it.

This ceasefire must be permanent – and it must be the first step to real accountability, justice, and freedom.

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

When we say landback for Palestine, it is a call for the freedom of all people, from the river to the sea, and across the planet.

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

Land theft, genocide and ethnic cleansing can never be justified. The right of return is not only a Palestinian cause, it is an international demand for landback that resonates globally.

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

Nick Tilsen of @ndncollective.bsky.social
says, “What we’re reclaiming when we say ‘land back’ is our power. Land back involves an actual shift in the power structure not of just the United States, but the world.”

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

To learn more about the specific history of the Indigenous people whose land you’re on, go to native-land.ca

Native-Land.ca | Our home on native land

Native Land is a resource to learn more about Indigenous territories, languages, lands, and ways of life. We welcome you to our site.

native-land.ca

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

Of course, there are major distinctions between the colonization of Turtle Island and that of Palestine. It’s hard to even talk about the first as a monolith, since the various peoples of the “Americas” endured colonization in different ways and at different points in time.

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

For Palestinians, landback takes the form of the right of return, a key principle in international law that guarantees all people’s right of voluntary return to their place of origin.

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

We see landback movements across Turtle Island in the Six Grandfathers mountains in Black Hills of South Dakota (also known as Mount Rushmore,) in the Northern Sierra Mountains, home to the Maidu people, and in the sacred mountain of Mauna Kea in Hawaii.

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

Indigenous People are distinct populations relative to the dominant colonial culture of their country. They usually have their own language, cultures, and traditions influenced by living relationships with their ancestral homelands—and are tied to their own land in a variety of ways.

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