The Role of Jews in the Palestine Solidarity Movement Under the auspices of Deir Yassin Remembered (www.deiryassin.org), this writer gave a presentation at Ibrahim’s Bi-monthly Salon Event in Seattle, Washington entitled “The Role of Jews in the Palestine Solidarity Movement”. Beginning with a personal introduction of Jewish influence in local peace groups, the talk expanded […]

The Three Greatest Crimes Four members of Jewish Witnesses for Peace and Friends attended Martin Luther King Day celebrations in Detroit this past week, which included a fiery speech by Willie “Mukasa” Ricks and a march through downtown Detroit. Ricks was introduced by our friend Abayomi Azkikiwe (Pan African News Wire and Detroit Coalition Against […]

Rabbi Dobrusin Hijacks Religious Freedom Day Panel Sensing a setup, twelve members and supporters of Jewish Witnesses for Peace and Friends attended a panel discussion on Religious Freedom Day. And while some of us, including this writer, anticipated that panelist Rabbi Rob Dobrusin would merely hint at our vigils in front of his synagogue, we […]

JWPF Welcomes New Year Jewish Witnesses for Peace and Friends welcomed in the new year by placing nine dedicated peace activists at our non-violent, silent vigils in front of Beth Israel Congregation, one of the local centers of nationalist support of the state of Israel. We note two other active street protest groups and hope […]

AAPER Rhymes with Vapor Vigil Supporter R writes that he planned to assist the American Association for Palestinian Equal Rights (AAPER) in setting up a chapter in his home state. This announcement set our WOLZA (Watch Out! Liberal Zionist Ahead) antennae a-quivering, and we sent R some literature from AAPER’s own website: specifically, that we […]

Jewish Onslaught in Seattle As we again borrow the title of Tony Martin’s book and his accurate portrayal of attack by the Jewish community of Boston, Massachusetts, our west coast ambassador turns our attention to a similar Jewish onslaught in Seattle, Washington. The Seattle Mideast Awareness Campaign (SMAC) had contracted with the King County Metro […]

Access Denied Names have been changed to protect the decent, but here’s a short story of how one local faith-based organization self-capitulated to potential threats and demands. We asked Alfred, head of the social justice organization in his local church, to have his group host a panel of Vigilers. Alfred brought up our request at […]