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Announcing JVP’s next Executive Director!
Stefanie Fox, Author of JVP
Dear members and supporters,
On behalf of the Jewish Voice for Peace Board of Directors, we are thrilled to let you know that the next Executive Director of Jewish Voice for Peace will be Stefanie Fox. Please join us in congratulating Stefanie!
Many of us have had the privilege of working with Stefanie during her 10+ years at JVP, as an organizer, then Co-Director of Organizing, then Deputy Director, and currently as Acting Co-Executive Director. For those who have not, Stefanie is an extraordinary organizer, leader, and strategist, with a deep commitment to Palestinian liberation, and a vision of a Jewish future beyond Zionism.
Stefanie has been pivotal to JVP’s path to becoming a truly national and highly influential force in our movement, while remaining committed to our grassroots foundation. An organizer’s organizer, she has led, co-led, or been a key team member towards so many milestones: our growth from 7 to 70 chapters, our National Member Meetings, our evolving organizing strategies, our campaigns including Deadly Exchange, our political evolutions including embrace of the full BDS call, our work towards a greater commitment to anti-racism, and the recent launch of JVP Action, our 501c4. She has co-led on strengthening organizational systems, infrastructure, and practices, and served as a mentor, coach, and trainer to staff and organizers.
Stefanie’s leadership is rooted in her centering of relationships, in rigorous self-reflection, and in a high bar of accountability for herself and for JVP. She fluently balances both the pragmatism and the nuanced political analysis required to translate vision into strategy, strategy into impact.
The Transition Task Force, consisting of four board members, and Ari Belathar and Rabbi Alissa Wise from staff, conducted a wide-ranging and rigorous search process. We knew Rebecca Vilkomerson would be a tough act to follow, especially in an organization as unique as JVP. We began nine months ago with reflection and assessment of JVP in this political moment, and what that would require of our next ED. We consulted with allies and movement partners, and engaged JVP’s staff to participate and provide feedback during multiple stages of this process. The board was unanimous in its decision to offer the role to Stefanie.
Stefanie’s first day as Executive Director will be April 6, after a much-needed break during the month of March.
Finally: the Board wishes to honor and thank both Stefanie and Rabbi Alissa Wise for their extraordinary tenure as Co-Executive Directors subsequent to Rebecca Vilkomerson’s departure last September, as well as the entire JVP staff for their undaunted commitment to our organization and our movement. These are hard times, and the stamina, strength, and hope required to keep fighting cannot be underestimated.
On behalf of the JVP Board of Directors, and the entire Executive Director Transition Task Force, and with great excitement for JVP’s future,
Grace Lile
Transition Task Force Members
Ari Belathar – Chicago Organizer
Phyllis Bennis – Board of Directors
Grace Lile – Board of Directors
Seth Morrison – Board of Directors
Jessie Spector – Board of Directors
Rabbi Alissa Wise – Acting Co-Executive Director
https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2020/03/06/new-ed/
>>https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2020/03/06/new-ed/
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The Jewish Revolt
Can the young activists of IfNotNow change the conversation about Israel and the Palestinians, or will their contradictions hold them back?
By Abraham Riesman
IfNotNow members block access to a Trump hotelin protest of Donald Trump's moving of the American embassy in Israel, Washington, D.C, May 2018. Gili Getz
It was just before noon in Tel Aviv when the five women revealed their plan.
Like 50,000 other young Jews every year, they had reached the end of a ten-day free tour of Israel through the Birthright Israel program. The trip had been an awkward one. Though they hadn’t directly announced themselves as such,all five were affiliated with IfNotNow, a burgeoning activist collective for American Jewsfrom Generations Y and Z who oppose Israeli policy toward the Palestinian Arabs of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip. And they’d had some uncomfortable questions.
Throughout the previous week and a half, they had made known their dissatisfaction with the status quo in the Holy Land and drew ire from their elders and their fellow youths in the process. They asked a guest speaker pointed queries about alleged Israeli human-rights abuses. They held a sign reading “END THE OCCUPATION” — referring to the Israeli presence in the Palestinian territories — while riding camels in the Negev desert. After visiting Israel’s primary Holocaust memorial, Yad Vashem, one of them recited an original poem that drew parallels between Nazi genocide and the plight of the Palestinians (“This is bullshit,” one participant recalls the Israeli tour guide saying in response). But all of that was just a prelude to the final act.
About halfway through the trip, the quintet —Danielle Raskin, Bethany Zaiman,Katie Fenster, Sophie Lasoff, and a woman who declined to disclose her name — had decided they were going to stage a walkout. Other members of IfNotNow had previously told them how to contact a well-known (and,in some pro-Israel circles, infamous) Israeli organization called Breaking the Silence, founded by repentant former soldiers of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), which provides tours of hot spots in the West Bank. The women had reached out surreptitiously and made arrangements to meet up with the organization on the last day of the tour, but before they left, they wanted to make sure everyone else on their trip knew what the five of them were doing and why.
As the Middle Eastern sun blazed into their bus, Fenster held up her phone and started a Facebook livestream. “Hey, y’all! I’m just gonna take a minute of your time,” Zaiman told the assemblage in the sing-song of a customer-service rep after negotiating control of the PA system away from their guide, a middle-aged Israeli man named Golan. Following a preamble about her love of the Jewish community and the parts of the trip she had appreciated, Zaiman cut to the chase: “I just wanna let you know that there’s a group of us on this trip who’ve been asking questions and trying to engage, and we have not been able to do that. And as a result, the five of us will be leaving. As we get off the bus, we’ll” — that is, the quintet, not the rest of the group — “be going on a trip with Breaking the Silence to learn about the occupation from the perspective of Palestinians and IDF soldiers.”
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/07/ifnotnow-birthright-ramah-bds-israel.html
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