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Its protests yielding limited results, Jewish Voice for Peace retools to focus on swaying elections

JL;DR SUMMARY Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) is shifting its focus from protests to electoral influence in response to the ongoing Israel-Hamas conflict that escalated in October 2023. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish CommunityZionismPalestineProtestsJewish Voice For PeaceMiddle East ConflictAnti ZionismUs PoliticsElections

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Berkeley, California, United States
"Under a new arrangement, the Berkeley, California-based organization will now be able to dedicate more of its resources to lobbying for specific policies and supporting or opposing candidates for elected office."
New York City, New York, United States
"In New York City, the Democratic mayoral candidate is a longtime proponent of the movement to boycott Israel who won the primary last month despite declining to denounce the phrase globalize the intifada, associated with the pro-Palestinian demonstrations that Jewish Voice for Peace has organized and participated in."
Notre Dame, Indiana, United States
"Atalia Omer, an Israeli-American scholar at the University of Notre Dame who studies Jewish anti-Zionist organizing and participates in it herself, told JTA last year that she was observing a mounting crisis within the movement a year after Oct. 7."

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