Jewish Voice for Peace-Atlanta Chapter

🚨🗣️ Tell Senators Warnock and Ossof to vote YES on the JRDs withhold bombs from Israel’s war machine. Visit jvp.org/senatevote 🚨🗣️

TAKE ACTION: The Senate could vote TODAY on “Joint Resolutions of Disapproval” that would block over $450 million worth of bombs and bulldozers to Israel. It is crucial that our Georgia Senators support these resolutions, and Jewish Voice for Peace has a tool that makes it easy to call them. Just Visit jvp.org/senatevote.

WHY IT MATTERS: Right now, the Israeli military is using weapons we send them to flatten southern Lebanon and target Muslims there; ethnically cleanse Palestinians in the occupied West Bank; and accelerate its genocide in Gaza. And despite the shaky ceasefire with Iran, thousands of Iranians have been killed by U.S.-Israeli airstrikes in this illegal and immoral war. Israel is threatening the lives of millions of people across Iran, Lebanon, and Palestine, and it is long past time for us to stop helping them do it.

🗣️ To Senator Jon Ossoff Senator Jon Ossoff 🗣️
You told voters that your “Jewish upbringing instilled a conviction to fight for the marginalized and oppressed,” and be “vigilant where there’s the risk of authoritarianism.” Is our ancestors’ resistance just a story you tell in Haaretz to get elected? (https://archive.is/OBNQL.) Or will you do the minimum to stop displacement, apartheid, and genocide? You’ve done the right thing before, and you know people will support you. (https://archive.is/07uca.) VOTE YES!

🗣️ To Senator Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock 🗣️
You know the Creator’s warning to warmongers: “Even when you make many prayers, I will not listen: your hands are full of blood.” Will you let this powerful country use its riches to “share bread with the hungry and shelter the homeless,” or ignore the call to “do justice, love goodness, and walk humbly with the Lord”? VOTE YES.

🚨Evict Elbit Alert🚨For the close of a Hanukkah week of action against Elbit Systems — Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer and global arms merchant — community members returned to the offices of Newmark Real Estate and demanded that Newmark stop leasing office space to an Elbit company in Duluth, Georgia.

See below for an urgent statement issued by those who occupied Newmark’s lobby to demand that Newmark EVICT ELBIT.

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WE ARE HERE TO DEMAND NEWMARK EVICT ELBIT NOW!

“We are here because Hanukkah is a celebration of anti-colonial resistance. As anti-zionist jews, we cannot celebrate historical anticolonial resistance without standing against the genocidal war machine that is furthering the colonization of Palestine today..."

“Zionist propaganda falsely claims, that the only way for Jewish people to be safe, is to create an ethnostate through genocide, land theft, and ethnic cleansing. We reject this firmly, knowing that Jewish safety can only come through struggling together in the communities we live in, towards liberation for all. Living in the US, we recognize this war machine is funded by our tax dollars today. A war machine that designs and manufactures technologies of surveillance, and mass slaughter on stolen land. Down the street from our homes, next to our children's schools, across from places of worship. Our tax dollars pay Elbit to kill Palestinians and steal their land! Our tax dollars pay Elbit to develop technologies for ICE to surveil, brutalize, detain, and deport our immigrant loved ones, neighbors, and community members!..."
.. WE ARE HERE TO DEMAND THAT NEWMARK EVICT ELBIT

One day, we will all be ancestors. What will our descendants remember us for?

Following the third night of Hanukkah we honor the legacy of Arna Mer-Khamis (1929-1995) Z’’L. Arna was born to Lithuanian Jewish settlers in British occupied Palestine. Arna was a teacher and activist who founded the organization, Defense of Children under Occupation/Care and Learning during the First Intifada. She focused on developing creative teaching methods, using theatre and art to help children in the Jenin Refugee Camp cope with chronic fear, depression, and trauma. Arna, alongside other women in the camp, led the program, creating a therapeutic space for healing and self-expression.

Arna was raised Zionist and fought in the underground Palmach unit during the 1948 and the 1967 wars. After marrying Palestinian Christian Saliba Khamis, secretary of Israel’s Communist Party, she moved to Nazareth. By 1967, she began protesting the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and was imprisoned multiple times for her activism.

In 1993 she was awarded the Right Livelihood Award for her “passionate commitment to the defense and education of the children of Palestine”, her lifelong mission was to establish educational and cultural centers where children could recover from trauma.

The Israeli government’s genocide of Palestinians is not over, it is expanding. With funding and support from the US, the Israeli state is entrenching the long-term illegal control and annexation of territory in Gaza. In the face of vicious repression and escalating state violence here in the United States, we renew our commitment to ending the genocide. Our anti-Zionist Jewish ancestors give us strength. May their legacy light the path toward liberation.

The miracle of Hanukkah was that against all odds the light endured—it was never extinguished. Hanukkah teaches us to persist, even in the darkest of moments. Inspired by our ancestors and out of a commitment to justice we keep going.

Originally prepared for Dwell in Revolution: Ancestors for Judaism Beyond Zionism, a zine and portrait project by , , . Art by:

🚨RSVP for the Hanukkah week of action here: http://bit.ly/evict-elbit-ga 🚨

Did you know that ELBIT SYSTEMS — Israel's largest weapons company — has a subsidiary right here in metro Atlanta?

Georgia is no home for those who profit from genocide and apartheid. That's why a coalition has come together for a campaign to drive Elbit out of Georgia, and out of business.

RSVP for the Hanukkah week of action here: http://bit.ly/evict-elbit-ga

SUNDAY, DEC. 14 (5:30 p.m): Menorah Lighting (in Duluth).
Join us to light candles, sing, and alert people about the local war criminals.

THURSDAY, DEC. 18 (7 p.m.): Campaign teach-in (online).
Learn how this fits into Palestine’s liberation movement and how to join in a role that works for you.

FRIDAY, DEC. 19 (3 p.m.): Protest Elbit’s Enablers (in Buckhead).
Get loud and call out Elbit’s co-conspirators.

Georgia says to Elbit and UA: No home here for genocide profiteers!

On the first night of Hanukkah, forty community members gathered in downtown Duluth to light the menorah and demand that Elbit Systems — Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer — get out of Duluth, out of Georgia, and out of business. A coalition of groups is working to EVICT ELBIT from the state.

A member of Jewish Voice for Peace ATL invited people to celebrate “an ancient Jewish story of when the colonized overcame the colonizer; to remind ourselves and each other that miracles are possible; and to dedicate ourselves to the work of ending the U.S.-Israel military collaboration.”

Elbit Systems builds tools used for the surveillance and mass killing of our Palestinian brothers and sisters. Elbit markets its products as “battle-tested,” selling them to repressive governments around the world. Here in the U.S., Elbit’s products help the government kidnap and deport our families and neighbors. The CEO of Universal Avionics, Elbit’s subsidiary in Duluth, is also a VP at Elbit. He brags that he has “flown fighters” so he “saw lots of synergy” and “opportunities” “based on military know-how.” The company does this work just two miles from the downtown Duluth Festival Center, in an office surrounded by elementary schools.

The campaign coalition is having a teach-in on Thursday, Dec. 18 at 7 pm (online) and a protest against one of Elbit’s co-conspirators on Friday, Dec. 19 (in Buckhead).

RSVP here for info: bit.ly/evict-elbit-ga

NO KINGS: Because fascism and authoritarianism anywhere
is a threat to people everywhere.

This administration is attempting to dismantle the Palestine solidarity movement as a first step in attacking all progressive causes, including environmental justice, reproductive justice, trans rights, and anti-racism work.

We demand an end to this repression and to the genocide.

Join us for a screening of “No Other Land” followed by a report back from activists on the ground and a fireside chat with Ruwa Romman—the first Palestinian elected to public office in Georgia.

All ticket sales and additional donations will go to the Masafer Yatta Fund.

Tickets available at: JHFJ.org/events/nol

Accessibility Notes: Masks required; we will have a small supply available. The film will have closed captions.

Event co-sponsors include:
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Congregation Bet Haverim: Palestine Solidarity Team, and East Lake Commons: Free Palestine Group

SAVE THE DATE: mark your calendars for our antizionist Passover Seder! Details and RSVP link to follow.

Image Description: Text reads “ATL Anti-Zionist Community Passover, April 19th. Save the date - RSVP link coming soon!” on a yellow background under which three illustrated hands of varying skin tones, with nails painted in the style of flags of many countries whose citizens are still fighting for liberation or equality, and tattoos that read “live free” and “solidarity”, are linked together. JVP Atlanta logo in bottom corner.

🔆🌸SHABBAT THIS FRIDAY🌺🔆

Please join us for the second anti-zionist community Shabbat of 2025. THIS FRIDAY, March 7th ! Please RSVP so we know how many people to expect☺️✨ https://forms.gle/V8T4JdNq19nFDkZV8