Jewish Voice for Peace Bay Area
Raise your voice!
Help end US support for Israel’s occupation, apartheid state, and genocide in Palestine
Together, we are breaking the myth that Israel speaks for all Jews
Jewish Voice for Peace is the largest progressive Jewish anti-Zionist organization in the world, with over 700,000 members and supporters.
JVP Bay Area is one of over 100 local Jewish Voice for Peace chapters and pods. We are also blessed to have non-Jewish members.
We’re organizing a grassroots, multiracial, cross-class, intergenerational movement of U.S. Jews in solidarity with the Palestinian freedom struggle.
JVP Bay Area members hold a sit-in at California Senator Alex Padilla’s office, demanding he vote to stop arming Israel as it wages genocide in Gaza.
“Do you have the courage to heed our call?” JVP-BA members chant in a sit-in urging the California State Assembly to stand against US funding for the Israeli military’s genocide in Gaza.
About Us:
Our Local Chapter
Jewish Voice for Peace Bay Area is a large, active, all-volunteer chapter in a growing national organization. We:
- Hold actions demanding that the US government stop arming Israel
- Speak out in the media as Jews supporting Palestine
- Campaign for boycott and divestment from companies that profit from arming Israel
- Advocate for local and state leaders and legislators to stand against Israel’s genocide
- Educate about the root causes of the Israeli government’s oppression of Palestinians
- Come together for social, holiday and cultural events
- And much more…
Our National Organization
Jewish Voice for Peace is the world’s largest Jewish organization supporting Palestine, with local chapters and pods across the US. To learn more, visit the national Jewish Voice for Peace website (About, Our Vision, Our Core Values), and sign up for our weekly national newsletter, THE WIRE.
We are building Judaism beyond Zionism.
If you’re looking for a political home for Jews on the left in this perilous moment…
If you want a warm, welcoming Jewish community with justice at the center…
If you agree that criticism of Israel and Zionism is not antisemitic but protected free speech…
If you want to turn your rage and grief into meaningful, strategic action…
Join us. You belong here. There’s a place for you.
Events:
See some of our most recent activity on our Instagram @jvpbayarea
For the most up-to-date information on Bay Area events in solidarity with Gaza and all Palestinians, visit our ally organization, Arab Resource Organizing Center (AROC)'s Calendar of Bay Area events
JVP Bay Area includes members from San Francisco, Oakland, and Berkeley, and from all areas of Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Mateo and Solano Counties
Other local groups:
JVP Sonoma County
South Bay JVP
JVP UC Berkeley
JVP SF State
JVP Stanford
JVP UCSF
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The JVP family of organizations has restructured. JVP Action, our 501c4 organization, is now doing business as JVP. JVP Lab, our 501c3 organization, continues separately and remains focused on our nonpartisan educational and cultural work. Learn more here.