PROJECTS & CAMPAIGNS

Matzpen film screening and Radio coverage

Matzpen film screening On July 20, IJSN members in Los Angeles organized a screening anddiscussion about Eran Torbiner's film Matzpen: Anti-Zionist Israelis.The discussion featured Liliane Cordova Kaczerginski, an IJSNInternational Core member from Paris, France who had been a member ofMatzpen in Israel for much of the 1970's. A multi-generational andmulti-racial audience of 30 attended the event, the majority of ...

20 Activists Arrested, Disrupting Jewish Community & Relations Council's (JCRC) 60th Anniversary

In response to Israel 's 60th anniversary celebrations, 20 Jewish activists were arrested, demonstrating Jewish opposition to Israel 's 60-year-old policy of dispossession, and highlighting the often-silenced struggle of Palestinian refugees. For over two hours, 20 Jewish activists disrupted San Francisco 's anniversary event, bunkering against the main atrium of the Jewish Community Center (JCC). In conjunction, over fifty Jewish and Palestinian supporters held a rally outside the center to call attention to ongoing Israeli policy of apartheid against the Palestinian population. With banners reading, "Jews in Solidarity with 60+ years of Palestinian Resistance," activists declared anniversary, "No Time to Celebrate."

Letter to Mercedes Sosa

Dear Mercedes Sosa,

We read that you plan to sing in a concert in Israelthis fall. We write you to ask you to cancel this visit.

Your voice carries with it the love, the pain andthe hopes of decades of struggle against oppression in LatinAmerica. Your songs opened pathways into the heart of many ofus--all over the world--to a deeper understanding and communion with thepeasants, the workers and the indigenous communities of LatinAmerica. Don't let your art become the ambassador of oppression,ethnic cleansing, murder and land usurpation by performing in Israel.