Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) is a national, grassroots organization inspired by Jewish tradition to work for a just and lasting peace according to principles of human rights, equality, and international law for all the people of Israel and Palestine. JVP has over 200,000 online supporters, over 60 chapters, a youth wing, a Rabbinic Council, an Artist Council, an Academic Advisory Council, and an Advisory Board made up of leading U.S. intellectuals and artists. Judith Butler is Maxine Elliot Professor in the Departments of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of The Psychic Life of Power, Excitable Speech, Bodies that Matter, Gender Trouble, Frames of War, and with Slavoj Zizek and Ernesto Laclau, Contingency, Hegemony, Universality.
1. Preface:
a. Rebecca Vilkomerson, Executive Director of Jewish Voice for Peace
2. Introduction:
a. Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor in the Department of Comparative
Literature and the Program of Critical Theory at the University of
California, Berkeley
b. Rebecca Vilkomerson: Antisemitism for the sake of Israel in the era of
Trump
3. Part I: Theories of antisemitism
a. Shaul Magid, Professor of Religious Studies and the Jay and Jeannie
Schottenstein Chair of Jewish Studies in Modern Judaism at Indiana
University.
b. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Postdoctoral
Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, jointly appointed to
MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research and the
Department of Physics.
c. Tony Lerman, Founder and former Director of the Institute for Jewish
Policy Research, which devises policy solutions to social, political and
cultural problems facing Jews and other minorities in Europe.
d. Tallie Ben Daniel, Jewish Voice for Peace Academic Advisory Council
Coordinator
e. Aurora Levins Morales, writer, artist, historian, teacher, and
revolutionary
4. Part II: Palestine Advocacy and the United States
a. Omar Barghouti, Palestinian human rights activist and Co-Founder of the
Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement.
b. Radhika Sainath, Staff attorney at Palestine Legal and cooperating
counsel with the Center for Constitutional Rights.
c. Rev. Graylan Halger, Senior Minister at the Plymouth Congregational
United Church of Christ, Washington DC and veteran civil rights activist
d. Rev. Dr. Walter T. Davis Professor Emeritus of the Sociology of Religion
at San Francisco Theological Seminary
e. Jonathan Kuttab, Palestinian attorney and human rights activist.
5. Part III: Deploying Anti-Semitism as a Weapon on Campus
a. Kelsey Waxman, Senior at UC Berkeley, and Chair of JVP-UC Berkeley
b. Anonymous Palestinian American Student, Alumni of the University of
California, Los Angeles
c. Ben Lorber, Student Network Coordinator, Jewish Voice for Peaced. Orian
Zakai, Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern Hebrew - Middlebury College
e. Rachel Ida Buff, Associate Professor of History at University of
Wisconsin, Milwaukee
6. Conclusion: Standing for Justice
a. Alex Abbasi, Palestinian-American activist and Doctoral Student at the
University of Johannesburg
b. Rabbi Alissa Wise, Co-Director of Organizing, Jewish Voice for Peace
