Jewish Voice for Peace

We’re back! And here to continue our support for Palestinian freedom (not that we let a cyber attack stop us). Let’s clear some things up:

💥Israeli airstrike in Jabalia NOW

Israeli Cabinet Approves Plans to Build Military Compound at Former UNRWA Site democracynow.org/2026/5/18/head…

Israel expands the death penalty regime in the occupied West Bank. The law mandates the death penalty in military courts while excluding Israelis from prosecution under the same system middleeasteye.pulse.ly/qtsgokdzpp

BREAKING: Right now, dozens of Israeli settler terrorists are attacking the village of Al-Mughayyir in the West Bank, burning olive fields and attempting to set fire to homes with families inside. Residents are pleading with nearby villages for help to stop the attack.

🔴 MoH: MRIs no longer available in Gaza: Gaza’s health system is facing a severe collapse in medical imaging services, with 76% of diagnostic equipment destroyed in Israeli attacks and most of the remaining machines operating under extreme strain, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. Health authorities say MRI services are no longer available following the destruction of all nine scanners in the Strip, while only five of 18 CT scanners remain functional, far below daily demand. Standard X-ray capacity has also been heavily reduced, with just 33 of 88 machines still in use, many of them frequently breaking down. Israel severely restricts the entry of medicine and medical equipment into the Gaza Strip.

As Israel continues to block aid from entering Gaza, Palestinians are now relying on recycled plastic gathered from rubble to produce water hoses for emergency water distribution. Al Jazeera’s Ibrahim al-Khalili reports from Gaza City.

A video shows an Israeli settler bringing a mattress to sleep outside a Palestinian family's home at the entrance of the Christian village of Taybeh in the West Bank, in a systematic campaign of harassment to drive the families out of their own home. savewestbankchristians.com

Israelis marched through Jerusalem’s Old City attacking Palestinians and chanting “death to Arabs” and “may your villages burn” as they celebrated the anniversary of Israel’s illegal occupation of East Jerusalem that began in 1967. aljazeera.com/gallery/2026/5…

. 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.

We’re hiring! JVP is seeking a Deputy Political Director who will grow and lead a multi-layered, cross-country, grassroots-powered electoral program that leverages one of the largest bases of progressive Jews in the U.S. into effective and strategic electoral campaigning, for the sake of building power to advance the demands of the movement for Palestinian rights and freedom. Applications are due by May 31. Apply: app.beapplied.com/apply/nhb1qups…

. 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: jvp.org/ViolateIHRA

This is an IHRA violation: Holocaust Studies Scholar Dr. Marianne Hirsch cannot do her research under the IHRA definition. IHRA effectively bans comparing Israel’s genocide in Gaza to other genocides, including that of the Nazi Holocaust.

Israeli occupation navy hijacked 23 boats from the Sumud Flotilla and kidnapped 180 activists while they were sailing in the international waters..

Six Palestinians have been killed and 40 wounded by Israeli attacks in the past 24 hours, Gaza’s Health Ministry says. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/xex3gi

This poem was one of the hardest to write. Not only as a Palestinian who witnessed and survived the worst of atrocities, but as a father of three children. When I wrote that poem, I didn’t know her name or her father’s. I didn’t know her age or exactly when and where she was killed. Now I do. Her name was Layan al-Majdalawi. She was two years old. She was killed in Nov 2023. That father and child could be me and my one of my kids. Today my friend artist Hannah Maguire illustrated the poem and sent it to me. 💔💔 The moon overhead is not the moon.

Save the Children says Trump’s 20-point Gaza peace plan is failing on the ground — directly contradicting the White House’s claim of “tremendous progress.” CEO Janti Soeripto said the organization, along with 5 major humanitarian groups, scored each of the plan’s benchmarks against field staff accounts, UN data, and publicly available reporting. The verdict: supplies cannot get in, staff cannot rotate, and the plan “as it stands is not working.” Save the Children has 200 staff in Gaza. The organization has published its full methodology linked below.

Graphic footage: An Israeli soldier beating a dog owned by a Palestinian family in Atara Village in the occupied West Bank. From training dogs to rape Palestinians to torturing them for merely being owned by Palestinians, Israelis have practiced all forms of animal abuse