Friends of Sabeel North America-Michigan Presents:
Never Again for Anyone:
Mobilizing an Interfaith Movement Against Apartheid, Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide in Palestine
Friday, Nov 7 • 8:30 AM – 9:30 PM EST
Note: The address of the conference, which will be in Ann Arbor, Michigan, will be sent to you uponregistration. Use QR code above or click to register.
Speakers include the Israeli Historian Omer Bartov (one of the leading historians on the Holocaust and Genocide), Huwaida Arraf (one of the leading organizers of the Freedom Flotilla Coaltion), Rabbi Alana Alpert, U-M Professor Juan Cole, Irene Butter (Holocuast survivor who knew Ann Frank), Daniel Benoura (one of the leading thinkers on Christian Zionism), and WSU Professor Layla Saatchi. The Conference is in Ann Arbor at the UU Congregation. When you register, the address is provided. If you register for the livestream you will also be sent recordings of the conference afterwards.
Join Friends and Family of Michael Friedman to honor and celebration his memory on Sat. Nov 15 from 2-5 pm. A longtime labor and activist for justice and human rights, Michael was one of the founders of Jewish Voice for Peace Detroit’s chapter. May his memory continue to inspire us. Please RSVP at MikeMemorial.eventbrite.com
Call & Email your Michigan State Reps:
Tell them to support the Gaza Resolution
to End U.S. Support of
Israel’s Genocide in Gaza
Resolution to be Introduced next week
Signatures of Elected Officials and Organizations Continues
LANSING, MI — A broad coalition of Michigan state representatives, elected officials and advocacy organizations are demanding that our Michigan’s congressional delegation take immediate action to stop United States support for Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
Is your elected rep going to vote for this resolution? Check here if they have signed the letter. Call or email them with the suggested script if they have not signed on.
Read the full letter with signature of supporters
Scan the QR codes below or above in the flyer to find your Rep and the script to email and call them. Ask them to sign the letter and support the Resolution to be introduced soon.
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Scan QR to find your Rep & their phone & emails
Scan QR: Scripts for calls & emails to your Rep
The current “Ceasefire” is being violated daily by Israel. There is overwhelming evidence from humanitarian groups, scholars, and international agencies that Israel’s blockade, bombing campaigns, and deliberate targeting of civilians meet the legal definition of genocide. JVP Detroit is one of a long list of advocates.
Michigan state Representatives Dylan Wegela, Erin Byrnes and Alabas Farhat will introduce the Gaza Solidarity Resolution in Lansing next week calling for an arms embargo against Israel, the restoration of humanitarian aid, and the reinstatement of medical-humanitarian visas for wounded Palestinian children denied entry under Secretary Rubio’s order.
Rep. Dylan Wegela (D-Garden City) emphasized the moral urgency. “When children are being starved, bombed, and denied medical treatment, we have a responsibility to act. History will remember those who stayed quiet in the face of genocide. Congress must end U.S. complicity.”
Read the full letter with signatures
Michigan Divest delivered its petition to the Michigan Treasury and the State of Michigan Investment Board, calling for the divestment of Israel bonds from public pensions!
The petition called for an immediate halt to investing the State of Michigan Retirement System in Israel bonds and the nonrenewal of the $10 million bond upon maturity on Nov. 1st, 2025. Thousands of Michiganders, including JVP Detroit, endorsed the petition to demand divestment from Israel bonds. Read the full report here.
Thank you Lt Gov Garlin Gilchrist
Jewish Voice for Peace-Detroit and our community allies proudly stand in support of Michigan Lieutenant Governor Garlin Gilchrist’s courageous and accurate statement at the recent American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) convention, regarding the genocidal character of Israel’s war on Gaza:
“This is not a matter of opinion. It is a matter of fact. This has been established by the global leaders who study genocide. This is not something we should support. American taxpayer dollars should not fund offensive weapons of war while children are starving, while medical resources are being blocked to civilians, and while lineages of families are being erased.”
It is necessary to emphasize over and over again that speaking the truth about what the governments of Israel and the United States have done to Gaza is not antisemitic, no matter how often that lie is repeated by Trump, Netanyahu and their apologists and propagandists. We condemn the vitriolic responses directed at him in the media and from groups who are defenders of the Israeli government’s indefensible assaults on the Palestinian population in Gaza, as well as violent ethnic cleansing in the occupied West Bank.
Lt. Governor Garlin Gilchrist’s statement about the genocide is the simple truth. We need more of our elected officeholders to follow his courageous example.
We invite everyone who wants to support the national Jewish Voice for Peace and our JVP-Detroit chapter to join us. Become a member by visitingjvp.org/DetroitDonate.
If you want to shape and participate in local chapter activities, please review and sign onto our chapter agreements using this form: https://tinyurl.com/jvpdmember
Contact us: jvpdetroit or (313) 908-0454
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