Month: November 2025

Global Jews for Palestine media statement 22/11/2025

The UN Security Council’s approval of a revamped Trump plan for Gaza has sparked sharp condemnation from Palestinian resistance groups, who say it sidesteps international law, imposes external control on Gaza, and aims to rescue Israel’s failing colonization while disarming the resistance. A global coalition of 25 anti-Zionist Jewish organizations echoes this rejection, calling the resolution a political lifeline to Netanyahu’s regime and a betrayal of Palestinian self-determination.

UN Security Council votes Trump´s plan against the Palestinians. It´s an attempt to rescue Israel’s colonization of Gaza and to disarm the resistance

On 17 November 2025 the United Nations Security Council approved a US resolution on Gaza. Palestinian resistance groups quickly issued a joint rejection of this version of the ‘Trump Peace Plan.’ They said:  “The resolution bypasses international frameworks and paves the way for creating arrangements outside the Palestinian national will. Any international force intended to be deployed in Gaza in the proposed form will turn into a form of guardianship or imposed mandate, undermining the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination.” As a global coalition of 25 anti-Zionist Jewish groups, we fully support the Palestinian claim and struggle for self-determination and the right of return. We also reject Trump´s plan, now endorsed by the UNSC.

This sordid role should be no surprise. As the Palestinian human rights organisation Al-Haq had warned beforehand, the impending vote would demonstrate “the Security Council’s manifest abdication of its responsibility, and the further undermining and rejection of Palestinian self-determination.”

The ‘Peace Plan’ continues the US-Israel agenda to remove Palestine from any international legal framework in order to re-inforce Israel’s colonization. Now that Israel’s army has greater difficulty in maintaining its colonial control on the ground, the UNSC resolution rescues Netanyahu´s colonial regime and aims at disarming the anti-colonial resistance. The Palestinians have had no say whatsoever in this . 

Among Palestinians, only the Palestinian National Authority, desperate to retain its privileges through its collaboration with Israel, welcomed this travesty. All UNSC members voted for the resolution, except for shameful abstentions by China and Russia,rather than using their veto power. This UNSC resolution is a total betrayal of international law, human rights and the Palestinian struggle.   

What does this mean for the UN’s role? Its Special Rapporteur on the Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese, has admirably gone further than her predecessors, especially by documenting the complicity of major countries and companies in her October 2025 report, Gaza Genocide: a Collective Crime.

The ICJ and ICC have diligently carried out their tasks, documenting Israel’s genocide and its leaders’ criminal responsibility. However, the UNSC continues the complicit legacy of the 1947 resolution partitioning Palestine. After the 1936-39 joint UK-Zionist counterinsurgency war severely weakened Palestinians’ defence against Zionist colonization, the Partition plan opened the way for further attacks and expulsions.

These developments further vindicate the call in 2005 by over 170 Palestinian civil society organisations for a comprehensive BDS campaign against international complicity with Israeli colonisation, firstly in our own countries. We are inspired by the action of dockers who have blocked arms shipments to Israel during the past two years. More recently, Italy’s mass strikes and demonstrations have opposed its complicity with Israel. Palestine’s most reliable supporters are the people of the world who fight their own oppression for a common future of social justice. Palestine’s resistance remains a symbol of that global struggle.

Global Jews for Palestine will participate in all demonstrations around the world on 29 November, the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. It is not the time to abandon the streets.

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GLOBAL JEWS FOR PALESTINE

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We are Jews from many countries, who are members of local, national and international networks and organizations. We are multi-ethnic and multigenerational and our members embrace a broad range of viewpoints on Jewish religious and ethical traditions. We are connected by our involvement in the struggle for Palestinian rights, and by our determination to work for justice. We oppose Zionism and all forms of racism and colonialism.

We believe that it is our particular responsibility to challenge Jewish organizations whose alliances and actions undermine Palestinian human and national rights, promote Jewish exceptionalism, and overturn Jewish social justice traditions. At the heart of our work is the fight for Palestinian liberation and the struggle for a world free of racial and ethnic hierarchy, colonial domination, and unbridled militarism.

How shall we speak and act now?

For six years, Alternative Jewish Voices has spoken in an aspirational voice. This is intentional. Research shows, the voice that mobilises new political engagement is a voice of moral clarity which invites others to join the work of making a better world.

We ground our voice in facts, and today’s facts are shattering. We share the outrage that we hear. However, outrage alone does not make change. It has to be channeled forward into principled action.

Hope is resistance. AJV met this week to ask where we find that hope now, while grief and anger feel overwhelming.

With unprecedented Western permission and complicity, Israel’s genocide is ongoing. The IDF has killed more than 70,000 Palestinians and decimated the built environment of Gaza. They are queueing up more of the same in the West Bank. The tonnage of IDF poisons will affect generations. Israel has killed 271 and injured 622 Palestinians since the ceasefire. Gazan Palestinians are living in atrocious conditions as winter closes in. Israel is preventing UN agencies and NGOs from responding, despite the International Court of Justice’s October finding that Israel is obligated to provide for Gazan Palestinians and not to impede others from doing so. Along the way, Israel has bombed half a dozen countries which are not at war with it.

The silence of governments like ours imagines this dystopia as a new baseline. They will settle for negotiating the speed of Israel’s new crimes against the survivors of Palestine.

We utterly reject their selective amnesia—but each time we call out our complicit government, we need to call them forward and judge them against something better.

We do that by placing the value of human life at the centre of our understanding. People have laboured for a century and a half to embed a rights-based vision of human dignity and equality. Rights are not an opinion; rights are the basis of international law and institutions. That today’s governments spit on Palestinians’ rights does not invalidate Palestinians’ rights. It raises the stakes. Now we must fight for the vision even as we wield it.

Our baseline is a world in which people flourish with their basic needs and dignity ensured. We protest the deficits from that standard. We judge Israel and its powerful accomplices against the standard of an accountable, just peace for all who live between the river and the sea.

Even as our allies have taken the step of recognising Palestine, Luxon, Seymour and Peters cosy up to Donald Trump. We are reeling from their daily erosion of our democracy. Our government’s position on Palestine and the value it places on our own lives follow from a single agenda. This government is harming far more people than it is benefiting. We find hope in the work that brings together a majority for change.

While Palestine has become the cement of a broad global movement, Zionism is shifting. Israel used its years of Zionist-Jewish permission to consolidate new sources of support. It is no longer dependent upon Jewish social license. Christian Zionism, long the majority of Zionism, is now an insider shaping American policy. Israel dedicates new budgets to influencing American Christians.

Christian Zionist influence is now being unsettled in turn by the far Right, as Zionism attracts support from the eschatological, racist and fascist extremes. Trump’s MAGA world is grappling with the rise of more radical White racist nationalism. Those extremists are seeking narrative position and influence.

In Aotearoa, Israel’s deputy foreign minister has met with Christian nationalist Brian Tamaki and Alfred Ngaio. There are five rabbis in this country, while 130 Christian Zionist clergy wrote together of their representatives’ time with Winston Peters before Peters declined to recognise Palestine. In order to lend effective support to the liberation of Palestine, our protest needs to target the evolving structures and financial flows of Aotearoa’s Zionism.

This does not relieve the Zionist-Jewish community of responsibility. Globally, Zionist-Jewish institutions have eagerly wrapped Israel’s violence in the guise of Jewish identity, in order to place Israel’s genocidal actions beyond challenge. Aotearoa’s Zionist-Jewish spokespeople still imagine only the peace of the graveyard, after which there might be a nicer Zionism.

A significant segment of Liberal-Zionist Jews seems to have turned against the war—although not against Zionism. That speaks to some capacity for change despite the institutions.

We welcome every effort to end this genocide. However, as principled anti-Zionists our goal is greater than the cessation of firing. In our own community and in Palestine, we must change the conditions that give rise to genocide. We need to decolonise the Jewishness that taught us to stake our future on the oppression and slaughter of others. There is no nicer Zionism.

To realise a liberatory Jewishness, we need new institutions with genuinely new communal leadership. We work for a future without Jewish supremacy or exceptionalism. Two-thirds of Jewish New Yorkers aged 18-44 just voted for Mayor Mamdani in one such act of qualitative, visionary change.

We will not displace this toxic new Right power by emulating their perpetual outrage. That would only turn us into the thing we oppose. Outrage alone leaves one numb with grief and alienation. It stokes the identity politics which deny that we can live together. It leads to the despair which hardens the status quo.

We will only displace this power with an aspirational, broadly based vision of something better. We learn from the long, great works of our time: the works of peace, Indigenous rights, the common cause of dignified life in the hardest places.

That quality of holistic movement has coalesced around Palestine. We have never heard so many people acknowledge that the change must reach to the tangled roots of colonisation, racism, capitalism and fascism.

AJV brings to this our Jewish inheritance which recognises that social, ecological and material justice are inextricable. Together we will place life and justice at the centre of the work that needs doing, here and there.

In this dark time, hope is resistance and these are our ways forward.

In outrage and in aroha, we are Alternative Jewish Voices of Aotearoa

Media release from Global Jews for Palestine, Nov 9 2025

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Israel says, “You cease, we fire!”

Ceasefire means that the firing ceases. By October 29th, at least 211 Palestinians had been killed and nearly 600 injured in 125 ceasefire violations by Israel since a ceasefire was declared, as outlined by Al Jazeera. No Israelis had been killed.

In the deadliest 24 hours since the “ceasefire” began, Israel claimed it hit more than 30 targets. Israel claimed that the targets were “terrorists in command positions within terror organisations”. However, the world (again) saw babies, children and other civilians being pulled from the rubble, dead or destined for hospitals which lack the capacity to assist them.

Mainstream Western media continue to highlight Israel’s allegations, giving far less time to its many violations of the agreement.  There have been no repercussions against Israel for its violations, as it continues to occupy 58% of the Gaza Strip, moving the gangs it has supported behind the “line” and shooting Palestinians who cross that ill-defined invisible line. 

While Hamas is blamed for the slow return of the bodies of Israeli hostages, Gaza does not have the forensic equipment needed for examining human remains extracted from rubble.Israel is denying access for the machinery that is needed to lift the rubble and recover the many bodies that lie buried. The great majority of the people whose bodies await recovery beneath that rubble are Palestinian.

Not only does the “peace” promised by Donald Trump feel a long way off, but even the desperately needed respite is proving elusive for Palestinians. As is food: Israel continues to violate the ceasefire agreement which promised a minimum of 600 trucks filled with aid each day. Palestinians continue to go hungry. They await medical treatment. They live in dire conditions, many still in need of shelter, as winter arrives.

Our governments have immediate obligations. We must not normalise or support this illegal regime, and we must act to protect and save lives. We call on all our governments to expel the local Israeli ambassador; recall their own ambassador from Israel; end all arms sales; and impose sanctions on Israel until it ends the genocidal war on the people of Gaza, stops ethnic cleansing and settler violence in the West Bank, and commits to full equality and justice for Palestinians in accordance with all Palestinian rights under international law. 

We also call on our governments and legacy media to stop conflating Israel with Jews or Zionism with Judaism.  Israel’s claim to act in the name of the Jews of the world, to weaponise antisemitism and exploit the Holocaust of our people for genocidal ends must be rejected!

Read this statement on our website

GLOBAL JEWS FOR PALESTINE

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We are Jews from many countries, who are members of local, national and international networks and organizations. We are multi-ethnic and multigenerational and our members embrace a broad range of viewpoints on Jewish religious and ethical traditions. We are connected by our involvement in the struggle for Palestinian rights, and by our determination to work for justice. We oppose Zionism and all forms of racism and colonialism.

We believe that it is our particular responsibility to challenge Jewish organizations whose alliances and actions undermine Palestinian human and national rights, promote Jewish exceptionalism, and overturn Jewish social justice traditions. At the heart of our work is the fight for Palestinian liberation and the struggle for a world free of racial and ethnic hierarchy, colonial domination, and unbridled militarism.
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Alternative Jewish Voices is a member of Global Jews for Palestine