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SUMMARY:Conversation with Rebecca Vilkomerson\, Jewish Voice for Peace
DESCRIPTION:&nbsp\;\n\nAfter Gaza: The power of BDS\, and the rise of Jewis
 h voices for Palestinian rights\n\nA conversation with Rebecca Vilkomerson
 \, Executive Director of Jewish Voice for Peace\n\nChaired by Karma Nabuls
 i\, PSC Patron and Professor at University of Oxford\n\nAt King’s Colleg
 e\, London\, PSC co-hosted Rebecca Vilkomerson\, executive director of US-
 based organisation\, Jewish Voice for Peace. Vilkomerson told a packed aud
 ience that the Israeli government’s claims to be acting for and speaking
  on behalf of Jewish people worldwide was simply not true. She said that s
 upport for JVP in the US had increased hugely during the summer\, and the 
 group had tripled its number of branches countrywide in that period.\n\n\n
 Watch the video from 12 minutes in due to sound distortion. \n\nThe horrif
 ic attacks on Gaza over the summer focused the attention of the world on I
 srael's brutality and matrix of control over the Palestinian people. Stude
 nts\, activists\, people of conscience\, took to the streets to demand an 
 end to this injustice.\n\nThey also responded to the 2005 Palestinian call
  for international Boycott\, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel. Acti
 vists around the world intensified their BDS actions\, from the Block The 
 Boat campaign and the Presbyterian Church's decision to divest in the US\,
  to the campaigns against Sodastream\, G4S and Hewlett Packard in the UK.\
 n\nJewish people are increasingly playing a key role in this movement. Jew
 ish Voice for Peace is the largest Jewish organisation in the US which ful
 ly backs the BDS call for justice\, freedom and equality. They have a memb
 ership of 150\,000 and reflect the rapidly changing views of the American 
 public. JVP has been at the forefront of a number of BDS victories.\n\nReb
 ecca Vilkomerson\, JVP's Executive Director\, discussed the power of BDS\,
  and the increasing number of Jewish voices in solidarity with Palestine.\
 n\nThis event was co-hosted by Palestine Solidarity Campaign\, Jews For Ju
 stice For Palestinians\, and King's College London Action Palestine.\n\n&n
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