Who We Are
Our Mission
CJNV’s mission is to build a connected movement of Palestinians, Israelis and Jews from around the world committed to coresistance and solidarity against Israeli occupation and apartheid. CJNV works towards its mission by organizing these communities to take part in bold nonviolent action on the ground together.
Our Work
At CJNV, we leverage the privilege Jewish people are granted by the state of Israel to support Palestinian efforts to stay on their land and in their homes, as well as model and amplify the viability and impact of shared resistance. We are working toward a future where there is justice, freedom, and safety for everyone who sees Israel/Palestine as home. This includes the Palestinian right of return.
We choose nonviolent action because we believe it is an important, effective, and strategic way for us to leverage our particular position and privilege in this struggle. This includes the use of direct action, work to document human rights abuses, and existence is resistance efforts.
Our main activities include:
Delegations, where large groups of activists typically come for ten days and join us in nonviolent direct action, critical learning, and projects that support sumud/steadfastness.
Hineinu, where activists stay in Palestinian communities in the West Bank and engage in daily solidarity for three months, primarily through accompaniment and human rights documentation work.
The Olive Harvest, where volunteers join farmers and families, during this economically and culturally vital time of year in Palestinian society, for multiple weeks to provide support for the harvest and protective presence against settler-state violence.
Mobilizing, training, and developing the leadership of Jewish activists from around the world who become grounded in the realities of life under apartheid and connected to Palestinian and Israeli communities struggling together for a future of freedom, justice, and equality for all.
Using our platform to amplify the voices and experiences of our partners to the global stage and taking our on-the-ground experiences back with us to inspire action in our home communities.
Our Values
Invited by Palestinians. All of our activities are led by and planned with our Palestinian partners. We are grounded in solidarity and close relationship with the communities and activists that we work with, and we follow their invitation as we co-vision the shared resistance that guides our work.
Leveraging Our Privilege. Within a system that is built upon a notion of Jewish supremacy, we — as Jews from around the world — carry immense privilege that we can leverage to undo that very system. We recognize that this privilege is not distributed equally amongst us, particularly along racial and gender lines. We support and amplify the efforts of those marginalized while working to dismantle and disrupt the systems that benefit some of us at the expense of others.
Resistive Relationships. We believe that relationships rooted in deep solidarity and co-resistance between Palestinians, Israelis, and Jews from around the world can and will disrupt and destabilize the material and ideological systems that uphold occupation and apartheid and oppress communities across Israel/Palestine.
Radical Imagination. We know that this work requires us to be flexible and adaptive, to learn from and be responsive to changing circumstances and possibilities. We seek to push the edges of what seems possible–strategically, politically, personally and spiritually–in order to vision and actualize different realities.