IJSN is an emerging international network of Jews who are committed to struggling against Zionism and its manifestation in the State of Israel.

It is clear that – as with any other anti-imperialist struggle or struggle for social justice – working locally or even nationally is not enough. The challenges we face are international, and the roles that we can play in our local and national locations are limited unless we commit to finding the ways to work together across regions.

Specifically, as anti-Zionist Jews, we have a responsibility to build an international voice with the capacity to challenge the international nature of Zionism and its claim to speak on behalf of Jews worldwide.

Toward this end, we hope the International Jewish Solidarity Network (IJSN) will be relevant to, a resource for, and in mutually supportive relationships with new and existing local, regional and international anti-Zionist efforts that share the Network’s politics and goals. We seek to work in collaborative and accountable ways that reject competition with or the replacement of existing organizing efforts. Our hope is that IJSN will be able to provide international support and legitimacy to local organizing efforts, and foster the mutual sharing, networking, replication and coordination of anti-Zionist Jewish efforts across diverse regions. IJSN should also be a networking vehicle for cultural workers and academics that are not necessarily connected to other forms of activism. This international network also hopes to participate in cross-movement building between the Palestinian liberation struggle and other anti-colonial/anti-imperialist struggles such as prison solidarity work, and the struggles for indigenous rights and environmental justice.

IJSN will publicly launch in fall, 2008.

We read that you plan to sing in a concert in Israel this fall. We write you to ask you to cancel this visit.

Your voice carries with it the love, the pain and the hopes of decades of struggle against oppression in Latin America. Your songs opened pathways into the heart of many of us--all over the world--to a deeper understanding and communion with the peasants, the workers and the indigenous communities of Latin America. Don't let your art become the ambassador of oppression, ethnic cleansing, murder and land usurpation by performing in Israel.