A few months ago, I took a walk with my son in an old growth forest near our home.

Thank you to @jewishcurrents.bsky.social for the moving dispatch from the JVP National Member Meeting, which begins with this metaphor and goes on to discuss the ways in which the NMM served as a critical place to ground our people and prepare for the fights ahead.

I had the chance to speak directly to JVP members last week at Power Half Hour about what we as organizers can do as the Israeli military once again escalates into all-out genocide against Palestinians, and I wanted to share those words here.

This Saturday, DHS/ICE kidnapped and detained Palestinian student activist Mahmoud Khalil, an Algerian citizen of Palestinian descent with legal permanent residence in the U.S.