- Dec 4th 2025: Urgent Action: Call on Congress to Recognize Israel’s Genocide in Gaza and Prevent and Punish the Crime of Genocide!
Dec 4th 2025:
SEND a letter to your Member of Congress here!
Representative Rashida Tlaib of Michigan has just introduced H.Res.876 “Recognizing the genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza.” Please contact and urge your representative to cosponsor and actively support this important legislation. Oregon’s representative Maxine Dexter is an original cosponsor! (If you’re in her district, please thank her!)
Rep. Tlaib’s resolution would officially recognize that the Israeli government has committed the crime of genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza and calls for the United States to take immediate, concrete action to fulfill its binding legal obligations as a party to the Genocide Convention to prevent and punish the crime of genocide.
Read Rep. Tlaib’s full press release HERE
This legislation requires that the United States use all means reasonably available to it to prevent and punish the crime of genocide. This would include halting arms shipments, investigating and prosecuting individuals and corporations implicated in the Gaza genocide, and targeted sanctions directed at the State of Israel and individuals or corporations involved in or facilitating the genocide.
PLEASE use this action alert to contact your representative today! Please SHARE this alert widely, especially to friends and family who live in other congressional districts.
Thank you for being part of the growing community working to end the genocide in Gaza and to bring justice to the Palestinian people!
- Stop Arming Israel: Lawn sign campaign
We are running a lawn sign campaign (see above) to blanket Portland lawns with signs and bumper stickers that read “Stop Arming Israel” and are now available. Please email us today to snag one! jpaopdx@proton.me
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- Urgent Action June 12, 2025: Support the Block the Bombs Act
Please click on the link below to contact your US Representative to urge them to co-sponsor and support the Block the Bomb Act!
Contact Your Representative to Support the Block the Bombs Act
There is a new legislative initiative in the US House of Representatives to BLOCK THE BOMBS to Israel. This Block the Bombs Act, H.R. 3565, was introduced June 5th by Reps. Delia Ramirez, Pramila Jayapal, Mark Pocan, and Sara Jacobs and it already has over twenty co-sponsors. We need to call on our Oregon and Southwest Washington representatives to actively support this legislation today!
Three major organizations working for Palestinian human rights have begun a campaign to support this legislative effort. The Institute for Middle East Understanding, the Council on American-Islamic Relations and Jewish Voice for Peace have all issued urgent action alerts.
JPAO needs to do our part to get our representatives signed on as co-sponsors and actively supporting the Block the Bombs Act.
Please clicking on the link below to add your name and address and START WRITING! PLEASE share this urgent action widely with friends, family and any organizations you’re involved with such as faith groups or your book club. We must get the word out far and wide and now!
Contact Your Representative to Support the Block the Bombs Act
In solidarity,
Jewish-Palestinian Alliance of Oregon
Here are some of the actions we have taken . . .
11/2/24 Oregon Food Bank Volunteer Day
JPAO members joined together to spend a day volunteering at the Oregon Food Bank
1/10/24 Call for Ceasefire
We took out an ad in the Willamette Week calling for an immediate ceasefire and an end to the blockade on Gaza.
11/23/23 Joint Statement
We Made a Joint Statement of Palestinians and Jews in Portland, Oregon, Calling for Immediate Ceasefire and End to Siege and Blockade of Gaza.
Read the Full Text Here
10/30/23 Ceasefire Now! Press Conference, Portland Jews and Palestinians at Senator Jeff Merkley’s Office
Portland Jews and Palestinians held a press conference downstairs from Senator Jeff Merkley’s downtown Portland offices to deliver a joint statement calling for an immediate ceasefire, and end to the blockade of Gaza and release of a hostages.