Urgent Actions
Urgent Action:
Dec 4th 2025: Call on Congress to Recognize Israel's Genocide in Gaza and Prevent and Punish the Crime of Genocide!
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!
(Video: Gevara Safadi/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)
Urgent Action June 12, 2025:
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
Photo credit: Palestinians struggle to obtain donated food at a community kitchen in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, Friday, May 9, 2025 (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
Urgent Action May 12 2025:
Please call on your US representative to co-sponsor and actively support legislation recently introduced by Representatives Rashida Tlaib and Pramila Jayapal to block offensive weapons sales to Israel. You can read about the legislation here:
https://jayapal.house.gov/2025/03/31/jayapal-introduces-legislation-to-block-offensive-weapons-sales-to-israel/
Your messages do have an impact! None of the Oregon US Representatives have yet signed on to support this important legislative initiative. But your messages can change that! And we never know which message finally tips the scales toward justice and an end to this nightmare in Gaza. PLEASE take action and please SHARE this urgent action widely!
Click on this link to contact your representative:
Call on your US Representative to BLOCK OFFENSIVE WEAPONS SALES TO ISRAEL! - Action Network
Urgent Action Feb 20, 2025 - No to Ethnic Cleansing! No to US-Sponsored Nakba II in Gaza! Send a Letter to your Members of Congress via ActionNetwork. Click Here!
