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Read and share the full Wire on our website. The U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. Since the U.S. and Israel's attacks began on Iran last week, nearly a dozen countries across the region have been dragged into a war that threatens the lives of hundreds of millions of people. The U.S. and Israel have already killed over 1,348 people in Iran and approaching 500 people in Lebanon, injuring and displacing hundreds of thousands.   Amidst the online noise, media propaganda, and the terrifying prospect of an escalated regional war, what guides us as we continue to mobilize for Palestinian liberation, and for collective liberation for all?   In this week’s Wire: On the ground: an overview of the week of war As it bombs Tehran, the Israeli state, in partnership with the U.S. military, is instigating region-wide war, advancing its expansionist and genocidal objectives by bombing and invading the south of Lebanon and intensifying its siege of Gaza and the West Bank… The U.S.-Israeli end game: genocide and hypercapitalist imperialism The U.S. and Israel’s shared interest in carrying out this illegal war of aggression against Iran is to remake the region in the image of their own interests, in service of their political and economic power... True international solidarity with the Iranian people.  At a recent JVP Power Half-Hour, Manijeh Moradian addressed attendees on the Iranian people’s fight for self-determination under both U.S.-Israeli bombardment and a brutally oppressive regime, and the tasks ahead for true international solidarity... Read now (8 min) True international solidarity with Iranians. At a recent JVP Power Half-Hour, Manijeh Moradian addressed attendees on the U.S.-Israeli bombardment of Iranian civilians, the Iranian people’s fight for self-determination under a both imperial bombardment and a brutally oppressive regime, and the tasks ahead for true international solidarity. Watch now (15 min) Read excerpts Manijeh Moradian is assistant professor at Barnard College. She is the author of This Flame Within: Iranian Revolutionaries in the United States, and has been an anti-war activist for many years, serving on the United for Peace and Justice organizing committee for the February 15, 2003 global protest against the US invasion of Iraq. She is a founding member of the Raha Iranian Feminist Collective and a member of Feminists for Jina, a global network which formed in fall 2022 to support the women, life, freedom uprising in Iran. Tell Congress: No war on Iran! The U.S. and Israel have launched a brutal war on Iran — a country of 90 million people. Now, reports indicate that Trump might call on Congress to approve $50 billion in military funding to expand this immoral and illegal U.S-Israel war of aggression. Use this tool from JVP Action to tell Congress to block ANY funding for this war on Iran. Email now Tell Your Senators: No Funding for ICE On Friday, February 13th funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) expired. Though reporting suggests that DHS is “shutdown,” agencies that make up DHS including ICE and CBP can still operate at full force thanks to the billions that were given to DHS through last year’s reconciliation bill. Use this tool from Detention Watch Network (DWN) and JVP Action to tell your Senators to vote NO on funding for ICE and CBP. Email now What we’re reading: staying current & going deep on Iran HRANA: Human Rights Activists News Agency At JVP, we follow the Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) for reliable news from the ground in Iran. Iran in Crisis: Seven Essays on the Obstacles to Freedom Contributors trace how long-term neoliberal restructuring, sanctions-conditioned accumulation, ethnonational governance, ecological breakdown, and the systematic destruction of collective political capacities reshape what becomes thinkable as “politics” and what gets offered as a “solution. Edited by Ida Nikou and Manijeh Moradian. JVP Lab is hiring. The JVP Lab Associate Director of Religious and Cultural Organizing will work with organizational leadership to envision and carry out the overall strategy of the JVP Leadership and Culture Lab (JVP Lab).   In the service of growing anti-Zionist Judaism in solidarity with Palestine, the JVP Lab will provide: vibrant arts, culture, and ritual resources and programming alongside a robust leadership development; and training program that aims to grow the political education, organizing skills, strategic capacities, and personal practice of anti-Zionist Jewish organizers. While training curricular development is mostly led by others, the Associate Director of Religious and Cultural Organizing will be in charge of envisioning and carrying out anti-Zionist Jewish ritual, art and cultural organizing projects that enliven and enrich organizing towards Palestinian liberation.  Apply now The Wire is one of the largest American publications dedicated to justice. 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