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From the printing press… To distribution, To posters across Israel advertising Oct 18 To people as walking signs…   To "VanVoice" – the OneVoice Van!  

Let me introduce you to Michael Shapira, who is in charge of our signatory member outreach campaign on the Israeli side.   He is one of our newest staff members, and yet already an integral part of OV. He has built a network with chapters of recruiters across different parts of Israel… He takes OV [...]

Here are a couple of hits on the Israeli press about our meeting the important milestone of signing up over half a million citizens against violent extremism and towards a two-state solution… On Ynet, the largest portal part of the largest newspaper group in Israel On Kol Israel Radio

Can this be true? Is it a dream? A reality? Or does that depend on us? And also visit www.Goal2018.org – the campaign site!

Antonio Soave, a producer and director who heads Capistrano Productions, helped us put together a filming session to record PSAs from Danny DeVito, Jason Alexander, Annie Cusack, and Elliot Gould. Doug Deluca from the Kimmel show helped us do this at Kimmel Studios in Hollywood, and Barry Meier was the DP.  If you want to [...]

Arianna Huffington and Craig Newmark spoke powerfully at an event that Leah Jones from Edelman helped organize on behalf of the OneVoice Movement, hosted by the guys at Think Tank 3. Craig always cracks me up with his signature wit.  He is funny, self-efacing, down to earth and extremely bright.  He provided an interesting analogy [...]

People should never confuse freedom of expression with the freedom not to have to listen or lend credence to bad people, which is as fundamental a freedom as any. Giving Ahmadinejad the floor at Columbia buttressed him and enhanced him not just globally, but, more dangerously, also at the local level in Iran, where many [...]

Gary Sharma from Srinagar in Kashmir joined us at a blogger meeting bc he is stimulated by the OV approach. He explains he and his family cannot go back to their hometown – and neither can anyone else – since it literally became a military no man’s land after extremists took over. A cautionary tale [...]

The only thing more upsetting than giving Ahmadinejad the floor at Columbia University to spew hatred and idiocy, was hearing lame questions from President Bollinger to him. As anyone could have predicted, Ahmadinejad ignored any questions and just did whatever he wanted with the platform. Bollinger ran out of steam and out of credit with [...]

The guy below is a 6 foot tall basketball player.  These are some of the OneVoice Mandates that Israeli citizens have filled out over the last couple months…