Martin Luther King, Jr. embraced nonviolent resistance for both practical and religious reasons. He argued that that "the Christian doctrine of love operating through the Ghandian method of nonviolence was one of the most potent weapons available to oppressed people in their struggle for freedom." In contrast, violence is "self-defeating." It "solves no social problems; it merely creates new and more complicated ones." From a Christian perspective, the foundation for King's nonviolence is the "Christian doctrine of love" and the belief that "God is on the side of truth and justice." Could analogous arguments for nonviolent resistance be grounded in the Jewish tradition? The presentation will propose such an approach. It will also acknowledge and examine arguments to the contrary, including the hostility of many Jewish commentators to Ghandi's assertion that Jews should have engaged in nonviolent resistance to Hitler. To further clarify the potential of a Jewish commitment to non-violent resistance, the presentation will explore how King's framework would apply to contemporary problems, including the cycle of violent conflict in Palestine and Israel. It will also explore the implications of Erica Chenowith and Maria J. Stephan's research parallelling King's practical argument and finding that in the period from 1900 to 2006, "nonviolent resistance campaigns have been more effective in achieving their goals than violent resistance campaigns. This has been true even under conditions in which most people would expect nonviolent resistance to be futile[.]" (306).