Today, hundreds of young Jews with IfNotNow outside Trump HQ demanded that Jewish federations condemn Steve Bannon, Trump’s chief strategist.
Too many American Jews do nothing to address the most important moral issue that our community faces today — the occupation of the Palestinian Territories — and continue to perpetuate it.
Hundreds of young Jews protested Jewish federations support for endless occupation as part of IfNotNow’s High Holiday #HeedTheCall actions.
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BDS is an understandable reaction by frustrated people, but only cooperation between Israelis and Palestinians will solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Not a single session at the East Bay JCC addressed Israel’s occupation — so we at IfNotNow held our own vigil there that night. Here’s why.
After a month long hiatus, Treyf Podcast is back with episode 17. We discuss The Jewish Daily Forward, If Not Now, Bernie Sanders, the Canadian Jewish News, and Jenna Brager’s Doykeit zine. We were joined by Michelle Weiser and Jesse Alexander Myerson.
There isn’t any misunderstanding between us and them. We are proud of our heritage, but disappointed in our community’s support of the inhumane occupation.
This week nearly 500 #IfNotNow members joined #LiberationSeder actions across the country calling on American Jewish institutions to end their support for the occupation.
Why does Beinart paint Jewish pro-BDS millenials like me as detached from Jewish communal life and identity? Maybe he wants to portray liberal Zionists like Simone Zimmerman as the ‘good Jews’ who still care about the Jewish people, and so, as a foil, he needs to characterize us as the ‘non-Jewish Jews’ who don’t. But not only is that inaccurate and offensive, it makes a mockery of the very values of inclusion he claims to cherish and admire. The power and promise of IfNotNow, the anti-occupation movement started by Zimmerman and other former J Street U students, is that, so far at least, it brings pro- and anti-BDS Jews, Zionist and anti-Zionist Jews together in a broad community of prayer and song, resistance and struggle against communal complicity in the occupation. By placing Jews like me outside the ‘bonds of Jewish peoplehood’ and claiming we are post-Jewish universalists who don’t care about the Jewish community, Beinart reinforces the very divisions and exclusions he praises millennials like Zimmerman for breaking down.