For the past year, I’ve been organizing with IfNotNow - an emergent millennial movement of young American Jews to end our community’s support for the occupation. IfNotNow is grounded in the belief that the liberation of Jews is bound up with other oppressed groups, both in this country and in Israel/Palestine.
Like so many others, I am afraid for myself and for my friends, family and neighbors, and the planet.
But I also have hope. Over the past year, IfNotNow has brought more than 2000 people into the streets under the banner of #JewishResistance.
Over the next few months, we will continue to build the #JewishResistance by mobilizing locally and across North America. We want to train thousands more people as members of IfNotNow, bring tens of thouthousands more into the streets, and make the connection in our community between the moral bankruptcy of our institutions and the pro-Israel-at-any-cost politics that reigns in the American Jewish establishment.
However, we can’t make any of this happen without the support of our community. I have pledged to raise $500 to support this work, and I have already committed $18/month myself. I am asking friends and family to consider contributing around $25 as well.