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.
In this moment, we are calling on the American Jewish establishment to stop its silence and come out against Stephen Bannon. We know our alliances with other targeted groups is both the right choice for our security and to live out the values inherent in our tradition.
Here's some of our work:
We took over Trump’s transition office in DC.
We kept Stephen Bannon from speaking at the ZOA—and called out the ZOA’s racist fear-mongering and support of the occupation.
We rallied outside of Breitbart HQ and said no to white supremacy.
And just this week, when major Jewish organizations held a Hanukkah party at Trump Hotel, we took to the streets to be the public. moral leadership our community needs.
We are reigniting the #JewishResistance, and this is only the beginning.
Over the next few months, we will continue to build the #JewishResistance by mobilizing locally and across the nation. We want to train hundreds more people as members of IfNotNow, bring thousands 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. Any donation you can give directly supports the work of IfNotNow—and helps sustain the kind of powerful, joyous community we need to build this world with love.