American Jews organizing our community to end U.S. support for Israel's apartheid system. We demand equality, justice & a thriving future for all #CeasefireNOW
IfNotNow Movement is bringing together Jews from across the country for a national call and our first-ever virtual fundraiser to help elect @AbdulElSayed to the U.S. Senate!
Join IfNotNow Movement, @bradlander, Rabbi Alana Alpert, and other special guests on Sept 30 from 8-9pm to find out how you can help elect Abdul to the Senate!
Register: https://t.co/p0eMgnepB4
Israel’s systematic starvation of Palestinians in Gaza is causing a generation of children with stunted physical growth and development.
“What we fear is that we are facing the targeting of an entire generation.”
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“The international community must stop treating these conditions as isolated violations and end the impunity that allows this system to continue.”
Cutting military aid to Israel and blocking weapons is a key tangible step the U.S. could take to bring about systemic change.
Email your members of Congress now to urge them to cosponsor and support the Block the Bombs Act: https://t.co/V7N5Jik7KX
From @btselem Executive Director Yuli Novak:
“The logic of elimination does not require every Palestinian to disappear. It seeks to make Palestinian collective life increasingly impossible while securing permanent Israeli Jewish control.”
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"All this didn't start with the current Israeli government, and it didn't begin on October 7th. Over time the methods have changed, the scale changed, but the direction remained. In the West Bank apartheid remains the central legal framework for understanding the Israeli regime and the crimes committed to maintain it", said Yuli Novak, B’Tselem’s Executive Director, at the launch of our new report The Elimination Project.
A checkpoint. A community forced from its land. A farmer unable to reach his fields. An economy pushed further into crisis. A journalist arrested. These may look like separate events. B’Tselem’s new report shows that they are interconnected parts of the same system.
Understand the logic behind what is happening in the West Bank. See the full picture.
Read the full report >> https://t.co/aWjyA06NpX
In order to win a thriving future for all, we need to elect shared safety champions like Abdul who will fight for that vision.
IfNotNow Movement is working to build Jewish communal support, raise money, and knock doors for Abdul – keep an eye out for ways to take action!
Contrary to what establishment Jewish institutions want us to believe, Jewish communal support for @AbdulElSayed is strong and growing! Jewish voters support medicare for all, abolishing ICE, protecting our democracy, AND blocking weapons to Israel.
https://t.co/kcL06SvQl1
As U.S. Jews, the only true path to safety for our people — and all people — is shared safety. That means strengthening our democracy, blocking U.S. weapons to Israel, and fighting for a future of freedom and dignity for Palestinians, Israelis, our neighbors, and ourselves.
Meet the Delegation: Matt, IfNotNow NYC Chapter
“Everyone I know [in U.S. Jewish communities] says settler violence is wrong. If we just sit here and sat we don’t agree with settler violence, but then we allow blank checks to be written to the Israeli government, or allow them to purchase deadly weapons from us, we’re sending a message that they can do whatever they want. And I want to take that message back and let people know that there is a systemic issue that really revolves around the government of Israel.”
IfNotNow’s “Shared Safety Delegation” of members and staff recently visited on-the-ground partners throughout the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel. Having returned to the U.S., delegation participants are working to share their experiences with their local Jewish communities and activate new supporters in the fight for shared safety — of Palestinians and Israelis, our neighbors and ourselves.
Watch: @SusanSarandon, Hannah Einbinder, @CynthiaNixon and Michael Stipe (@stipemichael_) join B’Tselem’s call to stop Israel’s Elimination Project in the West Bank.
In the video, the artists and B’Tselem team members say that “Israel is carrying out a campaign to eliminate Palestinian collective existence in the West Bank.” They call on the international community to take action to stop this project and note that “U.S. taxpayer dollars are funding these crimes."
Our new report, “The Elimination Project”, examines how Israel is dismantling the material, social and political conditions that enable Palestinians to exist as a society and as a collective in the West Bank: to live on their land, earn a living, maintain communities, social ties and political institutions, organize and exercise their collective rights, and uphold the possibility of a future. By violently reshaping the territory, Israel is working to permanently cement exclusive Jewish-Israeli control and sovereignty over the entire area.
What is happening in the West Bank is not a series of isolated incidents. When you look closely and connect the dots, the picture is clear: this is all part of one political project.
Read more about “The Elimination Project” >> https://t.co/aWjyA06fAp
The international community must stop treating these conditions as isolated violations and end the impunity that allows this system to continue.
Cutting military aid to Israel and blocking weapons is a key tangible step the U.S. could take to bring about systemic change.
Watch: Yuli Novak, B’Tselem’s Executive Director, speaking at the launch of our new report, The Elimination Project, and calling on the international community to act:
“How much more evidence do you need before you act? Statements do not protect anyone until they become action. Every day without meaningful action gives Israel more time to deepen this project and make it harder to reverse.”
The Elimination Project shows how Israel is systematically using interconnected mechanisms: violence, displacement, restrictions on movement, economic strangulation and political repression to dismantle the conditions that allow Palestinians to exist as a collective in the West Bank, while expanding and entrenching Israeli control and Jewish supremacy.
The international community must stop treating these isolated violations and end the impunity that allows this system to continue.
Read the full report >> https://t.co/aWjyA06fAp
Shabbat Shalom and Shana Tova from the Shared Safety Delegation.
We fondly remember the Shabbat we spent together recently in Israel/Palestine.
May the new year bring safety, equality, and justice for all — Palestinians and Israelis, our neighbors and ourselves.
Our movement has experienced so many exciting wins recently, and yet there is so much work to do — in our synagogues, in our streets, and in the halls of power. May the new year bring safety, equality, and justice for all — Palestinians and Israelis, our neighbors and ourselves.
Shana tova.
On the eve of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year and the beginning of the Days of Awe — our beloved Jewish communities enter a period of great reckoning. How did we live out our values in 5786? Where did we fall short? Who will we be in 5787? How can we achieve teshuvah, a return to righteousness?
Bearing witness to U.S.-enabled apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and genocide along with the steadfastness of Palestinians and the solidarity of Jewish Israeli activists has raised our personal stakes in our campaign to block U.S. weapons to Israel. We have already begun sharing our stories with our local Jewish communities and taking action together.