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A delegation of IfNotNow members and staff – alongside our longtime movement partner, the Center for Jewish Nonviolence – are currently visiting the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel to meet with Palestinian partners and Israeli solidarity activists.
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Meet the Delegation: Heshie, IfNotNow Philadelphia Chapter
“I want to tell the people in my congregation what I’ve seen, and I want to move them to action such that we could create even a greater movement to try to stop this madness.”
IfNotNow’s “Shared Safety Delegation” of members and staff has been visiting on-the-ground partners throughout the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel. Upon return, participants will 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.
Past pressure from the U.S. government has worked to stop West Bank demolitions and keep Palestinians on their own land. Write your reps immediately to demand action: https://t.co/h8KgSXiQg2
This is part of the Israeli government's escalated strategy of ethnic cleansing. Those who draw the maps, determine the classifications, create the regulations, and control their implementation are ultimately providing settlers with the support and protection necessary to drive Palestinians from their land.
Meet the Delegation: Rachel, IfNotNow DC and Boston Chapters
“I’ll be returning back to the U.S. to organize with just such a richer and fuller image of what is happening here, and how it connects to our work [organizing the Jewish community] at home, and a commitment to keep doing that.”
IfNotNow’s “Shared Safety Delegation” of members and staff has been visiting on-the-ground partners throughout the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Israel. Upon return, participants will 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.
Today, we are publishing a new report: “The Next Frontier: Violence by Israeli Civilians Against Palestinians in Areas A and B"
Over the past two years, settlers have begun establishing outposts in Areas A and B with state support. Our new report shows how the line of outposts also marks the line of violence: In 2026, 63% of the incidents of settler violence against Palestinians documented by Yesh Din took place in areas A or B.
The data we collected and analyzed clearly show that wherever outposts are established, violence follows - reaching into Palestinian living areas, villages, homes, and courtyards.
The systematic, organized violence carried out deep within Palestinian territory, with institutional backing and support, demonstrates that these acts form part of a coherent Israeli policy: “cleansing” the area of Palestinians. Or, in other words - ethnic cleansing.
Every home, every family, and every piece of land in Umm Al-Khair now faces an existential threat from state-supported settler attacks inside their village and around their homes — all under the pretext of “disputed land.”
Watch: Just last week, In the village of Umm al-Khair, Khalil Hathaleen showed Shared Safety Delation members a settler outpost that has been established right in a Palestinian family’s backyard — in what has become an effort to displace the entire village.
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The home featured in our video, belonging to Salem Hathaleen and his family, is merely an initial target.
But now the entire village is at risk. In a sudden and highly alarming move, Israeli authorities have changed the maps and land classifications concerning Umm Al-Khair — reclassifying over 90% of the land previously recognized as privately owned now as “disputed land.”