This is the Forward’s coverage of IfNotNow, an American progressive group which advocates for Palestinians and opposes Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and blockade of Gaza as part of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Opinion Why If Not Now Is Right To Snub Jewish Establishment
As a small but growing anti-occupation group, If Not Now has received much recent publicity. First, one of its founders, Simone Zimmerman, was hired by Bernie Sanders’s campaign as director of Jewish outreach before being abruptly fired for an earlier Facebook post about Benjamin Netanyahu. Then came widespread coverage around the group’s Passover “liberation seders”…
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News Anti-Occupation Group If Not Now Wins Attention of Millennials — and Ire of Jewish Establishment
A controversial new organization calling itself If Not Now is rapidly gaining attention, members and steam. But critics say that its mostly millennial members aren’t accomplishing anything substantive with its current approach. The group’s profile recently climbed when its founder, Simone Zimmerman, was very publicly fired by United States presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, who had…
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Israel News 17 Jewish Activists Protesting Israeli Occupation Arrested at ADL Headquarters
Police arrested 17 activists denouncing the “Jewish establishment’s support of the occupation of Palestine” on April 20 in the lobby of the Anti-Defamation League during one of a series of Passover protests organized by anti-occupation group If Not Now. Before they were cuffed and shuffled into New York Police Department vans, the young activists had…
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Fast Forward 6 Jewish Anti-Occupation Protestors Arrested at Boston AIPAC Office
Six young Jews were arrested for trespassing Tuesday night at AIPAC’s Boston office after they chained themselves to a Seder table in protest of the organization’s support of Israel. The protestors were participating in an event organized by the Jewish group IfNotNow, which calls on Jewish institutions to oppose Israel’s occupation of Palestinian land. The…
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Opinion This Passover, We’re Joining Simone Zimmerman To Fight for Freedom for All
When the American Jewish establishment went after Simone Zimmerman, Bernie Sanders’s recent pick as his liaison to the Jewish community and a longtime social justice activist and organizer, it made a clear statement to an entire generation of young Jews: If you dare to depart from our position on Israel, you are not welcome in…
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