Welcome to 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 IfNotNow Is The Jewish Black Lives Matter
I spent last Shabbat with students from Harvard Hillel and was reminded, again, how important a generational movement IfNotNow is becoming. I don’t think most older American Jews grasp it yet. This is our Black Lives Matter. IfNotNow is the Jewish wing of a youth-powered activist awakening that the United States has not seen since…
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Fast Forward Leftwing Israeli Lawmaker Slammed For Joining Anti-AIPAC Protests
Leftwing Israeli parliament member Tamar Zandberg is facing blowback in Israel for appearing at a protest against the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. Zandberg, a lawmaker with the leftwing Meretz party, spoke to If Not Now, the anti-occupation group that organized a large demonstration outside of AIPAC’s annual policy conference in Washington, DC on March…
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News How Did IfNotNow Protestors Make It Into AIPAC Conference?
The plan to enter AIPAC’s policy conference was hatched months in advance. A dozen IfNotNow activists registered to participate in the conference, with a clear intent of staging a distraction that would draw attention to their protest against the pro-Israel lobby. Of the dozen, only four got approved. The rest did not pas AIPAC’s screening,…
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Fast Forward WATCH: IfNotNow Protesters At AIPAC Conference
Activists from the IfNotNow group entered a conference held by the America Israel Public Affairs Committee Sunday, demanding that American Jews stop supporting what they say are Israeli abuses toward the Palestinians. Security at the AIPAC conference, the largest pro-Israel conference of the year, was extremely strict and according to IfNotNow members, the four activists…
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Breaking News AIPAC Revoked Credentials Of IfNotNow Activists Registered To Conference
Hundreds of Jewish activists marched outside and blocked the entrances of the largest pro-Israel conference of the year to oppose what they say is support for Israel’s mistreatment of Palestinians, even as several members claimed they were rejected from the conference because of their political views. “We’re proving the consensus is changing in the American…
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Fast Forward IfNotNow Protests Outside AIPAC Offices in New York
Members of the leftist Jewish protest group IfNotNow rallied outside the New York City offices of AIPAC on Monday. The protest targeted a new Israeli law that allows Israelis to build on land in the West Bank privately owned by Palestinians. “We know that fifty years of pro-Israel-at-any-cost politics enforced by the American Jewish establishment…
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Israel News Women Plan Anti-Trump March in Tel Aviv — but Split Looms Over Occupation
An anti-Trump protest coinciding with the Women’s March on Washington is set to take place outside the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv on Saturday. But protesters are split about whether to make Israel’s policy toward the Palestinians a key focus of the demonstration. Pantsuit Nation Israel, an offshoot of the pro-Hillary Clinton Facebook group in…
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News Is Fight Against Donald Trump Sparking New Movement of #JewishResistance?
(Haaretz) — When 50 members of the grassroots protest group If Not Now arrived at UJA-Federation of New York in the late afternoon gloom last Monday, they were met by a scrum of police and security officers barring their entry into the building. Holding a banner bearing the IfNotNow logo and #JewishResistance, the young demonstrators…
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