IfNotNow is sharing stories on social media from members who say Jewish institutions never taught them the reality of Isrel’s conflict with the Palestinians. Many of the Jewish institutions in which we grew up ignored the Occupation. Now we’re speaking out: https://t.co/7svCSpCqcp #YouNeverToldMe pic.twitter.com/6msfKoAShD — IfNotNow (@IfNotNowOrg) September 8, 2017 The campaign, being promoted on…
I was born in the ancient Palestinian city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank in a home around the corner from the entrance to Shuhada Street, the main thoroughfare and marketplace in the city. The name of our neighborhood was Bab el-Khan. Today, hanging on the stone walls of my old Bab el-Khan neighborhood…
For decades, certainly since the Six Day War fifty years ago, Israel has been the one subject committed Jews could not avoid when they got together. Nor did they want to. First there was the 1967 victory which, at the time, seemed like a glorious turn in Jewish fortunes. For once, the Jews prevailed and…
Recently, Mikhael Manekin wrote an article for Haaretz critiquing the role of diaspora Jews in anti-occupation work. Manekin accuses American Jewish activists of not working together with local forces on the ground in Israel and Palestine. However, both actions he criticizes, the rebuilding of a Palestinian village in the South Hebron hills and the disruption…
The role of direct action in movements for justice has always been to agitate and provoke, to dramatize urgent issues and invite people to take a side. In fact, that was precisely our goal in organizing the waves of disruptions this past Sunday at the Celebrate Israel parade in New York City, the day before…
Watching Israel being celebrated in the Celebrate Israel Parade in NYC felt, in some ways, like a surreal experience — but, tragically, it was very real. People were chanting and screaming in support of Israel. American and Israeli flags were intertwined. Israeli settlements were celebrated. Some yarmulkes bore Donald Trump’s name. Juxtapose Israel being hugely…
The top U.N. human rights official called on Tuesday for Israel to pull out of territories captured in the 1967 war that Palestinians now seek for a state, saying it would benefit both sides after 50 years of enmity. In six days of war in June 1967, Israel seized the West Bank and East Jerusalem…
Within days of capturing East Jerusalem and the West Bank in the 1967 Middle East war, Israel was examining options about their future ranging from Jewish settlement-building to the creation of a Palestinian state. As the 50th anniversary of the outbreak of the war nears on June 5, recently unearthed documents detailing the post-war legal…
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