Tag: IfNotNow
Sanders pledges to ‘leverage’ US funding to ‘end some of that racism’ in Israel
U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who is running for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, said on Tuesday that, if elected, he would be even-handed on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and even leverage U.S. funding “to end some...
New report highlights ties between IfNotNow and anti-Semitic pro-Palestinian group
The progressive Jewish activist group IfNotNow has generated several headlines in the past year by challenging mainstream American Jewish organizations on its support for Israel, and more recently, for its campaign to bait 2020 Democratic presidential...
On the campaign trail, IfNotNow baits 2020 candidates to condemn so-called ‘occupation’
Making headlines over the past year in targeting the mainstream Jewish community and its support for Israel, the upstart IfNowNow group has now thrown itself into the 2020 presidential ring. In the past few...
IfNotNow disrupts Shabbat services, blocks University of Texas Chabad entrance
The University of Texas at Austin chapter of the anti-Israel group IfNotNow blocked the entrance of the Rohr Chabad Jewish Student Center at the school on Saturday and protested a former Israel Defense Forces’...
NEWS Focusing on the funding and leadership of IfNotNow
Fifteen alumni of six Ramah summer camps, who are now members of IfNotNow, sat down on March 22 with National Ramah Commission director Rabbi Mitch Cohen.
The alumni wrote in The Forward, “Our meeting on March...
Habonim Dror North America: Building a Zionist education against the ‘occupation’
Several camp counselors from Habonim Dror were present at an IfNotNow Jewish summer camp counselor training session in Boston on May 27.
An organization that seeks to promote sympathy for the Palestinian narrative by encouraging...
IfNotNow accosts Taglit Birthright groups at New York airport
At New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport on Monday night, Birthright Fellow and student leader Ariel Tidhar reported that the American Jewish activist group IfNotNow waylaid their group, as well as four other Taglit...
Conservative movement alumni draw red line on anti-Israel rhetoric
Members and alumni of the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism are the latest targets of IfNotNow, an organization that seeks to promote sympathy for the Palestinian narrative by encouraging fellow Jews to oppose the...
Are Jewish camps too pro-Israel?
According to some young American Jews, it’s time to start telling kids the truth about Israel. Upset about what they consider to be a steady diet of pro-Israel propaganda that ignores the plight of...