American Jews organizing our community to end U.S. support for Israel's apartheid system. We demand equality, justice & a thriving future for all
#CeasefireNOW
AIPAC’s Super PAC has pledged to spend $100 million in Democratic primaries targeting progressive incumbents who speak out for Palestinian rights — using money from Republican megadonors.
Inconceivable?
Wallace Shawn explains why it's beyond time to
#RejectAIPAC
:
BREAKING: Activists in South Carolina just took over Biden's speech to call for a ceasefire.
"20,000 dead Palestinians; their blood is on your hands."
Biden was shaken. He's starting to understand the reality: his war on Gaza is horrifically unpopular, and people are fed up.
BREAKING: American Jews and allies have now blocked 4+ doors to the White House. We’re prepared to put our bodies in the way of more slaughter — we’re ready to stay here until Biden forces a ceasefire.
BREAKING:
#CeasefireNOW
protesters have now completely taken over the California Democratic Convention, and the stage sits abandoned.
The tide has turned.
Young people simply will not allow our politicians to keep supporting the mass murder of Palestinians.
The California Democratic Convention has been completely taken over with demands for a ceasefire!
In the room, Dem delegates & voters chant over speeches from Katie Porter and Adam Schiff, who are anti-ceasefire.
Meanwhile, a huge sit-in in the lobby!
This is an abomination. As Jews, to see this being done in our name... horrifying, despicable, words fail.
This is what our government supports in Gaza. Thousands of children murdered, people being rounded up, stripped, and G-d knows what else.
Ceasefire NOW, end this nightmare
One of the men arrested in this video is our colleague Al-Araby Correspondent Diaa Kahlot, along with his family, who are most definitely not members of Hamas.
He and other captives were stripped naked in the street and taken to an unknown location.
Journalism is not a crime!
BREAKING: Dozens of
#JewsForCeasefire
were just arrested for blocking the Israeli Consulate in Chicago.
The crowd is singing in Hebrew from the Book of Isaiah, a prayer to end wars from thousands of years ago.
We are crying out, from the depths of our soul, for a ceasefire.
This is dangerous & reckless disinformation, Congressman.
We were peacefully linking arms, singing, and calling for a ceasefire.
As you can see with your own eyes in this video.
Then Capitol Police rushed in, threw us down the stairs, and pepper sprayed us.
Retract this now.
Was just evacuated from the
#DNC
after pro-terrorist, anti-
#Israel
protestors grew violent, pepper spraying police officers and attempting to break into the building.
Thankful to the police officers who stopped them and for helping me and my colleagues get out safely. (1/2)
The California Democratic Convention has been completely taken over with demands for a ceasefire!
In the room, Dem delegates & voters chant over speeches from Katie Porter and Adam Schiff, who are anti-ceasefire.
Meanwhile, a huge sit-in in the lobby!
California Democrats just shut down Adam Schiff’s speech to demand a
#CEASEFIRENOW
.
If you haven’t already, call your representatives and demand their support for a CEASEFIRE NOW!!!
Such a violent, tragic understanding of our history and culture.
Fiddler on the Roof ends as Jews are driven from their homes, forced to leave behind everything they knew.
The lesson is that ethnic cleansing is bad, not that we need be powerful enough to be on the winning side.
BREAKING: We just dropped a banner from Coit Tower in the heart of San Francisco.
LET GAZA LIVE!
California politicians are being shamed for their horrific failure to support a ceasefire, instead arming the genocide of Gaza.
👀 on Sen. Padilla, Sen. Butler, & Speaker Pelosi.
BREAKING: American Jews and allies have now blocked 4+ doors to the White House. We’re prepared to put our bodies in the way of more slaughter — we’re ready to stay here until Biden forces a ceasefire.
HAPPENING NOW: we’re at the
@jvplive
takeover of Grand Central Station to demand
#CeasefireNOW
.
As the Israeli government starves and bombs and invades the people of Gaza in the dark, the actions we take these next days and weeks will define our lifetimes.
BREAKING: 75 American Jews & allies were just arrested shutting down a Los Angeles freeway to demand a ceasefire, and an end to U.S. funding of war crimes against the people of Gaza.
Millions face death by bomb, bullet, starvation & disease in Gaza. No more business as usual.
BREAKING: Jews for Ceasefire, including
@IfNotNowLA
&
@JVP_LA
, and allies just completely shut down Adam Schiff's Super Tuesday speech. He gave up on his prepared remarks and left the stage.
As Jews, we cannot be silent as the people of Gaza are slaughtered. Let Gaza Live!
BREAKING: American Jews just interrupted Biden's fundraiser, calling on him to support a
#CeasefireNOW
.
Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg from Jewish Voice for Peace Twin Cities: "Mr. President, as a Rabbi, I need you to call for a ceasefire right now."
The $1,000+ donors booed & hissed.
RIGHT NOW: Jewish Harvard students with
@harvardj4p
emerge after a 24-hour sit-in at University Hall calling on their administration to support a
#CeasefireNOW
.
This is the Jewish future: students across the country speaking out and demanding immediate action.
Grand Central is booming with chants of “Never again for anyone. Never again is now” from the American Jews and allies who’ve taken it over with
@jvplive
.
This crowd is demonstrating that fighting for freedom and equality for all is a Jewish value we must all live out.
In less than 60 seconds last night, Mehdi Hasan cut to the heart of this moment in America: Israel is massacring and starving Palestinians to death, Biden refuses to put an end to it, and there’s a good chance he'll blow the election to Trump as a result.
BREAKING—PRO-PALESTINE
@googlecloud
ENGINEER DISRUPTS
@Google
ISRAEL DIRECTOR AT GOOGLE-SPONSORED ISRAELI TECH CONFERENCE IN NYC.
The worker demanded that Google STOP using worker labor to power genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
#NoTechForApartheid
CRITICIZING ISRAEL IS NOT ANTISEMITISM
CRITICIZING ISRAEL IS NOT ANTISEMITISM
CRITICIZING ISRAEL IS NOT ANTISEMITISM
CRITICIZING ISRAEL IS NOT ANTISEMITISM
CRITICIZING ISRAEL IS NOT ANTISEMITISM
CRITICIZING ISRAEL IS NOT ANTISEMITISM
CRITICIZING ISRAEL IS NOT ANTISEMITISM
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Meanwhile in Gaza, 75% of the population has been bombed or driven out of their homes. Now they face unending starvation and disease, while shivering wet in the cold.
BREAKING: Jews and allies, led by Jewish Voice for Peace, have taken over the Statue of Liberty.
Our grief is being used to justify genocidal violence against the people of Gaza. It has to stop.
10,000 dead. We NEED a
#CeasefireNOW
.
🎥 via
@rafaelshimunov
📲
@JVPlive
BREAKING: 10 young American Jews just interrupted President Trump’s speech at the
@RJC
! "Jews are here to say, the Occupation is a plague. Jews are here to say, white nationalism is a plague."
Freedom and dignity for all!
Press release and statement:
BREAKING: Our members in New Hampshire just asked
@ewarren
if she would commit to pressuring the Israel to stop their 52 year military Occupation over the Palestinian people.
She said YES.
BREAKING: Israel's Minister of National Security just confirmed that his plan is for the IDF to expel all Palestinians from Gaza.
This is the genocidal government that Joe Biden and the Democratic Party backs, funds, and arms.
Itamar Ben Gvir, Israel’s Minister of National Security, said during an interview with Israel’s Channel 12 on Wednesday that he believes Israel needs to “occupy Gaza and stay there” and that they would develop a “plan of encouragement” to make Palestinians leave.
BREAKING: Hundreds of Jews + allies have shut down all 15 lanes of downtown Boston's biggest intersection.
Business as usual is a death sentence for the people of Gaza. On this last night of Chanukah, we make calls for ceasefire impossible to ignore.
@IfNotNowBoston
@JVPBoston
"Right now, we stand here as men who refute their Jewishness and the Holocaust being hijacked by an Occupation which has led to conflict for so many innocent people."
BREAKING: Jews in Durham, North Carolina have shut down the highway to call for a
#CeasefireNOW
.
No food. No water. The hospitals are full, and the bombs keep dropping.
What's happening to the people of Gaza cannot be allowed to continue.
@JoeBiden
, you have to stop the bombs.
BREAKING: 80 rabbis & rabbinical students across denominations and political affiliations just released this video urging the larger Jewish community and U.S. leaders to call for a
#CeasefireNOW
.
Watch and share
#Rabbis4Ceasefire
now:
BREAKING: Democratic Party headquarters has been SHUT DOWN demanding a
#CeasefireNOW
.
We're here with
@JVPaction
&
@DemSocialists
because 80% of Democratic voters support a ceasefire, but Biden and party leaders refuse to listen.
The killing has to stop. We will not be ignored.
The disruption of Biden's speech comes a few hours after NYC activists shut down the Holland Tunnel & 3 major Manhattan bridges.
Young people are furious. We will not allow Biden and the U.S. to continue to support the starvation & slaughter of Gaza.
Testimony from Doctors Without Borders:
"Israeli forces have attacked our convoys, detained our staff, bulldozed our vehicles... For a second time, one of our staff shelters has been hit. This pattern of attacks is either intentional, or indicative of reckless incompetence."
“NO MORE WEAPONS. NO MORE WAR. CEASEFIRE IS WHAT WE’RE FIGHTING FOR”
7,000 Palestinians are already dead and over a million more have been displaced. Israeli leaders continue to openly use genocidal rhetoric.
We desperately need a ceasefire now.
All week long,
#JewsForCeasefire
have been taking action.
How's it going?
Well, we've never seen Fox News more confused...
But from coast to coast, day after day, Jews & allies around the country made sure the urgent need for a
#CeasefireNOW
was impossible to ignore. 🧵
We are deeply offended by President Biden’s statement last night, and call on him to apologize.
Telling American Jews that our safety ultimately comes from Israel is antisemitic. Like all other Americans, like all other humans, we deserve to be safe & free in the place we live.
“Were there no Israel, there wouldn’t be a Jew in the world that is safe,” Biden says at the White House Hanukkah party as he reaffirms support for Israel against its war against Hamas.
Yesterday, we asked
@CoryBooker
“Do you believe the Occupation is a human rights crisis for Palestinians?” He got visibly frustrated.
He admits: “If that's your issue I would understand if you want to support somebody else”
Looks like he’s choosing
@AIPAC
over the grassroots.
There are no Palestinians at this press conference. No Palestinians were invited to the White House meeting about the plan. No Palestinian leaders were involved in the "process" that led to this plan.
The whole thing was designed to support the project of endless occupation.
We're calling on ALL American Jews and allies to join us at the White House this Monday to demand that Biden implement a ceasefire and force Israel to halt its war on Palestinians in Gaza.
Mourn for the dead; fighting like hell for the living.
Join us:
Jewish Israelis are calling on Netanyahu to stop the massacre in Gaza, negotiate to free the hostages, and agree to a
#CeasefireNOW
.
Their courage, through grief, is an inspiration.
When we close ourselves off to the suffering of others, we cut out part of our own humanity.
This morning Biden vetoed a ceasefire in Gaza. Tonight he goes to a fundraiser hosted by AIPAC billionaire Haim Saban, with donors giving up to $250,000 each.
BREAKING: NYPD have come to disperse the crowd and silence our voices but we’re only getting louder.
We will not rest until we get a ceasefire, safe return of hostages, and an end to the siege on Gaza.
Countless lives are at stake.
@jvplive
The list of Congress-members calling for a
#CeasefireNOW
is growing.
We need to keep the pressure up so more of our political leaders choose ceasefire and not more bloodshed.
Join an action near you to help make this happen:
BREAKING: Dozens of Jews and allies have taken over
@SenMarkey
's office in Boston. We won't leave until he commits to VOTE NO on $14B in weapons for Israel to commit genocide in Gaza.
We need your help to swamp the phonelines of six key senators:
BREAKING: American Jews & allies are holding a massive sit-in at Philadelphia's largest train station, calling for a
#CeasefireNOW
.
The violence against the people of Gaza has to end, the hostages must be released, and we need a political solution. More death will solve nothing.
We are American Jews. We are in mourning. But today, we are at the Capitol to act.
We need leaders in Congress to fight for a
#CeasefireNOW
.
Chuck Schumer, Bernie Sanders, Hakeem Jeffries, and Katherine Clark: that means you.
And we’re not leaving your offices until you do.
BREAKING:
#JewsForCeasefire
in Boston are sitting-in on the BU Bridge, begging our politicians to demand a ceasefire NOW.
Every day of war means more death, more starvation, more children losing limbs, more babies becoming orphans
It is unbearable, our souls cry out against it.
This was not
@RepRashida
's Hanukah message to the whole Jewish community. This is a message she sent specifically to our Detroit chapter related to work we're doing together. You misleadingly edited it to strip out that context, to make it seem like something sinister. It's not.
As a Jewish movement, we're alarmed by the House resolution falsely conflating anti-Zionism & antisemitism.
Antisemitism is real. This resolution doesn't fight it.
It’s a cynical attempt to silence Palestinian, Jewish, & allied Americans calling for an end to the bloodshed.
NEW YORK: Hundreds of Jews & neighbors are lighting a NINE-FOOT TALL MENORAH decorated with the word “Ceasefire.”
On the first night of Chanukah, we’re making it clear:
End the siege on Gaza. Release all hostages. We are
#JewsForCeasefire
.
BREAKING:
@IfNotNowLA
confronted Adam Schiff about his support for the slaughter in Gaza, and got tackled to the ground by his security. All they did was speak the truth: "this man is sending your tax dollars to kill children in Gaza."
Police have just been called in on
@IfNotNow
Boston protestors who are calling on Sen. Warren to stop Israel from committing genocide against civilians in Gaza. Deescalation is needed for the safe return of hostages.
Profoundly disturbed by this video of refugees fleeing for their lives in Gaza, being harassed over a loudspeaker by Israeli troops as they file past facial recognition cameras.
Razan al-Najar, 20, before she was killed by an IDF sniper: “Women are often judged. But society has to accept us. If they don't want to accept us by choice, they will be forced to accept us. Because we have more strength than any man.” Full interview:
Watch:
Yesterday, at a DC event on “the critical importance of supporting and safeguarding health workers,” USAID rep Dr. Atul Gawande struggled to respond when activists asked him to condemn the US-funded Israeli assault on Gaza, which has killed scores of health-workers.
“We had the attack in California on a synagogue. It’s the same person who’s accused of attempting to bomb a mosque. So I can’t ever speak of Islamophobia and fight for Muslims if I am not willing to fight against antisemitism.” -
@IlhanMN
gets it.
We’re fed up.
The youth™️ simply will not accept support for starvation, mass murder, and driving millions of Palestinians from their homes.
Ceasefire or get out of the way.
NEW: Among voters 18-34, 70% disapprove of Pres. Biden’s handling of the Israel-Hamas war in the
@NBCNews
national poll.
@SteveKornacki
: “He is 50 points underwater with the youngest group of voters.”
@kwelkernbc
: “It’s a critical group he needs in order to win re-election.”
Ever wondered how lobby groups like the
@NRA
and
@AIPAC
work?
@AOC
explains how lobbies work in DC, including how groups that support insurrectionists like
@AIPAC
use carrots and sticks to get members of Congress to support unpopular policy positions.
Thank you
@AOC
🙏
No Palestinian should have to fear waking around in public visibly Palestinian.
And yet due to our political leaders’ racist rhetoric and actions, that’s becoming the reality.
Palestinians, and all of us, deserve better. Praying for their safety.
Three young Palestinian men, Hisham Awartani, Tahseen Ali and Kenan Abdulhamid, students at Brown and other US universities, were shot last night on their way to a family dinner in Burlington, USA. Their crime? Wearing the Palestinian keffiyeh. They are critically injured. And…
The House just voted 286-134 to pass a spending package that bans funding to UNRWA, the primary organization providing humanitarian aid to Gazans on the brink of famine.
The bill also gives $3.8 billion in funding to Israel.
Our elected leaders are funding Palestinian death.
BREAKING: The US just vetoed the UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
The US was the only vote against. The UK abstained.
Our government is actively enabling & supporting the Israel’s massacre of Palestinians in Gaza.
WOW. Moms for Ceasefire just interrupted
@SpeakerPelosi
at
@RepDonBeyer
's Seventh Annual Women's Conference to ask her to commit to a
#CeasefireNOW
.
"There is a genocide happening in Palestine. Children are dying. We should care."
Her response? "A ceasefire is a gift to Hamas."
These 4 facts need SO much more attention:
1. The people of Gaza are being starved to death by Israel.
2. The U.S. sent a massive ship loaded with flour to feed them.
3. Israel won't let the U.S. ship deliver the flour.
4. Biden does nothing about it, except send more bombs.
It’s outrageous and disturbing that
@SpeakerJohnson
is calling our nonviolent protest “pro-Hamas” & antisemitic.
We are Jewish. Many of us have loved ones in Israel. We were demonstrating peacefully for a ceasefire and police violently attacked us.
Retract this & apologize now.
Last night, pro-Hamas protesters outside the U.S. Capitol violently attacked the Democratic National Committee headquarters. I condemn this criminal activity, which injured six brave Capitol Police officers, in the strongest terms. As Americans, we must unite with one voice in…
YESTERDAY:
@RepDanGoldman
, a Democrat, cast a shameful vote to censure & silence Rep.
@RashidaTlaib
.
NOW: Hundreds of furious New Yorkers are at his office. Hundreds of children are dying every day, but Goldman is focused on policing Rashida's words.
We need a
#CeasefireNOW
!
Our members in NH just asked
@BernieSanders
if he’s also an anti-Occupation Jew and looks like the answer is YES!
Learn more about us bringing the crisis of Israel’s military occupation over Palestinians to 2020 elections w/this exclusive from
@Politico
:
Devastating testimony from American pediatrician Dr. Seema Jilani on her experience treating children in Gaza:
"I just kept thinking this is one of so many, a generation of orphans born into Gaza, burnt and amputated. It will stay with me for all my days."
"I stand by my congresswoman in demanding accountability from the Israeli government. I stand by her in the face of racist, Islamophobic attacks by those who seek to pit my Jewish community against Muslims."
Rosa, an IfNotNow member, spoke alongside
@IlhanMN
&
@RashidaTlaib
.
Hundreds of American Jews are marching to the JFK Federal Building in Boston.
As the Israeli government starves and bombs and invades the people of Gaza in the dark, we name it: this is genocide.
American politicians have a choice:
#CeasefireNOW
, or the blood is on your hands.
RIGHT NOW: New York Jews & allies are holding a 7-hour shiva for ceasefire in front of the
@ADL
’s conference.
We’re here to reject the ADL’s anti-ceasefire, anti-Palestinian platform.
Ceasefire now. End the siege on Gaza.
Never again means never again for anyone.
HAPPENING NOW- a multi-racial, multi-faith collective of residents across Missouri is protesting an
@AIPAC
fundraising dinner in Jefferson City to say AIPAC’s money to further genocide in Palestine is not welcome in our state!
#AIPACoutofMO
Bisan is sitting in Gaza. She has the same question we do: how are American politicians about to vote on sending $14B more in weapons to Israel, to kill her and her family and everyone she knows?
More ceasefire protests are expected at 3pm, when Biden lands at Love Field Airport in Dallas.
The movement for a ceasefire isn't fading away, it's growing. Politicians like Biden who hoped to "wait it out" are just starting to realize they severely misunderstood the situation.
We firmly support South Africa’s Genocide Convention case against Israel at the International Court of Justice.
It's a vital step toward halting Israel’s brutal assault on Gaza and holding Israel and its leaders accountable for their violence and incitement against Palestinians.
BREAKING: 40 Rabbis are leading a morning Shacharit service in front of the U.S. Capitol, praying for peace and a ceasefire.
Our grief and pain is being used to justify horrific acts of violence against Palestinians.
In our hearts and in our souls we cry out:
#NotInOurName
!
We are proud to be the first Jewish organization to endorse
@BernieSanders
for President.
As a movement of young Jews fighting for freedom and dignity for all, we know that this fight is not over.
#NotMeUs
#JewsForBernie
As Jews, we’re repulsed by the results of the Israeli election. But we’re not surprised. We need to recognize how we got here.
The victory for Kahanists is the product of an apartheid regime that suppresses the rights of Palestinians on both sides of the green line.
1/6
The
#JewsForCeasefire
week of action is upon us.
Right now in Chicago, hundreds of Jews and allies are blocking the entrance to the Israeli Consulate.
We will not accept another day of atrocities, done in the name of Jewish safety.
#CeasefireNOW
!
@JVPChicago
@NeverAgainActn
A Democratic senator is suggesting a direct action at Elbit Systems, Israel’s largest weapons manufacturer, is antisemitic.
It is *not* antisemitic to protest a weapons manufacturer that profits off war & death.
It *is* absurd for her to equate a weapons manufacturer to Jews.
What happened at Elbit in Merrimack yesterday was an act of vandalism – not free speech. At a time of rising antisemitism in America, this must be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. I’m grateful to law enforcement for keeping Elbit employees safe.
This is horrifying.
Israel just bombed Jabalia Refugee Camp. Already over 100 Palestinians are dead, with that number growing rapidly, and hundreds more are injured.
We don’t want your ‘thoughts and prayers’
We want you to stop enabling white nationalism and antisemitism in this country.
We want you to stop using your support for Israel and Netanyahu’s racist government as a cover for your hate.
WE WANT YOU TO STOP
Thoughts and prayers to all of those affected by the shooting at the Synagogue in Poway, California. God bless you all. Suspect apprehended. Law enforcement did outstanding job. Thank you!
We’re devastated to learn about the murder of Samantha Woll, a leader in the Detroit Jewish community, earlier today.
Everyone deserves to be safe and live without fear.
May her memory be a blessing.
BREAKING: Netanyahu just declared “Israel has to control the entire area from the river to the sea.”
Ruling Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza forever, until they’re killed or driven out.
Endless occupation, apartheid, and genocide. Will this be your legacy
@JoeBiden
?
“Never again for anyone.”
Dozens of protesters from the group 'Not in Our Name Vienna' disrupt the Austrian Parliament, demanding a ceasefire in Gaza ⤵️
American Jews and allies led by
@jvplive
have SHUT DOWN Grand Central Station to let our political leaders that we refuse to allow business as usual while the Israeli military bombards Gaza.
CEASEFIRE NOW.
Join us on the right side of history: