IfNotNow

Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil calls for God to 'hold Israel accountable' at Yom Kippur event

"It's tough to repent at a time where our tuition fees, our tax dollars, our votes are being used to kill, to maim, to displace Palestinians," he said.

Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil speaking at a Yom Kippur Yizkor event in New York, September 21, 2026.
A BANNER that reads "Dump AIPAC" is displayed by demonstrators as they take part in a protest against the US backing of the Israeli military operation in Gaza, outside the Washington office of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in Washington, DC, US, September 22, 2025.

Jewish Illinois rep. withdraws endorsement for congressional candidate over AIPAC ties

 Jewish pro-Palestinian activists protest Birthright in a scene from the documentary "Israelism"

Israelism: The progressive Jewish documentary roiling college campuses

IfNotNow protest at Chabad on Shabbat.

If Not Now organizes 'shiva' for Gazans, including Hamas terrorists


IfNotNow calls on Ramah to allow anti-occupation speakers to address campers

Ramah is "the camping arm of Conservative Judaism in the United States, which sees more than 11,500 campers every year."

IFNOTNOW PROTESTERS outside the 2017 AIPAC policy conference in Washington, DC

IfNotNow includes Palestinian terrorist in list of 'heartbreaking' deaths

The New York Times also identified Nseir as “a militant.”

People organized by IfNotNow protest outside of Trump International Hotel against the new U.S. Embassy opening in Jerusalem in Washington, US, May 14, 2018

IfNotNow does not speak for me

As I entered my third decade, I wanted to engage more meaningfully with my own relationship to Judaism and experience Israel firsthand. And so, this past winter, I attended Taglit-Birthright.

People organized by IfNotNow protest outside of Trump International Hotel against the new U.S. Embassy opening in Jerusalem in Washington, US, May 14, 2018

IfNotNow activists interrupt Trump speech, denounce ‘plague of occupation’

The small group chanted “Jews are here to say Occupation is a plague,” and “Jews are here to say white nationalism is a plague.”

People organized by IfNotNow protest outside of Trump International Hotel against the new U.S. Embassy opening in Jerusalem in Washington, US, May 14, 2018

15 Jewish students arrested protesting against Birthright

IfNotNow members have been arrested previously while protesting other major Jewish groups, such as the Anti-Defamation League.

People organized by IfNotNow protest outside of Trump International Hotel against the new U.S. Embassy opening in Jerusalem in Washington, US, May 14, 2018

IfNotNow pickets Chabad on Shabbat in protest of ex-IDF soldier speaker

“I’m not against protests, even if I disagree with the cause. But on Shabbat -- during prayer services – really?” wrote Rabbi Zev Johnson.

IfNotNow protest at Chabad on Shabbat.