SEND A MESSAGE: Netanyahu and AIPAC do not speak for American Jews!
AIPAC & Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
This weekend Netanyahu is coming to Washington, to meet with Trump and keynote the AIPAC conference. So we're taking to the streets of DC with a mobile billboard to send a clear message to AIPAC, Trump, and Netanyahu: You Don’t Represent our Jewish Community! When you sign this petition, you can choose to have your name appear on the billboard, as it cycles through the names of Jews across the country making our voices heard!
In the past few months, the media has been talking non-stop about American Jews. Analyzing us, making assumptions, speaking for us, and attacking people of color in our name. Worst of all, last week Donald Trump had the gall to say American Jews are becoming Republicans in a ‘Jexodus’, after all he and his white nationalist allies have done to endanger Jews and all other marginalized groups.
It's infuriating, but it's not surprising. For years the right-wing, including Christian Zionist evangelicals like Mike Pence, professional Israel boosters like AIPAC, and politicians like Netanyahu have claimed to speak for us. We say enough. It’s time for progressive Jews to speak out and be counted.
Can you make a donation to IfNotNow today so we can pay for more billboard time in DC this weekend?
When Trump says American Jews are becoming Republicans in a ‘Jexodus’¹, because we think Democrats hate us, Trump does not speak for us.
When Netanyahu says Israel is “not a state of all its citizens, but only of the Jewish people”², allies with anti-Semitic leaders across Europe³, and brings outright racist fascists into his governing coalition⁴, he does not speak for us, even though he claims to represent “all Jews”⁵.
When AIPAC gives Trump a standing ovation⁶, funds Islamaphobic hate groups⁷, invites speakers who accuse Muslim congresswomen of being secret terrorist supporters⁸, and flies Jewish settlers from the West Bank to DC so they can promote endless Occupation⁹, they do not speak for us.
Please sign and share so we can show the size and strength of the progressive American Jewish community!
¹ Politico: Trump applauds 'Jexodus' movement, calls on Jewish voters to become Republicans
² The Guardian: Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel is ‘not a state of all its citizens’
³ The Independent: Netanyahu accused of pandering to ‘antisemitic’ leaders after Israel invites European nationalist politicians to summit
⁴ Washington Post: Netanyahu’s Faustian pact with the racist right is about saving his own skin
⁵ Jerusalem Post: Netanyahu boards plane for Washington: I go as an emissary of the entire Jewish people
⁶ Times of Israel: US Jews, most of whom oppose Trump, cheer US president at AIPAC
⁷ JTA: AIPAC paid $60,000 to group that peddles anti-Muslim conspiracy theories
⁸ The Forward: Megadonor Who Withdrew From AIPAC Conference Has History Of Controversial Tweets
⁹ Jerusalem Post: AIPAC to host first settler leader at U.S. policy conference
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As progressive American Jews, we will no longer be silent while you push a right wing agenda in our name. We are united against Islamophobia, white nationalism, and the denial of freedom and dignity to Palestinians.