IfNotNow Boston 🔥
@ifnotnowboston.bsky.social
American Jews organizing our community to end U.S. support for Israel's apartheid system + demand equality and justice for all.
CAMBRIDGE
Cambridge For Palestine submitted a questionnaire to all this year's City Council candidates. Based on the responses, they have endorsed Ayah Al-Zubi for a #1 vote.
(They also recommend ranking LaQueen Battle, Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler, Stan Rivkin, & Sumbul Siddiqui in any order.)
Cambridge For Palestine submitted a questionnaire to all this year's City Council candidates. Based on the responses, they have endorsed Ayah Al-Zubi for a #1 vote.
(They also recommend ranking LaQueen Battle, Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler, Stan Rivkin, & Sumbul Siddiqui in any order.)
October 27, 2025 at 10:35 PM
CAMBRIDGE
Cambridge For Palestine submitted a questionnaire to all this year's City Council candidates. Based on the responses, they have endorsed Ayah Al-Zubi for a #1 vote.
(They also recommend ranking LaQueen Battle, Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler, Stan Rivkin, & Sumbul Siddiqui in any order.)
Cambridge For Palestine submitted a questionnaire to all this year's City Council candidates. Based on the responses, they have endorsed Ayah Al-Zubi for a #1 vote.
(They also recommend ranking LaQueen Battle, Jivan Sobrinho-Wheeler, Stan Rivkin, & Sumbul Siddiqui in any order.)
SOMERVILLE
Somerville for Palestine endorses Willie Burnley, Jr. for Mayor, and a Yes vote on Question 3, which would instruct the city to divest from businesses that sustain Israel’s enactment of apartheid, genocide, and occupation of Palestine.
Somerville for Palestine endorses Willie Burnley, Jr. for Mayor, and a Yes vote on Question 3, which would instruct the city to divest from businesses that sustain Israel’s enactment of apartheid, genocide, and occupation of Palestine.
October 27, 2025 at 10:35 PM
SOMERVILLE
Somerville for Palestine endorses Willie Burnley, Jr. for Mayor, and a Yes vote on Question 3, which would instruct the city to divest from businesses that sustain Israel’s enactment of apartheid, genocide, and occupation of Palestine.
Somerville for Palestine endorses Willie Burnley, Jr. for Mayor, and a Yes vote on Question 3, which would instruct the city to divest from businesses that sustain Israel’s enactment of apartheid, genocide, and occupation of Palestine.
Even local elections give us a chance to vote in solidarity with Palestine. Here we have compiled some resources to help inform your decision. Make sure to vote by Election Day, November 4!
October 27, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Even local elections give us a chance to vote in solidarity with Palestine. Here we have compiled some resources to help inform your decision. Make sure to vote by Election Day, November 4!
Tues, 9/16, 7am - LUCE's Salem hub and Matahari are supporting Blanca, a longtime Salem community member and domestic worker, to prevent her detention and deportation at her upcoming ICE check-in in Burlington. Sign up to attend the action and bring your hub: bit.ly/BlancaUpdates
September 12, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Tues, 9/16, 7am - LUCE's Salem hub and Matahari are supporting Blanca, a longtime Salem community member and domestic worker, to prevent her detention and deportation at her upcoming ICE check-in in Burlington. Sign up to attend the action and bring your hub: bit.ly/BlancaUpdates
So we hope you will join us for our next chapter meeting, this Tuesday, August 19th from 7:30-9:30pm in Harvard Square.
RSVP at innmvmt.org/bosaugustchapmeeting for full details.
RSVP at innmvmt.org/bosaugustchapmeeting for full details.
August 17, 2025 at 11:24 PM
So we hope you will join us for our next chapter meeting, this Tuesday, August 19th from 7:30-9:30pm in Harvard Square.
RSVP at innmvmt.org/bosaugustchapmeeting for full details.
RSVP at innmvmt.org/bosaugustchapmeeting for full details.
As Jews, we know what genocide looks like. Many of our families were decimated in the Holocaust & other atrocities. No one deserves starvation. No one deserves to lose their family, to lose their home. No one deserves such horrific brutality.
We can end this, but we need to do it together. Join us.
We can end this, but we need to do it together. Join us.
August 17, 2025 at 8:30 PM
As Jews, we know what genocide looks like. Many of our families were decimated in the Holocaust & other atrocities. No one deserves starvation. No one deserves to lose their family, to lose their home. No one deserves such horrific brutality.
We can end this, but we need to do it together. Join us.
We can end this, but we need to do it together. Join us.
We will not stop choosing life. Not until there is justice for Awdah, for Anas, for all the dead and all the living. Not until all in the Holy Land can live in safety and peace.
We hope you will join us. Watch this space for more ways to get involved… including a chapter meeting next week!
We hope you will join us. Watch this space for more ways to get involved… including a chapter meeting next week!
August 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
We will not stop choosing life. Not until there is justice for Awdah, for Anas, for all the dead and all the living. Not until all in the Holy Land can live in safety and peace.
We hope you will join us. Watch this space for more ways to get involved… including a chapter meeting next week!
We hope you will join us. Watch this space for more ways to get involved… including a chapter meeting next week!
We stand firm that every life is a universe. That all lives deserve the respect, love, and dignity that we share. As Rabbi Toba Spitzer of @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social powerfully told the crowd, our community faces a choice: between life and death, blessing and curse. We must choose life.
August 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
We stand firm that every life is a universe. That all lives deserve the respect, love, and dignity that we share. As Rabbi Toba Spitzer of @rabbis4ceasefire.bsky.social powerfully told the crowd, our community faces a choice: between life and death, blessing and curse. We must choose life.
Yesterday's assemblage was a cross section of Massachusetts Jewry, representing many congregations, beliefs, relationships to Israel & Zionism. But they agreed on this: Israel’s actions are unbearable, a desecration. This is not Judaism.
Photos by Emily Glick
Photos by Emily Glick
August 15, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Yesterday's assemblage was a cross section of Massachusetts Jewry, representing many congregations, beliefs, relationships to Israel & Zionism. But they agreed on this: Israel’s actions are unbearable, a desecration. This is not Judaism.
Photos by Emily Glick
Photos by Emily Glick
500 Jews and people of conscience are taking a stand in the pouring rain for life and freedom. Our tradition denounces these horrors and demands we cry out against them. Every human being is created B’tselem Elohim, in the divine image. If there is a hungry person, one must feed them. #NotInOurName
August 14, 2025 at 10:53 PM
500 Jews and people of conscience are taking a stand in the pouring rain for life and freedom. Our tradition denounces these horrors and demands we cry out against them. Every human being is created B’tselem Elohim, in the divine image. If there is a hungry person, one must feed them. #NotInOurName
Rabbi Rebecca Zimmerman Hornstein and Rabbi Aron Wander declare “We will make the choice every day to not close our hearts to the enormity of the horror.” “We are not here today because we all agree on everything…But we do agree that our tradition teaches the infinite value of sacred life.”
August 14, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Rabbi Rebecca Zimmerman Hornstein and Rabbi Aron Wander declare “We will make the choice every day to not close our hearts to the enormity of the horror.” “We are not here today because we all agree on everything…But we do agree that our tradition teaches the infinite value of sacred life.”
We are at a tipping point. Gazans face catastrophic levels of famine. Hundreds have been slaughtered trying to access aid. Israel’s own human rights organizations are calling what’s happening a genocide. The carnage is unbearable and does nothing to secure Jewish safety. #LetGazaLive
August 14, 2025 at 10:41 PM
We are at a tipping point. Gazans face catastrophic levels of famine. Hundreds have been slaughtered trying to access aid. Israel’s own human rights organizations are calling what’s happening a genocide. The carnage is unbearable and does nothing to secure Jewish safety. #LetGazaLive
HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds of Jews and allies have gathered outside the Israeli Consulate in Boston to decry the ongoing starvation of Gaza. Our Jewish values compel us to demand a ceasefire. To demand aid be allowed into Gaza. To demand our government stop supporting genocide.
#JewsSayNoMore
#JewsSayNoMore
August 14, 2025 at 10:17 PM
HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds of Jews and allies have gathered outside the Israeli Consulate in Boston to decry the ongoing starvation of Gaza. Our Jewish values compel us to demand a ceasefire. To demand aid be allowed into Gaza. To demand our government stop supporting genocide.
#JewsSayNoMore
#JewsSayNoMore
Cantor Vera Broekhuysen, of Congregation Beth El in Sudbury, calls on us to raise some “holy Jewish noise” in response to the chillul hashem of deliberate starvation in Palestine. Join her, and hundreds more, TONIGHT in Boston at 5:30. innmvmt.org/boston-jews-say-no-more
August 14, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Cantor Vera Broekhuysen, of Congregation Beth El in Sudbury, calls on us to raise some “holy Jewish noise” in response to the chillul hashem of deliberate starvation in Palestine. Join her, and hundreds more, TONIGHT in Boston at 5:30. innmvmt.org/boston-jews-say-no-more
Hear Rabbi Toba Spitzer of Temple Dorshei Tzedek speak out against the starvation and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and for the return of hostages. Then join her — & many more — tomorrow at 5:30 as we bring our voices directly to the Israeli consulate in Boston innmvmt.org/boston-jews-say-no-more
August 13, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Hear Rabbi Toba Spitzer of Temple Dorshei Tzedek speak out against the starvation and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and for the return of hostages. Then join her — & many more — tomorrow at 5:30 as we bring our voices directly to the Israeli consulate in Boston innmvmt.org/boston-jews-say-no-more
"If someone is hungry we are called to feed them… there is no excuse for starving another human being." Rabbi Barbara Penzner calls on all of us to stand up and speak out. Tomorrow in Boston at 5:30. innmvmt.org/boston-jews-say-no-more
August 13, 2025 at 11:03 PM
"If someone is hungry we are called to feed them… there is no excuse for starving another human being." Rabbi Barbara Penzner calls on all of us to stand up and speak out. Tomorrow in Boston at 5:30. innmvmt.org/boston-jews-say-no-more
Hear Rabbi David Jaffe as he calls on us to heed our Jewish values of compassion and speak out against the deliberate starvation of Gaza. And then join us tomorrow at 5:30pm, outside the Israeli embassy in Boston, as we rally in protest and prayer.
RSVP at innmvmt.org/boston-jews-say-no-more
RSVP at innmvmt.org/boston-jews-say-no-more
August 13, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Hear Rabbi David Jaffe as he calls on us to heed our Jewish values of compassion and speak out against the deliberate starvation of Gaza. And then join us tomorrow at 5:30pm, outside the Israeli embassy in Boston, as we rally in protest and prayer.
RSVP at innmvmt.org/boston-jews-say-no-more
RSVP at innmvmt.org/boston-jews-say-no-more
Join us this Thursday, 8/14 at 5:30pm in downtown Boston for a mass mobilization. No flags. Details at innmvmt.org/boston-jews-say-no-more
Whoever can protest our people’s actions, and doesn’t, is responsible for them. (Shabbat 54B)
Whoever can protest our people’s actions, and doesn’t, is responsible for them. (Shabbat 54B)
August 11, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Join us this Thursday, 8/14 at 5:30pm in downtown Boston for a mass mobilization. No flags. Details at innmvmt.org/boston-jews-say-no-more
Whoever can protest our people’s actions, and doesn’t, is responsible for them. (Shabbat 54B)
Whoever can protest our people’s actions, and doesn’t, is responsible for them. (Shabbat 54B)
Feel free to join us in A2 at the State House if you would like! The hearing room is very packed. We are currently sitting on the floor at the back of the room, so this is our view of co-chair Simon Cataldo. #mapoli
August 7, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Feel free to join us in A2 at the State House if you would like! The hearing room is very packed. We are currently sitting on the floor at the back of the room, so this is our view of co-chair Simon Cataldo. #mapoli
We close with powerful blasts of the shofar, calling us all to take action:
Message your state elected officials: bit.ly/TishaBavDignity
Say no to a new prison project: bit.ly/NoNewMAPrison
Support the LUCE Immigrant Justice Network of MA: bit.ly/IndividualLUCE
Message your state elected officials: bit.ly/TishaBavDignity
Say no to a new prison project: bit.ly/NoNewMAPrison
Support the LUCE Immigrant Justice Network of MA: bit.ly/IndividualLUCE
August 3, 2025 at 9:58 PM
We close with powerful blasts of the shofar, calling us all to take action:
Message your state elected officials: bit.ly/TishaBavDignity
Say no to a new prison project: bit.ly/NoNewMAPrison
Support the LUCE Immigrant Justice Network of MA: bit.ly/IndividualLUCE
Message your state elected officials: bit.ly/TishaBavDignity
Say no to a new prison project: bit.ly/NoNewMAPrison
Support the LUCE Immigrant Justice Network of MA: bit.ly/IndividualLUCE
More than 30 Jewish congregations and organizations are participating today in the gathering to #RebuildSanctuary in solidarity with our immigrant neighbors. Standing with marginalized communities is a Jewish value.
August 3, 2025 at 9:50 PM
More than 30 Jewish congregations and organizations are participating today in the gathering to #RebuildSanctuary in solidarity with our immigrant neighbors. Standing with marginalized communities is a Jewish value.
Mallory Hannora, Executive Director, Families for Justice as Healing, asks “what is community if not a place to heal and repair?”
Members of @neveragainactn.bsky.social are serving as marshals to ensure a safe gathering - true safety comes from protecting each other.
Members of @neveragainactn.bsky.social are serving as marshals to ensure a safe gathering - true safety comes from protecting each other.
August 3, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Mallory Hannora, Executive Director, Families for Justice as Healing, asks “what is community if not a place to heal and repair?”
Members of @neveragainactn.bsky.social are serving as marshals to ensure a safe gathering - true safety comes from protecting each other.
Members of @neveragainactn.bsky.social are serving as marshals to ensure a safe gathering - true safety comes from protecting each other.
Over 500 Massachusetts Jews and people of conscience have assembled in front of the ICE Boston field office to reject the weaponization of our fear as a tool for dismantling civil liberties. Our Judaism compels us to protect and stand with marginalized communities.
August 3, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Over 500 Massachusetts Jews and people of conscience have assembled in front of the ICE Boston field office to reject the weaponization of our fear as a tool for dismantling civil liberties. Our Judaism compels us to protect and stand with marginalized communities.
HAPPENING NOW: On the Jewish holiday of Tisha B’Av, which mourns the destruction of the Temples in Jerusalem, we call on our leaders to #RebuildSanctuary and resist the federal assault on the dignity, safety, and well-being of immigrants in our community.
August 3, 2025 at 9:09 PM
HAPPENING NOW: On the Jewish holiday of Tisha B’Av, which mourns the destruction of the Temples in Jerusalem, we call on our leaders to #RebuildSanctuary and resist the federal assault on the dignity, safety, and well-being of immigrants in our community.
On this drizzly night in Boston, over 150 people showed up at the ADL office to say we will not be silenced.
End this atrocity now.
End this atrocity now.
July 31, 2025 at 10:55 PM
On this drizzly night in Boston, over 150 people showed up at the ADL office to say we will not be silenced.
End this atrocity now.
End this atrocity now.