Friday, April 29, 2022
Elder of ZiyonIfNotNow, the hate-Israel group that used to be able to grab headlines and not much else, had been in serious trouble for a while now.
We noted last October that the group sent out a mailing to its list, asking its own people why it should exist and trying to figure out what it should do next.
Yet a look at their website shows that they have been floundering for a while. They haven't issued a press release for over a year. Their blog hasn't been updated since August 2020. And they haven't updated their news section since 2019! Even Jewish Currents noted last year that the group was imploding.
On their Facebook page, to kick off 2022, they started a fundraiser to raise $40,000 for "leading our community to reject apartheid and embrace equality, dignity, and safety for all."
They did not get a single donation.
Today, anti-Israel group IfNotNow's co-founder quit the group. He says there is a new leadership team, but they are nowhere to be found in their webpage.
On that webpage, however, they have a section describing their "principles." One of their twelve principles is the vague, and vaguely egocentric, "We show up for ourselves." And within the description they say, "We acknowledge the existence of anti-Jewish oppression, in the world and in ourselves."
The have always recognized that they are antisemitic!
This is a fitting epitaph for the childish, full-of-themselves, antisemitic hate group.
