Jeremy Weyl
Overview
Jeremy Weyl co-organized an IfNotNow (INN) training event that demonized the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) with Taher Herzallah of American Muslims for Palestine (AMP).
He also helped lead events repurposing Jewish rituals and demonized Israel. Weyl has been an activist with INN in Washington DC since 2014.
Weyl has been a member of the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN) Facebook group since April 2016.
He also helped lead events repurposing Jewish rituals and demonized Israel. Weyl has been an activist with INN in Washington DC since 2014.
Weyl has been a member of the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN) Facebook group since April 2016.
Weyl was reportedly scheduled to graduate with a bachelor’s degree in International Development and Social Change, from Clark University (Clark) in 2010, with the intention of pursuing a master’s degree in Community Development and Planning at Clark.
As of June 2019, Weyl was listed as a dog-walker with Brighter Days in Washington D.C.
Protesting AIPAC
On March 27, 2017, Weyl co-organized an INN training event in Washington D.C., titled: “ResistAIPAC Anti-Islamophobia Training,” that was “developed and facilitated in coordination” with Taher Herzallah, the Associate Director of Outreach and Grassroots Organizing for AMP.The training event’s Facebook page promised to “continue the theme of the day with an action” that focused on the ways “AIPAC supports Islamophobia.”
The INN organizers wrote they were “excited to be joined by” Ramah Kudaimi, the Director of Programs and Operations for U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR), a coalition of American-based anti-Israel organizations, which lobbies the U.S. Congress to adopt anti-Israel policies and to end support for Israel.
INN reported that the event was attended by “55 IfNotNow members from Washington D.C, Boston, Philadelphia, and New York City.”
They also reported that the training session looked at “messages of Islamophobia” and “focused on the ways the Jewish institutions in which many of us grew-up teach and propagate these messages.”
INN then listened to Herzallah go into “greater detail about various Jewish institutions that perpetuate Islamophobia support the occupation.”
The training event was followed by a protest outside of AIPAC's Conference at the Mt. Vernon Convention Center that evening to focus “on the ways AIPAC supports Islamophobia.”
At the protest, INN organizer Jill Raney said that the training earlier that day taught [00:22:10] her how Islamophobia is closely tied to the “American support for the Occupation.”
During the protest, one leader claimed [00:30:18] that AIPAC is “Islamophobic” and “peddles Islamophobia.” Another INN speaker took the bullhorn to explain [00:09:04] that he came out to “make sure that we continue to resist the awful influence that AIPAC has on the Jewish community and our country as a whole.”
Repurposing Jewish Rituals
On April 19, 2016, Weyl helped lead an INN DC “liberation seder” in front of Hillel International’s office in Washington, D.C. The activists can be seen sitting at a mock Passover Seder table and wearing t-shirts that say: “No Liberation With Occupation.”A Seder is a Jewish Passover ritual, that involves telling the story of the Israelites’ exodus from slavery in ancient Egypt and their travels to the Promised Land.
INN uploaded resources for public use and claimed that approximately 500 people participated in their liberation seders. Twenty three INN activists were reportedly arrested at liberation seder events across the country.
On October 13, 2016, Weyl participated in an INN-hosted second day of fasting, following the ancient Jewish fast day of Yom Kippur, “to atone for 50 years of occupation.”
On October 13, 2016, Weyl participated in an INN-hosted second day of fasting, following the ancient Jewish fast day of Yom Kippur, “to atone for 50 years of occupation.”
On October 1, 2014, Weyl promoted and participated in an INN DC event titled: “Taschlich Interrupted,” intended to “cast off the sins of our community and its institutions, which are complicit in the ongoing occupation of Palestine.”
The event appropriated a Jewish High Holiday ritual, called Tashlich, in which individuals symbolically cast off their sins.
On August 5, 2014, Weyl held up a sign that said: “Not in my Name,” during an INN DC vigil outside of the national office of the Jewish Federation of North America (JFNA), timed to coincide with the Tisha B’Av fast day. Tisha B’Av, regarded as the saddest day in the Jewish calendar, is a day of mourning for the destruction of the First and Second Temples in Jerusalem.
The INN vigil called on the JFNA to “condemn the actions of the Israeli government in Gaza.”
During the vigil, one INN leader accused [00:03:19] Israel of the “indiscriminate killing of civilians and especially children. Attacks on UN schools and shelters.”
On August 4, 2014, Weyl promoted on Facebook the August 5, 2014 INN vigil and said: “We will be observing Tisha B'av, our traditional day of mourning, by saying Kaddish for the Palestinian lives cut too short, in this too familiar war and round of massacres.”
He added: “Join us as we speak out against the occupation, and call for an end to the siege and war in Gaza. #ifnotnow, #freegaza, #freepalestine.”
Demonizing Israel
On August 1, 2014, Weyl promoted on Facebook an anti-Israel protest scheduled for August 2, 2014, titled: “National March on the White House: End the Massacre in Gaza!” The event’s Facebook page said it was sponsored by the ANSWER coalition and co-sponsored by AMP, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Al-Awda: Palestine Right to Return Coalition, Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA) and CODEPINK.
The event’s Facebook description called to: “Stop the massacre in Gaza! End the blockade of Gaza! End all U.S. aid to Israel! End the colonial occupation!”
IfNotNow (INN)
IfNotNow (INN) is an anti-Israel organization founded in 2014, in response to Israel’s Operation Protective Edge (OPE) against Hamas.
INN claims to be “young Jews angered by the overwhelmingly hawkish response of American Jewish institutions” to OPE. INN presents three demands on its website: “Stop the War on Gaza, End the Occupation, and Freedom and Dignity for All.”
INN defines “the Occupation as the military rule over Palestinians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza,” which is land Israel has controlled for nearly 50 years since the 1967 Six-Day War. However, INN leaders have made [00:34:32] the claim [00:13:49] at protests that the occupation is 70 years long, referring to Israel’s founding in 1948.
INN actions have aimed to demonize [00:38:13] Israel, harass [00:05:44] mainstream American Jewish organizations like the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and decrease support for Israel among American Jews.
INN has used “public action and imaginative ritual” to achieve its goals, including disruptions where activists were arrested.
One of the high-profile arrests occurred at a May 2018 disruption at a U.S. Senator’s office in Washington, D.C. to protest legislation against the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
At the same incident, INN used [00:07:17] the Jewish ritual of the Mourner’s Kaddish prayer to mourn [00:09:10] protesters who were killed during the Hamas-organized and funded Great March of Return riots on the Israel-Gaza border.
INN activists have also staged and promoted walk-offs from Birthright Israel trips, a heritage trip to Israel for young Jewish adults from across the world.
INN claims to be “young Jews angered by the overwhelmingly hawkish response of American Jewish institutions” to OPE. INN presents three demands on its website: “Stop the War on Gaza, End the Occupation, and Freedom and Dignity for All.”
INN defines “the Occupation as the military rule over Palestinians in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza,” which is land Israel has controlled for nearly 50 years since the 1967 Six-Day War. However, INN leaders have made [00:34:32] the claim [00:13:49] at protests that the occupation is 70 years long, referring to Israel’s founding in 1948.
INN actions have aimed to demonize [00:38:13] Israel, harass [00:05:44] mainstream American Jewish organizations like the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and decrease support for Israel among American Jews.
INN has used “public action and imaginative ritual” to achieve its goals, including disruptions where activists were arrested.
One of the high-profile arrests occurred at a May 2018 disruption at a U.S. Senator’s office in Washington, D.C. to protest legislation against the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement.
At the same incident, INN used [00:07:17] the Jewish ritual of the Mourner’s Kaddish prayer to mourn [00:09:10] protesters who were killed during the Hamas-organized and funded Great March of Return riots on the Israel-Gaza border.
INN activists have also staged and promoted walk-offs from Birthright Israel trips, a heritage trip to Israel for young Jewish adults from across the world.
INN claims to take no position on the BDS movement and that it is “open to any who seek to shift the American Jewish public away from the status quo that upholds the Occupation.” However, INN organizes with pro-BDS, anti-Israel organizations including American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP).
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- 05/04/2026
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