Read NIF's latest press releases and statements. For press inquiries, please contact Elisheva Goldberg at: 917.740.4031 phone or [email protected].
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NIF CEO on Trump E.O: “Limiting Students’ Speech Harms All Of Us”
11 December 2019Today, following the release of President Donald Trump’s Executive Order: Combating Anti-Semitism, seeking to withhold federal funding from universities in a manner that would restrict freedom of expression on U.S. college campuses, NIF CEO Daniel Sokatch released the following statement.
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NIF Statement in Response to Shooting Attack in Jersey City Kosher Supermarket
11 December 2019Our hearts break for the victims and for their families of the JC Kosher Supermarket attack in Jersey City — may their memories be for a blessing.
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Progressive Israel Network Commends Passage of House Resolution 326 Opposing Annexation, Supporting Two-State Solution
6 December 2019As leading progressive pro-Israel organizations in the American Jewish community, we commend the House of Representatives for passing House Resolution 326. This landmark resolution, which reaffirms support for a two-state solution, marks the first time the House has formally opposed unilateral Israeli annexation of the West Bank and asserted longstanding US opposition to settlements.
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U.S. Revocation of Settlements’ Illegality Will Do Grave Damage to Israel’s Democracy
21 November 2019Following Secretary of State Pompeo’s announcement that “The establishment of Israeli civilian settlements in the West Bank is not per se inconsistent with international law,” NIF released the following statement…
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18 Israeli Civil Society Organizations to President Rivlin: Denounce Prime Minister’s Racist Incitement
18 November 2019In light of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s latest comments in which he defamed Arab citizens and their duly elected members of Knesset as an “existential threat,” a group of 18 civil society organizations in Israel sent a letter to President Reuven Rivlin denouncing the Prime Minister’s incitement to racism…
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13 American Jewish Organizations Call On Israeli Political Leaders to “Reject Annexation”
6 November 2019Thirteen organizations – the coalition members of PIN, the Israel Policy Forum, the National Council of Jewish Women, and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical Association – sent a letter to the heads of Israel’s political parties calling on them to refuse any kind of unilateral annexation of the West Bank or parts of it.
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NIF CEO: “Only a government with something to hide would work this hard to keep out those with whom it disagrees”
5 November 2019Today, responding to news that the Israel and Palestine Director of Human Rights Watch Omar Shakir will be deported, NIF CEO Daniel Sokatch released the following statement. . .
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NIF Launches New Values Driven, Donor Advised “Progressive Jewish Fund”
23 October 2019NIF announced the creation of the Progressive Jewish Fund (PJF), which will be the only national progressive Jewish platform from which to make both US and Israel-based grants. The PJF will enable people to set aside philanthropic dollars to give to organizations – Jewish or non-Jewish – whose values are consistent with NIF’s principles and policies.
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NIF Statement on the Attack in Halle
10 October 2019Responding to the attack on the Halle synagogue and kebab shop on Yom Kippur, Deputy Director of the New Israel Fund affiliate in Germany, Amir Theilhaber, and New Israel Fund CEO Daniel Sokatch released the following statements…
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Progressive Jewish Letter of Support for Omar Shakir
24 September 2019We write on behalf of five American Jewish organizations in support of Omar Shakir, the Israel and Palestine Director of Human Rights Watch. We call on the Israeli government to cease its efforts to deport Shakir and on the Israeli Supreme Court to reverse the lower court ruling that upheld the deportation.
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