The Jewish Federations of North America - Israel Action Network - Project in partnership with JCPA

Israel Action Network is a strategic initiative of The Jewish Federations of North America in partnership
with the Jewish Council for Public Affairs to counter assaults on Israel's legitimacy

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The Israel Action Network is here to help you counter delegitimization in your communities 24/7. We believe the following resources will be essential assets in doing so. Please do not hesitate to contact us should you need any additional assistance.

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  • IAN One Sheet

New to the Israel Action Network? Want to know where we’ve been and where we’re going? Download this primer to share with your community and find out how we can better serve you. Click here to view.

  • IAN Delegitimization FAQ

Defining and confronting delegitimization is an often difficult endeavor and it’s quite likely that you’ll have many questions as you tackle this task. We’ve got answers. Click here to download our FAQ to start the conversation.

  • IAN Military Aid FAQ

How much military aid does Israel receive from the U.S. and why? Click here to break down the answers to these questions and understand the strategic benefits of military aid for both countries’ shared economic and military interests.

  • IAN Fact Sheet: ‘Israel Is Not an Apartheid State’

The accusation that Israel is an apartheid state is both factually and morally incorrect. This important document explains why.

  • Mobilization Manual: Tips for Countering the Delegitimization of Israel

The Israel Action Network (IAN) Mobilization Manual:  Tips for Countering the Delegitimization of Israel provides a guide for developing your community strategy for countering delegitimization. It lays out 10 Tips for defining your goals, developing your target audiences, key issues, information and communications, making sure you understand the processes you need to impact and setting measures of success and accountability so that you know that you met your goals, what worked, and lessons learned. Delegitimization efforts occur on many stages, with many voices and varied tactics. As such, friends of Israel need to be sophisticated in approaching Israel advocacy and create effective responses to these assaults. The 10 “Tips” for countering delegitimization in the IAN Manual are:

TIP 1: Understand the Challenge

TIP 2: Is this Criticism or Delegitimization?

TIP 3: Know your Facts; Do the Research

TIP 4: Identify your Audience: Supporters; Opponents; Target Communities of Concerned Individuals and Organizations

TIP 5: Take an Inventory of your Assets: People; Skills; Program; Missions; Cultural Events; Monetary Resources

TIP 6: Map Out your Strategies 

TIP 7: Clean your Message Slate Plate

TIP 8: Engage

TIP 9: Stay Connected and Networked

TIP 10: Evaluate; Applaud Successes; Reward Advocates; Invest in What Works

  • IAN FACTs:  Briefings for Community Activists Issue #1: Future Trends

IAN FACTs will be a new source of information for communities that will inform strategy and action. IAN will publish a periodic journal with contributions by top scholars, policy-makers, pollsters and leading advocates who can discuss issues, trends and strategies that can inform our collective work.In consultation with activists in the field, IAN’s professional team will develop a unique question for each edition of IAN FACTs that will address the issues you are confronting. IAN’s professional team will frame the discussion and conclude with recommendations for community responses and mobilization. Experts in the field will provide short, executive summary-style features that respond to the question posed.The first issues of IAN FACTs (to be released by the end of 2011) asks the following question: “What form will assaults on Israel’s legitimacy take in 2012?” Contributers to the inaugural edition include:

  • MP Irwin Cotler, Former Justice Minister of Canada
  • Prof. Yuval Shany, Chair of International Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Senior Fellow, The Israel Democracy Institute and Adv. Ido Rosensweig, Researcher, The Israel Democracy Institute
  • Brig. Gen. (IDF, Ret.) Michael Herzog, Senior Fellow at the Jewish People Policy Institute, Jerusalem
  • Mr. Ethan Felson, Vice President & General Counsel, Jewish Council for Public Affairs
  • Ms. Sharon Ashley, Hillel’s Center for Israel Engagement, Hillel’s of North America
  • Mr. Oren Segal, Director, Center on Extremism and Ms. Adina Holzman, Research Analyst, The Anti-Defamation League
  • Eran Shayshon, Analyst Team Leader, National Security, The Reut Institute
  • Mr. Jeremy Newmark, Jewish Leadership Council (UK)
  • Mr. Shimon Koffler Fogel, CEO of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs
  • Rt Hon Dr Denis MacShane, MP, British Parliament
  • Martin Schwartz, Executive Director and Arieh Lebowitz, Associate Director of the Jewish Labor Committee
  • Prof. Michael Walzer, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton University

IAN FACTs will be distributed to the full IAN network, including JFNA’s 157 Jewish Federations and 400 non-federated communities, as well as the JCPA’s 14 national member agencies and 125 local community relations committees/councils.

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