diff --git a/src/main/java/com/hubspot/jinjava/lib/tag/IncludeTag.java b/src/main/java/com/hubspot/jinjava/lib/tag/IncludeTag.java
index d8b985c98..132ebb608 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/hubspot/jinjava/lib/tag/IncludeTag.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/hubspot/jinjava/lib/tag/IncludeTag.java
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@
 import com.hubspot.jinjava.tree.TagNode;
 import com.hubspot.jinjava.util.HelperStringTokenizer;
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.List;
 import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;
 
 @JinjavaDoc(
@@ -73,6 +74,9 @@ public String interpret(TagNode tagNode, JinjavaInterpreter interpreter) {
     );
     templateFile = interpreter.resolveResourceLocation(templateFile);
 
+    /* check next tokens if it could be ignored if missing */
+    boolean ignoreMissing = checkIgnoreMissing(helper);
+
     try {
       interpreter
         .getContext()
@@ -108,6 +112,10 @@ public String interpret(TagNode tagNode, JinjavaInterpreter interpreter) {
 
       return interpreter.render(node, false);
     } catch (IOException e) {
+      if (ignoreMissing) {
+        return "";
+      }
+
       throw new InterpretException(
         e.getMessage(),
         e,
@@ -120,6 +128,23 @@ public String interpret(TagNode tagNode, JinjavaInterpreter interpreter) {
     }
   }
 
+  /**
+   * Returns true if the last two tokens match "ignore" "missing".
+   *
+   * @param helper
+   */
+  private boolean checkIgnoreMissing(HelperStringTokenizer helper) {
+    List<String> all = helper.allTokens();
+    if (
+      all.size() >= 2 &&
+      "ignore".equals(all.get(all.size() - 2)) &&
+      "missing".equals(all.get(all.size() - 1))
+    ) {
+      return true;
+    }
+    return false;
+  }
+
   @Override
   public String getEndTagName() {
     return null;
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/hubspot/jinjava/lib/tag/IncludeTagTest.java b/src/test/java/com/hubspot/jinjava/lib/tag/IncludeTagTest.java
index c724a14a0..010cd351c 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/hubspot/jinjava/lib/tag/IncludeTagTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/hubspot/jinjava/lib/tag/IncludeTagTest.java
@@ -207,4 +207,16 @@ public void itAvoidsTagCycleExceptionInsideExtendedFiles() throws Exception {
     );
     assertThat(result).isEqualTo("Extended text, will be rendered");
   }
+
+  @Test
+  public void itIgnoresMissing() throws IOException {
+    String result = jinjava.render(
+      Resources.toString(
+        Resources.getResource("tags/includetag/missing-include.jinja"),
+        StandardCharsets.UTF_8
+      ),
+      new HashMap<String, Object>()
+    );
+    assertThat(result).containsSequence("AB\nCD");
+  }
 }
diff --git a/src/test/resources/tags/includetag/missing-include.jinja b/src/test/resources/tags/includetag/missing-include.jinja
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d73d6871d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/resources/tags/includetag/missing-include.jinja
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+A{% include "foobar" ignore missing %}B
+C{% include "foo/" + something + "/bar.j2" ignore missing %}D
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