Researching Palestine

The Alliance for Water Justice in Palestine raises awareness about Israel’s use of water as a weapon against the people of Palestine. The four core principles are
-Water is a human right
-Water should not be privatized
-Water should not be used as an instrument of oppression
-Water should be equally distributed
While raising awareness is the primary focus, the organization also opposes efforts to promote Israeli water companies internationally so long as their technologies are used to oppress Palestinian people.
The Alliance for Water Justice in Palestine came together in 2013 in response to the “Innovative Water Partnership” between government and business leaders in Israel and Massachusetts, a joint project being replicated in other states and countries around the world.

Massachusetts Peace Action Palestine-Israel working group meets on average of once or twice a month. They gather to discuss strategy for Congressional and local lobbying and share educational resources, analyze relevant current events, and plan events.

Vermonters for Justice in Palestine is committed to a peace that includes self-determination and national liberation of the Palestinian people through education, advocacy, and action in order to promote the equality and safety of both Palestinians and Israelis. VTJP members focus their activism in Vermont, and on issues that affect Vermonters.

A grassroots organization dedicated to advancing the movement for justice in Palestine by educating the American public about Palestine and its rich cultural, historical and religious heritage and through grassroots mobilization and advocacy.

Decolonize This Place is a movement based in New York City that organizes around Indigenous rights, black liberation, Palestinian nationalism, de-gentrification, and economic inequality. Their actions often take place at museums and cultural institutions and focus on colonialist tendencies within the art world.

“Eyewitness Palestine is a transformational education program that inspires and trains participants to be accountable lifelong social justice advocates in the Palestine solidarity movement and within their own communities. ”
— Mission Statement —

Raises awareness and funds for the mental health work being carried out in the Gaza Strip by independent, non-sectarian organizations

"Independent research and information-dissemination institute, with particular focus on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, U.S. foreign policy regarding the Middle East, and media coverage of this issue. Specifically, the organization’s objective is to provide information that is to a large degree missing from American press coverage of this critical region."

"We are IfNotNow, a movement of American Jews organizing our community for equality, justice, and a thriving future for all: our neighbors, ourselves, Palestinians, and Israelis. We are Jews of all ages, with ancestors from across the world and Jewish backgrounds as diverse as the ways we practice our Judaism. "

"A grassroots, multiracial, cross-class, intergenerational movement of U.S. Jews into solidarity with the Palestinian freedom struggle, guided by a vision of justice, equality, and dignity for all people."

" Empowers Jewish and Muslim Change-makers with the skills, resources, and relationships needed to improve Muslim-Jewish relations and strengthen cooperation on issues of shared concern. Through a professional fellowship, high school leadership council, and innovative public programming, NewGround works with a broad political and religious spectrum of Muslims, Jews and the institutions."

Located in Woodbridge, Connecticut, with a mission to:
-Research and preserve Palestinian history
-Showcase the Palestinian experience, pre- and post-Nakbah, in Palestine and in the diaspora
-Celebrate Palestinian cultural and artistic achievements
-Tell the Palestinian story to US and global audience through works of art, film, literature, and mixed media
-Serve as a cultural common ground for all Palestinians

"A network for all Palestinian American Organizations in the United States advocating for the advancement of the Palestinian American community’s interest and the rights of the Palestinian people for justice, self-determination, and independence"

"A non-sectarian, ecumenical alliance of Palestinian American Christians seeking to provide a clear voice and presence in faith-based communities in the United States."

The Palestinian Feminist Collective (PFC) is a body of Palestinian and Arab feminists committed to Palestinian social and political liberation by confronting systemic gendered, sexual, and colonial violence, oppression, and dispossession.

"We support a just and lasting peace for Palestinians and Israelis based on human rights, international law, equality, and relevant UN resolutions.
We oppose US military, diplomatic, financial, corporate, and all other forms of support for Israel’s occupation and apartheid policies toward Palestinians.
We stand in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle to achieve freedom from Israeli military occupation, justice for refugees through the implementation of their right of return, full equality for Palestinian citizens of Israel, and the right to self-determination.
We stand opposed to Islamophobia, antisemitism, all forms of racism, and any other expressions of bigotry directed at any person or group. We also reject the charge of antisemitism when it is used spuriously to silence legitimate criticism of Israel’s policies and practices."

"A non-profit, non-partisan and independent organization that aims to represent, educate and advocate on issues of concern to Palestinian Americans, strengthen ties between the US and Palestine, and push forward a vision based on liberty, justice, and human rights for all."

The mission of Honor the Earth is to create awareness and support for Native environmental issues and to develop needed financial and political resources for the survival of sustainable Native communities. Honor the Earth develops these resources by using music, the arts, the media, and Indigenous wisdom to ask people to recognize our joint dependency on the Earth and be a voice for those not heard.

"As Indigenous peoples, we know that ALL life is sacred. We mourn the loss of all those who have died at the hands of this war, including the thousands of children and pray for those that survive to get the support they need to recover from this tragedy. We also must not forget our relatives—the plant, animal, land and water kin—and the harm continuously inflicted on them and our Mother Earth, through war and increased militarism, extractivism and violent forms of colonization."

"In the spirit of all our relations and international solidarity, as Indigenous Solidarity with Palestine (ISP), we call on Indigenous peoples, elected Indigenous officials, governments, organizations, businesses, artists, schools, intellectuals, knowledge keepers, human rights activists, and land and water defenders to comprehensively and consistently boycott and divest from all Israeli public institutions and complicit private companies as a contribution to the movement to end the Zionist occupation and colonization of Palestine."

The Red Nation is a Native American advocacy group that focuses on decolonisation and anti-capitalism as means to liberate Indigenous peoples. "Decolonization is the only form of justice for the crimes of settler colonialism. Those who advocate for Native liberation from US occupation must also advocate for decolonization in Palestine. And those who advocate for decolonization in Palestine must also advocate for Native liberation from US occupation."

Sogorea Te’ Land Trust is an urban Indigenous women-led land trust. "We stand in solidarity with Palestine, also known as Filasṭīn* The vision of Sogorea Te’ Land Trust is to cultivate rematriation and to heal and transform the legacies of colonization, genocide and patriarchy, both where we are and in the world. As an Indigenous women led organization, as peoples descended from survivors and resisters of genocidal and colonial projects, we are in solidarity with all peoples dispossessed from their ancestral lands and struggling for their survival.

Approved by NAISA Council, 3 April 2024. "We, as members of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, condemn in the strongest possible terms the Israeli genocide in Gaza and the ongoing settler colonial elimination targeting Palestinians. In accordance with international law, we call for an immediate ceasefire, immediate access for humanitarian aid, an impartial investigation into all atrocities committed, an end to the illegal occupation of Palestinian lands, and the right of return for Palestinian refugees. We also call for an end to all foreign military aid to Israel. We extend our deepest solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, the West Bank, the occupied territories, and those living in the diaspora as they strive to survive this genocidal onslaught by all means necessary."

alQaws for Sexual & Gender Diversity in Palestinian Society, a civil society organization founded in grassroots activism, is at the forefront of vibrant Palestinian cultural and social change, building LGBTQ communities and promoting new ideas about the role of gender and sexual diversity in political activism, civil society institutions, media, and everyday life.

"coalition harnessing the passion of Australians for Palestinian human rights, justice, and equality"

Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) is a Palestinian-led movement for freedom, justice and equality. BDS upholds the simple principle that Palestinians are entitled to the same rights as the rest of humanity.

The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) is a Palestinian-led movement committed to resisting the long-entrenched and systematic oppression and dispossession of the Palestinian population, using non-violent, direct-action methods and principles. Founded in August 2001, ISM aims to support and strengthen the Palestinian popular resistance by being immediately alongside Palestinians in olive groves, on school runs, at demonstrations, within villages being attacked, by houses being demolished or where Palestinians are subject to consistent harassment or attacks from soldiers and settlers as well as numerous other situations.

The IPSC campaigns for justice for the Palestinian people, through raising public awareness about the human rights abuses in the occupied territories, the violations of international law and the historical causes of the injustices to the Palestinians that lie at the heart of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.

ICAHD brought the issue of home demolitions before the world and was the first organization to rebuild homes as an act of political resistance and to demonstrate that there are Palestinians and Israelis who refuse to be enemies. The mission has expanded to make ICAHD a respected voice for policy change, with clear positions and effective informational materials and presentations, both abroad and in Israel itself. ICAHD asserts that any solution must incorporate several fundamental principles: National expression for both peoples (who are not merely ethnic groups); universal economic viability; conformity with human rights, international law and UN resolutions; a genuine resolution of the refugee issue; and a regional approach, including addressing the security concerns of Israel, the Palestinians and all the states of the region. ICAHD endorses the One Democratic State Campaign and support sthe boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaign.

"A Land for All is a shared movement of Israelis and Palestinians who believe that the way towards peace, security and stability for all passes through two independent states, Israel and Palestine, within a joint framework allowing both peoples to live together and apart. Israeli-Jews and Arab-Palestinians are heavily intertwined on both side of the Green Line and therefore building walls between them is neither realistic nor desirable. Recognizing that both Jews and Palestinians are part of the same shared homeland, and respecting their equal individual and national rights, A Land for All provides pragmatic and viable solutions to the obstacles that have stymied prior negotiations, moving us from a paradigm of separation towards a future based on power sharing and shared interests."

"Palestine Children's Relief Fund (PCRF), founded in 1991 by concerned humanitarians in the USA, provides free medical care to thousands of injured and ill children yearly who lack local access to care within the local health care system. Over the years, we've sent over 2,000 affected children abroad for free medical care, sent thousands of international doctors and nurses to provide tens of thousands of children free medical care in local hospitals, and provided tens of thousands of children humanitarian aid and support they otherwise would not get. "

Palestinian Queers for BDS (PQBDS) is a group of Palestinian queer activists who live in the Palestinian Occupied Territory and inside Israel, who came together to promote and stand for the Palestinian civil society call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel, that was launched in July 2005. As an integral part of Palestinian society we believe that the struggle for sexual and gender diversity is interconnected with the Palestinian struggle for freedom. We believe that the BDS campaign is an effective way of resistance that represents the majority of Palestinian people: the refugees in exile, Palestinians under occupation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and the subjugated Palestinian citizens of the Israeli state.

Standing Together is a grassroots movement mobilizing Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel in pursuit of peace, equality, and social and climate justice. The organization admits "The current socio-political reality in Israel is unbearable. Unending occupation feeds violence, fear, and hatred between Israelis and Palestinians. Economic inequality is widening. Poverty is deepening. Israel’s Palestinian minority faces increasing discrimination. Women, Mizrahim, immigrants, the LGBTQ+ community, the elderly, and people with disabilities are marginalized socially, economically, and politically. Working people must labor for ever longer hours at stagnating wages while the cost of living continues to soar even higher."

Since the Wall’s inception in 2002 the Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign (or Stop the Wall) has been the main national grassroots body mobilizing and organizing the collective efforts against the Apartheid Wall. It is based on the efforts of popular committees in the villages affected by the Wall where people can meet, organize, strategize and mobilize.

The International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People is observed by the United Nations on or around 29 November each year, in accordance with General Assembly mandates contained in resolutions 32/40 B of 2 December 1977, 34/65 D of 12 December 1979, and subsequent resolutions adopted under agenda item “Question of Palestine.” The International Day of Solidarity traditionally provides an opportunity for the international community to focus its attention on the fact that the question of Palestine remains unresolved and that the Palestinian people have yet to attain their inalienable rights as defined by the General Assembly, namely, the right to self-determination without external interference, the right to national independence and sovereignty, and the right to return to their homes and property, from which they have been displaced. In response to the call of the United Nations, various activities are undertaken annually by Governments and civil society in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. These activities include, among other things, the issuance of special messages of solidarity with the Palestinian people, the organization of meetings, the dissemination of publications and other information material, and the screening of films.

NGO that has been working since 2002 for exposing and disseminating historical information about the Palestinian Nakba in Hebrew, with a view to promote accountability for the Nakba among the Jewish pubic of Israel and the implementation of the Right of Return of Palestinian refugees.