We are Jewish students who are uncompromisingly committed to struggles for human emancipation, of which the liberation of the Palestinian people and land is an indispensable part. Our commitment is to the dismantling of Israeli apartheid, the return of Palestinian refugees, and the ending of the Israeli colonization of historic Palestine.

As Jews, we decry Israel's 60+ years of Palestinian genocide, and we reject the claim that Israeli violence defends a state for "us" and "our" future. We are grounded in the histories of Jewish people who, in many times and places, built solidarity with others in common struggle against racism, oppression, and state violence.  We are inspired by the legacy of student activists in this past century who made critical contributions to resistance and liberation movements around the world.

We will not be silent about the role played by the United States, US-based organizations, and other western states, including universities and campus groups, in justifying, funding, and escalating Israeli terrorism against Palestinians. We have learned, in at university and in our lives, that political Zionism-on which the Israeli state is premised-lays the groundwork for the ethnic cleansing of Palestine, the ultimate goal of which is an exclusively Jewish state on colonized landle. For far too long, Zionist campus organizations have used false charges of anti-Jewish racism in attempts to intimidate and discredit any student or university group that questions Israel's apartheid and genocidal policies.

We assert that organizing for justice in Palestine is not anti-Jewish; it is simply humane, in ways that are entirely coherent with struggles for justice elsewhere in the world and at other times in history.

We pledge our whole-hearted commitment to Campaigns for campus-based boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) against Israel. We support student organizing led by or supporting Palestinians in their struggle for justice.  In 2005, Palestinian civil society called for international support through a non-violent campaign of BDS, in the tradition of the global movement against the apartheid regime of South Africa. Because universities around the world support Israel economically, culturally and politically, and by extension support Israel's policies of apartheid and ethnic cleansing, campus-based BDS campaigns are critical to the global BDS strategy.

We pledge full support for academics and students who voice opposition to Zionist ideology and/or the Israeli state and its brutality in their writing and teachings. Too many professors, other scholars, and students have faced intimidation and threats to their careers for refusing to further the predominance of Zionist ideology in academia. In the spirit of academic freedom, we support the right of all academic professionals to contribute non-Zionist perspectives in academic settings.

We the undersigned are committed to supporting and defending efforts to end Israeli occupation, colonization and apartheid, including but not limited to participation in BDS campaigns and defense of academics vocal against Israel and Zionism. We call on fellow Jewish students of conscience to join us and we urge all university members to support and participate in BDS campaigns.

We the undersigned:

Stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people, who continue to struggle in the West Bank,  in East Jerusalem, inside Israel, in Diaspora, in Gaza, and in the aftermath of the  devastating terror campaign recently released in Gaza.

Stand with students in Palestine organizing for their fundamental right to education, a right which as been systematically denied throughout this history.

Stand with Palestinian students on our campuses. 

Stand with the Palestine solidarity movement at our university and in our region.

Stand with the movements of people throughout the world struggling for justice and liberation. 

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