Points of Unity
While we all come from diverse organizing and activist experiences, and have diverse relationships to our Jewish histories and identities, we share the following points of unity:
- Solidarity with the struggle for Palestinian self-determination, including full political, economic, cultural, social and land rights for all those living in the historic Palestine, and the right of return for its refugees;
- Rejection of the Israeli apartheid state, premised on Jewish supremacy and Zionist ideology, and support for all struggles for legal and economic equality against it;
- Support for the building of just societies in historic Palestine, the larger region, and the other places in which we live;
- A commitment to the values of democratic self-determination, social justice and solidarity, gender equality and cultural rights, and to assert the same values in our own organizing and political practice;
- Commitment to the call from Palestine for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel;
- Challenging the current use of Islamophobia as a strategy for defending and justifying an imperialist US-European agenda;
- Challenging white racism, including its manifestations as Ashkenazi racism against Mizrahi Jews;
- Challenging the privileging of Jewish voices in conversations and negotiations about Palestine;
- Rejection of the ways in which the Zionist movement and Western governments exploit the Nazi holocaust to justify the historic and current actions of the State of Israel; and
- Rejection of alliances with anti-Jewish racists, white supremacist and Nazi holocaust deniers in our Palestinian solidarity work.