what we can do

Israel has declared total war on Gaza, and has cut its supply of food, electricity, and water. Contact your Members of Congress and join an action near you.

US Campaign for Palestinian Rights

• Call your members of Congress to demand a ceasefire and de-escalation
• Email your member of Congress to #StopArmingIsrael

Jewish Voice for Peace

• Call your member of Congress and ask them to join these strong anti-war voices calling for a ceasefire
• Write to your member of Congress and ask them to join these strong anti-war voices calling for a ceasefire

Contact your legislators and demand they support the #CeasefireNOW resolution, which urges the Biden Administration to call for an immediate de-escalation and ceasefire in Israel and occupied Palestine, to send humanitarian aid and assistance to Gaza, and to save as many lives as possible.

Mass mobilizations are happening all over the world. Join an action or organize one in your community.

Rising Majority: A multiracial coalition building a shared cross-movement, multi-decade strategy and vision in response to the urgency of this political moment.

IfNotNow: A progressive organization of American Jews organizing their community to end U.S. support for Israel's occupation and demand equality, justice, and a thriving future for all Palestinians and Israelis.

Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU): Focused on the disinformation and narrative strategy for Palestinian human rights (and this issue at large).

Just Vision (JV): Filling the narrative gap in the media and storytelling through smart reporting, award-winning films, and media strategies. WDN provided seed funding for Just Vision’s Hebrew-language news outlet, Local Call, and members have been executive producers for films that JV produced.

American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC): Works to defend and promote human rights, civil rights, and liberties of Arab Americans. This is critical given the rise in Islamophobic attacks.

Adalah Justice Project: Palestinian-led advocacy organization based in the U.S. that builds cross-movement coalitions to achieve collective liberation

Diaspora Alliance: An international organization dedicated to fighting antisemitism and its instrumentalization by promoting the values of a multiracial democracy.

Jewish Voice for Peace: The largest progressive Jewish anti-Zionist organization in the world, organizing a grassroots, multiracial, cross-class, intergenerational movement of U.S. Jews into solidarity with the Palestinian freedom struggle.

US Campaign for Palestinian Rights: A cross-racial movement-led organization working to strengthen advocacy for Palestine in the broader progressive field.

Whether you're new to this or true to this, here are some ways to either keep up or brush up on what's going on:

Follow Al Jazeera, Democracy Now, +972 Magazine, and Jewish Currents for up-to-date reporting.

At Mondoweiss, Tareq S. Hajjaj writes from Gaza: “This could be my last report.”

Jewish Currents’ Raz Segal explains that what Israel is carrying out in Gaza is a textbook case of genocide.

Jewish Voice for Peace Executive Director Stefanie Fox argues that “Never again” means standing up for Palestinian people; “Never again” means this very moment, at Boston Review.

Just Vision in the NYT, “What more must the children of Gaza Suffer” by Fadi Abu Shammalah reporting from Gaza At Truthout, Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba remind us that what preceded the killings in Israel and Gaza was not “peace”—it was apartheid.

Black Women Radicals compile an important primer and reading list illustrating “the radical Black feminist mandate, which is solidarity with Palestine.”

Watch: Direct From with award-winning journalist, Dena Takruri who won a Peabody Award in the news category for the video One Day In Hebron.

Listen to the podcast series from the Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU), This is Palestine.

Haymarket Books believes that books have a vital role to play in the global Palestine solidarity movement. In that spirit, they’ve made three crucial books on the Palestinian struggle free to download.

Watch: pleasure activist and author of Emergent Strategy adrienne maree brown held two Instagram lives, one on Jewish Dignity and Action with Morgan Bassichis of Jewish Voice for Peace; another on Practical Tips for Solidarity with Palestine with Lara Kiswani of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center.