Activities

• The US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR) is a “national coalition of hundreds of groups working to advocate for Palestinian rights and a shift in US policy.”
• According to its “Common Principles,” “We oppose U.S. military, diplomatic, financial, corporate, and all other forms of support for Israel’s occupation and apartheid policies toward Palestinians.”
• USCPR is active in lobbying the US Congress.
  • In April 2019, USCPR published “A Guide to Taking Our People Power to Congress,” instructing people how to “move Congress from complicity in Israeli abuses to holding Israel accountable.”
• USCPR runs a “Palestine Youth Organizing Fellowship” to “nurture campaigns and tactics that translate grassroots power—local boycott campaigns, student divestment wins, and local policy changes—into change in deeply unjust federal policies.” According to the NYPost, “USCPR provides up to $7,800 for its community-based fellows and between $2,880 and $3,660 for its campus-based ‘fellows’ in return for spending eight hours a week organizing ‘campaigns led by Palestinian organizations.’” Part of the fellowship training is to encourage fellows to “rise up, to revolution, not reform.”
• In 2020, the Jewish National Fund brought a lawsuit against USCPR “for conspiring to give financial and other means of assistance to terror organizations active in the Gaza Strip.” In March 2021, the lawsuit was dismissed.

Political Advocacy

• USCPR rhetoric includes accusations of “apartheid,” “ethnic cleansing,” “genocide,” “war crimes,” and “colonialism,” as well as supporting a Palestinian “right of return.”
• Exploits the US civil rights struggle by accusing Israel of maintaining a “matrix of control” over the Palestinian population and enacting “laws that discriminate against [Palestinians], much as Black Americans had been treated during the Jim Crow era.”
• In the aftermath of the brutal October 7th attacks, USCPR called for people to join a “Pro-Palestine Protest” and “Be in community and let your rage be heard by the ruling class. We will not accept this as normal.” According to USCPR, “Pro-Palestine activists and student demonstrators are expressing their outrage that American taxpayers have funded a genocide on the Palestinian people, while abandoning Americans to climate catastrophe. Our movement demands an end to U.S. military funding of the settler-colonial state of Israel. There are no ‘both sides’ in Israel’s 76+ years of ethnic cleansing, apartheid, and colonialism.”
• In December 2025, USCPR called for the release of Marwan Barghouti. Marwan Barghouti was convicted in 2004 for his role as a ringleader in a string of terror attacks on Israeli civilians, resulting in at least five murders.  Barghouti has been referred to as the “chief of staff of the Intifada,” for his role in attacks during the second intifada.
• In October 2025, on the two-year anniversary of the Hamas massacre, USCPR published a statement claiming, “Two years ago today, Israel launched its current ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people. This assault came after an additional 75 years of Israel’s violent colonialism to steal native Palestinian land.”
• In April 2025, USCPR sponsored a conference featuring US Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) and Wisam Rafeedie.
  • Rafeedie – labeled “one of the most prominent leaders of the PFLP” by the Ramallah-based Palestinian Museum – claimed that “the US is the head of the snake” after the 2001 death of the PFLP General-Secretary. In 1991, he was sentenced by Israel for being an active member of the terrorist organization.
• In February 2025, USCPR called for people to “Reject Zionism;” “Reject US imperialism & colonization;” and “Reject white supremacy”
• In January 2025, following the release of Palestinian terrorists in exchange for Israeli hostages, USCPR published an article claiming, “90 Palestinian political prisoners have been freed. No matter what happens next, the unbreakable spirit of Palestinian resistance and steadfastness will live on forever” (emphasis in original).
• In January 2025, following a ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, USCPR held a webinar focusing on “what’s required of Palestine supporters in this next phase. Reflecting on the past 15 months, we explored how Palestine’s resistance has globalized intifada, revolution, and anti-imperialism, while exposing Zionism as an inherently genocidal project.”
• In October 2024, to “mark[] one year since Israel began its current ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people,” USCPR published an article claiming, “Our martyrs are not numbers. Every Palestinian life is precious…Today we mourn and we resist in solidarity with the steadfast Palestinian people, who refuse to submit or die quietly…We owe Palestinian people in Gaza our endurance. This is why we will keep fighting—for as long as it takes. We must fight with all our strength to disrupt the U.S. genocide machine, until the U.S. government stops arming Israel and Palestine is free.”
• In September 2024, USCPR submitted an amicus brief in support of the Center for Constitutional Rights, Defense for Children International – Palestine (DCI-P), and Al-Haq lawsuit   alleging that Israel’s “mass killings,” “widespread and systematic attacks on infrastructure,” and “forced expulsion” amount to “genocide.”  
• In February 2024, USCPR launched a campaign titled “Quit Genocide,” calling on President Biden officials to “Resign from Bad Bosses like Butcher Biden Before You’re Part of a Legacy You Can’t Erase.”
• In October 2023, in the aftermath of the brutal Hamas atrocities, USCPR tweeted, “There are no ‘both sides’ when Israel has always been the colonizer & aggressor, with one of the world’s most advanced militaries, trapping 2+ million Palestinians (mostly refugees) in an open-air cage in Gaza in unlivable conditions. This is genocide. Pick a side. Free Palestine.”
• In May 2023, USCPR tweeted, “Sheikh Khader Adnan died in an Israeli prison today on his 87th day of hunger strike, in defiance of Israel’s ongoing repression. A general strike has been called today across Palestine. May Khader’s spirit of revolution live on, until Palestinian liberation & return.”
  • Khader Adnan, a senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad member arrested in February 2023 and indicted for membership in a terror group, supporting a terrorist organization, and incitement, died following his 86-day-long hunger strike and refusal to receive medical treatment from the Israeli Prisons Service.
• In January 2023, USCPR was a signatory on a letter to the American Bar Association stating that “the clear objective behind the promotion of the IHRA definition is the suppression of non-violent protest, activism, and criticism of Israel and/or Zionism…in practice the IHRA definition has been used consistently (and nearly exclusively) not to fight antisemitism, but rather to defend Israel and harm Palestinians – at the cost of undermining and dangerously chilling fundamental rights of free speech, freedom of assembly and protest, and academic freedom.”
  • The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism, adopted by nearly 30 countries and counting, represents the international consensus definition of antisemitism, as well as how to distinguish between legitimate criticism of Israel and antisemitism. An example of the latter includes denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor.
• In February 2022, USCPR called on Congress to vote no on the Israel Relations Normalization Act (H.R. 2748), as “There’s nothing normal about Israel’s ongoing ethnic cleansing and apartheid.”
• In January 2022, USCPR endorsed “Global Days of Action for Palestine” meant to “intensify protests against Israel’s dramatic escalation of violence and ethnic cleansing across Historic Palestine.”
• In August 2022, USCPR signed a joint statement condemning the decision by the Israeli Ministry to designate six Palestinian NGOs as terrorist organizations. The statement called for the international community to “take effective measures to end all other actions that deny Palestinians their inalienable human rights” and to “their support and increase funding to the organizations and engage with financial institutions to ensure the transfer of funds to the organizations.”
• In April 2021, USCPR welcomed the decision of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to launch a formal investigation into alleged war crimes committed by Israel in the “State of Palestine.” According to USCPR, “This is a long-awaited and a critically important step towards ensuring the rule of law and ending impunity, while ensuring accountability for Israel’s crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court.”
• During the 2018 violence on the Gaza border, USCPR urged people to call on their members of Congress to “open an investigation into Israel’s unlawful killing of Palestinian demonstrators in Gaza.” According to USCPR, “US laws are supposed to prevent these weapons from being used to commit human rights abuses. It is past time to end Israel’s impunity to using excessive force against Palestinians” (emphasis in original). USCPR ignored the violent nature of the protests, which have consisted of an organized armed attack on the Israeli border and IDF positions, attempts to destroy and breach the border fence, and sustained arson, rocket, and mortar attacks on Israeli civilian communities.
• In 2018, USCPR created a “political education curriculum” titled “Together We Rise: Palestine as a Model of Resistance” meant to “strengthen liberation struggles from the U.S to Palestine.”

Apartheid Rhetoric

• USCPR is part of a network of NGOs that promote artificial and manufactured definitions of apartheid to extend the ongoing campaigns that seek to delegitimize and demonize Israel. (Read NGO Monitor’s Policy Papers “False Knowledge as Power: Deconstructing Definitions of Apartheid that Delegitimise the Jewish State” and “Neo-Orientalism: Deconstructing claims of apartheid in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.”)
• On April 21, 2021, a coalition of American NGOs, including USCPR, launched a campaign titled “End Medical Apartheid from the US to Palestine: a call to action.”
• In January 2020, USCPR referred to the newly-released President Trump “Peace Plan” as an “apartheid plan.” According to Executive Director of USCPR Yousef Munayyer, “Donald Trump, the White Supremacist-in-Chief, is rolling out a plan to whitewash the apartheid reality alongside his Israeli partners-in-war-crimes.”

No Way to Treat a Child

• USCPR is a “National campaign partner” for the campaign “No Way to Treat a Child,” a vehicle for exploiting children for political warfare against Israel. The campaign was initiated by PFLP-linked Defense for Children International- Palestine and BDS organizer American Friends Service Committee. A February 20, 2017 exposé in the Jerusalem Post revealed the central claims of this campaign to be false.
  • Other “National campaign partners” include Amnesty International, American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), Christian Peacemaker Teams, Friends of Sabeel North America, Jewish Voice for Peace, and Mennonite Central Committee US.
• In 2017, 2019, and 2021, USCPR endorsed US Congresswoman McCollum’s proposed legislation endorsed US Congresswoman McCollum’s proposed legislation meant to advance BDS and demonization of Israeli companies and defense forces. The entirety of the proposed bill is premised on factually inaccurate claims from anti-Israel advocacy NGOs, including direct quotes from DCIP’s “No Way to Treat a Child” 2016 report and website.

BDS Activities

• A leader and mobilizer of anti-Israel BDS (boycotts, divestment and sanctions).
• Organizes campaigns to boycott and divest from companies including HP, G4S, Ben & Jerry’s, and Airbnb.
• US Campaign regularly lobbies the United States government to end military and financial aid to Israel that supports a “brutal military occupation of the Palestinian West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza Strip.”
• USCPR published a “BDS Toolkit” to “help you organize effective boycott, divestment, and sanctions campaigns in your communities.”
• Provides resources for students who are interesting in “pursuing BDS campaigns on their campuses.”
• Publishes “Policy Agenda[s]” calling for the US government to oppose Israeli settlements in the West Bank and Gaza and challenge anti-BDS legislation.
• In January 2026, following US attacks in Venezuela, USCPR published a statement claiming, “While Palestinians in Gaza freeze in flooded tents, Chevron supplies nearly half of the electricity to Israel.⁷ While Trump threatens Venezuela with more U.S. bombs, Chevron is first in line to profit from Trump’s oil grab as the only U.S. oil company currently operating in Venezuela.”
• In December 2025, USCPR encouraged people to “boycott complicit companies on the official BDS list. Continue to raise awareness by stickering or wheatpasting BDS flyers n your neighborhood.”
• In November 2025, USCPR called for people to “Take action to stop genocide and the destruction of native lands. Pick a BDS campaign to share with your family, and plan how you’ll take action together.”
• In May 2025, USCPR held a webinar to “explore lessons that the history of the Palestinian struggle offers us, as well as why mass organizing is our strongest defense. We will outline ways to take action, including the urgent demand for a full arms embargo on Israel.”
• In November 2024, USCPR called for people to “Take action to resist genocide and the destruction of native lands. Pick a BDS campaign to share with your family, and plan how you’ll take action together.”
• In August 2024, USCPR was a part of the NGO network that protested the Democratic National Convention, demanding that Democrats adopt anti-Israel policies. The central demand of the NGO coalition was to “End U.S. Aid to Israel…. We must stop our government from arming and supporting this genocide.”
• In April 2024, USCPR launched a petition calling on Congress to issue an “IMMEDIATE arms embargo and an end to U.S. military funding to Israel.”
• In April 2024, USCPR called for people to “hit the streets and disrupt. Make sure EVERYONE you come into contact with knows that Israel is mass murdering Palestinian families with our federal tax dollars…We must put maximum pressure on our elected officials to stop arming Israel, now.”
• In November 2023, USCPR created the “Stop Gaza Toolkit,”  which included an interactive map detailing “How much of your community’s tax dollars fund genocide.” According to USCPR, “Every year, the U.S. government writes Israel a blank check for at least $3.8 billion. With your federal U.S. tax dollars, the Israeli military is bombing Gaza and wiping out entire Palestinian families right now.”
• In October 2023, in the aftermath of the brutal Hamas atrocities, USCPR published a statement claiming, “The clock did not start on Saturday…The root cause of recent violence is clear: It is Israel’s 75+ years of ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people and theft of native Palestinian land. In order to address it, Congress must end the $3.8 billion/year in U.S. military funding to Israel, which has been actively fueling the Israeli military’s massive violence for decades” (emphasis in original).
• In April 2023, USCPR launched a campaign to “End U.S. Military Funding to Israel.”
• In August 2022, USCPR held a webinar titled “United for Justice Across Palestine: Defund Israel’s Bombs, Blockade, and Bulldozers.”
• In August 2021, USCPR signed a letter to the States Parties to the Arms Trade Treaty calling to “put an end to Israel’s notorious use of arms and military equipment…by immediately imposing a comprehensive two-way arms embargo on Israel.” According to the letter, “This systematic brutality, perpetrated throughout the past seven decades of Israel’s colonialism, apartheid, pro-longed illegal belligerent occupation, persecution, and closure, is only possible because of the complicity of some governments and corporations around the world.”
• In June 2021, USCPR published a statement calling to “End the Flow of U.S. Tax Dollars to Israel’s Genocide of the Palestinian People” and to “immediately stop funding Israel’s ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people.”
• In May 2021, USCPR launched a campaign titled “Rise Up With Palestine: Tell Congress to Sanction Israeli Apartheid.”
• In October 2020, Executive Director Ahmad Abuznaid was a signatory on a letter to Congress calling for the U.S. to “stop funding Israel’s military, which regularly engages in violations of human rights and international law without accountability.”
• In June 2020, during the Black Lives Matter protests, USCPR signed a letter to congress calling to “divest from militarism and policing, from the US to Palestine.” According to the letter, “Just as we join in the demand for our tax dollars to be divested from brutal police violence and a repressive military response to protesters asserting that #BlackLivesMatter, we call for an end to U.S.-funded violence abroad.”
  • In December 2019, USCPR and the Adalah Justice Project launched a project titled “Justice for All” that “aims to end U.S. military funding to Israel and uphold progressive policies rooted in historical justice.” According to Executive Director of USCPR Yousef Munayyer, “The Movement for Black Lives’ principle of invest-divest frames the overarching demand – that we must demand our government divest from Israel’s human rights abuses against the Palestinian people and instead invest those resources in community needs at home, so everyone can live with safety, dignity, and justice.”

Staff

• Yousef Munayyer
  • Munayyer, Executive Director of USCPR, was formerly the Executive Director of the Jerusalem Fund and Palestine Center.
  • In October 2018, following US Congresswoman Betty McCollum (D-MN) referring to Israel’s nation-state law as “apartheid,” Munayyer sent an email to supporters praising McCollum for “openly, and correctly, nam[ing] Israel for what it is… this moment is a benchmark in a narrative shift we have all been working towards for a long time.”
  • In February 2018, Munayyer demonstrated support for BDS, tweeting “It is exciting and refreshing to see all of these people who support boycott tactics.”
  • In November 2014, Munayyer gave a lecture titled “The Quest for a Just Peace: Connecting Liberation Struggles,” stating that Palestinians experienced the “transition between one form of colonization to another form of colonization… the transfer of power between the British imperial enterprise in Palestine and the adoption of that imperial enterprise by the Zionist movement.”
• Karl Anderson
  • Anderson, USCPR Development Associate, previously worked for the Rachel Corrie Foundation.
  • In March 2016, Anderson accused Israel of being an “apartheid state.”
  • On July 25, 2014, Anderson participated in a protest and “die-in” outside the Washington State Capitol building opposing the 2014 Gaza War. Anderson held a sign that read: “End U.S. Military Aid to Israel.”
• Ramah Kudaimi
  • Kudaimi, the Director of Grassroots Organizing for USCPR, has promoted incitement to violence against Israelis, urged the inclusion of Holocaust deniers into mainstream media, and has called for the destruction of Israel — tweeting: “F**k Israel every day until the fall of the zionist regime.”
  • In July 2016, Kudaimi was denied entry into Israel for security reasons and was banned from entering the country for 10 years. 

Members

• Member organizations include leaders of BDS campaigns against Israel and highly biased NGOs.
• Jewish Voices for Peace (JVP)
  • Promotes political warfare strategy against Israel, including BDS, sustained campaigns of demonization alleging “apartheid” and “racism,” and support for a Palestinian claim to a “right of return” with the ultimate goal of dismantling Israel as a Jewish and democratic state.
  • JVP has been suspended from multiple universities due to its violence and violation of campus policies.
  • In October 2024, JVP’s Rabbinical Council released a statement comparing the situation in Gaza to the Holocaust claiming, “The photos and videos coming out of North Gaza are a terrifying echo of all-too-familiar images of European ghettos and Nazi concentration camps in the 2nd World War…We must ask ourselves who we are: will we be like the courageous ‘righteous gentiles’ who risked their personal safety to protect and save Jewish lives during the Nazi holocaust? Or will we behave like those who ‘didn’t want to get involved’ or joined the Nazi party enthusiastically? There is no middle ground.”
  • In June 2017, started a campaign called “Deadly Exchange” that aims to “end police exchange programs between the US and Israel.” JVP claims that “‘worst practices’ are shared to promote and extend discriminatory and repressive policing in both countries including extrajudicial executions, shoot-to-kill policies, police murders, racial profiling, massive spying and surveillance, deportations and detention, and attacks on human rights defenders.” The campaign also invoked antisemitic tropes.
• American Muslims for Palestine (AMP)
  • AMP provides “advocacy training” including instruction on how to lobby politicians, and produces media and activism guidebooks, such as campus activism resources including fact-sheets, anti-normalization material, and Power Point presentations that parrot the Hamas narrative of the 2014 Israeli-Hamas conflict in Gaza, claiming that “Palestinian resistance was born out of the occupation and the siege, plain and simple.”
  • On October 31, 2023, the Attorney General’s Office of Virginia announced an investigation into AMP, stating that there is “reason to believe that the organization may be soliciting contributions … without first having registered…. In addition, the Attorney General will investigate allegations that the organization may have used funds raised for impermissible purposes under state law, including benefitting or providing support to terrorist organizations.”
    • In July 2024, AMP was ordered by a Virginia court to provide “internal and financial documents to Attorney General Jason Miyares as part of an investigation into whether the charity may have been funneling money to Hamas.”
    • In January 2025, the Attorney General of Virginia filed a petition to “Enforce his Civil Investigative Demand (CID) issued to American Muslims for Palestine (AMP)” and requested records relating to “AMP’s noncompliance with the state’s charitable solicitation law and an investigation into allegations that the organization may have used raised funds for impermissible purposes, such as benefiting or providing support to terrorist organizations.”
  • In September 2024, the House Ways and Means Committee asked the IRS to revoke the tax-exempt status of multiple nonprofits, including AMP, for “potential ties to terror groups.” According to the correspondence, AMP “holds suspected ties to designated terrorist organizations despite holding tax-exempt status as a nonprofit organization. This conduct is designed to sow chaos and discord in our society, has involved illegal activities, and certainly is not in furtherance of any tax-exempt purpose.”
• American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)
  • AFSC is a leader of BDS campaigns on campuses and churches in the United States.
  • Dalit Baum, director of AFSC’s Middle East program, is co-founder of Coalition of Women for Peace’s flagship BDS project “Who Profits?” Baum lobbies international audiences on how best to promote the global BDS campaign against Israel. AFSC materials include an online investment screening tool aimed to “help individuals and institutions identify companies on their investment portfolios that are directly complicit in ongoing severe violations of human rights and international law.”
  • AFSC promotes “anti-normalization,” rejecting dialogue between Israelis and Palestinians.
  • In October 2023, in the aftermath of the brutal Hamas attack on October 7, AFSC published a fact sheet of “5 things you need to know about what’s happening in Israel and Gaza.” According to AFSC, “Violence did not begin with the attacks from Gaza…This lack of accountability and a sense by Palestinians that they have been abandoned by the international community is important to understanding recent violence. For violence to end, U.S. policy must change. Israel must be held accountable for its rights violations, and the system of apartheid must end.”
• CODEPINK
  • COPEPINK, together with Interfaith Peace-builders and other highly biased and politicized groups, launched a campaign to “End US Military Aid to Israel,” urging followers to “stop funding weapons to Israel.”
  • In January 2025, CODEPINK published a statement claiming, “The crisis in Gaza did not happen in a vacuum. The people of Gaza were not all of a sudden in a state of war or siege…Periodically, Gaza would face brutal and extended periods of bombing campaigns carried out by the Israeli military…If world leaders are serious about peace, they must also confront the material reality that launched us into this current moment.” The statement also called for “an end to all US military ‘aid’ to Israel” and “Accountability for war criminals, including Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli officials, by supporting prosecutions in international courts for Israel’s repeated violations of international law.”
  • In October 2023, in the aftermath of the brutal Hamas massacre, CODEPINK launched a petition calling on President Biden and the US Secretary of Defense to “Stop Supporting Israeli Apartheid.” According to the petition, “Israel has colonized, occupied and oppressed the people of Palestine for 70 years. This has inevitably led to the resistance of Palestinians” (emphasis added).
• Christian Peacemakers Teams (CPT)
  • In October 2023, CPT urged governments to “examine their hypocrisy of condemning Palestinian resistance to occupation while at the same time refusing to hold Israel accountable for the blatant flouting of international law through 75 years of occupation, apartheid, and ethnic cleansing. International human rights and humanitarian laws are not conditional. Violence is cyclical. As long as the Israeli occupation exists, Palestinian resistance will continue.”
  • On February 7, 2017, CPT was a signatory on a call to “end the European complicity – marking 100 years of injustice against the Palestinian people.” The call “solemnly reaffirm[ed] that in 2017, after 100 years of dispossession, denial and ethnic cleansing, the rights of the Palestinian people must, at last, be respected.”
  • CPT encourages “individuals, companies and states to engage in divestment and in an economic and commercial boycott of everything produced by the Israeli occupation.”
• Friends of Sabeel
  • Sabeel supports the “one state solution,” meaning the elimination of Israel as a Jewish state.  Its “Vision for the Future” states: “The ideal and best solution has always been to envisage ultimately a bi-national state in Palestine-Israel… One state for two nations and three religions” (emphasis added).
  •  In March 2024, Sabeel published a report titled “Holy Week with Gaza,” in which the NGO, applying “liberation theology,” explicitly recasts Palestinians as the modern-day version of Jesus, blaming the State of Israel and Zionism for their “suffering.” The report’s table of contents includes highly antisemitic chapter titles, such as “Failure of International Community: Judas Plans to Betray Jesus”; “Nakba: Jesus Condemned to Die”; “Refugees: The Cross”; “Cutting of Access to Food, Water, and Electricity: Jesus Nailed to the Cross”; “Rafah and Ongoing Genocide: ‘My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me’”; “Engineered Famine: Jesus’ Death;”; and “31,000 killed: The Burial of Jesus” (emphases added).
  • In December 2023, Sabeel published a statement: “While the world is celebrating the Christmas season by decorating trees and holding Christmas parties, in Palestine, we are commemorating Christmas by foregoing the usual celebrations, waiting for God to deliver us from 75 years of settler colonial violence. Indeed, we are living out the reality of the Christmas story” (emphasis added). The imagery attached to the statement showed Jesus as a baby wrapped with a Palestinian keffiyeh and Santa Claus looking for kids in the ruins of a building in Gaza. 
• Grassroots International
  • Grassroots International engages in advocacy and “seek[s] to influence US citizens and policy negotiators who have the power to create policies that uphold rather than undermine basic human rights.”
  • Is running a campaign, with accompanying fact sheets, to “Tell TIAA-CREF to stop investing in the Separation Wall,” and to Elbit Systems Ltd., as Elbit “Directly profit[s] from or contribute[s] to the Israeli occupation of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.”
  • In October 2023, Grassroots International published a statement claiming, “The situation unfolding in and around Gaza is part of a long and uninterrupted history of violence, the root of which is Israel’s brutal occupation, settler colonialism, and military siege… From our home within the US, we stand up against militarism and recognize the particular responsibility we hold to oppose our own government’s military support to Israel, which has fueled Israel’s settler colonialism for decades.”
• Interfaith Peace Builders
  • Sends “3 – 4 delegations to Israel/Palestine every year” intended to expose the “everyday violence of war and occupation and learn from those committed to nonviolent struggle, human rights and peace with justice.”
  • Interfaith Peace-Builders signed on a call to thank “the National Council of the American Studies Association (ASA)… decision to endorse the Palestinian call for the academic boycott of Israel.”
• Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA)
  • MECA organizes delegations to “Palestine/Israel” where participants can “witness the impact of the Israeli occupation and…learn about refugees, land confiscation, political prisoners…” Trip highlights include learning “about the origins of the Palestinian refugees and the Right of Return, and how it can be implemented” (emphasis added).
  • In May 2024, to commemorate Nakba Day, MECA published an article claiming, “This Nakba is different because it has brought people back to the basic rights lost in 1948. After 76 years, after billions of dollars, after all the resources, weapons, and political support from other colonial powers in the world, the façade of Israel as the model democracy has been exposed. Their weaknesses have been revealed. And why? Because Palestinian people have refused to give up their rights. They have not given up their right to the land, they are not compromising or asking for justice from those who repeatedly try to eliminate them. They resist displacement and erasure. This generation, those who have grown up through 17 years of siege on Gaza, have nothing left to lose. They rise with the understanding that their lives, their dignity, their future is rooted in their right to return.”
  • In December 2023, MECA board member Osha Neumann published an article claiming, “Before Israel turned Gaza into an open-air prison, before repeated Israeli ‘operations’ – murderous terroristic assaults on the civilian population, they describe with exquisite cruelty as ‘mowing the lawn.’ Lawns do not bleed, nor do they weep for the dead and dying. And now it seems Israel has moved from mowing the lawn to tearing it up entirely, to ethnic cleansing, to the infliction on the long-suffering Palestinian people of a second Nakba. I cannot imagine what it is like now to be in Gaza. I can only vainly protest.”
  • In September 2015, MECA signed on a letter to the United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon urging the UN to terminate its contracts with international security company G4S, as the company is “complicit with Israel’s human rights violations.”
  • MECA lists Union of Health Work Committees (UHWC), is a PFLP-affiliated health committee active in Gaza, as identified by USAID and in Palestinian documents. as an organization “we support.”
• Rebuilding Alliance
  • Regularly lobbies the U.S. Congress and State Department, promoting the Palestinian narrative of victimization and Israeli aggression.
  • On May 16, 2017, Rebuilding Alliance participated in a petition to PayPal “urging that PayPal services be made available to Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza” as “PayPal has a discriminatory policy of serving Israeli settlers in the West Bank, but not the Palestinians next door… PayPal risks becoming the target of boycotts by offering services to settlers and thereby profiting from the Occupation. Extending PayPal to Palestinians makes it not only the right decision morally, but financially as well.”
• WESPAC Foundation
  • Refers to US-funded “atrocities” in “our homeland” and demands the US “end all aid to Israel, diplomatic, economic, military… to this apartheid, racist state.”
  • In May 2025, following the murder of two employees of the Israeli embassy in Washington DC, WESPAC published a statement: “The struggle for a free Palestine is about ending the violence of occupation, apartheid and genocide, not about the killing of more innocents. Violence only begets more violence. We are heartbroken that two people lost their lives; we grieve for them and their families over their senseless death. In Gaza, entire families are being wiped out.”
  • In September 2024, the House Ways and Means Committee asked the IRS to revoke the tax-exempt status of multiple nonprofits, including WESPAC, for sowing “chaos and discord in our society” during anti-Israel protests on college campuses. According to the correspondence, “Based on the multiple instances in which the WESPAC Foundation’s fiscally sponsored projects have led protests that led to arrests due to violations of local ordinances, it is our belief that the WESPAC Foundation does not qualify for tax-exemption under section 501(c)(3).”
  • In February 2024, WESPAC board chair Howard Horwitz claimed, “My Zionist beliefs were shattered by the historical facts. The partition plan robbed the Palestinian population of their homes, livelihoods, and land. This was the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of 750,000 Palestinians, the invasion and burning of 500 villages, and the denial of the Palestinian right of return. These facts cannot and will not be erased from history any more than Holocaust denial can erase the Holocaust….October 7 was horrible and emotionally devastating. Even as I am horrified by the atrocities committed by Hamas, I believe it is important to understand why these Palestinian fighters broke out from the ghetto wall. My outrage at Hamas’s atrocities quickly gave way to my outrage as Israel announced and began the ongoing implementation of genocide involving forced death marches and indiscriminate bombing and killing of over 27,000 Gazans, the vast majority women, and children…This is the liquidation of the ghetto called Gaza, a complete atrocity. There is no other way to look at what is happening at this very moment.”
• Other members include Nonviolence International, National Lawyers Guild, Israel Palestine Mission Network – Presbyterian Church (U.S.A), US Campaign for Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, and Students for Justice in Palestine.