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Cut Your Ties to Israeli Apartheid
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Cut Your Ties to Israeli Apartheid
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Cut Your Ties to Israeli Apartheid
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Cut Your Ties to Israeli Apartheid
All people are equal and should be treated with dignity and respect
But for decades, the Palestinian people have faced Israeli settler colonialism and occupation enforced through racist and discriminatory legal regimes, forced displacement, blockade and movement restrictions, and systematic human rights abuses. According to legal scholars and the international human rights community, this situation constitutes the crime of Apartheid. It must end.
As people of conscience and loving communities, we stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people and their call for equal and full rights. Inspired by the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, we want to declare our own communities “Apartheid-Free.”
Let’s build an Apartheid-Free world, starting with our own communities: our faith congregations, cities, campuses, and workplaces. We need to educate ourselves and others about racist laws and state systems at home and abroad, and we want to ensure that our communities do not contribute to the maintenance of Apartheid regimes. Together, we can work to promote freedom, justice, and equality for all.
JOIN THE MOVEMENT
We invite faith communities, congregations, and organizations as well as other communities of conscience to join us by signing the pledge to dismantle apartheid. If you are an individual, organize within your community to take collective action against apartheid.

Learn
The international human rights community agrees: Israel’s treatment of the Palestinian people amounts to apartheid. Educate your communities about apartheid. Learn how it works, how it impacts Palestinian lives, and how it can be resisted.

Pledge
Join the network of apartheid-free communities around the world. By taking the Apartheid-Free Pledge your community is committing to resist racism and apartheid everywhere and withdrawing all support to Israeli apartheid.

Act
Live into the pledge and take action to stop apartheid. Join collective campaigns that ask institutions and corporations to step away from Israel’s violations of Palestinians rights.
WE AFFIRM
our commitment to freedom, justice, and equality for the Palestinian people and all people;
WE OPPOSE
all forms of racism, bigotry, discrimination, and oppression; and
WE DECLARE
ourselves an Apartheid-free community and to that end,
WE PLEDGE
to join others in working to end all support to Israel’s Apartheid regime, settler colonialism, and military occupation.
PLEDGE SIGNERS
American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)
Alliance of Baptists
American Muslims for Palestine (AMP)
Black Christians for Palestine (BC4P)
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
Community Peacemaker Teams (CPT)
Episcopal Peace Fellowship – Palestine Israel Network (EPF PIN)
Friends of Sabeel North America (FOSNA)
Israel/Palestine Mission Network of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) (IPMN)
Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP)
Mennonite Palestine Israel Network (MennoPIN)
Quaker Palestine Israel Network (QPIN)
United Church of Christ (UCC)
United Church of Christ Palestine Israel Network (UCC-PIN)
United Methodists for Kairos Response (UMKR)
Unitarian Universalists for Justice in the Middle East (UUJME)
LATEST NEWS ABOUT THE CAMPAIGN
Faith Organizations Call for Israeli Accountability
Mar 13, 2023
Leaders of 10 U.S.-based Christian churches, agencies, and organizations sent a letter to the U.S. President and Congress, urging them to take action to end violence and to hold Israel accountable for its ongoing and flagrant violations of Palestinian rights.
United Church of Christ Becomes First Apartheid-Free Denomination
May 30, 2023
“Our partners in Palestine and Israel have been using an apartheid framework for two decades,” said Peter Makari, global relations minister for the Middle East and Europe of Global Ministries. “People are emboldened to name it as such in these days. There’s a growing movement toward that, and this apartheid-free campaign is a way to educate local churches, faith groups and communities to learn about realities on the ground.”
Faith Groups Across the Country Pledge to End Support of Israeli Apartheid
June 1, 2023
More than 65 congregations, faith groups, and organizations have come out calling themselves “apartheid-free” and pledging to take action against Israeli apartheid, including Christian, Muslim, Jewish, Buddhist and Interfaith groups.