About the Apartheid-Free Communities Leadership Team
Our Apartheid-Free Communities Leadership Team serves to resource, engage and develop Apartheid-Free Communities. Because of the contextual nature of communities living out the pledge in their own ways, the Leadership Team functions in a support role, developing materials, connecting people with shared strategies, and communicating the needs and successes of different communities within the network. As the Apartheid-Free Network expands, Affinity Groups are emerging to connect regional and other partnerships. These Affinity Groups play a crucial role in networking and equipping communities for action. The Leadership Team consists of staff from AFSC and a team of leaders active in the network, including representatives from each Affinity Group. Their goal is to grow and strengthen the network to take action, ensuring it has the resources available to do its work. Read below to learn more about each of the Affinity Groups that make up our Apartheid-Free Leadership Team!
Apartheid-Free Washington, DC is a part of DC for Palestine that has joined the Apartheid-Free network. We are expanding the pledge in DC and calling for our community members to uphold specific boycott/divestment targets as part of pledging our support to end Israeli apartheid. You can learn more at our website dc4palestine.org/#apartheidfree, or contact us at dcforpalestine@gmail.com.
Apartheid-Free Multifaith Communities is a budding coalition of faith-based signatories working together to end Israel’s apartheid, genocide, settler colonialism, and military occupation. We invite congregations and faith communities of all types to partner with us in using our faith voices in support of Palestinian liberation. To learn more, reach out at info@apartheid-free.org.
Apartheid-Free Churches is a coalition of Christian and Christian-affilitated signatories working together to end Israel’s apartheid, genocide, settler colonialism, and military occupation. We invite churches and other Christian communities to partner with us in using our prophetic voices to support Palestinian liberation and to respond to the Palestinian Christian calls put forth by Kairos Palestine. We acknowledge the ways in which Christianity has been co-opted by Christian Zionism and understand our responsibility to challenge corrupt theology and re-orient the church toward the work of freedom, justice and equality for Palestinian people and all people. We meet monthly to network together, support one another, and strategize how to engage in collective action rooted in our shared faith tradition. To learn more, reach out at info@apartheid-free.org.
Apartheid Free Communities British Columbia was formed in 2024 by activists in BC and actively works to expand a growing network of pro-humanity communities across BC and Turtle Island who oppose apartheid and racism in all its forms. Together we envision a world free of apartheid and are working to dismantle the apartheid in Palestine. Follow us on Instagram and Facebook, and reach out to us at apartheid.free.bc@gmail.com.
The Apartheid-Free Quaker Affinity Group includes representatives from the many local Quaker congregations, yearly meetings, and Friends organizations that have signed the Apartheid-Free Communities Pledge and joined the growing interfaith movement to end Israeli apartheid, occupation, and settler-colonialism. Our commitments include: supporting more Quaker communities to sign on to the Apartheid-Free Pledge; collaborating and sharing resources and ideas among Apartheid-Free Quaker communities; and encouraging Affinity Group members to work in coalition with the wider Apartheid-Free network. Please contact us if your Quaker community is considering signing the Apartheid-Free Pledge. Our Affinity Group can provide speakers, workshops, resources, monthly organizer calls, mutual aid, and collaborative action opportunities for Apartheid-Free Quaker communities. Our faith-based activism is stronger in community. You can reach us at QAG-info@protonmail.com.
Apartheid-Free Western Massachusetts is a coalition of community groups, businesses, faith organizations and individuals in Western MA working to end Israel’s apartheid regime. We engage, educate, and mobilize our communities on the premise that all people are equal and should be treated with dignity and respect. By connecting with people in this way, we seek to challenge racism and discrimination in the way we think, and the way we behave, thereby creating safety and inclusiveness. AFWMA seeks to address harm and exploitation of the Palestinian people and all people, through one-on-one conversations, public educational events and mobilizing town residents; to unite as a community to end discrimination and apartheid wherever and however it manifests. Learn more at https://www.apartheidfreewesternma.org/, or reach out to apartheidfreeWMA@pm.me.
Apartheid-Free Vermont is a core initiative of the Vermont Coalition for Palestinian Liberation, working to make Palestine a local issue across our state. 40+ communities, including labor unions, organizations and business, have adopted the Apartheid-Free Pledge since VCPL began leading the campaign. In 2025, five Vermont towns were the first municipalities in the United States to join the movement and sign the pledge, committing to the long-term work of ending complicity in Israeli apartheid and genocide. Apartheid-Free Vermont is proud to support ongoing political education, community organizing, and legislative advocacy around anti-apartheid work in Vermont. Learn more at https://www.vermontcpl.org/apartheid-free-community or follow us on Instagram!