About Us
We came together in 2022 as an interdenominational coalition of faith groups in North America following the emerging consensus among the international human rights community that Israel’s treatment of the Palestinian people amounts to the Crime of Apartheid.
We ask ourselves and our communities to take a renewed public pledge against all forms of racism, bigotry, and oppression, including against racist discrimination, Islamophobia, antisemitism, and xenophobia in our own communities. We seek to educate ourselves and our communities about the devastation of Palestinian lives under military occupation, settler colonialism, and apartheid, and about the connections between settler colonialism, racist oppression, and the cult of security in Palestine/Israel and in North America.
Inspired by the anti-Apartheid movement that toppled the Apartheid regime in South Africa, we are building an anti-apartheid movement and encourage faith communities and all communities of conscience to step away from any and all support to Israeli apartheid, occupation, and settler colonialism.
This coalition is convened by the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC).
154 Apartheid-Free Communities
as of September 20, 2023
Congregations
Ainsworth United Church of Christ, OR
Burlington Friends Meeting, VT
Christ Chapel United Methodist Church, Oyani
Conejo Valley Worship Group, CA
Faith Mennonite Church, IN
Fellowship of Hope Mennonite Church, IN
First Methodist Church, Moheto
Floyd Friends Meeting, VA
Frazer Mennonite Church, PA
Hope 4 All Interfaith Community, ND
Live Oak Friends Meeting, TX
Mending Minyan, CT
Meriden Congregational Church, NH
Multnomah Friends Meeting, OR
New Millennium Church, AR
Northeast Kingdom Quakers, VT
North Meadow Circle of Friends, IN
Oakhurst Baptist Church, GA
Peace Mennonite Fellowship, CA
Pioneer United Methodist Church, WA
Saint John of God Parish CACINA, NY
Shalom United Church of Christ, CT
St. Mary Magdala’s Spiritual Center (Community of the Cross, Inc.), IN
The Land United Methodist Church, CO
The Mennonite Palestine Israel Network (MennoPIN)
Tzedek Chicago, IL
Valley View Presbyterian Church, PA
Faith Communities
Alliance of Baptists
Alphabet Brothers of Color, CA
Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America~Bautistas por la Paz
Buddhist Peace Fellowship
Central Pacific Conference UCC Palestine Israel Network
Chavurah for a Free Palestine of Kehilla Community Synagogue, CA
Chicago Faith Coalition on Middle East Policy
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
Denver-Boulder Jewish Voice for Peace
Des Moines Catholic Worker Community
Ecumenical Peace Institute/Clergy and Laity Concerned
Episcopal Churches of the Big Bend, TX
Episcopal Peace Fellowship – Palestine Israel Network
Friends Meeting of Washington Peace & Social Concerns Committee
Friends of Sabeel North American (FOSNA)
Global Mission Committee, First UMC, Portland
Hawai’i Friends of Sabeel
Interfaith Communities United for Peace and Justice, CA
Interfaith for Palestine, UK
Israel/Palestine Mission Network of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
Justice in Palestine and Israel Community of the Alliance of Baptists
Methodist Federation for Social Action
Middle East Peace Community, Kehilla Synagogue, CA
NorCal Sabeel, CA
Palestine Christian Alliance for Peace (PCAP)
Pax Christi Metro DC Baltimore
Pax Christi New York State
Pax Christi USA
Peace & Justice Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Chicago
Peace and Social Justice Committee, Fifteenth St Friends Meeting, NY
Quaker Palestine Israel Network
Sabeel Kairos Norway
Sabeel-Kairos UK
Social Action Committee, Ascension Lutheran Church, VT
South Central Yearly Meeting, Religious Society of Friends
Swasiland Concerned Church Leaders
The Mennonite Palestine Israel Network (MennoPIN)
The Oscar Romero and Simone Weil Catholic Worker House, CA
Tikkun Olam Chavurah, PA
Tirdof Havurah, CO
Unitarian Universalist for Justice in the Middle East
United Church of Christ
United Church of Christ Palestine Israel Network
United Methodists for Kairos Response
Al-Awda, Bay Area
Alliance for Water Justice in Palestine, MA
American Friends Service Committee
American Muslims for Palestine
Americans and Palestinians for Peace, IA
Arab Jewish Partnership for Peace & Justice in the Middle East, IL
Bay Area Women in Black, CA
Berkeley Women in Black, CA
Black Christians for Palestine
Boycott From Within, Israel
Brooklyn For Peace
Bündnis für Gerechtigkeit zwischen Israelis und Palästinensern e.V.
Center for Jewish Nonviolence
Christian-Jewish Allies for a Just Peace for Israel-Palestine, PA
Citizens for Justice in the Middle East, MO
Colorado May Day Club (CPUSA)
Committee for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel, IL
Community Peacemaker Teams
Connecticut Shoreline Indivisible
Convivencia Alliance, UK
Dallas Palestinian Coalition
Dallas Peace and Justice Center
Delawareans for Palestinian Human Rights
Fellowship of Reconciliation – USA
Gibanje za pravice Palestincev, Slovania
Glasgow Palestinian Human Rights Campaign
Indiana Center for Middle East Peace
International Solidarity Movement (ISM) Scotland
Jahalin Solidarity
Jewish Network for Palestine, UK
Jewish Voice for Peace
Jewish Voice for Peace, Northern New Jersey
Jewish Voice for Peace, Central Ohio
Jewish Voice for Peace, Denver-Boulder, CO
Jewish Voice for Peace, Health Advisory Council
Jewish Voice for Peace, New Haven, CT
Jewish Voice for Peace, Portland, OR
Jewish Voice for Peace, South Florida
Jewish Voice For Peace, Westchester, NY
Kairos Palestine Sweden
Kairos USA
Knoxville Area Women in Black, TN
LAMP – Local Alliance for Mideast Peace, TN
Maine Voices for Palestinian Rights
Maroon Party for Liberation, NY
Middle East Children’s Alliance
Mid-Missouri Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR)
Mid-Missourians for Justice in Palestine
Migrant Roots Media, NC
Muslim Alliance for Black Lives, TX
Muslim Community Helpline, UK
Northfielders for Justice in Palestine/Israel, MN
Palestinian American Organizations Network
Peacemaker Trust
Progressive Peace Coalition, OH
Queer Mikveh Project, WA
QUIT! Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism, CA
Racial Literacy Groups, NY
Rochester Witness for Palestine, NY
SE London PSC/Lewisham Friends of Palestine AGM
Shomeret Shalom, CA
Southerners on the New Ground, Floyd Virginia
St. Louis Friends of Bethlehem, MO
Texas Arab American Democrats
The International Academic Campaign Against Israeli Occupation and Apartheid
The Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions, ICAHD-USA
UK-Palestine Mental Health Network
Union for the Justice Laura Marx, FL
USA-Palestine Mental Health Network
Utahns for a Just Peace in the Holy Land
Veterans For Peace – NYC Chapter 34
Virginia Coalition for Human Rights
Voices for Justice in Palestine, CA
WESPAC Foundation, Inc, NY
Women Against Military Madness – Middle East Committee, MN
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
CopyProof, IN
Griffen Strategic Consulting, AR
Juris Scribe Services, DE
Squawk & Paw Pet-sitting, WA
Stafford Farms Limited, FL
The Spokane Ecosocialist, WA
Tikun Olam – Breaking News on the Israeli National Security State
Touch Matters Bodywork and Massage
Vanguarde Marketing Solutions, TX
Building an anti-apartheid movement in North America and stepping away from any and all support to Israeli apartheid, occupation, and settler colonialism.
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.