As the New Year begins, Palestine faces one of the most dangerous moments in our history. In Gaza, our people face and resist ongoing genocide, starvation, siege, and mass destruction — now compounded by a US-Israeli colonial plan to impose illegal foreign control and a post-genocide order without justice or accountability. Across the West Bank, raids, mass arrests, and settler militias acting with impunity continue to terrorize communities and displace families off their land.
Normalization with despotic Arab regimes, under these circumstances, can only be perceived as a “reward” for genocidal Israel, and instead of sanctions and accountability, governments rush to rehabilitate a rogue apartheid state.
As part of their desperate attempts to rehabilitate Israel’s genocidal regime in a world that has largely isolated it, the US and Europe are escalating their authoritarian repression against the global solidarity networks, led by the BDS movement and its Palestinian leadership. From FIFA to Eurovision to other “international” forums that they dominate, they are destroying what is left of international law’s credibility to save their favorite settler-colony.
And yet, despite everything, this year unveiled something powerful: people power works. Millions rose up worldwide. BDS campaigns convinced trade unions, churches, universities, artists, and even some corporations to distance themselves from apartheid. Israel’s impunity is gradually cracking in unprecedented ways.
This is the moment to hold the line, and push harder.
We cannot allow genocide, colonization, foreign control, and normalization to dictate our future.
That is why I’m asking you — urgently and from a place of shared struggle — to stand with us now.
In the BDS movement, we continue to channel our grief and rage into principled and strategic energy to end the genocide, dismantle settler-colonialism and apartheid, and hold all perpetrators and enablers accountable. Your support powers our most impactful efforts:
Stopping arms shipments and military cooperation with Israel.
Challenging complicit corporations.
Mobilizing unions, students, churches, and institutions to end complicity and divest.
Supporting global organizing to isolate apartheid and stop normalization.
This work is strategic, coordinated, and effective — but it can only continue with your solidarity. Your contribution builds the pressure needed to defend our people’s rights and move us closer to freedom, justice, and equality.
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