Take Action on Berkeley Mayor’s Israel Junket!

ISM NorCal is sharing the following community action alert about the Mayor of Berkeley’s trip to apartheid Israel. We encourage supporters to sign the petition, send an email and join tonight (May 24)’s city council meeting, either in person or online! Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin is just now returning from a propaganda junket to Israel. Jesse’s […]

Take Action: Tell Congress to Support Resolution Recognizing the Nakba

ISM-NorCal is distributing the alert below from ADC (American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee) about an important resolution introduced in Congress to recognize the Nakba and the rights of Palestinian refugees. Take Action: Tell Congress to Support Resolution Recognizing the Nakba This week, Representative Tlaib (D-MI-13), along with cosponsors Representatives Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY-14), Newman (D-IL-3), Omar (D-MN-5), Bowman (D-NY-16), […]

ISM part of Palestinian call to #DefundRacism, cut charitable status of settler organizations

The International Solidarity Movement is one of the over 150 Palestinian organizations, activists and municipalities that launched the Campaign to Defund Racism today, July 21. The campaign calls upon New York Attorney General Letitia James to revoke the charitable licenses of multiple U.S.-based settler organizations headquartered in the state. All of these groups benefit from […]

The Meaning of Solidarity Work

by Henry Todd When people ask what I was doing in Palestine I reply “solidarity work and reporting.” I knew the moral reasons I decided to go, and I knew it was my civic duty, but I didn’t know what to call it, and I didn’t even have a clear plan for when I arrived […]

Forward: No Visa Waiver For Israel—Until It Treats U.S. Muslims Equally

The article below is from the Jewish Forward.  It points out a very important reason why those of us who are refused entry to Israel should always report this fact to a US consulate and/or the US State Department.  It cites Israel’s rejection of Muslim and Arab Americans as the main reason for continuing to […]

US Aims to Increase Military Aid to Israel, One of Top Ten Arms Exporters

The United States has offered to increase its military aid to Israel on the condition that Tel Aviv spends more of the aid on the purchase of American equipment and fuel rather than on its domestic products. Israel and the US have been engaged in negotiations over a memorandum of understanding for an aid package […]