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 their state charitable status as they fundraise for illegal Israeli colonization in Jerusalem and the West Bank of occupied Palestine. The campaign specifically targets the Israel Land Fund, the Hebron Fund, Ateret Cohanim, Friends of Ir David (Elad), and Regavim.
These settler-funding organizations are propelling, among other colonial efforts, the colonization of Sheikh Jarrah, Silwan and al-Khalil (Hebron.) The Defund Racism campaign is organizing a petition for people around the world to share their outrage with NY AG James. Sign the petition at the Defund Racism website: https://defundracism.org/
From 1999 to 2020, just six of the US-based charities funding Israeli settler organizations targeted by the campaign tallied $392,083,641.00 in gross receipts on their tax forms.
To learn more about the campaign and find out how your group can get involved, the #DefundRacism campaign will hold a webinar with the Good Shepherd Collective on Wednesday, 28 July at 12 pm Eastern time (9 am Pacific, 7 pm Palestine time). Register on Zoom to join the webinar and become part of the campaign.