Knowing Is Not Enough. Act Now.
A genocide is happening in real time. Every day of inaction is a day the killing continues. The Palestinian people do not need your sympathy — they need your action. Here is exactly what you can do today, this week, and ongoing.
Right now in Gaza: Over 64,000 Palestinians have been killed since October 2023. More than half are women and children. Famine is documented across the territory by the World Food Programme. The International Court of Justice has ruled genocide charges are plausible. The United States continues to fund, arm, and diplomatically shield Israel with $3.8 billion per year in military aid. Your government is complicit. Your action can change that.
Share this website. Share the primary sources. Host a film screening, a book club, or a community conversation. The biggest barrier to action is ignorance — and mainstream media is designed to maintain it. Breaking through that takes active effort.
- Read the full sourced history of Palestinian dispossession
- Read Amnesty International’s Apartheid Report
- Follow The Electronic Intifada for daily Palestinian-centered journalism
- Follow Al Jazeera’s Palestine coverage
- Share Palestinian voices on social media. Amplify. Do not stay silent.
The Palestinian-led BDS Movement calls on people worldwide to boycott Israeli products and companies that profit from the occupation, divest from institutions with Israeli ties, and demand governments sanction Israel until it complies with international law. BDS is a proven nonviolent strategy modeled on the successful campaign against South African apartheid.
Boycott these companies and products:
- HP (Hewlett-Packard): Provides biometric technology used at Israeli military checkpoints to control Palestinian movement
- Caterpillar: Sells bulldozers specifically modified for the Israeli military to demolish Palestinian homes
- Puma: Sponsors the Israeli Football Association, which includes teams based in illegal settlements
- Sabra Hummus: Co-owned by the Strauss Group, which has provided financial support to Israeli military units
- SodaStream: Originally based in an illegal Israeli settlement in the West Bank
- Airbnb listings in Israeli settlements: Do not book accommodation in illegal settlement outposts
The U.S. government has vetoed every UN Security Council ceasefire resolution. It has continued military aid to Israel through a documented genocide. Your elected officials made those choices. They can unmake them — but only if they hear from you loudly and repeatedly.
Call, email, and show up to your representatives’ offices. Use this script:
Find your representatives and take action:
Palestinians in Gaza are dying from Israeli bombs, Israeli-imposed famine, and lack of medical care caused by the deliberate destruction of Gaza’s health system. Direct humanitarian support saves lives right now. These organizations are on the ground and verified:
- Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP): Provides vital medical care and supplies to Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank
- Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF): Provides medical treatment and psychosocial support to Palestinian children
- UNRWA: The UN agency supporting Palestinian refugees — the same agency Israel has tried to defund and ban
- Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF): Operating in Gaza under extreme conditions documenting and treating war wounds
- ANERA (American Near East Refugee Aid): Delivers food, medicine, and relief supplies directly to Palestinians
Public pressure matters. Mass protest movements have changed government policy before — on South African apartheid, on Vietnam, on Iraq. The Palestinian liberation movement is global and growing. Find your local chapter and show up.
- Jewish Voice for Peace — Find a Local Chapter
- US Campaign for Palestinian Rights
- Palestine Legal — Know your rights when advocating for Palestine
- ANSWER Coalition — National protest organizing
- Search “Palestine solidarity [your city]” to find your local group
Your university, your employer, and your pension fund may be invested in companies that profit from Israel’s occupation. Demand divestment. The student divestment movement across U.S. and European universities has already forced dozens of institutions to reconsider their ties to Israeli weapons manufacturers and settlement enterprises.
- Demand your university divest from Israeli weapons manufacturers and companies operating in settlements
- Ask your employer whether your pension fund holds stakes in companies listed on the BDS target list
- Support the Palestinian grassroots campaign against the Apartheid Wall
Remember: Palestinian liberation is not a charity. It is a struggle for justice, for international law, and for the right of an indigenous people to live freely on their own land. Your solidarity is not charity either. It is the right side of history. The question is not whether you care — it is whether you act.
The Palestinian people have resisted for over 75 years against impossible odds. The least the world can do is refuse to be silent.