We believe wholly in a Free Palestine within our lifetimes.

As an organization, we are deeply committed to working for Indigenous solidarity and Land Back where we live, with the people of Palestine and all People’s Liberation movements.

Militarization and exploitation of our earth hurts us all.

We see our bodies as our homes, and we expect to live respectfully with the land and other peoples, including our Palestinian siblings. We follow in the Jewish tradition of Tikkun Olam, repairing the world. We do this by changing our own behaviors to be in alignment with Indigenous values, and to create a world where every Jew feels safe and welcome. We recognize that there are Palestinian Jews and many racialized and diverse Jewish identities. We embrace the multiplicitousness of our peoples.

More than one year into this horrendous genocide, our politics have not changed. Our work is personal and not simply a reaction to the current violence. It is part of our collective struggle to heal from zionism.

The violence of the formation and maintenance of a Jewish-supremacist state is not in line with Indigenous ways of being. Although Judaism began in Palestine, too many cycles of antisemitic violence and the foray into capitalism have led people to adopt zionist ethno-nationalism as a “safe” solution to fear of annihilation. It was convenient and beneficial to antisemitic Europeans, Christian zionists, and especially the colonial British, to solve “The Jewish Question” with a Jewish state outside of Europe.

European racism and antisemitism rooted in Medieval hatred has nothing to do with the Palestinian people, who, at all ages, continue to suffer displacement, ethnic cleansing, incarceration, sea embargo, siege, hostage-taking, incarceration, both political and physical apartheid, barrier walls, ecocide, cultural erasure and appropriation, chemical attacks, weapons testing, high-tech surveillance, land dispossession, kinetic violence, sexual violence, murder, ongoing genocide, and many other forms of violent oppression enacted by the state of Israel.

Our cultural and religious histories as Jews have been co-opted to justify the actions of the colonial, capitalist, militarist, patriarchal, racist, nuclear nation of Israel today. We have been marginalized in the Jewish community because of our anti-zionist orientation, yet we will not change our position. We know and believe the future is self-determination for all oppressed and colonized peoples. We believe Palestinians have the Right of Return to their homes and the right to decide how they want their land to be governed. Palestinians deserve more than just the basic human rights of access to clean water, food, and shelter - they deserve life, love, flourishing, celebration, justice, freedom, and liberation.

By transmuting capitalism with love and care, we can end the militarization of our earth that hurts us all. By insisting on changed behavior, we are healing the soul of the Jewish people. We believe that the Jewish people have enough friends who will ensure our safety and belonging in this new world. When we give the land back to its original caretakers, we heal the land and ourselves.

We will not cater to the rhetoric that Jews are victims or survivors anymore. We chose to move towards healing this decades long curse and lie of Jewish supremacy. Through our ritual, our art and our activism we choose to imagine and manifest healing legions, lines of sorrows. With this intention, we move towards thriving for all.

Our bodies, water bodies, just like river and ocean bodies, when given care and attention, heal.

May our healing be for a healing from zionism, a healing from supremacy. For the healing of Palestine, of Turtle Island, of the body of earth.

From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free. 

This Statement on Palestine was crafted in collaboration with Rosa Blumenfeld-Romero of Reclaiming Indigeneity.