Free Palestine!

There is a genocide happening in Gaza right now. For over 100 days, Israel has inflicted brutal violence upon Palestinians.Palestinian people are being collectively punished for resisting 75+ years of Israeli state apartheid, genocide, and settler colonialism. Stand with Palestine and resist the trampling of Indigenous rights worldwide.Browse the sections below to learn more about Palestine and the people's resistance against Israel, how to take action to support Palestine in your area, and find out where to redistribute funds.

Please share this resource widely! Links are updated regularly. Last updated: 4 May 2024

• Educate
• Advocate
• Donate

This is not a comprehensive list of resources. If you have suggestions for links to add, please email freeolivetrees[at]proton.me.

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Educate

A crucial part of supporting the liberation of Palestine and its people is to understand the history of resistance and struggle in Palestine. Below are links to reading lists and texts written by Palestinians and allies.

Introduction

• Palestine 101
• Israeli Settler Colonialism and Apartheid Explained
• Anti-Palestinian Racism 101
• Internationalist Solidarity from Turtle Island to Palestine
• Dispatches from the Palestinian Youth Movement
• Advocating for Palestine

Reading Lists and Resource Guides

• Decolonize Palestine Reading List
• Our History of Popular Resistance: Palestine Reading List
• Queer Solidarity with Palestine Resource Guide
• All the Walls Will Fall: Palestine Liberation Resource List
• Palestinian Cinema Archive

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Donate

Support fundraising efforts happening in and outside of Palestine right now to provide people with food, basic necessities, medical care, internet access, transportation funds, legal aid, evacuation funds, and more.

Below is a list of organizer and legal aid funds, organizations, and mutual aid funds you can donate to and share with others who can support.Please be mindful that many Palestinians have noted that advocacy is more effective than donations to aid organizations right now since the majority of food, water, electricity, and medicine is being blocked by Israel from entering Gaza.

Organizer and Legal Defence Funds

• Support the Palestinian Youth Movement (Global)
• Palestine Legal (US)
• Community Defence Fund for Palestinian Youth Movement (Toronto)

Mutual Aid Teams

• eSims for Gaza
• Crips for eSims for Gaza
• The Sanabel Team
• Gaza Mutual Aid Collective

Mutual Aid for Families + Individuals

• Funds for Gaza - A Rotating List of Mutual Aid Fundraisers
• Support Diabetics in Gaza
• Help Rana's Family Get Out of Gaza
• Help Yasmin's Family Evacuate Gaza
• Help Daoud's Family Leave Gaza
• Study Aid for 16 Palestinian Students
• Support for Hisham Awartani's Recovery
• Help Adam and His Family
• Supporting Families in Gaza
• Support Mohammed and His Family in Gaza

Humanitarian Aid Organizations

• UNRWA
• Care for Gaza
• Middle East Children's Alliance
• Palestine Children's Relief Fund
• Medical Aid for Palestinians
• Baitulmaal

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Advocate

Take action now to stop the genocide in Gaza and support the ongoing Palestinian liberation movement.The following list contains links to: current calls for solidarity actions, petitions, action toolkits, letter and phone call templates for contacting your elected politicians, grassroots groups organizing actions in support of Palestine, BDS-related information and tools.Demand a ceasefire in Gaza now! Call for the end of Israeli occupation! Support the BDS movement!

Calls to Action

• Student Encampments 4 Gaza (Global)
• Demonstrations for Palestine - May 4-5 (Canada)
• Operation Olive Branch: Support + Connect w/ Families in Gaza
• Shut It Down for Palestine Actions - Apr 15 (Global)
• Workers in Palestine: Stop Arming Israel (Global)
• Centering Palestine: A Weekly COVID-Cautious Event (Online)

Petitions & Solidarity Statements

• Petition e-4842: Demand end to arms support to Israel (Canada)
• Petition: Demand Immediate Release of Mansour Shouman
• Petition to Free Munther Amira
• Petition: Canada Stop Arming Israel
• #CeasefireNow: Queers for Liberation Petition
• Sign: A Liberatory Demand from Queers in Palestine (Global)
• Sign: Artists Against Apartheid Statement (Global)
• Sign: Musicians for Palestine Open Letter (Global)
• Sign: Nothing Comes Clean with Pinkwashing Open Letter to VQFF
• Sign: Solidarity with Palestine from Careworkers (Global)

Letter Writing & Phone Calling

• Tell Ministers to stop genocide or resign (Canada)
• Support families with evacuation of loved ones in Gaza (Canada)
• Action for Palestine: Scripts and Contacts (Canada)
• Palestine Solidarity Action Toolkit: Templates (Canada)
• Tell Trudeau: Push for end to bloodshed in Gaza (Canada)
• Let Gaza Live: Ceasefire NOW (US)

Posters and Flyers

• The Palestine Poster Project Archives
• Print and distribute this flyer for Queers in Palestine
• Artists Against Apartheid: Free Poster Downloads

Action Toolkits

• International Actions Against Scholasticide Toolkit
• Stop Gaza Genocide Action Toolkit (US)
• Palestinian Feminist Collective Digital Action Toolkit
• #PalSolidaritySitIn Public Toolkit

Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS)

• Support the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) Movement
• Palestinian Campaign for Academic & Cultural Boycott of Israel
• BDS Brand Search Directory

Grassroots Organizations & Collectives

• Palestinian Youth Movement
• Palestinian Feminist Collective
• Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network
• Canada Palestine Association - Vancouver
• Queers Against Israeli Apartheid Vancouver (QUAIA)
• PalSolidarity Canada
• Labour for Palestine (Canada)
• Palestine Legal Referral Services (Canada)
• Librarians and Archivists with Palestine (Global)
• Publishers for Palestine (Global)
• Scholars Against the War on Palestine (Global)