John -- As an organization and communitty committed to justice, Resource Generation is firmly in solidarity with Palestian resistance to occupation and apartheid. We call for an end to Israeli war on Gaza, and commit to collectively mobilizing and leveraging our resources in solidarity with the Palestinian people.

As a community predominantly of young people with access to wealth and class privilege in the US we are called to recognize the ways wealth in the US is built off US imperialism and militarism, including in Palestine and across the globe. We must face and address the ways the US government is invested and profiting off state violence, land theft, and apartheid on the ground in Palestine and Israel, providing $3.8 billion a year to the Israeli military [[link removed]] - and recently an additional $735M sent to the Israeli military by the Biden administration. [[link removed]] We choose to show up in solidarity with international movements fighting for life and liberation and mourn the hundreds of lives, the vast majority of whom are Palestinian, taken in the last two weeks.

At RG, we are committed to sharpening our analysis and deepening our organizing to support anti-imperialist and anti-colonial international movements. We encourage you to revisit the webinar RG recently hosted on “Zionism and Philanthropy”, where brilliant panelists shared about the context and structural conditions which enabled the escalated violence, land theft and killings we are witnessing in Sheikh Jarrah (East Jerusalem), Gaza, the West Bank, and across Israel and Palestine. [[link removed]]

Since we are still early in our journey of strengthening our work around internationalism, we look to our partners who are leaders in the field. Over the last several years, RG members have participated in Grassroots International’s Palestine Solidarity Donor Circle. Grassroots International is a long-time RG partner and social justice fund that addresses the root causes of injustice and oppression through funding movements globally. [[link removed]]

Take Action

*
Let’s
give
big
to
Grassroot
International's
Palestine
Solidarity
Emergency
Fund
during
this
time
and
make
longer-term
commitments.
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Wealth
redistribution
is
one
tool
of
solidarity
and
accountability.
100%
of
the
funds
raised
will
go
to
organizations
on
the
ground
who
are
both
responding
to
the
immediate
crises
and
building
toward
a
long-term
vision
of
freedom,
just
peace,
and
self-determination.
*
Let’s
contact
the
US
Congress
to
call
on
our
government
to
end
the
complicity,
unconditional
aid
($3.8
Billion)
and
investment
in
Israeli
state
violence
and
abuses
of
Palestinians
(per
our
partners
at
the
Movement
for
Black
Lives).
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We offer our love and care to all of our members and wider community during this time and especially those who are directly connected to family, friends, and organizers on the ground. To Palestinian, Arab and/or Muslim RG members and community: we commit to listening to your voices and stories that are so often ignored, and centering Palestinian-led movement demands for justice.

To Jewish RG members and community, especially Mizrahim, Jews of Color, poor and working class, Israeli Jews and others particularly affected by western imperialism and the Israeli state’s racial hierarchy [[link removed]] , we affirm and commit to challenging antisemitism as a form of systemic oppression rooted in White Supremacy and Christian Hegemony. We also believe it is evident that state-sanctioned violence will not ultimately protect Jewish people from antisemitism or create more safety. We must be rigorous and clear about the differences between antisemitism and anti-Zionism [[link removed]] . RG Jews are organizing conversations about Jewish safety beyond the Israeli state, policing, and wealth accumulation. If you are interested in being part of these conversations, contact Nadav at [email protected].

We know many RG members across race, class, and religious backgrounds are involved in active resistance to Israeli apartheid and militarism. We encourage white Christian and raised Christian RG members to learn more about Christian Hegemony [[link removed]] and Christian Zionism [[link removed]] , and the ways you and your family have benefitted from Christian privilege, to learn about the role of the US military industrial complex in Palestinian oppression, and to organize your communities in support of Palestinian-led movements, and against anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish violence.

Please join us in taking action and supporting movements this week and beyond. As Grassroots International shared [[link removed]] , let’s do our part to end U.S. complicity in Israeli apartheid and heed the Palestinian people’s call for justice.



With love and solidarity,

Iimay Ho (Executive Director), Nadav David (New England Regional Organizer & RG Jews Lead), Aidan Orly (RG member NYC), Jessica Rosenberg (RG member Twin Cities), Iris Brilliant (RG member and Former Staff Member) and the RG community and staff team

Contact Info: Resource Generation
1216 Broadway
New York, NY 10001
United States
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