Toolkits
- Palestine Action Toolkit (June 2021) from the Palestinian Feminist Collective
- Organizing 101: Trainings and Resources from the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights
- * STOP GAZA GENOCIDE: Ceasefire Now! (Public Toolkit) | Action-focused: From the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights
- Not My Tax Dollars – Activist Toolkit for Action Planning
- Strategies to SHUT IT DOWN Toolkit from the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights | Strategic Direct Actions and Sector-based Organizing
Other Resources
- Teaching Resources on Palestine
- Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix, The Guardian, Solidarity and strategy: the forgotten lessons of truly effective protest (March 2024)
- Palestinian BDS National Committee, BDS Guide to Strategic Campaigning for Palestinian Rights
Individual-Level Actions
- Call and email Congress to demand an immediate ceasefire
- Submit testimony for ceasefire resolutions
- Sign petitions
- Join a protest
- Support teach-ins/education/raising awareness
- Wear a keffiyeh to show solidarity
- Support BDS by boycotting
- BDS Toolkit by USCPR
- Know what to Boycott by BDS
- The Companies Supplying Weapons to Israel’s Attack on Gaza (December 2023) by Who Profits: Research Center
- The Role of Big Tech in the Israeli Occupation Economy (May 2023)
- Tool to find out if your investments are tied to human rights violations | Investigate: A Project of The American Friends Service Committee
- List of Companies involved in state violence and human rights violations as a part of occupations | Investigate: A Project of The American Friends Service Committee
- Digital activism:
- Follow social media accounts sharing updates about Palestine
- Amplify Palestinian voices
- Raise awareness and education
- Share fundraisers, petitions, events, protests, etc.
- Signal boosting
- Like, share, comment, and repost social media posts related to Palestine to reach a wider audience
- Add the Palestine emoji to your profile to show solidarity
- Donate: mutual aid/bail/legal fees/immigration fees
- Resistance organizations to support:
- 1 for 3 Boston – https://www.1for3.org/
- Baitulmaal – baitulmaal.org
- Medical Aid for Palestinians – map.org.uk
- Islamic Relief USA – irusa.org
- Palestine Children’s Relief Fund – pcrf.net
- Middle East Children’s Alliance – mecaforpeace.org
- U.N.R.W.A. – unrwa.org
- HEAL Palestine – https://www.healpalestine.org/
- List of fundraisers for families in Gaza
- Operation Olive Branch: Donate to families in Gaza
- Resistance organizations to support:
- Join an organization:
- Jewish Voices for Peace (JVP)
- US Campaign for Palestinian Rights
- Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC)
- National Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)
- Faculty for Justice in Palestine (FJP)
- IfNotNow
- Join a campaign local to you:
- Not On Our Dime! Campaign: New York
- PSC Branches
- JVP Branches
- FJP Chapters
- Campus organization (includes SJP chapters)
- Connect with a local group
- Join a campaign local to you:
- 3-minute action items
- Sign up for action alert texts at uscpr.org/SMSactions
Things You Can Do as a Psychologist
- Pressure APA to call for a ceasefire, make a statement in solidarity with Palestine, and endorse BDS as an organization
- Read American Anthropological Association’s Myths & Facts about BDS for counterpoints in discussing BDS and Palestine in our field
- Urge APA to stop endorsing the IHRA (International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance) definition that conflates criticism of Israel as antisemitism (APA 2007 resolution on Antisemitism)
- Educate the field on differentiating antisemitism from anti-zionism
- Support students risking their lives to advocate for Palestinian human rights and open genuine conversations on what is happening in Palestine
- Join or start a Faculty for Justice in Palestine (FJP) at your university
- Coordinate a teach-in, organize a vigil for scholars & students killed in Palestine, organize events on scholasticide, and pass motions in your faculty and student unions + associations + senates on scholasticide/genocide/BDS at your university
- Providing peer-support groups and healing circles
- Providing free or low-cost therapy to student activists or Palestinian clients
- Pro-Palestine Provider Sign-Ups (Led by Latinx Therapy, National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network, Inclusive Therapists)
- Speak up about Palestine in courses you teach, clinical sites, research spaces, or professional organizations to bring awareness to the colonization of Palestinians
- Include Palestine and Palestinian voices in your professional spaces
- Release a ceasefire statement from your graduate program/clinical practice
- Create a poster, session, or symposium at a research conference about Palestine
- Join AMENA-Psy and Psychologists for Justice in Palestine (PJP) as a member and get involved
Spread Awareness
- Share posters/art/visualizations
- Nakba 75: Reclamation and Resistance – Political Poster Project by Palestinian Youth Movement
- “Asians for a Liberated Palestine” Poster Project by 18 Million Rising – Organizing Asian America
- Graphic care-package in solidarity with Palestine
- Graphic care-package in solidarity with Palestine #2
- Visual Archives by Visualizing Palestine
- How to use these posters/visuals?
- Wheat-pasting posters carrying messages of liberation, the names of our martyrs, and our political demands
- Art Build: Making signs for actions and rallies
- Pop up art show–to be displayed in public spaces or buildings
- Posting on social media