How to support Palestine

Activities: This grassroots Palestinian civil society organisation aims to contribute to the building of a vibrant and just Palestinian society that celebrates diverse sexualities, sexual orientations, and genders. It states that this "cannot be separated from our vision for a self-determined Palestinian society free from all forms of oppression" and is vocal about Israeli colonialism, apartheid and genocide.

The group operates an LGBTQ hotline for Palestinians, runs community centres and events in Palestine, runs media campaigns, and more.

Location: Palestine

How to support: Make a donation or sign up to its newsletter.

Website: alqaws.org

Activities: Based in Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem, Palestine, Alrowwad is a non-profit "committed to fostering a safe, healthy, and creative environment through culture, arts, education, media, and empowerment." It runs a range of programmes for children, youth and women at its centre in Aida camp, and further across Palestine.

Location: Palestine

How to support: Donate, buy from its gift shop, get involved in 'Friends of Alrowwad UK'.

Website: alrowwad.org

Activities: American Muslims for Palestine works to educate, organise, and mobilise the Muslim-American community, as well as allies in other communities, to advance Palestinian rights. It runs a boycott campaign against Israeli dates that people worldwide can participate in.

Location: United States

How to support: Sign its pledge to boycott Israeli dates, follow it on social media, donate, sign its petitions and partake in its other campaigns e.g. lobbying US Congress members.

Website: www.ampalestine.org

Activities: Amos Trust works with grassroots projects in Palestine and other parts of the world, too. Its Palestinian partners run community programmes to promote "creative, non-violent resistance to the Israeli occupation" and relieve the "stress and despair that the occupation causes". Amos Trust shares the partners' stories and supports their work, for example raising awareness of home demolitions and the impact of life under occupation. It is a Christian organisation.

Location: Based in UK and supports grassroots partners based in Palestine and other places such as South Africa and Nicaragua.

How to support: Buy from its gift shop, register your interest to attend one of its tours to visit its partners' projects, subscribe to its newsletter, donate.

Website: amostrust.org

Activities: A coalition of trade unionists, activists and campaigners who raise awareness around how clothing brands profit from the Israeli occupation. It runs workshops and makes educational resources showing the links between settler colonialism and the fight against colonial supply chains.

Location: Worldwide

How to support: Subscribe to the newsletter, become a signatory, follow it on social media.

Website: antisweatshopagainstapartheid.wordpress.com

Activities: A Palestinian-led animal rescue organisation that provides treatment including vaccinations for sick and injured street animals including cats and dogs, and rehomes them. It also provides funds for local people who want to rescue animals but can't afford to do so. 

Location: West Bank

How to support: Make a donation.

Website: www.instagram.com/baladi.palestineanimalrescue

Activities: The official founders and leaders of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. This movement was created by Palestinian civil society in 2005, and it calls on people internationally to hold Israel to account for abuses of Palestinian human rights.

It runs strategic campaigns, including boycott campaigns that involve asking people not to buy from brands complicit in human rights abuses. Its divestment campaigns involve pressuring, for example, governments, companies and other organisations to divest from entities linked to abuses of Palestinian human rights. It also publicly criticises (sanctions) activities of the Israeli state in a range of ways to draw attention to abuses and call for change.

Location: Palestine and worldwide

How to support: Support its campaigns by for example boycotting brands, organising events and protests, lobbying for organisations to divest from their boycott targets, setting up a local BDS campaign group, donating or following it on social media.

Website: bdsmovement.net

Activities: Breaking the Silence is an organisation of veteran soldiers who have served in the Israeli military. It aims to stimulate public debate about the occupation and bring about its end. It shares testimonies about the experiences of former soldiers and conducts tours of settlements, among other activities. People in the UK can use their resources to run workshops or talks, and reach out to see if a member is able to attend an event. You can also attend their tours of settlements when they run.

Location: Registered in Israel and conducts tours in settlements on occupied Palestinian land.

How to support: Request them to run a lecture, or discussion at an event you are organising. You can also make a donation, subscribe to their newsletter or attend their tours of settlements when they run.

Website: www.breakingthesilence.org.il

Activities: DEC is made up of 15 UK member charities that are experts in humanitarian aid and specialise in different areas of disaster response, including for example Oxfam and Save the Children.  These charities 'pool their resources to work as one' and are 'pivotal in co-ordinating the UK public's response to overseas disasters'. It launches high-profile appeals and sets up easy ways to donate. The money from the appeals goes to its member charities that have the greatest capacity to help, who use it to deliver aid to those who need it. 

Location: Based in the UK, distributing aid to areas worldwide facing disasters: currently focusing on Gaza, West Bank and Lebanon.

How to support: Donate, fundraise for it, encourage a company or media organisations to join its Rapid Response Network which promotes its appeals at short notice.

Website: www.dec.org.uk

Activities: UK-based NGO demanding political change for Palestine. It runs a boycott campaign against Coca-Cola, organises petitions, engages with policymakers in UK parliament, runs events and provides educational materials among other activities.

Location: UK

How to support: Become a member, sign its petition and support its boycott calls, donate, volunteer (for example organising events, writing, graphic designing, fundraising), or buy from its shop.

Website: www.foa.org.uk

Activities: An independent organisation of lawyers, academics and politicians that work to promote and support Palestinian rights. It supports legal work in different countries which try to protect the rights of Palestinians. For example, it is supporting a legal case against the UK government challenging decisions it has made which have enabled export-licenses for UK-made weapons that end up being potentially used on Gaza.

Location: Registered in the UK

How to support: Donate or follow it on social media.

Website: www.icjpalestine.com/

Activities: ISM invites people internationally to go to Palestine, and take part in direct action or take photographs and write articles about their experiences, for example spending time alongside Palestinians in olive groves, on school runs, at demonstrations, within villages, by houses being demolished, or at other sites where Palestinians are subject to harassment or attacks from soldiers and settlers.

Location: Palestine

How to support: Volunteer with ISM in Palestine or make a donation.

Website: palsolidarity.org

Activities: The largest Jewish anti-Zionist organisation worldwide, organising a movement of US Jews in solidarity with Palestinian human rights. Their resources can be useful for Jewish and non-Jewish campaigners working to oppose Zionism.

It runs lots of campaigns, for example supporting the creation of legislation in New York aiming to “block the flow of money” going from the state to Israeli settlements.

Location: Worldwide

How to support: There are many ways to get involved especially if you are Jewish. Signing pledges, running events, public speaking, subscribing to its newsletter and donating are some ways to get involved.

Website: www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org

Activities: A community of Jews in Britain who stand up "for human rights and against oppression" by campaigning for justice and peace in Israel and Palestine, and against the Occupation. It lobbies the government around Palestinian human rights, runs meetings for the public. about Israel and Palestine, speaks at events among other activities, and tries to counter Israel’s ‘Hasbara’ (self-promotion) strategy which aims to divert attention away from abuses of Palestinian rights. 

Location: UK

How to support: Join as a member, donate, become a signatory, sign up to its newsletter, respond to its calls to lobby the government, write for its website, and help recruit new members.

Website: jfjfp.com

Activities: Set up and led by members of the Palestinian diaspora, Makan is a charity that works to strengthen the ability of advocates to talk about Palestine in a simple, fact-based manner that centres Palestinian voices and ideas.

Activities include running workshops and talks about how to talk about Palestine effectively.

Location: UK

How to support: Donate, educate yourself using its online resources, request a workshop, become an educator, share its digital resources, buy its t-shirts and fundraise for it.

Website: www.makan.org.uk

Activities: This charity runs healthcare programmes in the West Bank, Gaza, East Jerusalem, and Lebanon in collaboration with local partners. It speaks out in the UK and internationally to "ensure Palestinian voices are heard at the highest levels, to press for the political and social barriers to Palestinian health and dignity to be addressed."

It says “MAP’s team in Gaza were among the first to respond to the current emergency and remain one of the only international organisations working to provide humanitarian and medical services”.

Location: UK

How to support: Donate, sign up to its newsletter, fundraise for example through a sponsored run or cycle, support its ‘email your MP’ campaign.

Website: www.map.org.uk

Activities: Om Sleiman is a Community supported Agriculture (CSA) farm in Ramallah, West Bank. It says, "Our mission is to contribute to liberation and resistance through increased food sovereignty and responsible living and consumption." It invites volunteers to join it year-round to work on the field. 

Location: West Bank

How to support: Volunteer at its community farm.

Website: https://wwoofindependents.org/en/host/43201-farm

Activities: The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) advocates for a boycott of Israeli academic and cultural institutions for their deep and persistent complicity in Israel’s denial of Palestinian rights that are stipulated in international law.

Location: Palestine and worldwide

How to support: Search the directory of PACBI pledges worldwide for one that you could sign. If you see an academic or cultural event which is linked to the Israeli state, you could organise a campaign around it or support one if it exists already.

Website: bdsmovement.net/pacbi

Activities: A direct action campaign against weapons manufacturers and companies that provide services to them. 

Two sites in the UK owned by Israeli weapons company Elbit Systems have shut down following Palestine Action campaigns. Several other companies linked to Elbit have severed ties with the arms company after being targeted by Palestine Action, including a recruitment agency and property manager.

The organisation also took direct action against Barclays, which held shares in Israeli weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems, at least 54 times since 2023. This included "smashing branch windows and spraying them in blood-red paint". The group says, "many of these actions put Barclays sites out of operation for weeks, actions which sought to raise the costs associated with dealing with Elbit". Barclays now no longer holds shares in Elbit, which Palestine Action says is a result of its actions.

Location: Originated in the UK, now in multiple countries worldwide.

How to support: Palestine Action invites people to participate in its direct action training days, donate towards legal defense costs for activists, and provide support to prisoners in a range of ways including writing emails to those imprisoned.

Website: palestineaction.org

Activities: The leading UK-based NGO campaigning for Palestinian human rights. It runs some boycott campaigns, for example against Barclays, which continues to hold shared in a range of companies linked to Israeli genocide (despite no longer holding shares in weapons manufacturer Elbit Systems). 

Location: UK

How to support: Support its upcoming ‘days of action’ by running stalls or protests in your area, participate in its ‘mass account closure’ days if you have a Barclays bank account, email your councillor, print and display its ‘ceasefire now’ poster, join your local PSC branch or donate.

Website: palestinecampaign.org

Activities: Stop the War opposes the "British establishment’s disastrous addiction to war and its squandering of public resources on militarism", and is particularly active organising for example protests in support of Palestine.

Location: UK

How to support: Join a local group, donate, sign up to its newsletter, or volunteer.

Website: www.stopwar.org.uk

Activities: Sulala is the only organisation in the Gaza strip rescuing stray animals and providing support to sick animals in its pop up clinic.

Location: Gaza

How to support: Make a one-off or monthly donation.

Website: https://linktr.ee/sulalaanimalrescue1

Activities: A coalition of 8,000+ founders, engineers, product marketers, community builders, investors, and others operating in the tech space that advocate for Palestine.

It runs a range of tech-related projects that aims to support Palestine that people globally can become involved in. For example, it runs the ‘Boycat app’, which lists all BDS boycott targets. 

Location: Worldwide

How to support: Submit a tech project idea and work on this collaboratively with others, volunteer, or join its discord server.

Website: techforpalestine.org

Activities: Cyclists ride together to protest and raise funds for charities in Palestine. One of the longest rides lasted nine days, and some have involved over 200 cyclists, but it also runs shorter and smaller ones. As part of one of its rides in 2016, the cyclists blockaded a factory that produced military components.  

Location: UK, Ireland and beyond

How to support: Check its website for rides you can partake in, or demonstrations the Big Ride plans to be present at, buy Palestine cycling clothing from its online shop, sign up to its newsletter.

Website: www.thebigride4palestine.com

Activities: This campaign group grew out of the climate change activist movement Just Stop Oil and calls for a UK arms embargo against Israel. It partakes in direct action such as spray painting the labour headquarters and shutting down Waterloo Bridge to generate attention.

Location: UK

How to support: Sign up to its mailing list or donate.

Website: youthdemand.org

Activities: Zaytoun is a social enterprise that supports Palestinian farmers through fair trade sales of olive oil, dates, almonds, za'atar and other foods produced in the West Bank. You can buy their products on its website.

Location: UK and West Bank

How to support: Buy its products, stock its products if you own a shop, or donate money to plant an olive tree in the West Bank, and spread the word using #BuyPalestinian.

Website: zaytoun.uk