DEAR FRIENDS,

I honestly never thought we’d live through a Nakba larger and worse than 1948 in our lifetimes. Yet we are reminded that the Nakba never ended.

We have witnessed unspeakable horrors this past year. There is nothing normal about what we have been witnessing, and we must never accept its normalization.

It is heartbreaking that with all we have learned throughout history, we are unable to stop a genocide right now. On top of Israel’s destruction of Gaza, the West Bank has been subjected to a more vicious and violent occupation, with Israeli forces and settlers working in tandem to terrorize our people. We’ve also seen Israel expanding its colonial violence to the wider region, brutally bombing and invading Lebanon and now Syria.

Yes, the Palestinian people are suffering—in Gaza, in the West Bank, across historic Palestine, and in the diaspora. But we are not silent. We remain steadfast, we assert our humanity, and we look forward to liberation.

Your support this past year has helped achieve historic growth in our movement. Millions and perhaps billions across the world have joined us in opposition to the Israeli/U.S. genocide of the Palestinian people. We are heartened to see this uprising of popular support for the Palestinian cause.

In the months and years ahead, we still have more work to do. 

We must continue to pull every lever we can as we build power—and you’ll see throughout our annual report how much your support enabled us to do this year. Thank you.  

With you, we plan to keep building until liberation and return.

View a timeline of our year of resisting genocide

ONE YEAR OF USCPR ACTION:

OUR NEW 501(c)4 

Writing Palestine into the Progressive Agenda

After over 20 years building our movement as the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, we added an advocacy and political arm, USCPR Action, in late 2023. As a 501(c)4 organization, USCPR Action allows us to build greater power by advocating for legislation, endorsing political candidates, holding elected officials accountable, and more. USCPR Action is a project of Tides Advocacy.

We kicked off USCPR Action’s work with an online launch attended by over 1,000 supporters in January 2024. Featured speakers included Rep. Rashida Tlaib, Linda Sarsour, and Huwaida Arraf.  

In March 2024, USCPR Action launched the first-ever interactive and dynamic Congressional scorecard that tracks legislative actions by Democratic Members of Congress on Palestinian rights. As Congress has continued to advance anti-Palestinian legislation that harms our communities, this scorecard has been an especially important resource.

In May 2024, over 100 supporters joined USCPR Action in person in DC for one day of advocacy training and one day of Capitol Hill visits. We met with 40 congressional offices, supporting our champions for Palestinian rights and pushing members and their staff to do more to end the genocide and the U.S. goverment’s active participation in it. Advocates shared USCPR Action’s policy brief highlighting our recommendations for policymakers on recognizing the Nakba and focusing on Gaza.

In 2024, we have mobilized millions of supporters to take action by contacting their Members of Congress through email, phone, and in-person meetings and by protesting in the streets. Demands have included a permanent ceasefire, standing with student protestors, rejecting AIPAC, and stopping U.S. weapons to Israel. There’s much more to do, but this first year of USCPR Action has shown us significant opportunities to continue building our political power.

“This is a chance to leverage our relationships across grassroots and policy spaces.” — Ahmad Abuznaid, Executive Director of USCPR Action

Since October 7, USCPR has leveraged our two decades of experience to mobilize thousands of grassroots organizers, movement leaders, and newly activated supporters of Palestinian rights to lead emergency responses to Israel’s ongoing genocide in Palestine. Your support has enabled our organizing staff to directly consult with organizers leading over 230 campaigns across the U.S.

Mobilizing Progressive Allies & Partners

On October 11, 2023, we convened 50+ leaders from allied progressive organizations to share Palestinian perspectives on how allies could best mobilize for Palestine, and then we held regular partner calls for months. Participants proceeded to publish solidarity statements, drive digital actions, and mobilize their bases to protest and resist. Together, they’ve helped us recruit hundreds of thousands of new supporters of Palestinian rights.

Building Strategic Support Groups

Last year, USCPR created several strategy support groups, reaching over 300 organizers in 110+ communities, on topics like pressuring corporations, organizing middle and high schoolers, and moving members of Congress. As an example, our City Council Strategy Group harnesses energy around local ceasefire, divestment, and Israel Bonds campaigns for Palestinian rights. These groups provide grassroots organizers with key resources, strategic support, access to USCPR staff, and a political home to exchange ideas with skilled peers across the country as they advance critical campaigns.

Just a few weeks after launching the City Council Resolutions Group, the Hayward City Council voted to divest from genocide and apartheid. Organizers from Hayward then joined our support group and helped disseminate lessons learned to organizers in 100+ cities. USCPR also drafted a city council resolution template to equip organizers. As of October 2024, 200+ cities and towns have passed resolutions favorable to Palestinian rights.

Investing in Local Campaigns

In July 2024, 99 organizers from 45 communities gathered in Minneapolis for USCPR’s third annual Palestine Local Campaigns convening, supported by generous donors like you. Over the course of four days, the convening built new relationships among organizers, strengthened organizations in key cities, and refined strategies on campaigns. One example of immediate impact: Equipped with resources and strategies from the convening, organizers from the Maine Coalition for Palestine won their divestment campaign at the Portland City Council in September.

In the shattering pandemic and uprising moment of 2020, we heard from young leaders that they needed skills, mentorship, and funding to build the movement. We listened and built the U.S. Palestine movement’s only funded leadership and campaign development opportunity.

Through USCPR’s Youth Fellowship program, we’ve seeded wins with 44 Youth Fellows for the future of the movement. Our investments in Youth Fellows in 2023 made wins possible in 2024:

• USCPR Youth Fellow Anna laid the groundwork at Pitzer College for the first national victory to end an apartheid Israel study abroad program.

• Fellows Nidaa and Alex co-organized the first two Divest from Death campaign wins at UT Dallas and University of Houston, building a new framework for divestment this past year that targets the weapons industry as a shared threat to all communities.

And we didn’t stop there. Meet a few of our current 15 USCPR Youth Fellows:

• Youth Fellow Nishu (Houston for Palestinian Liberation) is winning against repression & innovating city council campaigning: She modeled how to fight and win a countering repression campaign, using people power and a broad coalition to crush the mayor’s anti-protest ordinance. And, she’s been building a campaign that explores how to pivot if City Council won’t heed the people’s demands. With our support, Nishu has disseminated lessons learned to 125+ organizers, between our annual campaigns convening and virtual city council strategy group.

• Youth Fellow Shahinaz (UAW Labor for Palestine) is growing labor organizing to stop arming Israel: This past year she’s built a network with early success, from a single union divesting in January 2024 to building pressure for the leadership of the entire national union to demand an arms embargo from President Biden in a historic July 2024 letter. Her work helped get UAW to send contingents to the Arrest Netanyahu mobilization in DC and the March on the DNC in Chicago. Shahinaz is now building toward a landmark win for UAW to fully divest from Israel.

• Our fellow Dalal (Majdal: Arab Center of San Diego) is tripling youth organizing power in a community of new immigrants: This past year, Dalal helped triple the size of the Arab Youth Collective, from 10 to 30 members. The collective organizes middle and high schoolers, particularly Arab immigrant youth, to build a political home, identify injustices, access art spaces to process and dream, and take action. Through dozens of programs, three focus groups, and a youth forum, she helped young people build campaign structure, with a focus on Palestinian and Arab community power: fighting racism in school and fighting for the right to learn about Palestine and Arab people’s struggles for justice.

FINANCES

Revenue Growth, 2004-2023

Thank you to our generous supporters—long time donors and new first-time givers—who have made USCPR and USCPR Action’s work in this critical year possible. Your generosity has helped us mobilize hundreds of thousands to take action for Palestine.

Thank you for your steadfast solidarity with the Palestinian people. As we mark one year of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Palestine, we are grateful for supporters like you who have helped harness our collective grief and anger to mobilize millions of people across the country. Our fight for justice and liberation continues, and in the year ahead, here are few ways you can sustain our work for Palestinian rights.

Olive Branch Club

Join our Olive Branch Club, a community of monthly donors dedicated to freedom and justice for the Palestinian people. By becoming a member, you’re powering the movement for Palestinian rights year-round. uscpr.org/obc

Workplace Giving

Employer matching programs give donors an opportunity to double or even triple their impact. Contact your employer today to find out whether your company matches the charitable donations of employees. uscpr.org/matching

Make a Gift Through Your Will

Create a legacy of justice for generations by including USCPR in your will, estate plan, or as an account beneficiary. Your planned gift ensures we can continue our important work until liberation. uscpr.org/legacy

Donor Advised Funds (DAFs)

A donor-advised fund is an easy, cost-effective, and flexible way to give to causes you care most about. If you have a donor-advised fund and would like to donate, you can make your grant recommendation to USCPR. uscpr.org/daf

Contributions to USCPR Action, a Project of Tides Advocacy, are not tax deductible as charitable contributions or as business expenses under IRC Section 162(e). Your contribution may be used for lobbying or political activity, and is not earmarked for a particular purpose. Please visit www.tidesadvocacy.org/donate/ for additional information about Tides Advocacy.

The US Campaign for Palestinian Rights is a nonprofit charitable organization. 

Every generous contributions to USCPR powers our work to advance Palestinian rights and demand an end to U.S. complicity in Israeli human rights abuse.

Thank you for your support!