A call from grassroots and advocacy organizations to Congress
Washington D.C. – Jewish Voice for Peace Action joined dozens of grassroots and advocacy organizations calling on members of Congress to embrace a U.S. foreign policy toward Palestine/Israel that is rooted in human rights, justice and equality, and to resoundingly reject any attempts to further the dangerous Trump administration era Abraham Accords, including opposing legislation like the Israel Relations Normalization Act of 2021 (H.R. 2748/S.1061). Read the full statement and list of signers below.
Update (February 25, 2022): 50 organizations have now signed the statement.
Statement in Opposition to Trump Administration’s “Abraham Accords” and the “Israel Relations Normalization Act”
The undersigned grassroots and advocacy organizations call on members of Congress to embrace a U.S. foreign policy toward Palestine/Israel that is rooted in human rights, justice and equality, and to resoundingly reject any attempts to further the Trump administration “Abraham Accords”, including through legislation like H.R. 2748/S. 1061, the Israel Relations Normalization Act of 2021.
While masquerading as ‘peace’ and ‘diplomacy’, the Abraham Accords and this legislation are in fact an endorsement of arms sales and political favors between the U.S. and authoritarian regimes – including weapons sales to the United Arab Emirates and the recognition of Morocco’s illegal annexation of Western Sahara – in exchange for the sidelining of Palestinian rights.
This dangerous approach to foreign policy in the Middle East harms the most vulnerable communities already subject to systematic human rights violations – from Yemenis, to Sahrawis, to Palestinians – and floods the region with more U.S. weapons.
Any sustainable and lasting peace must be rooted in justice. U.S. foreign policy should end its support for Israel’s violations of Palestinian human rights and its separate and unequal apartheid rule of Palestinians.
Signed by:
Adalah Justice Project
American Friends Service Committee
Americans for Justice in Palestine Action
Arab American Civic Council
Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC)
Campaign Against Arms Trade (UK)
CODEPINK
Adalah Justice Project
American Friends Service Committee
Americans for Justice in Palestine Action
Arab American Civic Council
Arab Resource & Organizing Center (AROC)
Campaign Against Arms Trade (UK)
CODEPINK
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
Center for Constitutional Rights
Chicago Area Peace Action
Defense for Children International – Palestine
Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN)
Democratic Socialists of America
Detention Watch Network
Dream Defenders
Eyewitness Palestine
Freedom Forward
Grassroots Global Justice Alliance
Hindus for Human Rights
ICNA Council for Social Justice
Israeli Coalition Against Housing Demolitions – USA
IfNotNow
Institute for Policy Studies, New Internationalism Project
Jews for Racial and Economic Justice
Jewish Voice for Peace Action
Just Foreign Policy
MADRE
Migrant Roots Media
MPower Action Fund
National Lawyers Guild International
National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
OurRevolution
Palestine Legal
Pax Christi USA
Peace Action
Presbyterian Church (USA)
Progressive Democrats of America
Project South
Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice
ReThinking Foreign Policy
Release Aging People in Prison/RAPP Campaign
RootsAction.org
South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT)
Stand with Kashmir
SumOfUS
Sunrise Movement
Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ)
US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR)
US Council of Muslim Organizations