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ODSC STANDS WITH AMERICAN STUDENTS AND FACULTY STANDING WITH THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE

The One Democratic State Campaign (ODSC) stands in solidarity with you, the courageous and principled students and faculty at dozens of universities throughout the United States, demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, divestment of your universities from companies profiting from Israeli wars on the Palestinians, and for Palestinian national rights. We recognize the genuine jeopardy […]

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CALL FOR INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT FROM THE ONE DEMOCRATIC STATE CAMPAIGN (ODSC)

Liberation requires more than resistance, protest and activism. It requires a political plan that replaces political structures of oppression with a new polity and society based on justice, egalitarianism and inclusiveness, but also on respect for the country’s diverse national, ethnic, religious and communal identities. Since Israel has eliminated the two-state solution in its relentless

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Statement of the One Democratic State Campaign: The alternative: Building a movement of liberation against a colonial regime, not demonstrating to defend “Jewish Democracy”

Since Israel’s Minister of Justice, Yariv Levin, announced sweeping ā€œreformsā€ in Israel’s judicial system, intended to nullify the power of the Supreme Court to declare laws unconstitutional and to pack the judiciary with political appointees, a regime based on settler colonialism, apartheid and Jewish supremacy over Palestinians has been debating how to preserve itself as

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FROM CITIZENSHIP TO LIBERATION DISCOURSE

The One Secular Democratic State CampaignAwad Abdelfattah In the early eighties, an elderly Israeli man came into the office of Al-Fajr English Newspaper where I worked in East Jerusalem, and introduced himself as a journalist from the Israeli ā€˜Maariv’ newspaper, Israel’s second most widely circulated paper at the time. He said he was investigating what

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ā€œBut if I don’t steal it, someone else is gonna steal itā€ – Israeli Settler-Colonial Accumulation by Dispossession

Areej Sabbagh-Khoury This article originally appeared in MERIP In a video clip widely shared on social media platforms in late April 2021, Mona al-Kurd (a Palestinian resident of East Jerusalem’s Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood) is seen confronting Jacob Fauci (an Israeli Jewish settler from Long Island) in the yard of her family home. ā€œYaakov, you know

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ODSC Condemns Classification of Palestinian Institutions as ā€œTerrorist Organizationsā€

A press release issued by the One Democratic State Campaign in Historic Palestine The decision of the Israeli government to declare six Palestinian civil society organizations as ā€œterrorist organizationsā€ is an extension of Israel’s hostility to human rights in general and to the important function of these organizations in monitoring and exposing the violations by

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It is time Israel, the West admit the two-state solution is dead

A recent survey shows that even Western and Israeli pundits know two states in Palestine are impossible. Haidar Eid This article originally appeared in Al Jazeera In August, the influential US magazine Foreign Affairs carried out a survey on the two-state solution in Palestine among ā€œauthorities with specialized expertise together with leading generalists in the

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Urgent Call from Gaza Civil Society: Take action this Saturday

Palestinians calling from #Gaza to Jerusalem: All out on Saturday, May 15th End the Ongoing Nakba and the Massacre in Besieged Gaza Take to the streets on Saturday May 15th with a united demand for sanctions and arms embargo on Israel.We Palestinians are facing yet another massacre in besieged Gaza, resisting ethnic cleansing in Jerusalem

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Press Release

Gaza Under Attack As Muslims all over the world celebrate the end of the holy month of Ramadan and the beginning of Eid Ul Fitr, the Israeli Occupation Forces have made their presence clear in the Gaza Strip. The latest round of Israeli war crimes in Gaza has resulted in the brutal killings of 25

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