Honoring Khaled Nabhan: The Soul of Our Soul
A message from our Organizing & Advocacy Director, Iman Abid.
Last year, Palestinian grandfather Khaled Nabhan held the lifeless body of his precious 3-year-old granddaughter Reem, crying out “the soul of my soul” in mourning. His words never left us since.
Yesterday, the Israeli military murdered Khaled Nabhan too.
My heart split open reading this news, knowing the immense grief our people carry each day during these atrocities. From our children to our elders, Israel wants to wipe Palestinians off this Earth.
For as long as this nightmare continues, we will resist.
In memory of our martyrs, we’ll disrupt the supply chain of deadly U.S. weapons used to murder our people—from the bottom up if we must.
While many Americans disconnect over the holidays, the genocide machine keeps turning. The same companies shipping our gifts, like Maersk, are also transporting deadly weapons. The same companies fueling our holiday roadtrips, like Chevron, are also fueling Israel’s energy grid.
Take action to resist genocide profiteers with our updated Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) resources page.
The apartheid economy is already tanking under pressure—and your actions can accelerate its collapse.
If you have downtime over the holidays, use it to do your research and plan out your next BDS strategies. Here are the steps you can take:
- While you cook dinner for your loved ones, watch our Community Divestment webinar series to learn how you can build city divestment campaigns, pressure companies and institutions to cut ties with genocide, and break Israel bonds.
- Be intentional about avoiding overconsumption, and disrupt the death machine by boycotting. Make sure you’re boycotting every company on the BDS list, and hand out the list at your holiday gatherings to tell others to boycott too. You can also forego shopping and gift giving in favor of donating to urgent Gaza mutual aid efforts.
- Check if there’s a genocide profiteer in your neighborhood, whether that’s a Chevron gas station, a Maersk shipping site, a weapons manufacturer, or another complicit corporation.
- Raise awareness about BDS and/or protest in your neighborhood. You can use Mask Off Maersk posters from Palestinian Youth Movement, Boycott Chevron signs, or these BDS sticker designs from @gentlesuns.
Liberation is possible—and one day soon it will be within our people’s reach. Keep building the pressure to disrupt the apartheid economy and cut off the supply of weapons for genocide.
Onward to liberation,
IMAN ABID
Organizing & Advocacy Director