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USCPR Executive Director Comments on Inauguration of Bloomberg’s Mayoral Training Program in Israel

The Bloomberg-Sagol Center for City Leadership, funded by former New York City Mayor Bloomberg and the Sagol family in Israel, was inaugurated on Sunday, April…

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USCPR Executive Director: “The Fight for Environmental Justice Has No Borders”

USCPR joined a coalition of Palestinian, Indigenous, and other progressive organizations to tell the Sierra Club to cancel their trips that greenwash Israel’s settler colonialism—and at…

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USCPR Communications Director Co-Writes Op-Ed on H.R. 2748

Communications Director at the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, Cat Knarr, and visiting fellow at Al-Shabaka Nadya Tannous, co-wrote an op-ed in Mondoweiss, “Congress’s ‘Israel…

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USCPR Executive Director on Remembering Trayvon Martin

February 26, 2022 marks 10 years since the murder of Trayvon Martin at the hands of U.S. police. In remembrance and in honor of his…

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USCPR Executive Director Ahmad Abuznaid comments on Pegasus hack

An investigation by Front Line Defenders (FLD) revealed that Palestinian human rights activists were targeted by a phone hack using Pegasus spyware, developed by the…

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USCPR Executive Director Comments on #StandWithThe6

Israel’s Defense Minister Benny Gantz recently criminalized six prominent Palestinian human rights and civil society organizations in order to shut down their vital work. The…

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Racial Justice Organizations’ Statement on Facebook Highlighted in Media 

The latest Facebook whistleblower documents revealed that Facebook was aware of the extreme spread of misinformation and hate speech on its platform, but still allowed…

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USCPR Manager of Policy and Advocacy Campaigns Comments on $1 Billion Military Funding to Israel

The U.S. Senate is expected to authorize an extra $1 billion dollars in military funding to Israel. Prior to the vote, Sen. Bernie Sanders said…

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Press Releases

Action Alerts

How to resist colonialism and genocide this week

By Ahmad Abuznaid, USCPR Executive Director As the U.S. prepares for the colonial holiday known as Thanksgiving, followed ...

ACTION ALERT: Palestinians sue Biden for complicity in genocide

Today, Palestinian people in Gaza and the U.S. filed a federal lawsuit against President Biden, Secretary of State Blinken, ...

From a historic march to a liberated future

Photos by Nushrat Nur On Saturday, we took to the streets of Washington DC with over 300,000 people ...

180 human rights activists hold sit-ins at 8 senate offices

At this moment on Capitol Hill, 180 human rights activists are holding sit-ins at eight senators’ offices—and 52 activists ...

Join the National March on Washington for Palestine + Week of Action

This week, you can take part in the historic National March on Washington for Palestine on Saturday, November 4 at ...

GAZA EMERGENCY: Call Congress Now!

We're asking you to take action like you never have before. As Palestinian people in Gaza live through genocide ...