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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…