Our Values

Protect Palestine is an international community supporting military action by states to stop Israel's ongoing genocide and dismantle the Zionist settler-colonial occupation and oppression of the Palestinian people. We reject all forms of colonialism and occupation, and we stand unequivocally against Israel's illegal, expansionist, and apartheid project across all of historic Palestine.

We affirm the following values and political commitments:

• Urgent Need for Protective Intervention: Our central demand is for the immediate mobilisation of an international protective force to intervene against Israel’s genocide in Gaza. This includes breaking the illegal siege, enforcing a no-fly zone to stop aerial bombardments, ensuring unrestricted humanitarian aid, and physically protecting the Palestinian population from further Israeli massacres and ethnic cleansing.

• Anti-Imperialism: We recognise Israel as an unlawful colonial power operating across all of Palestine, sustained by imperialist support from global powers. We oppose the role of the United States, the United Kingdom, the EU, and other complicit states in enabling Israel’s aggression and shielding it from accountability. We affirm that the liberation of Palestine is not solely the struggle of the Palestinian people, but an integral part of collective resistance against imperialism worldwide.

• Right to Armed Resistance: We affirm the right of Palestinians to resist Israeli occupation and colonial domination, including by armed resistance, as enshrined in international law.

• Right to Return: We support the right of all Palestinians—whether in exile, under occupation, or within the 1948 borders—to self-determination over all of historic Palestine. Central to this is the full implementation of the Right of Return for all Palestinian refugees.

• Anti-Racism and Anti-Zionism: We oppose all forms of racism and recognise Zionism as a racist ideology used to justify the ongoing dispossession and dehumanisation of Palestinians. Zionism defines Jewish identity in exclusivist ethno-nationalist terms and falsely claims to speak for all Jews. We condemn Israel as an apartheid state built on ethno-nationailst supremacy, where racism is entrenched in law, policy, and practice.

• Support for BDS and Direct Action: We support and encourage all forms of resistance to Zionism including boycotts, divestments, sanctions as well as grassroots direct action. However, we see the need to proactively and physically stop Israel from its ongoing extermination or expulsion of Palestinians through military force.

• People Power: We have no illusions that Western colonial powers—many of whom are complicit in Israel’s crimes—will participate in or endorse this intervention. Nonetheless, we insist that it is the responsibility of all humanity to demand urgent action. We therefore call upon people in all states to demand and mobilise a protective force to stop genocide and dismantle Israeli settler-colonialism in Palestine.

Civil society endorsees to the campaign declaration are invited to meetings to plan and mobilise in accordance with these values.

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