Advocating for Justice and Palestinian Rights
Washington Advocates for Palestinian Rights (WAPR) is a grassroots network across Washington State to advocate with public officials at the federal, state and municipal level to promote justice and Palestinian rights.
Defending the Freedom to Boycott
WAPR continues to resist all state and federal legislation that attacks our right to boycott and tries to criminalize the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, a grassroots campaign to pressure Israel to abide by international law: end military occupation, ensure equal rights for Palestinians inside Israel, and accept the internationally-recognized Right of Return for Palestinian refugees. The BDS call is modeled after the South African boycott and thus calls for broad boycotts against Israeli institutions. Nothing in it calls for discrimination against individuals solely because of their national origin, religion, or ethnicity. Whatever your views on Israel, Palestine, or BDS, anti-boycott measures should be of concern, because they threaten our right to take collective action against injustice.
In 2017-8, the Washington State Legislature saw four attacks on BDS: an anti-boycott bill announced in December by then-Senator Michael Baumgartner, House Joint Memorial 4004 and House Joint Memorial 4009 condemning the BDS Movement, and a Governors Against BDS statement issued by Governor Inslee.
Ending the Deadly Exchange
WAPR is a core member of the Seattle DEADLY EXCHANGE campaign to stop training exchanges between police in Seattle and Israel.
Contact us: WAPalestinianRights@gmail.com
Defending the Freedom to Boycott
WAPR continues to resist all state and federal legislation that attacks our right to boycott and tries to criminalize the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, a grassroots campaign to pressure Israel to abide by international law: end military occupation, ensure equal rights for Palestinians inside Israel, and accept the internationally-recognized Right of Return for Palestinian refugees. The BDS call is modeled after the South African boycott and thus calls for broad boycotts against Israeli institutions. Nothing in it calls for discrimination against individuals solely because of their national origin, religion, or ethnicity. Whatever your views on Israel, Palestine, or BDS, anti-boycott measures should be of concern, because they threaten our right to take collective action against injustice.
In 2017-8, the Washington State Legislature saw four attacks on BDS: an anti-boycott bill announced in December by then-Senator Michael Baumgartner, House Joint Memorial 4004 and House Joint Memorial 4009 condemning the BDS Movement, and a Governors Against BDS statement issued by Governor Inslee.
Ending the Deadly Exchange
WAPR is a core member of the Seattle DEADLY EXCHANGE campaign to stop training exchanges between police in Seattle and Israel.
Contact us: WAPalestinianRights@gmail.com