Principles of Unity

These are the principles that guide our collective vision and actions on this campaign.

Principle 1:

A commitment to stand in solidarity with the struggle of the Indigenous people of Palestine for liberation and self-determination, which demands an end to Israel’s regime of apartheid and military occupation and upholding the right of return of all Palestinian refugees to their homes and villages that were depopulated during and ever since the 1948 Nakba and their right to reparations, as guaranteed under international law and UN resolution 194.

Principle 2:

A commitment to the 2005 call from Palestinian civil society to engage in the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement to end the complicity of states, corporations and institutions in Israeli apartheid and genocide.

Principle 3:

A commitment to reject all forms of racism, including anti-Palestinian, anti-Arab, anti-Muslim, and anti-Jewish racism, and to fight all forms of racialized, ethnic, religious, and class-based supremacy, including Zionism, an inherently racist and supremacist political ideology that forms the ideological pillar of Israel’s colonial system against Palestinians. We join human rights groups and anti-Zionist Jewish grounds in rejecting and refuting any and all conflation of anti-Zionism with antisemitism.

Principle 4:

A commitment to a careful and principled understanding of intersectionality of the Palestinian struggle for justice and liberation with all other domestic and global struggles for racial, economic, social, gender and climate justice.

Principle 5:

A commitment to do no harm. As healthcare workers, we strive to ensure the recommendations we make are ones that will not cause undue harm to any person or group of individuals. We commit to act through an intersectional, trauma-informed, and disability justice lens that understands there can be no one-size-fits-all campaign ask when it comes to healthcare.

Principle 6:

A commitment to an understanding that the American healthcare system is racist, oppressive, and profit-driven, with a legacy of medical racism and eugenics that has sustained vastly differential health outcomes for Indigenous, Black, brown, and poor people, an adjacency to carceral and oppressive bodies like the police, child protective services, and ICE, and an underlying ideology that health is a commodity, not a human right. We reject our conscription into this system, and strive towards a liberatory healthcare system where true healing can occur.