[Aurora borealis in Watertown, South Dakota on October 6, 2024. Photo credit: Alex Resel]

We’ve lost over 1,300 Israelis and 42,000 Palestinians this past year and are still counting. Every life represents a loved one, a family shattered, and dreams cut short. Our WDN community has been a beacon of bold action and unity. Across our network, members, staff, board, and grantees stepped into their power and courage, and actively contributed to a transforming landscape – one where everyone’s freedom, safety, dignity, and right to self-determination becomes closer. 

From building alongside our grantee partners to meeting regularly with elected officials to influencing philanthropy to push abundant resources to the field, we strengthened our practice as donor organizers. Within the WDN community, our groups like Mobilize for Palestine and Jews for Justice have been an important space, learning through deep conversations and organizing within their social networks, truly embodying the spirit of community in solidarity. 

It’s in our solidarity work that we see how we’re deeply intertwined with the broader fight against oppression. From advocating for reproductive justice for displaced people to addressing environmental disasters exacerbated by the ongoing bombing, we see these struggles as interconnected. Being on the right side of history also means we’re targets alongside grantee partners, who are attacked and repressed daily, while trying to fill gaps in their critical and necessary work. Through our culture of catalytic giving, we’ll keep rising to meet the moment and invite you to continue to abundantly resource movements rooted in justice. 

RESOURCES

• Join WDN discussions through Jews 4 Justice and/or Mobilize 4 Palestine. Get in touch with our Learning & Impact Team. 
• Read “Nothing Will Ever Be the Same Again” by Noura Erakat, activist, human rights attorney, associate professor at Rutgers University, and one of our speakers at the upcoming WDN Connect 2024.
• Fund movements, power justice: Reach out to the WDN team at [email protected] about how you can contribute to the power of our collective in resourcing this work.

• Follow the leadership of these grantee partners:
  • Rising Majority is a multiracial coalition building a shared cross-movement, multi-decade strategy, and vision in response to the urgency of this political moment.
  • IfNotNow is a progressive organization of American Jews organizing their community to end U.S. support for Israel’s occupation and demand equality, justice, and a thriving future for all Palestinians and Israelis.  
  • Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU) is focused on the disinformation and narrative strategy for Palestinian human rights (and this issue at large).
  • Just Vision (JV) is filling the narrative gap in the media and storytelling through smart reporting, award-winning films, and media strategies. WDN provided seed funding for Just Vision’s Hebrew-language news outlet, Local Call, and members have been executive producers for films that JV produced. 
  • American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) works to defend and promote human rights, civil rights, and liberties of Arab Americans. This is critical given the rise in Islamophobic attacks.
  • Adalah Justice Project is a Palestinian-led advocacy organization based in the U.S. that builds cross-movement coalitions to achieve collective liberation.
  • Diaspora Alliance is an international organization dedicated to fighting antisemitism and its instrumentalization by promoting the values of a multiracial democracy.
  • Jewish Voice for Peace is the largest progressive Jewish anti-Zionist organization in the world, organizing a grassroots, multiracial, cross-class, intergenerational movement of U.S. Jews into solidarity with the Palestinian freedom struggle.
  • Arab Resource and Organizing Center (AROC) serves poor and working-class Arabs and Muslims across the San Francisco Bay Area, while organizing to overturn racism, forced migration, and militarism. 
  • US Campaign for Palestinian Rights is a cross-racial movement-led organization working to strengthen advocacy for Palestine in the broader progressive field.
  • Palestine Legal is a legal organization dedicated to supporting the movement for Palestinian rights. They provide legal advice, Know Your Rights trainings, advocacy and litigation support to college students, grassroots activists and affected communities who stand for justice in Palestine, also monitoring incidents of suppression to expose trends in tactics to silence Palestine activism. Attorneys are based in Chicago, New York City and the Bay Area, and their work spans all 50 states and Washington D.C. 
  • Rebuilding Alliance is a US-based, woman-led humanitarian aid organization, leveraging their partnerships with the World Food Programme (WFP), and local networks, they efficiently source food from WFP suppliers and local markets, running numerous kitchens staffed by Palestinians across Gaza. 
  • Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA) is based in CA and works to protect the rights and improve the lives of children in the Middle East through aid, empowerment, and education. In the Middle East, MECA provides humanitarian aid, partners with community organizations to run projects for children, and supports income-generation projects. 
  • UNRWA USA is a US-based NGO that provides funding for Palestine refugees and to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). UNRWA provides a range of services including education, healthcare, humanitarian relief, and emergency responses, including during armed conflict. It is the primary organization to address needs in Palestine, the #1 distributor of aid, and employs over 30,000 Palestinians.

Resource list updated October 7, 2024. To add to this list, email [email protected].