Campaign I

In our first campaign, Demilitarize! Durham2Palestine, a broad group of organizations from Durham, North Carolina coalesced to seek an end to police exchanges between Israel and the City of Durham. This stems from long legacies of racist policing in the United States and the ongoing occupation of Palestine and human rights abuses by the Israeli Defense Force and Israel Police. Both feature racial profiling and surveillance. In Israel, there is a separate military court system for Palestinians that returns a guilty verdict over 99% of the time. And in the US, policies of mass incarceration disproportionally target Black, indigenous, and poor people.