End the Occupation

Nine national organizations join more than 9,000 individuals urging the United States to investigate Israel's killing of Rachel Corrie and its injuring and killing of additional U.S. human rights defenders. Take action for accountability and justice for them.

Read our open letter to the State Department urging a U.S. investigation into Rachel's death and Israel's injuring and killing of other U.S. human rights defenders. Organizations are invited to endorse this letter.

The U.S. government has long maintained that the Israeli military’s investigation into Rachel’s death was not thorough, credible, and transparent. The Israeli court’s verdict has only reinforced the fact that Israel is incapable of investigating and holding itself accountable for killing Rachel and severely injuring and killing other U.S. human rights defenders.

Whether you're an experienced organizer or are thinking of jumping in for the first time, join us for a special conference call on Thursday, October 20, to learn all you need to know to organize people in your community to end military aid to Israel. Also sign up for an organizing packet with everything you'll need to help change U.S. policy toward Palestine/Israel to support freedom, justice, and equality -- beginning with ending $30 billion in military aid to Israel.

The August break is for Members of Congress to be at home, meeting with constituents to hear about our concerns. They should be listening to our anxiety about the economy and thinking through ways to dig us out of the financial mess they've created -- not taking lobbyist-paid junkets to Israel, guaranteeing their support for even more money and weapons.

As the Gaza Freedom Flotilla II, "Stay Human," prepares to set sail this month, please take action to ensure its safe passage and prepare to take emergency action if Israel follows through with its threats to use violence to intercept the boats. Join us for a conference call this Thursday, June 23, with Leslie Cagan, organizer for the U.S. Boat to Gaza, and Laila El-Haddad, author of Gaza Mom, to talk about actions we can take to support the Freedom Flotilla.

On May 15 Israel killed at least 12 unarmed Palestinian refugees and injured hundreds more while the refugees were commemorating the 63rd anniversary of the Nakba. Israel's latest atrocity adds one more reason for you to persuade your Members of Congress to boycott Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu's upcoming address to a joint meeting of Congress.

Sign our petition to members of Congress demanding that they boycott the upcoming address by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu.

Find out how to help defeat a House resolution to withhold payment of U.S. dues to the UN as coercion to retract the Goldstone Report.

The President's 2012 budget request to Congress includes a record-breaking $3.075 billion in military aid to Israel. Find out more and how you can take action to oppose it.

The UN Security Council is preparing to debate a resolution on Israel's settlements. Its draft resolution reaffirms that Israel's settlements "are illegal and constitute a major obstacle to the achievement of a just, lasting and comprehensive peace." Tell the Obama Administration to not to veto the resolution, as it is threatening to do.

As the President prepares to send his FY2012 budget request to Congress next month, we recommend that he cut the deficit by eliminating his anticipated, record-breaking request for $3,075,000,000 in military aid to Israel.

Join the US Campaign's call upon the Obama Administration to: 1. Demand that Israel end its illegal siege of the Gaza Strip, and 2. Stop blocking the international community from holding Israel accountable for its actions.

The cables released so far shed light on behind-the-scenes struggles between Israel's quest for complete military dominance in the Middle East versus the U.S. desire to saturate the entire region with a flood of high-tech weapons. Tell your Members of Congress that your hard-earned tax dollars should go toward human needs in your community rather than more weapons for Israel.

Earlier this week, Israel media reported that Caterpillar is delaying the delivery of CAT D9 bulldozers to Israel. Learn more and take action to help us prevent the delivery of these bulldozers in the future.

Find out what you can do during August to challenge U.S. military aid to Israel.

Watch our three-minute video spoof on the Congressional debate to authorize even more military aid to Israel this year, and find out how you can take action to oppose military aid to Israel.

Learn more about proposed U.S. funding for "Iron Dome" and how you can take action to stop it.

H.Con.Res.270, introduced by Rep. Barbara Lee, takes a different tack by calling for accountability and a U.S. investigation into Israel's shooting of U.S. citizen Tristan Anderson on March 13, 2009.

Learn about the case of Tristan Anderson, a U.S. citizen, critically injured by the Israeli military and how you can take action to support an investigation into his case.

Benjamin Franklin once quipped: "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes." Unfortunately, in the case of U.S. military aid to Israel, the two are inextricably linked. Find out how to take action on Tax Day to change this.

Help us translate the Obama Administration's promise of holding Israel accountable into action by working to end U.S. military aid to Israel.

Contact the State Department to prevent Israel from arresting Palestinian nonviolent activist Dr. Mazin Qumsiyeh and find out what you can do for Tax Day--April 15--to challenge U.S. military aid to Israel.

The average taxpayer will give $19.19 to Israel for U.S. weapons in 2010. Find out how you can "offset" your taxes going toward Israeli military occupation and human rights abuses of Palestinians.

Send your Members of Congress a letter opposing the President's FY2011 budget request for $3 billion in military aid to Israel, and find out more about how you can oppose U.S. military aid to Israel.

Send a letter to your Members of Congress asking them to oppose President Obama's FY2011 budget request for $3 billion in military aid to Israel.

Find out how you can set up a meeting with your Members of Congress during the winter recess to advocate for an end to U.S. support for Israel's siege of the Gaza Strip and for accountability for war crimes Israel committed.

Find out how your Representative voted on H.Res.867, which condemns the Goldstone Report, and send them a letter of thanks or protest. Read analysis about the legislation and the vote.

The State Department seems at a loss for how to protest Israeli practices it doesn't like. Read about our recommendations and find out how you can get involved.

Find out how to schedule a meeting with your Members of Congress during their summer recess to ask them to cut off or, at the minimum, condition military aid to Israel.

Find out how your Members of Congress stack up in our new 111th Congressional Report Card. Read about our adventures on Capitol Hill. Sign up to organize a meeting with your Member of Congress during the August recess, and much more.

In meetings last week with the Egyptian Foreign Minister and Palestinian Authority President, the Obama Administration again came out strongly against the expansion of Israeli settlements. Find out more and learn what you can do to help the United States stop Israeli settlements.

Read our analysis of the Obama-Netanyahu meeting today and find out what you can do to take action to end U.S. military aid to Israel.

Find out what you can do to oppose the President's FY2010 budget request for $2.775 billion in military aid for Israel.

Read our analysis of President Obama's first 100 days in office and what you can do over the next 100 days and beyond to help us change policy.

Find out what you can do and what others are doing this Tax Day to protest U.S. military aid to Israel.

Find out details about a recent U.S. weapons delivery to Israel and what you can do to hold Israel accountable for its human rights abuses of Palestinians with U.S. weapons.

Find out how you can offset your tax contributions to Israeli military occupation and how you can organize to challenge U.S. military aid to Israel on Tax Day.

President Obama made no mention of military aid to Israel in his FY2010 budget outline. Find out what this means for future military aid to Israel and how you can take action to ensure accountability for Israel's misuse of U.S. weapons to commit human rights abuses against Palestinians.

Learn more about the Obama Administration's deliberations to cut aid to Israel and find out how to take action to hold Israel accountable for its misuses of U.S. weapons against Palestinians.

Read more about the US Campaign's educational efforts to challenge U.S. military aid to Israel during the Democratic National Convention and the Republican National Convention and find out how you can get involved.

Protest Rep. David Obey's earmark of $170 million in military aid for Israel which he snuck into the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2008. Find out how you can join us in our campaign to cut off military aid to Israel.

The House and Senate Appropriations Subcommittees on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs are scheduled to vote on $2.55 billion in military aid for Israel in FY2009 on July 16 and 17. Find out how you can take action to oppose this.

On March 5, the House of Representative passed by a vote of 404-1 H.Res.951, a biased, one-sided resolution on the situation in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian Gaza Strip. Read the US Campaign's analysis of this resolution, learn more about what we did to protest it, and how you can take action.

Send a letter to Members of Congress on the Senate and House Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs opposing military aid to Israel.

Read and have your organization endorse a sign-on letter to the Senate and House Appropriations Subcommittees on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs opposing military aid to Israel.

Learn more about President Bush's FY2009 budget request for $2.55 billion in military aid for Israel. Send the President and your Members of Congress a letter opposing this request.

Learn more about the Memorandum of Understanding signed between the United States and Israel in Aug. 2007 to increase military aid by 25%, totaling $30 billion over the next decade. Send the President and your Members of Congress a letter opposing this deal.

The US Campaign urges its individual supporters and member organizations to take action around President Carter’s book release to increase awareness in the United States of Israel’s apartheid policies toward Palestinians.

Take Action to stop the siege on Gaza and end the war. Israeli military forces have killed 77 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip since beginning its military offensive on Wednesday, November 1. This attack brings the total number of Palestinians killed to 300 in the past 4 months and 2,300 in the past 6 years. Israel's military offensive on Gaza compounds the humanitarian crisis wrought by economic boycott and virtual closure which has crippled Gazan livelihoods.

Use this model letter as a starting point to discuss with your Members of Congress Israel's violations of Palestinian human rights with Caterpillar bulldozers.

Lists Caterpillar political action committee (PAC) contributions to Congressional candidates, 1998-2006.

Some Members of Congress have used the result of the Palestinian legislative election as a pretext to advance their extreme anti-Palestinian agenda. HR4681, the Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act of 2006, proposes draconian economic and diplomatic measures to punish the Palestinian people for voting. Learn how you can take action to oppose this dangerous resolution.

Contact your Members of Congress and tell them that reevaluating relations with the PA and threatening to cut off aid is not the proper response to Hamas’ victory.

Take action to ask your Members of Congress not to take money from Caterpillar, to oppose Israel's aid request for the Gaza "disengagement", and meet with your Members over winter recess.

Schedule a meeting with your Members of Congress this winter recess to discuss with them Israel's aid request for $2.2 for the Gaza "disengagement" and Caterpillar political action committee contributions.

Contact Members of Congress and the Bush Administration and tell them to oppose Israel's $2.2 billion aid request for the Gaza "disengagement".