At a Called Business Meeting on Sunday, June 2, 2024, Urbana-Champaign Friends Meeting approved joining the American Friends Service Committee’s (AFSC) Apartheid-Free Communities Campaign, which currently includes 330 other faith-based communities and organizations, with some standing aside.
Our meeting signed the following, modified pledge:
We affirm our commitment to freedom, justice, and equality for the Palestinian people and all people;
We oppose all forms of racism, bigotry, discrimination, and oppression; and
We declare ourselves an Apartheid-free congregation and to these ends;
We pledge to join others in working to end all support to Israel’s Apartheid policies, settler colonialism, and military occupation in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights.