Our Vision
We, a collective at the University of Minnesota (UMN), are responding to the call by the US Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) to form the FLAGS JP group. In solidarity with local and transnational movements that stand with the people of Palestine, we envision Palestinian liberation from 75 years of Israeli settler colonialism, the ending of Israeli apartheid and illegal occupation, and the right of return for all Palestinian refugees. FLAGS JP sees the path to a Free Palestine as intimately and inextricably linked to a Free Turtle Island. The rights and privileges of settlers in the US are contingent upon multiple, overlapping dispossessions of land, life, and labor from Indigenous peoples and Black peoples—this is an irreparable harm (TRUTH Report 2023). It is in recognition of our collective responsibility to unlearn relations of harm and in response to calls from Indigenous peoples in Palestine, in the United States, in Minnesota, and on our campuses that we, the members of FLAGS JP, demand the University of Minnesota, and with it the State, divests from the apartheid state of Israel in this present hour of genocide.