Israel has escalated its genocidal assault against us in Gaza, shattering the fragile ceasefire with carpet bombing, and intensifying mass starvation and ethnic cleansing of our people. We, the Secretariat of Student Frameworks in Gaza, call on people of conscience around the world to make Israeli Apartheid Week (IAW) 2025 starting Friday 21 March, the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, a pivotal moment in our joint struggle to dismantle the Israeli regime of settler-colonialism, genocide, and apartheid towards Palestinian liberation.
For over a decade, Gaza has been the launch point of IAW, amplifying Palestinian voices from within the largest open-air prison on earth. This year, we cannot launch IAW from Gaza due to Israel’s intensified genocidal bombardment. Our plan was to commence IAW 2025 from the destroyed campus of the Al-Aqsa University, a site that once stood as a symbol of Palestinian resilience, but has now been reduced to rubble. The resumption of full scale genocide by Israel, backed and funded by the United States and other Western powers, has forced us to cancel this launch.
Yet, this must not be a moment of resignation - it must be one of escalation!
We call on the solidarity movement around the world and all people of conscience to make this an even stronger reason to escalate IAW actions to end complicity in Israel’s settler-colonial regime of genocide and apartheid. Israel would not be able to further entrench apartheid and continue to carry out genocide if it was not for the complicity of states, institutions, and corporations around the world.
The Secretariat of Student Frameworks in Gaza calls on supporters to Resist. Rise. Decolonize by:
Shutting It Down – Disrupt the institutions complicit in Israel’s genocide. Organize strikes (when feasible), walkouts, and sit-ins. No business as usual under genocide.
Expanding Apartheid-Free Zones – Demand your university, workplace, union, or city cut ties with apartheid Israel and respect the BDS guidelines.
Pressuring Governments for Sanctions – Governments must impose lawful targeted sanctions on Israel, including a comprehensive military embargo. This isn’t a choice but an ethical and legal duty. Ending direct and indirect complicity with Israel is a legal obligation for all states, following the ICJ decisions in 2024.
Organizing Mass Mobilizations around March 21 and beyond – Protest in your city, organize targeted direct actions.
Demanding Israel’s immediate suspension from the UN, FIFA, the Olympics, and all international institutions.
Amplify Palestinian Voices – Showcase Palestinian culture, resistance, and visions of liberation through film screenings, art exhibitions, teach-ins, and public discussions.
Together we can end this complicity and show how people power makes apartheid history.
-- The Secretariat of Student Frameworks in Gaza is the broadest coalition of student blocs affiliated with Palestinian political parties