ISSUES
Mission and Definitions
1. The Free Palestine Alliance (FPA) is an integral part of the Palestinian Arab Community in the United States - itself an inseparable part from the Palestinian Arab people.
2. The FPA affirms that the Palestinian Arab people constitute an indivisible unit naturally bound to the land of Palestine despite the passage of time and the onset of colonial rules, and in spite various agreements, programs or entities attempting to sever that unbreakable union.
3. The FPA affirms that all constituent sectors of the Palestinian people – regardless of imposed demarcation borders inside Palestine and including all Palestinians in exile - constitute one inseparable collective national unit; and further affirms the Arab identity and totality of Palestine and its people.
4. In addition to the Palestinian people, the FPA recognizes that the struggle for Palestine is a joint responsibility of the Arab people as a whole, and an integral part of the peace, justice, solidarity and liberation movements worldwide. In that context, the FPA recognizes the unique symbiotic relationship of the reciprocal political-economic-military interests between Western colonialism in general, the US Empire, the Zionist movement and its material manifestation - the racist Apartheid State of Israel.
5. The FPA fully recognizes the emerging Arab-American character of our community in the United States, and seeks to establish programs and projects to empower, safeguard, and develop our cultural, linguistic and political identity.
6. The FPA values its partnership role in the struggle within constitutional means for a just society in the United States in shaping political agenda and defending civil rights and liberties of all; and fully recognizes the struggle for justice of oppressed communities and movements. Accordingly, the FPA considers itself a component in the vision for a just future and a United States that is at peace with itself and the world.
7. The FPA regards the national democratic movement of the Palestinian people to be inseparable from the struggle for gender, racial, and religious equality within the larger struggle to end economic/political disparity, colonialism, foreign occupations and globalized domination. Emerging from the cumulative struggle of our people everywhere, and building on our community's rich and wide institutional heritage in the US, including the struggle for civil rights and liberties for and by all, we declare our presence and assume our responsibilities.
Political Program
1. A Secular Democratic State is a Just and Historical Imperative: The FPA regards the establishment of a democratic secular state on all of historic Palestine that would end all forms of Apartheid, colonial power structures, racial & religious segregation, as a just, inevitable, and realistic imperative, and will work towards this strategic goal.
2. Ending the Occupation is a Due Right: Ending the occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip is a right due to the Palestinian people within the larger context of the struggle for a secular democratic state on all of historic Palestine. It is therefore not a substitute for liberation as a whole from colonialism, racism, and Zionist Apartheid.
3. Full Right to Return is Fundamental: (a) The FPA affirms that Palestinians have the national, historic, human, and absolute individual and collective inalienable right to return to their homeland, homes of origin, and property in Palestine; and that they have the absolute right to restitution for all property, reparation for damages, and retribution for their suffering, displacement, and dispossession for more than half a century; and (b) The FPA regards any and all agreements that attempt to diminish or abrogate the right to return or to dismember Palestine and its people to be null and void regardless of origin or parties to said agreements.
4. The Palestinian Struggle is Universal: The FPA considers the Palestinian struggle for self-determination and return as universal, and that it is primarily rooted in the historic, cultural and political inextricable belonging of the people of Palestine to their homeland, as also affirmed by international law.
5. The Struggle against Zionism is Primary: The struggle against Zionist colonialism is the responsibility of all justice seeking people, primarily the Arab people, equally as it is the responsibility of the Palestinian people.
6. The Palestinian Struggle is International: The struggle for Palestine is inseparable from the struggle against underdevelopment, dictatorial rule, racism, imperial hegemony and globalized control.
7. The National Struggle is Linked to all Socio-Economic Struggles: The FPA is fully cognizant of the intertwined relationship between national, gender, class and racial inequities, and hence seeks to empower the most affected and dispossessed sectors of our people and community through social transformation and democratic and institutional empowerment.
8. Winning the Struggle of Narratives: Recognizing that the Palestinian struggle is also a struggle of narratives, the FPA seeks to support and establish programs that would directly serve this end through grassroots and community-oriented social, cultural, and political activities.
9. Formulating Relevant Programs: To achieve these goals, the FPA formulates immediate and long-term community and grassroots programs on various levels and in harmony with the requirements of any given historical period. The formulated programs are within the larger context of the struggle of Arab-American and marginalized communities, and in partnership with peace and justice movements across all sectors of society in the United States.
10. Divestment, Corporate Boycott, and Ending all Support to Israel: The FPA regards the implementation of a full divestment program in the United States coupled with effective corporate boycotts to be a necessary material formulation of the overarching goal of ending all forms of governmental and private economic, political, and military support to the Apartheid State of Israel. 11. The Palestinian Struggle is an International Responsibility: Given the functionary and symbiotic relationship between colonial power structures, internal oppression of movements and peoples, the expansion of absolute globalized dominance and the Apartheid Zionist State of Israel, the FPA affirms that the struggle of the Palestinian people is natural to all movements seeking peace and justice worldwide; and emphasizes the inextricable centrality of Palestine in all formulations against war, subjugation and empire
