BK Half Marathon Fundraiser for Palestine!

Hi, it's Rachel. For the last few years, I have run the NYC Gaza 5k with friends from Leftwing Futbolistas NY. It's one of my favorite events of the year and is an opportunity for me to invite friends and family to join me in supporting the Palestinian struggle for life, freedom, and sovereignty.

This year, the Gaza 5k didn't happen in NYC, so Terry and I are running the NYC Half Marathon on May 20, 2023 as a Gaza 21.0975k! I am using this run as an opportunity to fundraise for the Palestinian Youth Movement, an organization of young Palestinians in Palestine and in exile worldwide that uses popular education, leadership development and other strategies to fight for a right to return and liberation for all Palestinians (you can read more here).

I hope you will join me and support this important youth-led organization that is resisting the ongoing ethnic cleansing and displacement of Palestinians and uplifting the interconnections between the Palestinian freedom struggle and other movements - the labor movement, third world solidarity movement, environmental justice movement, and others.

Either by donating here or showing support in another form, I invite you to listen, speak up, fight back and learn about what is happening in Palestine and how so many institutions around us - universities , the NYTimes , local nonprofits (shout out to new Not On Our Dime campaign)- are complicit in the ongoing ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian people. This is not a time to be a bystander. So, please donate or do anything else you feel able to!

ALSO if we raise $2,000, a very special donor (my dad!) will match $1500 and also support this organization. So please donate this week!!!! - Rachel

*update - thanks to all who have donated so far - especially this week, which marks Nakba Day 75.