In June 2025, the San Francisco Democratic Socialists of America came together for our annual convention, and voted on how we wanted to allocate our chapter’s resources and hours for the year ahead. The decision was overwhelmingly clear: DSA SF has chosen to make San Francisco Divestment from Israeli Genocide and Apartheid our top priority campaign, and we want YOU to be a part of it.
As San Franciscans, we expect our taxes to benefit our communities by building roads, schools, libraries, and housing; providing us with quality universal healthcare; abating poverty and the climate crisis; and providing workers with dignified working conditions and wages. We do not consent to our taxes lining the pockets of executives of companies that provide material support for and profit off of Israel’s ongoing violations of the Palestinian people’s human rights and oppress the global working class.
Currently, the San Francisco government has hundreds of millions of public dollars invested in companies that enable Israel’s ongoing genocide, its decades-long occupation of Palestinan lands, and its system of apartheid against the Palestinian people. In turn, the Israeli military, bolstered by the support it receives from these same companies and the US Government, trains US law enforcement officials in tactics that allow them to more brutally terrorize our communities and enact a mass deportation program at home. We are, in essence, funding our own oppression. While at the same time our schools and transit systems are underfunded, we face crippling debt accessing healthcare, and we can no longer afford to live in our own communities.
DSA, the largest socialist organization in the US, has openly aligned with the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) Movement and those who proudly identify as anti-Zionist and anti-imperialist. We know that as working people, we must resist in solidarity with our global community members suffering under the imperialist war machine.
We must fight for our Palestinian comrades.
We have work to do together.