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As Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza and its expansionism in the occupied West Bank persisted into 2025 unabated, a constellation of activist networks and digital platforms galvanized international solidarity.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n These campaigns did not merely relay news, but they armed citizens with narratives, data, and pressure tactics aimed at dismantling the Israeli-American nexus of power.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n Leveraging everything from legal action in foreign courts to public boycott movements targeting the cultural and sporting arenas, the global pro-Palestine movement refused to be sidelined by corporate media or Western governments’ intent on normalizing Israeli violence.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n Here is the list of prominent advocacy and justice campaigns that shaped resistance in 2025.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n Palestine Action <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n Palestine Action emerged as one of the most active and effective faces of pro-Palestine activism in 2025, exposing the Israeli settler-colonialism and genocide.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n Founded in 2020 as a British direct action collective targeting companies and infrastructures tied to Israel’s war machine, the group has over the years successfully shut down multiple facilities and inflicted significant financial losses on arms manufacturers across the United Kingdom.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n In 2025, Palestine Action escalated its campaign by repeatedly breaching sites linked to Israeli weapons manufacturers and disrupting facilities supplying military equipment used in Gaza, where more than 71,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have been killed in the genocide.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n In July 2025, the UK government proscribed Palestine Action as a “terrorist organization” under the Terrorism Act 2000, a move widely condemned as Israeli-lobbied political repression aimed at silencing dissent and criminalizing any criticism of the Israeli regime.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n Supporters denounced the ban as a direct assault on free speech and anti-genocide protest, as hundreds of demonstrators were arrested for publicly supporting the group or refusing to back down during protests outside Parliament.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n Several Palestine Action members are currently held in five UK prisons over alleged involvement in break-ins at facilities linked to Elbit Systems in Bristol and a Royal Air Force base in Oxfordshire.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n Four imprisoned activists have pledged to continue their hunger strike despite grave medical warnings and multiple hospitalizations, having refused food since 2 November.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n Hind Rajab Foundation<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n The Hind Rajab Foundation is a Belgium-registered human rights NGO dedicated to holding Israeli military personnel and policymakers legally accountable for war crimes and genocidal actions.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n Named in memory of Hind Rajab, a five-year-old Palestinian girl killed along with her family by Israeli occupation forces, the foundation was launched amid the ongoing genocide in Gaza.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n Combining forensic documentation with legal action, the organization pursues cases under the principle of universal jurisdiction, filing complaints in European courts against Israeli soldiers and commanders over their grave abuses.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n In 2025, the foundation submitted high-profile legal complaints in multiple countries, seeking arrest warrants and prosecutions of Israeli military war criminals, while advocating internationally for accountability rather than impunity.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n The foundation also amplified campaigns such as Game Over Israel, framing cultural and sporting engagement with Israel as active complicity in continued atrocities.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n Track AIPAC<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n Track AIPAC is a digital watchdog platform launched in December 2024 to monitor and expose the influence of the powerful Zionist lobby group, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), on US politics.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n The project aims to make collaboration with AIPAC a political liability and has openly called for the Zionist organization to register as a foreign agent.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n Beyond AIPAC, the platform tracks donations from other major Zionist lobby groups, including Democratic Majority for Israel (DMFI), the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC), and J Street.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n As a grassroots counterweight to entrenched pro-Israel lobbying, Track AIPAC publishes investigations into US politicians who accept lobby funding, endorses candidates opposed to unconditional US military support for Israel, and mobilizes progressive voters disillusioned with the political establishment’s submission to Israeli settler-colonial policy.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n By late 2025, Track AIPAC’s social media following had grown to hundreds of thousands.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n Its founders, Cory Archibald and Casey Kennedy, publicly revealed their identities last month on an internet show after facing coordinated doxxing threats.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n Kennedy stated in November 2025 that the group’s “next target is the big oil lobby.”<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n The Nation included Track AIPAC in its list of “Progressives Fighting for Our Democracy,” while political commentator Krystal Ball credited the platform with turning AIPAC into “a lightning rod in American politics.”<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n BDS Movement<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) Movement, launched in 2005, remained the cornerstone of global non-violent economic and cultural pressure against the Israeli regime in 2025.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n Rooted in strategies drawn from the struggle against apartheid South Africa, BDS campaigns internationally for boycotts of institutions, corporations, and governments complicit in Israel’s occupation, discrimination, and genocide.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n Throughout 2025, BDS initiatives intensified calls for trade embargoes, academic and cultural isolation, and sanctions designed to sever the political and economic lifelines sustaining Israeli repression.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n Several campaigns reported tangible victories. In April 2025, the Dutch pension giant ABP divested from Booking Holdings, Motorola, Teva, and Coca-Cola USA.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n In September, the Nordic Society for Middle Eastern Studies voted to boycott Israeli academic institutions.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n Israeli universities reported a 60 percent decline in international PhD and postdoctoral enrollment due to sustained BDS pressure.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n The European Gymnastics executive committee also canceled Tel Aviv as host of the 2025 European Championships, underscoring the growing cultural cost of Israel’s policies.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n Jewish Voice for Peace<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) is a US-based, Jewish-led grassroots organization founded in 1996 by UC Berkeley students seeking to challenge Zionist orthodoxy within American Jewish communities.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n Over time, it has become one of the world’s largest anti-Zionist Jewish advocacy groups, with dozens of chapters across the United States and a rapidly expanding base of supporters following the 2023-25 Gaza genocide.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n JVP explicitly rejects Zionism and centers its work on Palestinian liberation, human rights, and ending US military and diplomatic backing for Israel.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n In 2025, the group escalated both street-level and political activism, organizing high-profile demonstrations, including protests at Senator Chuck Schumer’s Manhattan office, and participating in mass civil disobedience actions such as a Trump Tower sit-in demanding the release of imprisoned student organizers.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n The group also held its largest national conference in Baltimore and increasingly emphasized electoral pressure, noting that sustained protest must be paired with political consequences to disrupt US support for Israel’s atrocities.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n We Are Not Numbers<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n We Are Not Numbers (WANN) is a Gaza-based youth media and advocacy initiative founded in 2015 by the founders of the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor to humanize Palestinians by training young writers to tell their own stories in English.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n At a time when mainstream media reduced Palestinian lives to casualty figures, WANN reframed the narrative through first-person accounts of occupation, loss, resilience, and resistance.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n In 2025, WANN continued publishing powerful testimonies from Gaza amid bombardment and siege, amplifying Palestinian voices globally and challenging sanitized Western coverage.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n Its writers’ work appeared across international outlets, reinforcing the role of Palestinian youth as primary narrators of their own reality and as chroniclers of colonial violence.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n Game Over Israel<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n The Game Over Israel campaign represents an innovative intersection of sports, culture, and political activism in exposing the Israeli genocide in Gaza and the world's complicity.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n Launched in 2025 by a coalition of fan groups, rights advocates, and public figures, it calls on international sporting bodies such as FIFA and UEFA to suspend Israeli teams and athletes until genocide and occupation end.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n Drawing parallels with the sporting boycotts that isolated apartheid South Africa, the campaign debuted with billboards in New York’s Times Square and coordinated protests across Europe.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n Organizers state that allowing Israeli participation in global sports grants a moral blank cheque for genocide, highlighting the hypocrisy of sporting “neutrality,” particularly when Russia was swiftly suspended following its military actions in Ukraine.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n Israel Genocide Tracker<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n Israel Genocide Tracker is an online monitoring initiative operating primarily on Telegram and X, dedicated to documenting individual Israeli soldiers’ involvement in acts of violence and genocide in Gaza and the occupied territories.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n By aggregating social media content, personal histories, and military activity, the project seeks to identify perpetrators who would otherwise enjoy total impunity.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n The platform has reportedly caused significant distress among Israeli soldiers and has become an influential tool in digital accountability efforts.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n Palestine Solidarity Campaign<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n The Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) is a UK-based grassroots organization with longstanding roots in anti-colonial activism.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n In 2025, PSC organized mass rallies, coordinated boycott campaigns, held strategic conferences, and challenged the UK government's complicity in Israeli war crimes.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n Its activities included mobilizing nationwide demonstrations, pressuring local councils to divest from complicit corporations, and amplifying hunger strikes by imprisoned Palestine Action activists.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n In December 2025, PSC launched the Councillor Pledge for Palestine, urging local officials to publicly oppose complicity in human rights violations through pension investments and procurement practices.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n Zionism Observer<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n The Zionism Observer is an online database and activist collective that documents statements made by Israeli regime officials, military personnel, and public figures.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n It launched its database in January 2024 to assist researchers and preserve the historical record. There are 600 quotes from 194 people in the Zionism Observer database.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n As of late 2025, it is used as a repository for evidence related to international legal proceedings and human rights monitoring.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n It maintains a categorized archive of public statements, labeling them under themes such as “Genocidal Intent,” “War Crimes,” “Apartheid,” “Colonialism,” and “Racism.”<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n Entries are meticulously sourced, dated, and credited to contributors who uncovered or translated the material.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n The collective, composed largely of tech professionals, has also engaged in hacktivism, including the shutdown and reverse-engineering of Israeli military-affiliated websites.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n From guerrilla online watchdogs exposing war crimes to coordinated boycott initiatives targeting cultural institutions and corporate complicity, these campaigns amplified resistance to an apartheid regime empowered by the US-led political cover and arms sales.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>\r\n\r\n In 2025, millions mobilized not only to protest in the streets, but to reshape global discourse on genocide, occupation, and imperial complicity, forcing once-silent institutions and governments to confront the human cost of American-backed Israeli violence in Gaza, the West Bank, and beyond.<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n Source: Press TV<\/span><\/p>\r\n\r\n <\/p>","content_source":"","content_url":"","content_date_start":"2025-12-31 09:38:21","content_date_event":"2025-12-31 09:38:21","content_date_event_start":null,"content_date_event_end":null,"content_show_title_slider":1,"content_date_last_edit":"2025-12-31 09:39:15","content_date_register":"2025-12-31 09:39:15","content_columns":0,"content_show_img":1,"content_show_details":0,"content_show_related_img":0,"content_show_slider":1,"content_comment":1,"content_score":0,"tag_id":0,"score_average":null,"score_count":null,"score_date_last":null,"uid":43,"eid":0,"attach_title":"The year that was:\r\n\r\nHow pro-Palestine campaigns disrupt the US-Israeli war alliance in 2025","attaches":[{"sizes":{"150":".\/cache\/2\/attach\/202512\/563828_2351031284_150_84.webp","300":".\/cache\/2\/attach\/202512\/563828_2351031284_300_168.webp","400":".\/cache\/2\/attach\/202512\/563828_2351031284_400_224.webp","600":".\/cache\/2\/attach\/202512\/563828_2351031284_600_336.webp","900":".\/cache\/2\/attach\/202512\/563828_2351031284_900_504.webp","1200":".\/cache\/2\/attach\/202512\/563828_2351031284_1000_560.jpg"},"ext":"jpg","file_media":1,"token":2351031284,"files":{"original":{"url":".\/file\/2\/attach\/202512\/563828_2351031284.jpg","width":1000,"height":560,"size":0}}}]}]]