BAP’s Africa Team and U.S. Out of Africa Network Endorse and Support the Weekend of Action Against Zionist and “Israeli” Presence in Africa April 24–26, 2026

BAP’s Africa Team and U.S. Out of Africa Network Endorse and Support the Weekend of Action Against Zionist and “Israeli” Presence in Africa April 24–26, 2026

The Black Alliance for Peace Africa Team and the U.S. Out of Africa Network stand in full support of the Coalition for the Elimination of Imperialism in Africa’s Weekend of Action Against Zionist and “Israeli” Presence in Africa, taking place April 24–26, 2026.

We call on all anti-imperialist, Pan-Africanist, pro-Palestine, and peace-loving organizations and individuals to use this weekend to expose and oppose the expanding Zionist and “Israeli” role on the African continent and its links to the broader architecture of U.S.-led imperialism.

The political basis for this action is clear. The Zionist entity is not an isolated state pursuing narrow regional interests. It is a colonial and imperial project that has functioned for decades as a strategic outpost of Western domination. Its genocide against the Palestinian people is inseparable from its role in Africa, where it has armed reactionary forces, deepened surveillance and repression, strengthened neocolonial regimes, extracted resources, and helped consolidate the political and military infrastructure of imperial control.

For African people, this is not an abstract question of foreign policy. It is a matter of sovereignty, self-determination, and liberation.

From military and intelligence cooperation with comprador regimes, to spyware and cyber-surveillance targeting organizers and movements, to the ideological warfare of Christian Zionism and the deepening of sectarian divisions, the Zionist entity has worked hand in glove with U.S. and European imperialism to undermine African liberation. “Israeli” penetration of Africa is one more mechanism through which the U.S./EU/NATO axis of domination seeks to maintain neocolonial control of the continent.

That is why the struggle against Zionism in Africa is inseparable from the struggle to shut down AFRICOM and defeat the broader war on African people.

The forces arming and funding genocide in Palestine are the same forces that destabilize the Sahel, occupy Haiti, surveil and repress African people in the diaspora, and militarize the African continent under the fraudulent banner of “security cooperation.” Their role extends across multiple fronts on the continent, including support for militarized arrangements and proxy dynamics in places like Sudan, the Horn of Africa, including the destabilizing implications of “Israel’s” recognition of  Somaliland, and resource-driven conflicts in the Congo. These interventions have contributed to mass displacement, mass death, and deepening humanitarian crises affecting millions. The underlying logic is consistent with what we are witnessing in Palestine and Lebanon: a system that governs through force, dispossession, and the devaluation of human life. “Israel’s” role in Africa strengthens the same imperial system that treats African land, labor, and life as disposable.

The Weekend of Action Against Zionist and “Israeli” Presence in Africa provides an important opportunity to deepen political consciousness, strengthen solidarity between African and Palestinian liberation struggles, and demand that African states sever all diplomatic, military, and intelligence ties with the Zionist entity.

We encourage organizations and communities to participate in ways that reflect their local conditions and capacities. 

The Black Alliance for Peace Africa Team and the U.S. Out of Africa Network affirm that African liberation requires opposition to all forms of imperial domination, including Zionism and its presence on the continent. Palestine and Africa share a common enemy and common objectives: true sovereignty and emancipation from the violence of Western imperialism. Our solidarity must therefore be political, strategic, and uncompromising.

No Compromise. No Retreat.

Move the Games: No World Cup for Genocide, Ecocide, or State Thuggery

Move the Games: No World Cup for Genocide, Ecocide, or State Thuggery

Statement By the Anti-Fascist Football Coalition & BAP Climate, Environment and Militarism Working Group

This Earth Day the Anti-Fascist Football Coalition declares that the United States and its Zionist partner have disqualified themselves from the community of civilized nations — not only through genocide, domestic repression, and imperialist violence, but through the systematic ecological destruction of Africa and West Asia. The U.S. military is the single largest institutional polluter on the planet, leaving behind toxic bases, polluting equipment and munitions, and poisoned air and water across the globe. Beyond emissions and direct pollution, U.S.-led militarism enforces imperialist domination, as it dehumanizes and discards the colonized, working class, and “surplus” populations by contaminating our ecosystems and poisoning our bodies. All the while, the U.S. evades accountability to international law.

In Gaza, Israel has waged ecocide as a weapon of war: tens of millions of tons of rubble have contaminated the soil and water, farmland has been razed, and the freshwater aquifer is now undrinkable. Across Africa, from the extraction of Congolese diamonds that fund the Israeli military to the destabilization of the Horn of Africa and Somalia to the gold and mineral resources that drive a UAE- backed genocide in Sudan, U.S.-Zionist imperialists drive deforestation, poison rivers, and displace entire communities. This is deliberate environmental and global class warfare.

The U.S. has “americanized” the beautiful game, providing a platform that enables and normalizes  genocide and ecocide, within the U.S. and globally. The tournament itself will generate millions of tons of carbon emissions from stadium construction and air travel, while inside the United States, the policing apparatus that terrorizes Black, Brown, and migrant communities makes the country fundamentally unsafe for fans, players, and tournament personnel. Militarized ICE agents and state thugs can now routinely stop, detain, and disappear foreign nationals  under the guise of immigration enforcement as racial profiling has become the way of law. No visiting fan from Africa, West Asia, or anywhere else can be assured of safety on U.S. soil. Therefore, the Anti-Fascist Football Coalition demands: 

• FIFA immediately relocate all 2026 World Cup matches scheduled to take place in the United States.

• The international community, including teams, supporters, cultural workers, and civil society organizations, initiate a boycott of the United States as a host of international sporting events.

• International sporting institutions adopt non-selective accountability standards rooted in collective human rights and anti-colonial principles.

No whitewashing of US gangsterism and neo-fascist violence. No World Cup in a nation hostile to the People(s)-Centered Human Rights of our neighbors and family across the globe. No more poisoning our Earth. No peace under imperialist gangsterism and repression.

Before FIFA pretends this tournament is anything but a celebration of empire, we invite every anti‑fascist, every climate defender, every supporter of Palestinian and African liberation to study the true geography of U.S. control. Explore our “Map of U.S. Militarization in Our Americas” every base, every training facility, every cop city and join the peoples war against U.S gangsterism. 

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Move the Games! Boycott the U.S.! No Compromise! No Retreat!

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Statement in Solidarity With Nerdeen Kiswani

Statement in Solidarity With Nerdeen Kiswani

“Peace is not the absence of conflict, but rather the achievement by popular struggle of … the defeat of global systems of oppression that include colonialism, imperialism, patriarchy, and white supremacy.” (BAP Principle of Unity)`

The Black Alliance for Peace NYC/NJ remains in explicit solidarity with Nerdeen Kiswani, co-founder of Within Our Lifetime, in her right to express opposition to, and condemnation of, Zionism and the state of “Israel”. We condemn the threats to her life and the lives of her family that were recently revealed. The moment calls for mobilization, we demand transparency in the police investigation of Alexander Heifler, of the zionist organization JDL 613, and all associated with him. Terrorism does not instill fear in our movements; it puts the necessity of defeating imperialist/zionist war into greater focus. 

We once again condemn the monstrous and cowardly actions of the racist Zionist entity, just as we condemn the attempts by its lackeys to single out and attack the members of our movement. Last week on Palestinian Land Day, the Zionist Entity instituted a new law that legalizes execution, yet only applies to the Palestinian people. This is among the more recent laws of apartheid governing the occupation. In anticipation of the vote for that legislation, the “Minister of National Security”,  Itamar Ben-Gvir, among other parliamentary members, wore gold noose pins, gleefully displaying their genocidal pathology. This too is to be condemned. The grotesque similarities between this violence, its nod to the lynchings of the Jim Crow south, and the planned attack on Kiswani are impossible to ignore. The Black Alliance for Peace recognizes this white supremacist vigilantism and deputization as a continuation of the war against African/Black, colonized, working-class, and all oppressed peoples domestically and globally. 

Furthermore, it is with the full support of the Western “international community” that adherents to zionism have been able to commit such crimes here and escape to the Zionist Entity unscathed. We remember Alex Odeh, a Palestinian activist who in 1985 was murdered in the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee offices in Santa Ana, California, when a pipe bomb exploded as he opened the door. Independent investigators have proven that Odeh’s perpetrators still live within the occupied territories without charge. Why sit idle while threats progress into action? We have no faith in the state to honestly depict its collusion with actors holding this intent. The origin of white supremacist vigilantism is always antagonism. The state apparatus has a sustained history of abandoning the Palestinian people at home and abroad.

We commend the exposing of the intent of the accused, to flee to the Zionist Entity–and urge all New Yorkers to put material support behind Nerdeen’s case against Betar. We call on journalists of integrity to publicly investigate the dealings that led to the capture of Alexander Heifler. Further, we speak directly to all Black working and oppressed peoples in calling to recognize our struggles as interconnected and to honor our revolutionary ancestors slain by imperialist/zionist violence.  Black Alliance for Peace NYC/NJ will continue to stand in solidarity with Nerdeen Kiswani and Within Our Lifetime in the fight against Zionism.

Further, the Black Alliance for Peace stands in solidarity with the people of Gaza and all Palestinians facing the threat of extinction in the racist, apartheid settler state of “Israel”. We recognize the right of Palestine to exist and the right of the Palestinian people to resist occupation by any means they deem necessary. We call on African/Black people and movements to remember our long tradition of solidarity with Palestine. The moment does not call for standing down in the face of white supremacist violence as a tactic to silence our comrades.

No Compromise. No Retreat. 

The Black Alliance for Peace NYC/NJ

BAP’s 9th Anniversary: Turn Imperialist Wars into Peoples’ Wars Against Imperialism

BAP’s 9th Anniversary: Turn Imperialist Wars into Peoples’ Wars Against Imperialism

For the past nine years, the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) has sought to advance the radical Black, anti-war, pro-peace, and anti-imperialist movements through practice and uncompromising analysis grounded in our Principles of Unity and a People(s)-Centered Human Rights approach. The U.S./EU/NATO Axis of Domination’s imperialist brutality and lawlessness currently on display on both domestic and global fronts is intended to demobilize and destabilize us – in just the last few months, this lawlessness has enabled the kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and First Combatant Cilia Flores, and the bombing, invasion, and ongoing intervention in Venezuela; the heightened strangulation and attacks on Cuba; the war on Iran; continued occupation and destabilization of Haiti; and murders and occupations of U.S. cities by federal agents. However, this very brutality and lawlessness heightens the contradictions brought on by the Pan-European colonial/capitalist patriarchy and clarifies the stakes of our commitment to challenging and defeating the war against our people.

Importantly, BAP was founded on April 4, 2017 to mark the 50th anniversary of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Beyond Vietnam” speech that reconnected with the Black Radical Peace tradition by adding his voice of opposition to the murderous U.S. war machine unleashed on the people of Vietnam. In this, he argued that the U.S. was the greatest purveyor of violence on the planet, and that a radical revolution of values was needed to defeat “the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism [i.e. capitalism], and militarism.” BAP’s work is part of Dr. King’s unfinished fight against these forces that have only intensified in the last 59 years and continue waging war on our people. 

To understand the nature of such warfare is to see through the veil of imperialist global conflict and recognize it for what it fundamentally is: a continuation of class war. The United States' recent global wars, particularly the full-throated illegalities of the post-9/11 era, represent a qualitative shift. This external aggression has a direct domestic byproduct: intense repression and the engineered splintering of the population, all while funneling working-class tax dollars into the military-industrial complex that supports imperialist violence globally. 

However, within this grim reality lies a critical opening for forces like BAP and all others who struggle for a revolutionary transformation of society, such as the communal economy and governance within the Bolivarian Revolution or the development achievements through national sovereignty in Iran. The system's brutality via imperialist domination, while intended to demobilize, must sharpen the resolve for us and all the African/Black, colonized, and oppressed working masses of the globe. What we have witnessed, particularly since the Al-Aqsa Flood and the subsequent U.S.-Israeli genocidal campaign on Gaza, is the removal of remaining liberal pretenses that thinly disguised the theft of land, labor, and life that capitalism requires to sustain itself. We must name the truth, that this process, this structure of U.S.-led imperialism, seeks only death to establish and maintain “full spectrum dominance”.

In this context, we focus on defeating this war against our people. This requires not merely exposing the contradictions of U.S.-led imperialism, but turning imperialist wars on our people into peoples’ war against imperialism. The radical, revolutionary, and progressive forces that understand this must find ways to strike strategic blows against the imperialist war machine that is intent on destroying our lives, livelihoods, environments, and the planet. For BAP and other forces in the radical African/Black movement, this can only be done effectively by engaging and supporting the masses of our people to prepare for and conduct a peoples’ war for liberation. 

In our ninth year, BAP recommits to this protracted struggle through our consistent campaign frameworks that are increasingly focused on moving from simply exposing the contradictions of imperialism toward political clarity and consciousness expressed as organized, sustained activity that builds legitimate resistance to U.S. imperialism and militarism:

• No Compromise No Retreat: Defeat the War Africans/Black People in the U.S. and Abroad. Our core campaign framework, which includes emerging efforts such as the Climate, Environment, and Militarism working group.

• U.S. Out of Africa: Shut Down AFRICOM

• U.S./NATO Out of Our Americas: Make Our Americas a Zone of Peace!, and 

• “MOVE THE GAMES”: Boycott the World Cup and Boycott the U.S and Israel

In the context of this protracted collective struggle, BAP continues to forge a path between analysis and action through these campaign frameworks that are the trenches in which we fight for a future beyond the logic of capital.  The decade ahead demands that we deepen this struggle, sharpen our ideological clarity, enhance our activity, and continue to build a movement capable of not only opposing the machinery of death but of building a new world in its place.

Not one drop of blood from the poor and working class to defend capitalist dictatorship!

No Compromise No Retreat!

In Solidarity with the Prairieland Nine

In Solidarity with the Prairieland Nine

The Black Alliance for Peace stands in solidarity with the Prairieland Nine following their convictions in federal court in Fort Worth, Texas, and we condemn this ruling as lawfare against people’s movements. These verdicts must be understood as part of a broader escalation in the U.S. state’s war against the people and popular organization.

The prosecution of the Prairieland Nine demonstrates how the architecture of the so-called War on Terror is increasingly being turned inward. By applying terrorism frameworks to a protest connected to the Prairieland ICE detention center, the federal government is advancing a precedent meant to criminalize political dissent and suppress movements challenging the violence of the U.S. national security state.

This is the domestic byproduct of imperial decline. As the United States wages aggressive wars abroad and seeks to maintain full-spectrum dominance, repression intensifies domestically. ICE raids, expanded surveillance, political prosecutions, and the militarization of policing all function together as mechanisms to discipline the population and fracture collective resistance. Working-class tax dollars are diverted into the military-industrial complex while communities are subjected to detention, deportation, and incarceration.

The Prairieland case is an attempt to normalize the use of extreme federal charges, including “material support to terrorism,” against individuals engaged in protest activity. The objective is clear: isolate movements, intimidate communities, and establish a legal framework that can be deployed against organizers across the country.

The prosecution’s narrative rested on the weaponization of the word “Antifa,” which describes anti-fascist movements, but is now a term that has been weaponized by the far right and the national security state to manufacture a domestic enemy. By framing protest activity and even attire (such as wearing all-black clothing) through a counterterrorism lens, the state seeks to normalize extreme charges, lengthy sentences, and sweeping prosecutions that can be replicated against movements in the future, without the burden of material evidence.

Equally troubling are the irregularities surrounding the trial itself: restricted public access, heavy judicial control over jury selection, and barriers to independent observation. These conditions reinforce the reality that the outcome of this case was shaped within a broader political context designed to secure convictions and establish precedent.

But repression of this kind is not simply about punishing nine individuals. It is about sending a message to all who resist the violence of the U.S. system of detention, deportation, and border militarization. It is about intimidating movements and attempting to isolate those who challenge the legitimacy of the state’s institutions. It is about reinforcing the legal architecture that will strengthen repression and surveillance toward the aims of ‘full spectrum dominance’ on the domestic front, as well as globally.

The Black Alliance for Peace rejects this strategy of intimidation. We recognize that the expansion of repression inside the United States is inseparable from the broader crisis of the imperialist system. As the U.S. ruling class struggles to maintain global dominance, it increasingly turns to coercion at home to discipline the population and suppress opposition.

Yet history teaches us that repression also reveals weakness. When the state must rely on political prosecutions and terrorism frameworks to silence dissent, it is acknowledging the growing legitimacy of resistance, and its inability to contain it by other measures.

We extend our solidarity to the Prairieland Nine, to their families and communities, and to the networks organizing in their defense. Their case underscores the urgency of building stronger, more disciplined, and more unified movements capable of confronting the expanding national security state.

In support of the Prairieland Defendants, we share the demands put forward by Dare to Struggle:

1. Drop all federal and state charges against the Prairieland Defendants

2. Release all Prairieland Defendants from pre-trial detention

3. End ICE terror against the people of Texas and around the country

4. Donate to the collective defense and support for the Prairieland Defendants. They need more money for lawyers. GiveSendGo | Support DFW Anti-ICE Protesters

No Compromise, No Retreat!

International Women’s Day 2026: Women’s Liberation Requires the Defeat of Imperialism and Patriarchy

International Women’s Day 2026: Women’s Liberation Requires the Defeat of Imperialism and Patriarchy

We commemorate International Women's Day on March 8 to remember its anti-imperialist roots and the revolutionary struggle of working-class women against exploitation. The day was born from the militancy of New York garment workers, who rose against sweatshop conditions, child labor, and political disenfranchisement. These fights were inseparable from the broader socialist and anti-colonial movements of the early twentieth century, as these women understood that the exploitation of their labor and bodies was directly tied to the imperialist domination of their nations. Their fight for “Bread and Roses”—for better pay, dignified living and working conditions, and gender equality—was therefore a fight against a global system. This legacy demands we view the struggles of women today through the same lens.

Today, U.S. imperialism, often in concert with allies like Israel, is waging war across the Global South. We see its bloody footprint from the genocidal violence in Palestine to the bombing of Nigeria, Somalia, Iran, and Venezuela. We see its bloody footprint in the economic warfare against Haiti, the destabilization of Lebanon, and the resource wars plaguing Sudan and Congo.  We see this patriarchal, white supremacist, capitalist-colonialist violence also in the kidnapping of Cilia Flores alongside her husband Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, as well as in the murder of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s children, grandchildren and family members beside him in Iran. In every instance, it is women and children who disproportionately pay the price, facing displacement, starvation, and the collapse of entire communities under the weight of unilateral sanctions and military aggression.

In this context, U.S. imperialism stands as the single greatest threat to the sovereignty of nations and the welfare of the world's peoples. It is the main enemy, the engine driving the wars, the economic plunder, and the humanitarian catastrophes that rob women of their futures. The fight for "Bread and Roses" cannot be won as long as this system of plunder exists.

As US and Israeli Imperialists continue their assaults on the Women and Children of oppressed peoples we must ask “What is being done to hold them accountable?” For BAP, this accountability must come from the people’s organized resistance to imperialist-zionist impunity on the world stage. We call on all people of conscience to join two immediate calls to challenge this imperialist impunity: 

• Just as the international sporting community banned apartheid South Africa from sport, we demand FIFA and the IOC now ban the U.S and Israel from hosting or participating in international sporting events for their systematic violence against the women and children of the global south and oppressed peoples within its borders — a show of solidarity in the continued fight for bread and roses. [Public Petition | Organizational endorsement of Anti-Fascist Football Coalition]

• The people of the United States must oppose their government’s lawlessness that destroys families and livelihoods domestically and globally. Join the mobilizations against the kidnapping, detention, and kangaroo trial of Venezuelan First Combatant Cilia Flores and President Nicolas Maduro on March 26th at Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Center and solidarity actions throughout the world. 

The task of anti-imperialists today is clear: we must unite and build our collective struggle to defeat US imperialism. We must reject the "sanitized" neoliberal feminism that celebrates individual achievement while ignoring the collective suffering caused by empire. True solidarity means mobilizing in the heart of the empire to dismantle its war machine, supporting national liberation struggles abroad, and recognizing that our liberation is bound to the liberation of women in Palestine, Haiti, Venezuela, Iran, and everywhere they resist. Only by defeating imperialism can we clear the path for a world where all women have dignity. 

We Denounce U.S. Government Deregulation of Environmental Protections as Ecocide, Class Warfare, and a Murderous Assault on Public Health

We Denounce U.S. Government Deregulation of Environmental Protections as Ecocide, Class Warfare, and a Murderous Assault on Public Health

March 5, 2026 – The Black Alliance for Peace, and undersigned organizations, call on environmental and climate justice organizations to denounce and confront the recent and anticipated deregulatory actions against environmental protections and public health by the U.S. government. Over the last several weeks, the Trump administration has taken executive actions: to repeal scientific findings that greenhouse gases are harmful to the climate and public health (“the Endangerment Finding”); to encourage and protect the domestic production of cancer-causing glyphosate herbicides and toxic phosphorus; and to decimate environmental protections on coal production that regulated mercury and other toxic substance pollution that harm brain development and cause other debilitating health issues. Simultaneously, Congress is trying to reduce states and municipalities ability to regulate glyphosate and other toxic chemicals in food production, through the latest Farm Bill draft.

These actions represent a grave violation of the People(s)-Centered Human Rights (PCHRs) of residents of the United States by a ruling class that has completely unmasked itself. They make good on the EPA’s decision to value human life at zero dollars, and represent an intentional poisoning of the Earth and millions of people as a sacrifice at the altar of greater corporate profits, and as a foundation for extraction that would fuel the growing domination of the militarist state domestically and globally. The Trump administration and its Congressional and Judicial allies, in service to an increasingly bold and sadistic capitalist-imperialist ruling class, show that they are willing to wield their power to prioritize corporate profits and capital to the extreme over the health, safety, and welfare of the general public, especially poor, working class and colonized people.

These moves also ultimately drive forward deeper domestic militarization to serve the expansion of U.S. ‘full spectrum dominance’ globally and domestically. The endangerment findings’ elimination and associated rollback on regulating toxic pollution by power plants, cars, and petrochemical productions are themselves largely a move to open the pathway to expanding fossil fuel energy to service mass data center proliferation, which is a priority of the Department of War, and of Artificial Intelligence (AI)  corporate tech actors. These data centers are a core physical infrastructure in the capitalist-imperialist ruling class’s economic and environmental warfare on the working classes and colonized peoples, domestically and globally, including mass surveillance, ICE terrorization and detention, and tech-enabled genocide in Gaza, Sudan, and beyond. They drive up utility costs for residents; pillage water, energy, and clean air from the public; and occupy swaths of land area that should be used for local food production and the siting of renewable energy. In addition, the deregulation and promotion of glyphosate-based herbicide, which is proven to cause cancer, and phosphorus, the mining and use of which has massive public health implications, are being actioned directly through the Defense Protection Act, to clear the way for domestic production and use. In effect, the administration justifies displacement and mass poisoning of its population domestically as a matter of “National Security”. 

This should be no surprise, as the United States has never hesitated to take land or use chemical weapons like glyphosate (the main component of Agent Orange) in its military conquests or corporate ventures globally. This is not a departure from the consistent white supremacist, capitalist logic of U.S. empire, rather it is the domestic and global fronts collapsing into one another. The Trump administration has simply accelerated and deepened the neoliberal crisis of deregulation, deference to corporations, increased privatization, massive austerity, increasing the coffers and influence of the military industrial complex, and U.S. imperialism. 

However, this most recent removal of any semblance of public health support, environmental protection, and social safety nets in the U.S. should serve as an alarm bell for those most vulnerable and those disproportionately exposed to and impacted by environmental pollution and associated climate change calamities – African/Black, Indigenous, colonized peoples and the working class. These actions also signal that poor and working class white people, as well as elements of the white middle to upper middle class, are also being swept into this larger surplus population, now scheduled for poisoning and disposability. This is a population that no longer serves any purpose for the ruling class and represents an impediment to unlimited growth through unlimited resource extraction that produces unlimited externalities, specifically pollution of our air, land and water. 

We, the undersigned believe that our response to this era of mass poisoning, runaway militarization, imperial gangsterism, and deepening public health crisis must be a more interconnected class struggle rooted in a People(s)-Centered Human Rights (PCHR) approach — a bottom-up struggle for collective self-determination and human dignity.

In a world rendered profoundly imbalanced and unequal — conditions intensified by a white supremacist, capitalist-driven climate crisis — the pursuit of “environmental justice” or “ecological balance” within the existing order is a political illusion. Justice cannot be extracted from a system whose very logic depends on capitalist extraction, dispossession, and ecological sacrifice. What is required instead is a framework of climate and environmental liberation — one that names imperialism, racial capitalism, and colonial domination as the structural sources of ecological collapse.

As the Black Alliance for Peace North–South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights has made clear, such a framework cannot be bestowed from above, legislated into existence, or managed through technocratic fixes. It can only be achieved through concerted and collective praxis by the masses — grounded in struggle, forged through solidarity, and oriented toward liberation rather than mitigation.

This responsibility carries particular weight for peoples residing within the Global North, who occupy a contradictory position within the imperial system. Those living at the core of U.S.-led imperialism bear a specific historical and political duty: to confront empire from within, to disrupt its machinery, and to strike a decisive blow against its systemic ecocide — the organized destruction of life, livelihoods, and the planet in service of accumulation and domination.

To defend life, dignity, and the future of humanity requires nothing less than an internationalist, anti-imperialist struggle rooted in People(s)-Centered Human Rights — a struggle that recognizes that there can be no ecological survival without liberation, and no liberation without the organized power of the people.

No Compromise No Retreat! 

SIGNED,

Black Alliance for Peace
Black Lives Matter South Bend
Build & Fight Coalition
CODEPINK
Community Movement Builders
Cooperation Jackson
Lowcountry Action Committee
Mississippi Workers Center for Human Rights
Pan-African Community Action (DC)
Science for the People
Youth Climate Finance Alliance

Key References

A Final Solution to The Human Surplus Problem (Or, How the End of EPA’s Endangerment Finding Also Ends the Farce of Trump “Populism”): https://www.blackagendareport.com/final-solution-human-surplus-problem-or-how-end-epas-endangerment-finding-also-ends-farce-trump

Bulletin on Domestic Militarization: Issue #3 – Black Alliance for Peace: https://blackallianceforpeace.com/bulletinonusdomesticmilitarization/issue-3

“Oppose the Normalization of Genocide and International Gangsterism!” – North/South Project for People(s)-Centered Human Rights: https://peoplescenteredhumanrights.com/oppose-the-normalization-of-genocide-and-international-gangsterism/

Climate, Environment, and Militarism – Black Alliance for Peace: https://blackallianceforpeace.com/environment

“Praxis from Center to…Cabral” – Ajamu Baraka (2023): https://www.academia.edu/8830885/Praxis_from_center_to_Cabral_final

“People(s)-Centered Human Rights: Decolonizing Human Rights for Human Liberation”: https://peoplescenteredhumanrights.com/

100 Days From the World Cup, an International Coalition is Calling on FIFA to Move the Games From the U.S.

March 3, 2026, With the FIFA World Cup 2026 now 100 days away, an international coalition has launched a coordinated boycott campaign demanding that FIFA move matches from the United States. The Coalition warns that US thuggery is creating a humanitarian crisis, both domestic and international. International sport is not neutral. Mega-sporting events function as instruments of political legitimation. To host global sporting events is not merely a logistical privilege — it is a declaration of belonging within the international community.

“The coalition believes that with the siege of Cuba, the kidnapping of the president of Venezuela, unprovoked and illegal war on Iran, and the fact that the United States has become an increasingly unsafe and hostile environment for peoples of the world — particularly for Black, Brown, Indigenous, migrant, and non-European peoples - the U.S. has excluded itself from the community of civilized nations and should not be allowed to normalize its violence and international gangsterism,” says Ajamu Baraka of the Black Alliance for Peace’s North-South Project for People(s)centered human rights, one of the conveners of the coalition

In the US, violent immigration crackdowns, illegal detentions, and discriminatory travel measures  endanger communities, fans, players and tournament personnel all while the US soaks its hands in foreign blood across the globe.

Nowhere is this more evident than in West Asia and Africa. There, the US continues its violent campaigns against nations whose players and fans will soon set foot on American soil for 78 world cup matches beginning June 11th. Many will arrive as victims of US-sponsored carnage. We demand: the games cannot go forward as if these lives do not matter-whether it is in graves or cages. We refuse to let the United States hide its transgressions against sovereign peoples. The blood of women and children will not be washed away on the pitch to fertilize its grass, and its seats must remain empty for every person ICE has disappeared. 

Mireille Fanon Mendes - France, chair of the Frantz Fanon Foundation declares that “it is morally obscene and politically backward that the United States, a country that has persistently defied international law and stands implicated in grave human rights violations—including wars of aggression, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and active support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza—should be entrusted with hosting a global event meant to celebrate dignity, collective humanity and unity like the World Cup.”

At this historical juncture, permitting the United States to host international sporting events such as the 2026 World Cup and 2028 Olympics with the participation of Israel, represents a profound moral and political contradiction for the international community of nations. 

As we face 100 days before the World Cup, we say reject the normalization of war, repression and genocide. Demand that FIFA move the games and boycott the U.S. until it has demonstrated that it is prepared to operate in the world as a normal state committed to equality, peace and people(s)-centered human rights. 

The Black Alliance for Peace Condemns the U.S.-Israeli War on Iran

The Black Alliance for Peace Condemns the U.S.-Iraeli War on Iran

The Black Alliance For Peace condemns, in the strongest terms, the recent U.S.-Israeli bombing of Tehran and other cities in Iran, which included the bombing of an all-girls school in Minab, which reportedly killed at least 50 students. This military attack is a flagrant violation of the most fundamental principles of the United Nations Charter. As articulated by Iran's Foreign Ministry and multiple international observers, it constitutes a clear act of aggression against a sovereign member state, undermining international peace and security. Such actions underscore the rogue statism of the U.S. and Israel as existential threats. Western powers, particularly the U.S., have embraced "international lawlessness" to support Israeli expansionism. In just the last two months, this lawlessness has enabled the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores, and the bombing, invasion, and ongoing intervention in Venezuela; the heightened strangulation and attacks on Cuba; and now bombing and possible further attacks against Iran.

This criminal escalation serves the interests of no one but the imperialist-zionist warmongers. It flies in the face of domestic and global public opinion, which largely rejects such violence. The international community has condemned the strikes as an unprovoked act of armed aggression. When faced with such international gangsterism, we must ask: whose interests are being upheld? Certainly not those of the Iranian schoolchildren, workers, or the millions worldwide who desire peace. It is the capitalist-imperialist ruling class that rules through ever-accelerating militarism and the most extremist elements in Tel Aviv and Washington that benefit from this carnage.

Such U.S. and Israeli murderous lawlessness forces us to take coordinated action to impose consequences on these states. The international community of nations must not allow the normalization of U.S. led global fascism. This is why BAP has called for organizations and people of conscience to demand that FIFA move the World Cup out of the U.S., demand that both FIFA and the IOC ban the U.S. and Israel from hosting or participating in International Sporting Events, and to join coordinated resistance to Boycott the World Cup.  U.S. Zionist-imperialist impunity must end now! 

More immediately, we call on all people of conscience to stand with the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Iranian people against this bombing and intervention, to mobilize where they are against the widening scope of U.S. wars, and to defend the right of peoples and nations to resist imperialist violence.

Resources and mobilization information here: 

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Stop U.S. War on Iran! 

Oppose U.S.-led International Gangsterism!

BAP Condemns Kidnapping and Torture of Kenyan Revolutionary Leader

BAP Condemns Kidnapping and Torture of Kenyan Revolutionary Leader

By: Black Alliance for Peace Africa Team

The Black Alliance for Peace Africa Team and the U.S. Out of Africa Network stand in revolutionary solidarity with our Comrade Booker Ngesa Omole, Secretary General of the Communist Party Marxist Kenya (CPM-K), and we demand his immediate release, access to emergency medical care, and the immediate withdrawal of all fabricated charges against him.

As of this writing, we have learned that Comrade Booker Ngesa Omole was violently abducted and tortured on the evening of February 23rd and is being held at Mlolongo Police Station. He was scheduled to appear in court on February 26th, where the state intends to charge him with assault, a grotesque and cynical inversion of reality in which the victim of state torture is accused of being the aggressor. We are monitoring the outcome of that hearing and await further reporting from our comrades on the ground in Kenya.

Comrade Omole was beaten severely. He was tortured throughout the night. His tooth was broken. His finger was cut with a pen knife. He was brutalized to near death by officers of the Kenya Police Service. To charge him with assault is a continuation of the torture by other means. It is the state attempting to give its criminal violence the veneer of legality.

The physical assaults and denial of medical care are crimes. The Kenyan state is known for its willingness to commit acts of brutality and we have no doubt that it is willing to let Comrade Omale die in custody from his injuries. The international community must act now to prevent another state murder disguised as “detention.”

Comrade Omole is being targeted because he is a leader of the organized working class. He was abducted, tortured, and now framed because he represents a threat to a neocolonial system that cannot tolerate revolutionary ideas. Because the Kenyan state, with the backing of its U.S. and European imperial masters, has decided that the price of resisting exploitation is state terror.

This is the same Kenyan state that has volunteered its police forces to serve as the Black face of white supremacy in the U.S.-led occupation of Haiti. This is the same state that receives millions in military and police aid from the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) and the U.S. Department of State. The guns, the training, the ideology of repression, all of it flows from the empire to its local enforcers.

Free Booker Ngesa Omole Now!
Medical Care Now!
Drop the Bogus Charges!
U.S. Out of Africa! Shut Down AFRICOM!
No Compromise, No Retreat!

Defense of Sovereignty in Our America

BAP National Co-Coordinator Austin Cole spoke at the February 10, 2026 Mass Meeting of Global Social Movements, convened by the Instituto Simón Bolívar and the Venezuelan Ministry of Popular Power for Foreign Affairs. Below is a transcript of his remarks.

Good morning, my name is Austin Cole and I am the national co-coordinator of the Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) and coordinator of the BAP's Haiti/Americas team, which helped launch the collective campaign in 2023 “Our America, a Zone of Peace” together with more than a dozen organizations in our hemisphere to emphasize the need for social movements and grassroots groups in guaranteeing the zone of peace.

It is an honor to speak with you today, and thanks to the Simon Bolivar Institute, a fraternal embrace to the Venezuelan and Cuban people. I am speaking on behalf of the campaign's coordinating group and the No War Against Venezuela network. This initiative began with more than 35 organizations based in North America that launched a Week of Action in November to stop the war against Venezuela and defend the country's sovereignty. That week, more than 100 actions were taken in the United States and Canada. In recent weeks, we have held additional days of emergency mobilization following the invasion and kidnapping on January 3, as well as a Week of Resistance to disrupt the U.S. war machine from January 23 to 31, with more than 160 organizations. And on February 6, we supported the Global Day of Action to stop the genocide in Palestine and oppose all wars, with European unions.

This campaign is also connected to several local coalitions across the United States and Canada. We have consistently protested in the streets against US attacks on Venezuela and Cuba, organized informational talks in our communities, mass online rallies, strategy meetings, and much more. We have taken action against U.S. diplomatic entities and arms companies. We have published and distributed statements and testimonies from our comrades in Venezuela. Recently, organizers in New York have been continuously mobilizing at the Metropolitan Detention Center as part of the defense committee for Nicolás Maduro and Cilia Flores, including writing letters and ensuring medical care for both.

At the Black Alliance for Peace, as an anti-imperialist organization in the tradition of radical Black peace, we have organized to support and defend the Bolivarian revolution since our founding in 2017, especially in connection with the Network of Afro-Venezuelan Organizations ARAAC. The defense of Venezuela's sovereignty is a key element of our Campaign for a Zone of Peace in Our America and the U.S./NATO Out of Our America Network. We believe that the regional integration of the peoples and movements of all of Our America and the development of a revolutionary and anti-imperialist consciousness throughout the hemisphere are necessary to realize true peace, self-determination, and dignity.

Venezuela's transition to socialism and anti-imperialist defense of sovereignty are examples for our social movements in North America.

We see that this model of transition in the Bolivarian process emphasizes the holistic and interconnected aspects of collective self-determination and popular sovereignty. We are familiar with the vision of the Golpe de Timón, we see the popular power of the Cumbes cimarrones, we are learning from the Unión Comunera, and we have observed from afar the most recent national meeting on communal economy. We see the communes as an example for us. We also understand that this is only possible if the solutions we offer attack the fundamental contradictions that cause this suffering and injustice in the first place, those of imperialism, capitalism, patriarchy, militarism, ecological degradation, and others.

We, the Afro-descendant and indigenous peoples within the United States of America, know the genocide of the empire. Therefore, one of our top priorities is to defend the sovereignty of Venezuela and Cuba, and to oppose the murderous actions of the United States in Our America, in Africa, in Palestine and Iran, and imperialist militarism in general. That is why, for example,

As we move forward together, initiatives such as the Francisco de Miranda Committee can unite us even more in these efforts. Looking ahead, we suggest some possible coordinated activities:

1. Coordinated continental mobilizations and campaigns here and there that share demands, propaganda, etc., in front of U.S. diplomatic facilities and U.S. corporations such as Citibank throughout the hemisphere. We are mobilizing for the public hearing of President Maduro and Cilia Flores on March 26.

2. We call on peoples and social movements to demand that FIFA move the World Cup out of the United States, and that both FIFA and the Olympic Committee ban the United States and Israel from organizing or participating in international sporting events.

3. Narrative support. Publication of materials in English or other languages and support for deeper connections with different sectors of society (students, religious leaders, workers, etc.) to combat misinformation and US propaganda in online spaces and the media as well as in our communities.

4. Direct exchange of research and information, especially grassroots analysis, reports, photos, and videos with movements involved in the Bolivarian process, so that people in our communities can hear directly from Venezuela.

5. Exchanges with communes and other social movements to bring people from North America to Venezuela to connect around possible alternatives through the Bolivarian process, bring perspectives and skills back to their communities, and participate in material solidarity efforts to strengthen collective self-defense and community self-sufficiency.

6. Political and social education based on the alternative of the Bolivarian revolution and the basis of the social movement; to establish direct connections between our community institutions, schools, churches, local groups, etc.

We continue our mobilizations with the demands:

1. Stop the war against Venezuela!

2. No to U.S. wars for regime change!

3. Free President Maduro and Cilia Flores!

4. Defend Venezuela's sovereignty and right to resist!

5. Stop the U.S. war on migrants!

6. Stop the genocide in Palestine and defeat Zionism!

7. End ICE (the immigration police)!

8. Return Guantanamo to Cuba and end colonialism in the Americas!

Together, we believe that the peoples of Our America can defeat the domination and violence of U.S. imperialism and resist to achieve our collective liberation. Count on us.

Until victory, always. We will win!

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Brother Khalid, Presente!

Brother Khalid, Presente!

The Black Alliance for Peace mourns the transition of Brother Khalid Raheem on February 14, 2026, and sends our condolences to his family and his comrades. Brother Khalid was part of many organizations and formations throughout his revolutionary life, including the Black Panther Party, National Council for Urban Peace and Justice, the New Afrikan Independence Party, the National Black Radical Political Congress, the Jericho Movement, the Gang Peace Council of Western Pennsylvania, the National Black Liberation Movement Unity Initiative, and many others. He was a revolutionary organizer, a prolific writer, and a dear comrade. 

Brother Khalid joined the Philadelphia chapter of the Black Panther Party in 1970. Involved in various campaigns and programs of the BPP, Khalid was arrested and incarcerated for over ten years. As a political prisoner, he embraced the teachings and practices of Islam, and struggled from inside to fight for the rights and liberation of all prisoners. After his release, Brother Khalid organized extensively in community in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area and continued involvement with local and national initiatives and organizations

BAP had the honor of collaborating with Brother Khalid and participating alongside him and many other revolutionary comrades at the most recent National Black Radical Political Convention in October 2025 in Philadelphia. There, Brother Khalid articulated as clear as ever the need for an independent and revolutionary Black political process based in principled unity. He was an elder who never gave up in the struggle for the liberation of oppressed peoples, and he contributed to our people’s liberation and anti-colonial struggle until his last breath. We salute Brother Khalid and embrace his example of committed, principled struggle.

Today, we celebrate his life and honor his struggle. Brother Khalid Raheem, presente!

Image: Khalid Raheem, at the front of the line, marching with the Black Panthers. Photograph: Stephen Shames/Polaris

On the Anniversary of the Declaration of a ‘Zone of Peace’, the U.S. Heightens its Murderous Assault on the Cuban People and Revolution

On the Anniversary of the Declaration of a ‘Zone of Peace’, the U.S. Heightens its Murderous Assault on the Cuban People and Revolution

Jan 30, 2026 – On January 29th, the 12-year anniversary of the declaration of Latin America & the Caribbean as a Zone of Peace by CELAC (the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States) in Havana, Cuba, the U.S. dramatically escalated its economic and political war on Cuba. The U.S. issued an executive order declaring Cuba an “unusual and extraordinary threat,” employing a familiar propaganda strategy relentlessly tying the island nation to designated “terrorist” groups like Hamas and Hezbollah, and geopolitical adversaries like China and Russia. This rhetoric, mirroring dehumanizing narratives used against Venezuela and Iran, aims to manufacture consent for aggression by framing Cuba as a malignant actor. We condemn, in the strongest terms, this executive order and the broader war on Cuba.

To justify further U.S. lawlessness, the executive order explicitly frames Cuba’s independent foreign policy as a hostile act. The attack on Cuba is not isolated but part of a broader hybrid war targeting Venezuela and Nicaragua, aiming to dismantle any successful example of resistance or authentic regional integration, both of which Cuba has played a heroic role in advancing on behalf of the people of Our Americas. The overarching U.S. objective is the systematic destruction of the declared “Zone of Peace” in Latin America & the Caribbean through full spectrum dominance in the hemisphere. This escalation will lead directly to more economic misery in Cuba, conflict in that country and throughout the region, and destruction of any semblance of popular sovereignty within nations and non-coercive relationships between them.

The timing is critical, as this escalation occurs amidst a demonstrable lack of consensus within CELAC, highlighting how U.S. neocolonial influence actively fractures regional solidarity to enable such attacks. The recent contention over the concept of a ‘Zone of Peace’, which has until 2025 been unanimously accepted by all CELAC members in theory (if not in practice), has been a direct political and ideological gift to U.S.-led imperialism. Trinidad & Tobago’s Prime Minister’s abdication of the concept of a Zone of Peace is a direct result of that government’s decision to serve as a neocolonial puppet in the region, being weaponized against revolutionary governments and regional integration based in sovereignty and solidarity.

2026 also marks the centennial of Fidel Castro, whose leadership was defined by the “Battle of Ideas” against imperialism. Today, we see the idea of “peace” being co-opted and corrupted by U.S.-led empire to further military domination, economic control, and political subjugation. This ideological struggle is material as well, as Cuba has long played a role in supporting true, just peace throughout the region and the world – most notably and recently in Colombia.

Fighting against U.S.-led imperialism, militarism, and genocidal acceleration means struggling ferociously to support the Cuban Revolution and the development of a Zone of Peace that links revolutionary national liberation and grassroots peoples’ struggles. Through the Campaign for a Zone of Peace in Our Americas and the accompanying U.S./NATO Out of Our Americas Network, we are attempting to support the grassroots coordination and organized resistance that is required to make this aspiration a reality.

Long Live the Cuban Revolution!

Make Our Americas a Zone of Peace!

Black Alliance for Peace & Diaspora Pa’lante Collective

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En el aniversario de la declaración de una Zona de Paz, Estados Unidos intensifica su sangriento ataque contra el pueblo cubano y su revolución 

30 de enero de 2026 – El 29 de enero, en el 12.º aniversario de la declaración de América Latina y el Caribe como Zona de Paz por parte de la CELAC (Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanos y Caribeños) en La Habana, Cuba, Estados Unidos intensificó drásticamente su guerra económica y política contra Cuba. Estados Unidos emitió un decreto ejecutivo en el que declaraba a Cuba una “amenaza inusual y extraordinaria”, empleando una conocida estrategia propagandística que vincula implacablemente a la nación insular con grupos designados como “terroristas”, como Hamás y Hezbolá, y adversarios geopolíticos como China y Rusia. Esta retórica, que refleja las narrativas deshumanizadoras utilizadas contra Venezuela e Irán, tiene como objetivo fabricar el consentimiento para la agresión al presentar a Cuba como un actor maligno. Condenamos enérgicamente esta orden ejecutiva y la guerra más amplia contra Cuba.

Para justificar una mayor ilegalidad por parte de Estados Unidos, la orden ejecutiva enmarca explícitamente la política exterior independiente de Cuba como un acto hostil. El ataque contra Cuba no es un caso aislado, sino parte de una guerra híbrida más amplia dirigida contra Venezuela y Nicaragua, con el objetivo de desmantelar cualquier ejemplo exitoso de resistencia o auténtica integración regional, en cuya promoción Cuba ha desempeñado un papel heroico en nombre de los pueblos de Nuestra América. El objetivo general de EE.UU. es la destrucción sistemática de la declarada “Zona de Paz” en América Latina y el Caribe mediante el dominio total del hemisferio. Esta escalada conducirá directamente a una mayor miseria económica en Cuba, a conflictos en ese país y en toda la región, y a la destrucción de cualquier atisbo de soberanía popular dentro de las naciones y de relaciones no coercitivas entre ellas.

El momento es crítico, ya que esta escalada se produce en medio de una evidente falta de consenso dentro de la CELAC, lo que pone de relieve cómo la influencia neocolonial de Estados Unidos fractura activamente la solidaridad regional para permitir tales ataques. La reciente controversia sobre el concepto de Zona de Paz, que hasta 2025 ha sido aceptado unánimemente por todos los miembros de la CELAC en teoría (si no en la práctica), ha sido un regalo político e ideológico directo para el imperialismo liderado por Estados Unidos. La renuncia del primer ministro de Trinidad y Tobago al concepto de Zona de Paz es el resultado directo de la decisión de ese gobierno de actuar como títere neocolonial en la región, siendo utilizado como arma contra los gobiernos revolucionarios y la integración regional basada en la soberanía y la solidaridad.

El año 2026 también marca el centenario de Fidel Castro, cuyo liderazgo se definió por la “Batalla de Ideas” contra el imperialismo. Hoy en día, vemos cómo la idea de “paz” es cooptada y corrompida por el imperio liderado por EE.UU para promover la dominación militar, el control económico y la subyugación política. Esta lucha ideológica también es material, ya que Cuba ha desempeñado durante mucho tiempo un papel en el apoyo a una paz verdadera y justa en toda la región y el mundo, sobre todo y más recientemente en Colombia.

Luchar contra el imperialismo, el militarismo y la aceleración genocida liderados por Estados Unidos significa luchar ferozmente para apoyar la Revolución Cubana y el desarrollo de una Zona de Paz que vincule la liberación nacional revolucionaria y las luchas populares de base. A través de la Campaña por una Zona de Paz en Nuestra América y la red que la acompaña, La Red EE.UU/OTAN Fuera de Nuestra América, estamos tratando de apoyar la coordinación de base y la resistencia organizada que se requiere para hacer realidad esta aspiración.

¡Viva la Revolución Cubana!

¡Hagamos de Nuestra América una Zona de Paz!

Black Alliance for Peace y Diaspora Pa’lante Collective

Blood in the Streets, Banners on the World Stage

U.S. officials have chosen to operate outside the bounds of law and basic morality — from supporting Israel’s genocide in Gaza and illegal settlement expansion, to launching a direct military strike on Venezuela that kidnapped President Nicolás Maduro and his wife, to escalating repression against migrants and racialized communities inside the U.S. that has led to murder. These are not isolated policies, but interconnected expressions of an empire that relies on illegal violence abroad and domestically to enforce dominance. Friday January 23rd was one of the largest labor mobilizations in recent U.S. history with 10s of thousands of Minnesotans taking to the street to end the tyrannical violence of ICE and its anti-immigrant operations.

One day later, ICE agents in Minnesota have murdered another person — this time a 37-year-old man. The federal government is systematically violating the most fundamental of human rights: the right to life. While federal officials run cover for their crimes, state and local officials do nothing but stand by, make statements but take no action. We must demand that these democratically elected officials act immediately to defend their constituents and combat all attempts to clean the image of this neo-fascist state.

This includes the World Cup, which should not be used to launder state violence or normalize genocide and international gangsterism. We must hold state and local authorities accountable and demand they use their power to defend the human rights and safety of the people they claim to represent. Organizations and people of conscience must demand that FIFA move the games out of the U.S. and take a stand for people-centered human rights rather than empire, repression, and impunity. Sign the petition demanding that FIFA and the IOC ban the U.S. and Israel from hosting or participating in international sporting events.

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BAP Africa Team Condemns the Israeli/U.S. Effort to Destabilize Somalia with the Recognition of Somaliland

The Black Alliance for Peace Africa Team Condemns the Israeli/U.S. Effort to Destabilize Somalia with the Recognition of Somaliland

January 5, 2026 - The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) Africa Team declares that Israel’s recognition of the Somaliland region of Somalia as an independent state is a clear attack on that nation’s sovereignty, but also on all of Africa. Not only has Somalia vehemently objected to this interference in its affairs and to the clear violation of international law, but the African Union has also voiced unequivocal condemnation. As always, Israel works hand in hand with the United States. This Israeli action, like all others, is conducted in full cooperation with Washington. 

Somalia, located strategically in the Horn of Africa, has been under U.S. assault for decades, with a succession of U.S. presidents destabilizing that country under the guise of fighting a “war on terror.” The first Trump administration continued the drone strikes of its predecessors, but carried out more than Bush, Obama, and Biden combined. In 2025 the second Trump regime conducted more than 100 attacks, again an outlier as compared to other administrations.

The military attacks and Israel’s recognition of Somaliland were coordinated with racist demonization of the Somali population in the United States, whose presence is the result of decades of U.S. violence against their homeland and the displacement of thousands of people. Trump’s racist invective against congresswoman Ilhan Omar, and denunciation of all Somalis as “garbage” were not coincidental to Israel’s recognition of Somaliland.

Israel’s goal is to gain a foothold in the Horn of Africa on the Bab-al-Mandeb strait bordering Yemen and the Ansar Allah forces who have succeeded in waging attacks on Israel. In addition, Israeli officials have expressed a desire to remove Palestinians from Gaza and send them to Somaliland. Currently, they are denying these past statements due to international condemnation, but no one should believe they have suddenly rejected what they have long sought.

Apartheid Israel is a global pariah whose leaders have escaped judgment from the International Criminal Court (ICC). The U.S. and Israel concocted a phony ceasefire that allows the Gaza genocide to continue under the cover of approval from a world community unwilling to fight against U.S. hegemony and its war crimes. There is no nation less qualified to make decisions about others’ legitimacy than Israel.

The people of all Somalia, including in Somaliland, have protested this aggressive intrusion into their affairs. There is no support for this move outside of Washington, Tel Aviv, and puppets such as those in Taiwan who ally themselves with the U.S. against their government in Beijing.

If successful, Israel’s action will destabilize the entire Horn of Africa, incite long-standing grievances within fractured Somali society, which is governed by a comprador state, and continue the destabilization of that country. Israel’s ally the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has brought about the destruction of Sudan and given zionists and their allies dangerous influence in the region. The existence of an Israeli puppet state would be a threat to millions of people in Somaliland and one more weapon used against a continent which still struggles for self-determination.

The BAP Africa Team amplifies the work of the U.S. Out of Africa Shutdown AFRICOM campaign and calls for the end of all U.S./NATO/Israeli interference in the affairs of African peoples. The US Out of Africa Network (USOAN) is the campaign organizing arm and an active mobilization space for anti-imperialist forces. The Black Alliance for Peace is firm in its opposition to a U.S./Israeli created entity carved out of a sovereign nation.

Israel Out of Africa!
U.S. Out of Africa!
Shut Down AFRICOM!

Banner photo: Somalia representative to the UN, Abukar Dahir Osman.