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Field Note: Silencing proximate leaders on Palestine

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At the HRFN conference in April, a frequent topic of conversation was the decision by Sigrid Rausing Trust and other foundations to cancel grants to the FRIDA | Young Feminist Fund for speaking up against the genocide of the Palestinian people. Sigrid Rausing Trust in particular was called out on stage during a plenary session.
Last week, more than 200 Jewish donors and philanthropy leaders signed an open letter in response, calling on colleagues to “cease the harmful practice of withdrawing funding” from groups speaking up for Palestinians.
An excerpt: “Today, we see the Palestinian people being forced to fight for their very survival and being pushed into exile as we were and we cannot be complicit as Palestinians face the same fate as ourselves, our relatives, and our ancestors. We will not let our faith be used as an excuse to silence the voices of progressive activists, and particularly BIPOC and Global South movements, that see deep linkages between their own struggles for liberation and the struggles of the Palestinian people.”

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