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Anti-Zionism as Decolonisation

Anti-Zionism as Decolonisation

By Leila Shomali
and Lara Kilani

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Updates from the ground

The conversations you should be having

These podcasts represent the critical discourse and analysis that advance global movements of liberation. Browse through this carefully curated list to learn more about imperialism, colonialism, and how we organize against systems explotation and violence. Check out the library

Palestine Will Be Free

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Ameed and Cody from Good Shepherd Collective join Rae and Jeremy in a Q&A on the conditions and complications related to the struggle of the Palestinian people. Questions were collected from you, the listener. We did our best to condense similar ques...

Proles of the Roundtable | January 14, 2025

Counterinsurgency Urbanism with Ted Rutland

Counterinsurgency Urbanism with Ted Rutland

In this episode, recorded mid-2024, Ted Rutland discusses policing's evolution from the professional model to counterinsurgency urbanism in 1970s-80s Canada. He explains how community policing, despite aims to connect police with communities through...

Millennials Are Killing Capitalism | March 27, 2025

Revolutionary Papers w/ Mahish Ahmad, Koni Benson, & Sara Kazmi

Revolutionary Papers w/ Mahish Ahmad, Koni Benson, & Sara Kazmi

Guerrilla History features the revolutionary scholars and activists Revolutionary Papers. ( https://revolutionarypapers.org/ )

Guerrilla History | March 14, 2025

Essential Readings

Campaigns we're supporting

Material support for those facing the Israeli genocide in Gaza is critical. Their well-being should be our priority. It is, therefore, our collective responsibility to provide the necessary resources to ensure their survival. Donating to families to simply eat, to have shelter, and medicine is the least we can do. Select a campaign and donate today.

Gaza Funds

Gaza Funds

Give directly to families in Gaza. Gaza Funds focuses on uplifting stagnating campaigns, which have not recently received support. The website shows only one campaign at a time, so as not to overwhelm viewers.

Workshops 4 Gaza

Workshops 4 Gaza

Workshops 4 Gaza organizes a number of excellent, fascinating workshops each month. Sign up for a workshop by donating to the requested campaign for a family in Gaza, give a workshop to a friend as a gift, or donate so that others might be able to jo...

Water and Waste Infrastructure for Gaza City

Water and Waste Infrastructure for Gaza City

This fundraiser is for the Gaza City municipality, and will help to provide the funds to rebuild some of the essential, life-saving infrastructure for water and waste which Israel has systematically destroyed as part of its genocide campaign.

Zionism's data points⤵

The violence of settler-colonialism in numbers

Israel, as a settler-colonial construction, is premised on the elimination of the natives. The violence of Indigenous erasure is animated throughout these structures of the state. This data provides a small subset of the violence enacted to maintain and perpetuate zionism.

Map of Gaza's destroyed roads

Gaza's infrastructure

Critical in carrying out a genocide, Israel methodically dismantled Gaza's infrastructure. This map is one data point that shows the vast destruction of Gaza's road system.

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West Bank & E. Jerusalem

Injuries & Deaths since 10.7.2023

As of 06.08.2025, the Zionist movement has killed 936 Palestinians across the West Bank and East Jerusalem, including 188 children. Israeli military raids and paramilitary operations have injured 8,228, including 1,453 of those being children. The total number of paramilitary raids as of the most recent report is 2,235, demonstrating that these paramilitary units operate as an extension of the state.


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Gaza Genocide

As of 06.08.2025, the Israeli regime, supported by the United States, has committed 12,000 massacres in Gaza. This has resulted in 54,880 Palestinian deaths, including 18,000 children and 12,400 women. Critical emergency services have also been targeted, with 115 civil defense workers and 1,580 medical personnel killed. Additionally, 226 journalists have been assassinated to suppress independent reporting.
Map of Gaza's destruction

Damage Report

Critical in carrying out a genocide, Israel methodically dismantled Gaza's infrastructure. This map is one data point that shows the vast destruction of Gaza's road system.

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Violence across the West Bank & East Jerusalem

A daily snapshot of violence

For the date of 06.06.2025

Settler attacks ⏤ 5

Road closures ⏤ 6

Confiscation of property ⏤ 2

Arrests ⏤ 26

Temporary checkpoints ⏤ 9

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Home Demolitions in the West Bank & East Jerusalem

Aggregates for the last 365 days

Updated 05.27.2025

Displaced People — 4261

Total Structures — 1993

Men Displaced — 1256

Women Displaced — 1213

Children Displaced — 1795

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Data in context

This data is critical for developing advocacy programs that demonstrate how zionism, as a settler-colonial ideology, is enacted through the destruction of Palestinian lives and land.

Information alone doesn't liberate. These data points have to be integrated into a political program that articulates a vision of decolonization and justice.

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Political Prisoners

Political Prisoners

10,400/total

Languishing in colonial prisons

It's critical to remember, that within a system of settler-colonialism, every Palestinian in Israeli jails are by definition political prisoners.

Behind the numbers

  • ⏤3,562 administrative detainees
  • ⏤420 Jerusalemite prisoners
  • ⏤5 Palestinian Legislative Council members
  • ⏤301 serving life sentences
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U.S. Nonprofit industry

money

$22.0 billion/last 10 years

U.S. Federal + Local taxes diverted to colonialism

Historically, international charitable structures have been utilized to finance imperialism and colonialism.

Top U.S. institutions

  • ⏤$4,433,488,000
    Jewish Agency For Israel
  • ⏤$1,843,396,951
    United Israel Appeal Inc
  • ⏤$1,642,681,081
    Jewish Community Federation Of S F Marin Peninsula & Sonoma Counties
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Destruction of Gaza

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211,196/structures

Destruction during the genocide

The dismantling of life-giving infrastructure, such as homes, hospitals, and schools is crucial in enacting genocide across a wide geographic area.

Structures destroyed as of 05.08.2025:

  • ⏤210,000 residential buildings
  • ⏤225 civic buildings
  • ⏤143 educational buildings
  • ⏤828 mosques destroyed
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Children held captive in Israeli military confinement

Data Overview

This data visualization is built on the public data from DCI Palestine. Where null values are present, we estimate and fill in missing data points on the chart, by identifying known values and calculating the gaps between them. In return, it ensures the chart remains easy to read and interpret, even when some data is missing.

Where values have been interpolated they are designated with the color ●.

Most recent date: 03.2025

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Administrative Detention

Administrative detention refers to a unique system in which Palestinian prisoners—children and adults—are held in the Israeli prison system without charge or trial. They are held in administrative detention through the use of secret evidence which is not disclosed to the detainee or their legal representative, and therefore have no means to challenge the process. Administrative detainees can be detained for periods up to six months at a time which can be reissued by military court judges. There is no limit to the number of times the orders for administrative detention can be renewed, meaning that child prisoners face indefinite imprisonment. In effect, they have no right to due process under this system, or any real agency to challenge the orders against them and a potentially indefinite detention.

Date range: 01.2008 - 12.2024

Estimated current amount: 112

Last reported amount: 112 | 12.2024

Detention

Date range: 01.2008 - 12.2024

Estimated current amount: 300

Last reported amount: 300 | 12.2024

12 to 15 years-olds in detention

Date range: 01.2008 - 09.2024

Estimated current amount: 1

Last reported amount: 0 | 09.2024

Mapping colonial violence

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Event data

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This map, by its nature, is not exhaustive. The phenomenon of underreporting is a significant issue, particularly with regard to Israeli settler-colonial aggression, much of which remains undocumented and unreported. It is imperative to interpret this map as representing a fraction of the incidents of violence associated with the Israeli state. The Good Shepherd Collective has utilized data compiled by the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project (ACLED) to depict various incidents across historical Palestine and beyond. The narrative descriptions provided herein are attributed to ACLED.

The data ranges from 09.13.275760 to 04.20.-271821.

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Mapping Health Attacks

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Event data

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This data set ranges from 01.06.2016 to 05.07.2025. The map displays reported attacks on healthcare facilities and workers by the Israeli state and the larger settler movement. The data is sourced from various reports and is not be exhaustive. Each point represents an incident, and clicking on it will provide more details about the event.

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⏤ questions and answers

The answers to the most frequent questions

Can't find your answer? Send an email and the Good Shepherd Collective will get back to you.

Who runs the Good Shepherd Collective?
We are a loose collection activists that work in consensus. We're located both in Palestine and abroad.
Why was the Good Shepherd Collective founded?
The Good Shepherd Collective was founded as a response to the inherent limitations of national and international NGOs. Community organizers wanted to create a structure that challenged the neoliberal though and that centers advocacy on decolonization and antizionist organizing.
How is the Good Shepherd Collective funded?
We are funded almost exclusively by individual donors. Accepting large donations from neo-liberal institutions often compromises the mission of grassroots movements, aligning them with corporate agenda the interests of the political parties which aim to main systems of explotation. Relying on individual donations fosters genuine community engagement, preserves autonomy, and ensures that advocacy efforts remain aligned with principles of decolonization, antizionism, and liberation.
Who runs the social media accounts?
We all do, collectively.
How can you be involved with the Good Shepherd Collective?
Send us an email and let us know if you're interested in coming to Palestine and doing work or coordinating from abroad. We're happy to do webinars and podcasts, or teach-ins with small groups. Email us at info@goodshepherdcollective.org.

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