Walk the way of Peace, Justice, and Reconciliation with Palestinian Christians.

Support the revolutionary vision of Sabeel to see local Palestinian Christians, inspired by the life and teaching of Jesus Christ, stand-up for the oppressed, work for justice, and engage in peacebuilding. As one of the most respected and well-connected Christian organizations in the Holy Land, Sabeel is bringing this vision to life against seemingly insurmountable odds.

Donate today and join the global Sabeel movement for justice, peace, and reconciliation!

"I continue to feel that we have an obligation as very privileged people, North American folk, to listen closely to the call and the cry of the Palestinian people, particularly the Palestinian churches, and to respond with meaningful action. And to not respond seemed not just foolish to me, but really immoral and callous." Senior Pastor Dave Grishaw-Jones

In honor of the twelve disciples, our minimum donation amount for membership is $12. Thank you for completing your donation and becoming a member today! 

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For thousands of years, churches have served as places to give thanks, to bring families together, to provide sanctuary for those in need. We cannot allow these core commitments to be diminished by allowing companies complicit in human rights abuses to establish themselves in our houses of worship. Hewlett Packard (HP) provides Israel with the technological tools to facilitate its oppression of the Palestinian people. 

The Presbyterian Church, Unitarian Universalists, United Church of Christ, Quaker Friends Fiduciary, and Alliance of Baptists have all divested from HP at the denominational level. Let’s bring this courageous stand to the congregational level by becoming an HP-free church. 

The Board of Directors of Friends of Sabeel—North America established the Sabeel Circle of Friends during Pentecost of 2005 to help provide the level of financial support and encouragement needed to continue to carry a message of hope to the Palestinian community. Members of the Circle are people who give $500 or more in a given year. Circle members sustain our operations and provide a shining example of faith in action.

Friends of Sabeel is a certified 501c3 non-profit organization 

Your gift helps support our programs in the United States, including educational conferences, witness trips, theological education in our seminaries, speakers' bureau, church & community outreach, and much more.

To ensure your gift provides a maximum impact, please consider committing to make a monthly donation by clicking here. 

Prefer to donate via check? If so, please make your check out to "Friends of Sabeel - North America," adding Fund for the Future in the memo line, and mail it to:

Friends of Sabeel North America

PO Box 3192, Greenwood Village, CO 80155

Your gift supports our programs in the United States, including educational conferences, BDS campaigns, witness trips, theological education in our seminaries, speakers' bureau, church & community outreach, and much more. 

To ensure your gift provides a maximum impact, please consider committing to make a monthly donation by clicking here.

Friends of Sabeel is a certified 501c3 non-profit organization. 

Prefer to donate via check? If so, please make your check out to "Friends of Sabeel - North America" and mail it to:

Friends of Sabeel North America

PO Box 3192, Greenwood Village, CO 80155-3192

Laws that target Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, a powerful tool for standing with the oppressed, threaten our constitutional rights.

Download and print this letter signed by over 200 Christian leaders to provide to your state legislators to illustrate that Christian clergy across the nation oppose Anti-BDS legislation.

"As Christian leaders we have long used the non-violent instruments of boycott and divestment in our work for justice and peace. These economic measures have proven to be powerful tools for social change, from strengthening labor rights for farmworkers to ending apartheid in South Africa.1 Observing the success of these efforts, Palestinian civil society issued a call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) in 2005 to advance Palestinians’ long-denied rights to freedom, justice, equality, and self-determination.2 In 2009, Palestinian Christians included a call for boycott and divestment in their landmark document, “Kairos Palestine: A Moment of Truth.” Christian denominations around the world have responded by divesting from companies that profit from Israel’s occupation and its persistent settlement expansion—both of which are illegal under international and U.S. law.3 

In January 2016, the pension board of the United Methodist Church decided to divest from Israeli banks and a real estate company due to their financing of settlement construction in Palestinian territory.4 In 2015, the United Church of Christ overwhelmingly approved a resolution divesting from companies that profit from Israel’s occupation of Palestinian lands along with, a boycott of products from Israeli settlements.5 In 2014 the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) voted at its general assembly to divest from three companies that profit from the occupation and in 2012 they implemented a boycott of Israeli settlement products. 6 Friends Fiduciary Corporation, the socially responsible investment firm serving over 300 Quaker meetings, as well as the American Friends Service Committee, also divested from companies benefitting from the occupation.7

Israeli governmental policy proponents, fearing the growing BDS movement, have launched a well-funded campaign 8 to suppress BDS. During the last two years, “anti-BDS” bills have been introduced in the U.S. Congress and several state legislatures.9 Legislation introduced in New York, California, Florida, Iowa and other states would prohibit investing in or contracting with organizations that boycott Israel and “its territories.” These laws may threaten public funding for social services such as soup kitchens and homeless shelters provided by churches that have passed BDS resolutions.  

These bills attack a non-violent, time-tested, and constitutionally protected approach to achieving peace. The First Amendment protects more than “speech”: the Supreme Court has long recognized that it also protects expressive conduct. In NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co., the Supreme Court found that “the boycott clearly involved constitutionally protected activity” through which the NAACP “sought to bring about political, social, and economic change.”10

We people of faith, representing various Christian traditions, are deeply concerned about this wave of state and national legislation: It threatens our constitutional right to engage in economic advocacy to end the Israeli occupation and uphold fundamental Palestinian rights. We urge our representatives to exercise their considerable political power to halt these misguided legislative efforts and to uphold the First Amendment rights of their constituencies.11"