Black-led movements for justice have long stood with people facing racist imperialism and oppression around the world.

Continuing a tradition of Black solidarity with Palestinians, South Africa sued Israel at the International Court of Justice to stop the genocide.

South African leaders who helped bring down that country’s apartheid system have long compared their experiences with Palestinians’ struggle under Israel’s apartheid regime. Stripped of basic rights and subjected to a different legal system from Israelis, many Palestinians are locked up in jails for months or years without ever being charged.

Palestinians have asked for boycotts, divestment, and sanctions to sway Israel’s government to change—tactics that were essential in ending South Africa’s apartheid.

Boycotting was also an important tactic of Black civil rights leaders who ended Jim Crow segregation. Black civil rights leaders also created bail funds to bail out protesters and others who can’t afford bail.

But U.S. lawmakers have tried to block these forms of political expression.

Just this week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill to criminalize our free speech right to engage in political boycotts. And state legislatures around the country are also attacking bail funds. Georgia’s legislature just passed a bill to expand their state’s racist cash bail system and to criminalize bail funds.

In order to maintain the unjust status quo of racism in Israel and the United States, Israeli forces and U.S. police regularly train with one another—including collaborating on how to use state violence to suppress protest movements for Black and Palestinian rights.

Israel’s military also supported South Africa’s military during its anti-Black apartheid regime. Their armed forces trained together, and they worked closely on weapons development, including nuclear weapons.

When celebrating the end of South Africa’s racist apartheid, Nelson Mandela said: “We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.” We get free together.

Please sign on to demand an end to racist policing, from the U.S. to Palestine. No more holding people without charges—whether indefinitely caging Palestinians through administrative detention in Israeli jails, or locking up primarily Black people who can’t afford bail in the U.S.