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DECLARATION OF CIVIC INDEPENDENCE
From Unaccountable Foreign Influence and Atrocity
A Nonviolent Civic Statement by the People of the United States of America
To the people of the United States, to the peoples of the world, and to all governments:
We, as citizens and residents of the United States of America, declare our moral and civic independence from any foreign government, aligned faction, lobby, or ideology that seeks to bend the policy, resources, laws, and conscience of this republic away from justice, constitutional order, human dignity, and peace.
We make this declaration in a spirit of nonviolence, lawful self-government, and human solidarity. It is not a declaration against any people as a people, nor against any faith as a faith, nor against the ordinary civilians of any nation. It is a declaration against unaccountable power, against atrocities, against domination by fear, corruption, impunity, and the capture of public institutions, and against the use of the American people and American government as instruments of destruction.
We affirm that no foreign state is entitled to command the loyalty of the United States government above the Constitution, above the law, above the rights of the people of this country, or above the equal dignity of human life.
Declaration
We therefore state plainly:
That the United States must not be subordinated to the aims of the present government of Israel, nor to any network of political, financial, ideological, or religious-nationalist pressure that demands American complicity in collective punishment, unlawful war, dispossession, or crimes against humanity.
That the people of the United States are not morally bound to endorse, finance, excuse, or defend actions by any government that inflicts mass suffering upon civilian populations.
That the authority to commit this nation to war does not belong to private influence, foreign pressure, covert arrangements, or executive excess, but must remain subject to constitutional limits, public accountability, and the informed consent of the governed.
That no alliance is sacred when it becomes a shield for impunity.
That no accusations of disloyalty, hatred, or heresy shall silence the duty of conscience when human beings are being destroyed.
Recognition
We recognize that many Americans have concluded that U.S. policy has for decades been distorted by forms of foreign influence, policy capture, and domestic corruption that have insulated the Israeli government from meaningful accountability.
We recognize as well that many people have concluded that this distortion has contributed to catastrophic violence in Palestine and to broader regional escalation.
We do not claim that every citizen agrees on every fact or cause. But we do declare that the American people have the right to reject any policy of permanent entanglement in atrocity, permanent war, and permanent moral surrender.
Rejection of Collective Blame
We reject the doctrine that criticism of the Israeli government is hatred of Jews. These are not the same. A free people must retain the ability to condemn state violence, ethnic domination, forced displacement, siege, starvation, or indiscriminate warfare wherever they occur, without being slandered for doing so.
We reject as well all forms of anti-Jewish hatred, anti-Muslim hatred, anti-Arab hatred, anti-Palestinian hatred, and the dehumanization of any people. No people are reducible to a government. No faith is reducible to extremists. No child is an enemy by birth.
Resolve
That the present subordination of U.S. policy to the priorities of the current Israeli government is incompatible with republican self-government, international law, and the conscience of a free people.
That the use of American arms, treasure, diplomacy, and silence to enable mass suffering abroad is a betrayal of both constitutional principle and human decency.
That the diversion of national wealth into militarism and foreign impunity, while millions in the United States and across the world live in precarity, want, illness, debt, and abandonment, is intolerable.
That the people of the United States have the right and the responsibility to demand the immediate restoration of lawful, independent, accountable governance in foreign policy and war-making.
We therefore declare:
Call for Restoration
An end to all U.S. participation in, enablement of, or diplomatic protection for atrocities and unlawful war.
A full public accounting of foreign influence, lobbying power, corruption, coercion, and conflicts of interest that have compromised independent American decision-making.
The restoration of constitutional limits on war powers, including the refusal of unauthorized wars and the rejection of foreign-driven escalation.
The equal application of human rights principles and international law to all states and all state and non-state armed actors, without exception or favoritism.
The protection of free speech and civic dissent for all who oppose atrocity and demand accountability.
The redirection of public resources away from endless war and toward the relief of suffering, the repair of civic life, and the flourishing of ordinary people.
Accordingly, we call for:
Toward Peace and Future Friendship
We further state that this declaration is not a rejection of the people of Israel. The people of Israel, like all peoples, possess the right to live in safety, dignity, and peace. Should they establish or support a government grounded in equality, lawful conduct, mutual respect, and genuine peace with their neighbors, then a relationship of friendship and alliance with the United States may be not only possible but welcome.
But alliance cannot rest on impunity. Partnership cannot rest on domination. Peace cannot rest on ethnic cleansing or destruction. Friendship cannot be compelled through fear.
Commitment
Therefore, in fidelity to conscience, to constitutional self-government, and to the equal worth of every human life, we declare our independence from complicity in these crimes and from all structures of power that demand such complicity from us.
We commit ourselves to lawful action, public truth, nonviolent resistance, democratic accountability, and solidarity with all peoples subjected to war, expulsion, occupation, terror, or abandonment.
Affirmation
Let it be known:
That the people are not the property of empire.
That conscience is not treason.
That silence is not peace.
That obedience to atrocity is not alliance.
And that a republic worthy of its name must belong first to truth, to law, and to life.
Founding Declaration Closing
Therefore, we, the people and residents of the United States of America who assent to this declaration, do solemnly affirm that no foreign government, no domestic faction, and no machinery of fear, money, or fanaticism may rightfully command our republic against conscience, law, and the equal dignity of humankind. We withdraw our moral consent from every policy of complicity in atrocity, and we pledge ourselves to the lawful restoration of accountable government, peace, and human solidarity.
So declared by the people, in conscience and in nonviolence.