About This Declaration
About This Declaration
This declaration was written as a nonviolent civic statement by people of the United States who believe that constitutional self-government, human dignity, and peace have been compromised by unaccountable foreign influence, unlawful war, and complicity in mass human suffering.
It was created to speak plainly about a crisis of policy, conscience, and public accountability. Its purpose is not to inflame hatred or deepen division, but to affirm the right and responsibility of the people to reject complicity in atrocity and to call for the restoration of lawful, independent, and accountable government.
A Civic and Nonviolent Document
This declaration is civic in character and nonviolent in purpose. It calls for lawful action, public truth, democratic accountability, and moral independence. It rejects vengeance, collective blame, and hatred. It affirms that a free people must be able to oppose war, impunity, and state violence without abandoning human dignity or the rule of law.
What This Declaration Opposes
This declaration opposes the subordination of U.S. policy to unaccountable foreign influence, the normalization of unlawful war, the shielding of atrocities from accountability, and the use of fear, corruption, coercion, and political capture to override constitutional government and public conscience.
It also opposes the idea that any alliance is beyond criticism, or that any government may demand American loyalty above the Constitution, the law, and the equal dignity of human life.
What This Declaration Does Not Oppose
This declaration is not directed against Jews as Jews, Muslims as Muslims, Arabs as Arabs, Palestinians as Palestinians, Israelis as Israelis, or against any people as a people. It does not reject a faith, an ethnicity, or a civilian population.
It distinguishes between a government and the people who live under it. It distinguishes between criticism of state conduct and hatred toward human beings. It rejects all forms of anti-Jewish hatred, anti-Muslim hatred, anti-Arab hatred, anti-Palestinian hatred, and the dehumanization of any people.
Why It Is Direct
This declaration is intentionally direct because it addresses a matter of grave public consequence. It names the present subordination of U.S. policy to the priorities of the current Israeli government as a profound civic and moral problem. It does so not to provoke hostility toward a people, but to speak clearly about government conduct, policy capture, impunity, and war-making.
A civic declaration that avoids clarity in the face of mass suffering would fail its own purpose.
What It Calls For
This declaration calls for the restoration of constitutional limits, public accountability, and independent judgment in matters of foreign policy and war. It calls for an end to complicity in atrocities and unlawful war, for a full public accounting of foreign influence and corruption, for the protection of free speech and civic dissent, and for the redirection of public resources toward the relief of suffering and the repair of civic life.
A Public Statement of Conscience
This site exists to make the declaration publicly available in both web and formal PDF form. It is offered as a civic instrument of conscience, reflection, and public witness.
The declaration is meant to be read carefully, shared thoughtfully, and judged on its principles: constitutional self-government, public accountability, human dignity, and peace.