Palestinian life.
Palestinian freedom.
A future in which people can learn, heal, raise their families, and live freely. That is what our solidarity is for.
To study. To heal.
To live.
Marwa · Gaza · March 2024
Marwa was in her fourth year at Al-Azhar University in Gaza. She and her sister tried to find a little escape in novels. Her brothers fetched water; her father bought food. Her diary describes the daily work of keeping a family going.
She recalled being forced to leave a shelter in Khan Younis and reaching Rafah on her fourth displacement. The family eventually built a tent on the beach, exposed to wind and cold.
She wanted to finish her education, bring her family to safety, and rebuild their life. Those hopes run through her account alongside fear, grief, and anger.
Read and listen to her diary at UNICEFIsrael is destroying
the conditions of life.
Israel’s assault on Gaza
The Israeli government and military have destroyed Palestinian homes, attacked hospitals, and forcibly displaced people in Gaza. Al-Haq’s January 2025 report documents the systematic assault on healthcare, including attacks on medical facilities and the denial of lifesaving care, as a pattern of genocide.
In July 2025, the Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem concluded that Israel was committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Its report describes killing, displacement, destruction of civilian life, and the policies enabling them.
Arkansas must end its financial support for Israel’s genocide and apartheid.
Freedom. Equality.
Return.
The Palestinian call · July 2005
Palestinian unions, women’s organizations, refugee groups, and other civil society organizations called on people around the world to:
“impose broad boycotts and implement divestment initiatives against Israel”
Their call for boycott, divestment, and sanctions sets out three demands:
- End Israel’s occupation and colonization of Arab lands and dismantle the Wall.
- Ensure full equality for Palestinian citizens of Israel.
- Uphold Palestinian refugees’ right to return to their homes and properties.
We can answer that call here by organizing to end Arkansas’s financial support for the Israeli state.
Read the full call and its Palestinian signatoriesPublic money.
Direct state support.
The Arkansas connection
Buying an Israel Bond means lending money to the State of Israel. The issuer says the government can use the proceeds for purposes it determines.
Arkansas’s Treasury and retirement systems have made choices to hold, purchase, or fund Israel Bonds investments. The records below establish those choices. They give our demand a local target.
How Israel Bonds finance the state
Israel Bonds describes these securities as direct obligations of the State of Israel, with proceeds available for government-determined purposes. This establishes state financing; it does not trace a particular Arkansas dollar to a particular military attack.
Read the issuer’s explanation$55 million
held in Israel Bonds.
Arkansas State Treasury
Bondholder statement · June 30, 2025
The Treasury’s statement lists seven Israel Bonds positions totaling $55 million, with individual maturity dates. Among them: $10 million scheduled to mature in October 2026 and another $10 million in November 2026.
The demand is to stop new purchases and prevent money returning to Israel Bonds when existing investments mature.
See the holdings and maturity record
State of Israel bondholder statement, June 30, 2025. Produced in the Treasury’s February 19, 2026 public-records response, PDF page 1. The linked image is a literal crop of the dated holdings table.
Open the dated holdings tableThe statement is historical. A later Treasury inventory adjustment records a $5 million February 2026 maturity. The $55 million figure above is not presented as today’s balance.
Read the fuller source and publication notes · View the dated ledger
$25 million
held.
Arkansas Public Employees Retirement System
Preliminary custody report · September 7, 2026
APERS used retirement-system money to buy $15 million in Israel Bonds on October 15, 2025. A custody report APERS produced, dated September 7, 2026 and marked preliminary, lists that bond and a second $10 million Israel Bond: $25 million on that report.
Public employees and retirees have a reason to demand that their retirement system stop financing the Israeli government.
See the holdings and purchase records
APERS public-records response, September 9, 2026: a BNY Asset and Accrual Detail report dated September 7, 2026 and marked preliminary, page 1. The linked image is a literal crop of its heading and Israel Bonds rows.
Open the $25 million holdings excerptAPERS public-records response, February 27, 2026, PDF pages 6925 and 6929. These literal source crops show the transfer amount and the email identifying the initial purchase date.
Holdings report notes · Purchase record notes · View the dated ledger
$50 million funded.
$9.9 million bought.
Arkansas Teacher Retirement System
Funding · January 2, 2026 · Purchase · February 2026
On January 2, 2026, ATRS moved $50 million into the Scout/Reams account set up for its Israel Bonds mandate. In February the manager bought a $9.9 million Israel Bond, issued February 15. The account report for July 31, 2026 shows that bond still held, with most of the remaining money in U.S. Treasury notes.
The manager’s second-quarter report states a long-term objective of a laddered Israel Bonds portfolio, buying no more than $10 million in a calendar year, and says it bought a ladder of U.S. Treasury notes so their maturities would line up with those future purchases. The earliest matures January 15, 2027.
Teachers and retirees can demand that ATRS stop the next purchase and end this mandate’s support for the Israeli government.
How the ATRS money moved
- June 2, 2025AuthorizedUp to $50 millionBoard approval for Israel Bonds managed through Scout/Reams
- January 2, 2026Funded$50 millionMoved into the Reams account
- February 2026Bought$9.9 millionOne Israel Bond, issued February 15
- July 31, 2026Held$9.9 million19.71% of the account’s $50.4 million market value; the rest was U.S. Treasury notes and cash
The manager’s second-quarter report states a long-term objective of a laddered Israel Bonds portfolio, buying no more than $10 million in a calendar year. See the ATRS records.
See the funding and purchase records
ATRS public-records response, September 11, 2026: the State Street activity report for the January 2 transfer, the Israel Bonds purchase confirmation, the manager’s July 31 holdings worksheet, and its second-quarter report. The linked images are literal crops.
Correction, September 28, 2026: we previously dated this funding to December 2025, from a December 29, 2025 update to trustees that listed it among December payments. The transfer records show it was completed January 2, 2026. The December excerpt remains available.
Source notes: transfer · purchase · holdings · manager’s report · View the dated ledger
End the support.
Bring the money home.
The demand
No new Israel Bonds. No renewals. No reinvestment. Organize now to end the financial relationship and keep the money out.
How we winPut the demand to Thurston.
Write or call the Treasury