Arizona Palestine Solidarity Alliance (APSA)

The Arizona Palestine Solidarity Alliance (APSA) is a pro-Palestinian organization that is a fiscally sponsored project of the Alliance for Global Justice. 1 2 3 APSA opposes partnerships between the State of Israel and the United States, and has supported the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel. 1

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At-A-Glance

Type: Non-profit, 501(c)(3), Fiscally Sponsored Project, Organization
Website: www.arizonapalestine.org
Parent Organization:

Alliance for Global Justice

Formation:

2014

Co-Founder:

Mohyeddin Abdulaziz

Location: Tuscon, AZ View on map

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    APSA’s website lists multiple left-of-center organizations as part of its network, including Jewish Voice for Peace, No More Deaths, and Students for Justice in Palestine. 1

    APSA has promoted events featuring anti-Israeli speakers and other individuals with allegedly associated with terrorist organizations including Jonathan Kuttab, the co-founder of Al-Haq, a Palestinian non-governmental organization (NGO) and a U.S. Department of State-designated terrorist organization that is also a supporter of the BDS movement. 4 5 6 7

    Background

    The Arizona Palestine Solidarity Alliance (APSA) is a pro-Palestinian activist network and a fiscally sponsored project of the Alliance for Global Justice (AFGJ), an organizing group that serves as a fiscal sponsor to left-of-center organizations and initiatives. APSA was formed through the Nicaragua Network, an organization that previously supported the communist-aligned Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. 8 2 9 10 11

    APSA opposes partnership between the state of Israel and the United States. The organization supports the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign to delegitimize the State of Israel by isolating the country economically through consumer boycotts, business and government withdrawal of investment, and legal sanctions. APSA states it opposes the “militarization of the US border.” 8

    APSA previously sponsored a workshop called “BDS and the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel,” which was held on the University of Arizona campus. APSA has also referred to Israel as a “capitalist-based, settler colonial state.” 8 12

    Network Members

    According to its website, the Arizona Palestine Solidarity Alliance (APSA) lists several left-of-center organizations as part of its network as of 2025. These include the APSA’s fiscal sponsor, Alliance for Global Justice; Jewish Voice for Peace; No More Deaths; and Students for Justice in Palestine. 8

    Promotion of Anti-Israel Speakers

    The Arizona Palestine Solidarity Alliance (APSA), via its website, has promoted events featuring speakers that are allegedly associated with terrorist-linked organizations. This includes an event hosted by Jonathan Kuttab, the co-founder of Al-Haq, a Palestinian non-governmental organization (NGO) and a U.S. Department of State-designated terrorist organization which has supported the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement. 13 5 6 7 Kuttab is also the executive director of Friends of Sabeel North America (FOSNA), a United States-based advocacy organization affiliated with the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center (Sabeel), a Jerusalem-based anti-Israel Palestinian Christian organization. 13 14

    Leadership

    Mohyeddin Abdulaziz is the co-founder of the Arizona Palestine Solidarity Alliance (APSA) as well as a board member of the Arizona Palestine Network, an anti-Israeli organization that supports the international boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement. A button on the Arizona Palestine Network’s website, under the “Get Involved” category, links to the BDS Movement’s main website. 15 16 17

    Funding

    As of 2025, the Arizona Palestine Solidarity Alliance (APSA) was listed as a grantee of Resist, a left-of-center grantmaking organization that promotes policies to oppose “[w]hite supremacy, patriarchy, heteronormativity, capitalism and Christian hegemony.” 18 19

    In 2017, APSA received funding from the Peace Development Fund, a left-of-center nonprofit organization that advocates policy towards promoting environmental and social justice. 20

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