Through public advocacy, legislative action, and grassroots mobilization, we work to:

• Divest public funds from war profiteers and violators of international law.
• Terminate state contracts that enable genocide, apartheid, and human rights abuses, including police exchanges with foreign militaries for training, surveillance, security, and technology.
• Enact ethical investment standards and repeal NJ’s anti-BDS law.
• Dismantle state-sponsored entities that normalize these abuses.

We strive to break every bond of complicity and build state investment policies rooted in justice.

How can you help?

Learn about our work and how our state’s public institutions and pension funds invest in genocide.

Demand NJ divest funds from Palantir through this petition on Action Network.

Add your individual and/or organization’s name to the list of state and national endorsers listed below:

Expand full list of state + local endorsements

• American Friends Service Committee Prison Watch
• American Muslims for Palestine-NJ
• Audacity to Change
• Beyond the Ballot NJ
• Black Alliance for Peace NYC/NJ
• Black Lives Matter Paterson
• Ceasefire Now NJ
• Community Movement Builders Newark
• Council on Arab Islamic Relations-NJ
• Deir Yassin Remembered
• East Brunswick for Palestine
• Friends of Sabeel North America
• Green Party of NJ
• Jewish Peace Fellowship
• Jewish Voice for Peace-Central Jersey
• Jewish Voice for Peace-Northern NJ
• Jews for Palestinian Right of Return
• Labor for Palestine National Network
• Muslim Peace Fellowship
• NJ Friends Committee on National Legislation
• NJ Friends of People’s World
• NJ Peace Action
• North New Jersey Democratic Socialists of America
• Northern NJ Socialist Party (SPUSA)
• PAL-Awda NY/NJ
• Palestine Justice Network of the Presbyterian Church (USA.)
• Palestinian American Community Center
• Pax Christi NJ
• People’s Organization for Progress
• Princeton Palestine Liberation Coalition
• Princeton Students for Justice in Palestine
• Promoting Enduring Peace
• Resistencia En Accion
• Rutherford Congregational Church
• South Orange and Maplewood Collective for Palestine
• South Jersey Jews for Gaza
• Veterans for Peace, Chapter 21

Hello Break the Bonds NJ!

We made quite a showing at the State Investment Council meeting on October 29, 2025! Over 30 people spoke for two hours to end the state’s investment in Israel bonds, from faith based, labor, human rights and Palestinian solidarity organizations, academia, university students, retired and current public workers and more. The comments were excellent! Thanks to all who participated!

We were told at the outset that this was not a question and answer session; it did not allow for dialogue. We learned during the two hour session reviewing the state’s investment portfolio, which preceded the public comment period, that the State not only invests in Israel Bonds, but is heavily invested in the weapons industry and Palantir, the company that provides Israel with surveillance technology and also contracts with ICE to target immigrants for detention and deportation.

At the end of the session the Council told us that they could not comment on what actions are being taken regarding the expiration of the bonds, since that date, November 1st, 2025 had not arrived yet. It is unlikely that their decision will be made public, so we will need to request this information through OPRA (Open Public Records Act). We will keep you all informed of the situation.

At the end of the meeting, the SIC vice-chair and the NJ State AFL-CIO nominee Adam Leibtag thanked us all for our “passionate” comments and assured us that every council member was listening to everything that was said.

In addition to those speaking out at the SIC meeting, there were over 20 folks who sent in letters to all decision makers. Thank you for that. Since we don’t know whether or not the SIC have made a decision yet as to whether or not to reinvest that money in Israel bonds, we are asking that you continue to share, sign and send emails on behalf of Break the Bonds to key members of the New Jersey state government, the Department of Treasury, and the Division of Investment.

Share this link widely: ActionNetwork.org/letters/divest-nj-from-israeli-bonds.

Please reach out to us at info@breakthebondsnj.org with any questions or to get more involved. If you would like to be part of our planning committees, join our Signal chat!

With care,

The NJ Break the Bonds Campaign

A Campaign to End New Jersey’s Investment in Israeli Genocide and Apartheid
Part of a nationwide campaign