As San Franciscans, we expect our taxes to benefit our communities by building roads, schools, libraries, and housing; providing us with quality universal healthcare; abating poverty and the climate crisis; and providing workers with dignified working conditions and wages. We do not consent to our taxes lining the pockets of executives of companies that provide material support for and profit off of Israel’s ongoing violations of the Palestinian people’s human rights and oppress the global working class.
Currently, the San Francisco government has hundreds of millions of public dollars invested in companies that enable Israel’s ongoing genocide, its decades-long occupation of Palestinan lands, and its system of apartheid against the Palestinian people. In turn, the Israeli military, bolstered by the support it receives from these same companies and the US Government, trains US law enforcement officials in tactics that allow them to more brutally terrorize our communities and enact a mass deportation program at home. We are, in essence, funding our own oppression. While at the same time our schools and transit systems are underfunded, we face crippling debt accessing healthcare, and we can no longer afford to live in our own communities.