Occupy Zionism for Justice and Freedom (OZJF) is an American advocacy organization that works at the intersection of Jewish safety, U.S.-Israel relations, and public education on terror-linked politics. We are organized as a civic institution, not a campaign: a defined mission, named leadership, a governance structure, and a published record. Everything we produce is meant to survive a cold reading by a skeptical journalist, a curious student, or a policymaker who has never heard of us.
What OZJF does
Our public work falls into three streams. The first is research: long-form explainers, issue briefs, and source-driven backgrounders on Jewish history and self-determination, the structure of Hamas and allied organizations, U.S. policy toward Israel, and the civic climate around antisemitism in the United States. The second is advocacy: coalition work, public commentary, and direct engagement with institutions whose conduct shapes the environment for Jewish Americans and for the U.S.-Israel relationship. The third is education: materials designed for campus organizations, faith communities, civic groups, and readers who want to understand the arguments well enough to make them in their own words. Readers can review our approach in /about/mission-values and the operational principles in /transparency/editorial-standards.
How the organization is structured
OZJF is an independent American organization. We do not take direction from any foreign government, and we do not operate as an arm of any Israeli political party. Leadership, board members, and senior staff are published on /about/leadership. Our governance documents, including conflict-of-interest policy, decision-making structure, and the distinction between formal partners and supported programs, are available at /about/governance. Where we support an outside program, such as Lox and Loaded, we say so plainly and we do not describe that relationship as a formal partnership unless it has been documented as one.
What readers can expect from this site
We write for readers who want to be persuaded by evidence, not by volume. That means a few things in practice. Every substantive claim we make about Israel, Hamas, the Palestinian Authority, U.S. policy, or American Jewish life is anchored to a primary source wherever one exists, whether that is a State Department designation list, a piece of U.S. legislation such as the Taylor Force Act, a Congressional Research Service report, an audit from the ADL, or a United Nations review. Where an institution we generally trust has done work we disagree with, we say so and we explain why. Where an institution we criticize has done credible work on a specific question, we cite it.
Honesty about complexity
We take the position that Israel’s right to exist is non-negotiable, that Jewish self-determination is legitimate, and that Hamas and the Palestinian Authority in their current form do not meet the threshold of legitimate governance. We also take the position that Israel is a real country with a real political system, which means it makes policy mistakes, and that some of those mistakes have cost Palestinian civilian lives. A serious advocacy organization has to be able to say both things in the same paragraph without flinching. Our editorial standards, published in /transparency/editorial-standards, describe how we handle contested facts, corrections, and the distinction between analysis and opinion.
A hub, not a conclusion
This page is a starting point. The pages it links to, our mission and values, our leadership, our governance, and our editorial and research standards, are where the real texture of the organization lives. If any part of our public posture is unclear after reading them, we want to hear about it.