100 American organizations have launched the "Apartheid-Free Societies" campaign aimed at ending US support for Israel's apartheid state.

The founding statement of the campaign on its website said that the launch of the campaign came to build a movement in North America to end Israeli apartheid, noting that it draws inspiration from the anti-apartheid movement that overthrew the apartheid regime in South Africa.

The statement called for building societies free from apartheid within societies of faith and societies of conscience by "moving away from any support for Israeli apartheid, occupation and settler colonialism."

The campaign statement affirmed its commitment to freedom, justice and equality for the Palestinian people and all people, and to oppose all forms of racism, discrimination and persecution.

The statement indicated that for decades, the Palestinian people have faced Israeli settler colonization and occupation imposed through racist and discriminatory legal systems, forced displacement, blockades and restrictions on movement, and systematic violations of human rights.

The statement said: According to legal researchers and the international human rights community, this situation constitutes a crime and that is why we demand an end to apartheid.

It is noteworthy that joining the campaign is available to individuals and societies after agreeing to the pledge to join, which calls for a society free of apartheid and work to end all forms of support for the Israeli apartheid regime.

In Canada, on July 25 of last year, it was announced that a similar initiative was launched under the name "Together Against Apartheid", to educate and enable Canadians to participate in the effort to end the oppression of the Palestinian people.