International Day of Yoga Action for Palestinian Liberation Solidarity Statement
In light of Israel’s ongoing siege and genocide on Palestinians in Gaza, we -- Yogis for Palestine, Tejal Yoga and our nascent global community of yogis -- use this year’s International Day of Yoga (IDY) to reimagine what spiritual and political solidarity with Palestinian freedom can look like in global yoga spaces. Rather than celebrate this holiday that the Indian government - and the Israel & U.S. regimes - weaponize as a “soft power” diplomatic tool to conceal their ethnonational imperial alliances, we are reappropriating it as a global act of solidarity with Palestinian, Kashmiri, and all oppressed p..
