These badges, in the immediate term, are intended to show support for an end to the current phase of violence in Palestine, primarily in Gaza. In the longer term, they are meant to show support for a free Palestine and a lasting justice and peace.
To accomplish this, we must support the people of Palestine in their desire for human rights and equality, which these badges are intended to indicate support for.
You will be joining dozens of international organizations who are calling for a ceasefire. These are a few of the organizations calling for a ceasefire:
- Oxfam
- A coalition of humanitarian organizations, including the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Save the Children, UNICEF, UNCHR, among others
- Amnesty International
[](https://techforpalestine.org/learn-more)The default badge is served from Tech For Palestine servers, allowing us to update the message as appropriate. The initial badge says "Ceasefire now", but will change if a ceasefire is achieved, to indicate the next goal for Palestinian freedom. The message will always be carefully calibrated so that you don't need to be an expert in politics or foreign policy to support, and will always be positive and support the humanity of the Palestinian and Israeli people.
The following badges will not change message, allowing you to control the message you support.
[](https://techforpalestine.org/learn-more)Direct from shields.io:
[](https://techforpalestine.org/learn-more)We recommend using a message you're comfortable with - it's more important to have your support than to use one of our messages.
To use your own custom badge, you can use the following code, inserting your own
message and alt text. The color and labelColor parameters are also
customizable.
Completely configurable badges can also be built using the interface on Shields.io: https://shields.io/badges/static-badge
This repo is meant to serve as a jump off point to get OSS maintainers to add pro-palestinian badges to their projects, above we've provided some basic versions however these aren't the only options. All over github developers have made awesome pro-palestine badges which you may want to consider.
Along with the examples below, this project also has components for React, NextJs 13, Vue (V2 & V3) with Tailwind.
[](https://techforpalestine.org/learn-more)
[](https://techforpalestine.org/learn-more)Examples:
[](https://github.com/saedyousef/StandWithPalestine)
[](https://github.com/saedyousef/StandWithPalestine)
[](https://github.com/saedyousef/StandWithPalestine)This project is more designed to be added as a footer to your website however you can take a static link which should be updated daily and add it as a footer to your readme.
[](https://techforpalestine.org/learn-more)It is valuable to have these badges on as many repos as possible. However, in some cases these badges will be contentious. We would suggest adding them to your own repos, and then mentioning publicly or in your communities that you have done so. Merely seeing them will allow people already sympathetic to join the cause, and allow those who do not know what to think know that there is support for Palestine within tech.
Once a base of support has built, it will hopefully become easier for larger projects, especially projects which previously supported Ukraine or BLM, to speak up about ending the genocide in Gaza. These conversations should be started by core contributors, not by outsiders.
They are part of Tech For Palestine's mission to help humanize the people of Palestine.
Adding a badge is way to show support within the tech community for peace in Gaza, and for an end to violence against civilians.
The badges offer a variety of messages with a common branding and a common link target. By design, most badges are low-risk and are designed for those just learning about the conflict and hoping for peace, while some are designed for those with a better understanding, and take a more principled approach. You should use the badge that feels appropriate to you.
Badges are implemented as Cloudflare redirects to shields.io. Those with access to the techforpalestine cloudflare account can make changes in the "badges" Bulk Redirect List.