Weapons Embargo

Mass Blockade At Air Force Base Protesting The Arming Of Israel

November 22, 2024 The People's Arms Embargo, Popular Resistance. Resist! Drones, Genocide, Israel, US military, Weapons Embargo

Travis AFB/Fairfield, CA – On Wednesday, as reported by police authorities, 28 people were arrested in a mass nonviolent rally and "human blockade” that blocked all 4 entrances into Travis Air Force Base, the state’s largest air base, to “Nonviolently stop the supply chain for weapons to Israel.” All arrestees were charged with misdemeanor "failure to comply with a lawful order,” and released by 4 p.m. Wednesday, and given January court dates. Travis has been a key air base transporting US weapons to Israel in it’s yearlong military offensive in Gaza, which many experts, nationally and globally, are calling a genocide.

White House Sabotages Senate Vote To Block Israel Arms Sales

November 20, 2024 News Desk, The Cradle. Educate! Congress, Gaza, Genocide, Israel, Joe Biden, Weapons Embargo, White House

The US government is lobbying Democratic senators to vote against legislation that would halt $20 billion worth of arms sales to Israel, according to US officials who spoke with the Times of Israel on 20 November. “Biden aides have argued that the weapons in question are essential for Israel’s defense and won’t be delivered for another year or two, ‘so the likelihood of them being used in this iteration of the Gaza context is very low,’” the Israeli daily cites the sources as saying, adding that officials from the White House, State Department, and Pentagon have reached out to “various lawmakers on the fence about how they might vote.”

57 Groups To Senate: No More Weapons For Israel’s War

November 11, 2024 Demand Progress. Resist! BDS Movement, Genocide, Israel, Palestine, Progressive International (PI), Senate, Weapons Embargo

Washington, DC — On Monday, Demand Progress and a coalition of 56 other progressive, faith-based, humanitarian, and foreign policy advocacy groups launched the No More Weapons for Israel’s War campaign. This month, for the first time ever, the U.S. Senate will hold yes-or-no votes on arms sales to Israel. The grassroots campaign will drive their millions of supporters to call on senators to support Joint Resolutions of Disapproval (JRDs) that could block transfers of certain offensive weapons like tank and artillery shells and Joint Direct Attack Munitions to the Israeli military.

200+ Jewish-Led Protesters Arrested At New York Stock Exchange

October 16, 2024 Jessica Corbett, Scheer Post. Resist! Israel, Jewish Voice for Peace, New York (NY), New York City (NYC), Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Wall Street, Weapons Embargo

As the Israeli assault of the Gaza Strip and Lebanon continued on Monday, over 200 Jewish-led protesters, including descendants of Holocaust survivors, were arrested at the New York Stock Exchange while demanding that the United States “stop arming Israel and profiting from genocide.” Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP)—which has led several anti-genocide protests across the country over the past year of war—said that hundreds of people joined the action in New York City. The advocacy group shared photos and videos on social media of participants in red T-shirts with messages including “Not in Our Name” and “Stop Arming Israel.”

For The First Time, Congress Will Vote On Blocking Weapons To Israel

October 3, 2024 Michael Arria, Mondoweiss. Resist! Bernie Sanders, Israel, Palestine, Uncommitted Votes, US Congress, Weapons Embargo

Last week Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) announced that he had introduced legislation to block a $20 billion arms sale to Israel. The Joint Resolutions of Disapproval would prevent the delivery of offensive weapons that the State Department approved in August, just days before ceasefire talks were set to resume. The package includes fighter jets and advanced air-to-air missiles. “Sadly, and illegally, much of the carnage in Gaza has been carried out with U.S.-provided military equipment,” said Sanders in a statement. “Providing more offensive weapons to continue this disastrous war would violate U.S. and international law.

PGFTU Calls For Unions To Support ‘Mask Off Maersk’ Campaign

September 18, 2024 People's Dispatch. Resist! Gaza, Genocide, Israel, Maersk, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Unions, Weapons Embargo

The Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions has issued a statement marking nearly one year of resistance to genocide since October 7. Addressing their “Brothers and Sisters of trade and workers’ unions in North America, Europe, and the rest of the world,” the PGFTU calls on “the free world and the global labor movement to stand in a broad and pressing solidarity campaign with our people in Gaza.” The PGFTU expressed support for “dock workers unions in Africa, Europe, and other ports in taking action to stop the flow of weapons and disrupt the financial networks that finance the bombing of our people.”

Biden’s Memo Invoked To Stop Arms To Israel

September 5, 2024 Julia Conley, Consortium News. Educate! Genocide, International Law, Israel, Joe Biden, Palestine, Weapons Embargo

As U.S. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller was telling reporters this week that assessments regarding whether Israel is abiding by international humanitarian law in Gaza are ongoing, more than two dozen rights groups were telling the Biden administration that it need look no further than its own memo released months ago to see that the U.S. must end its support for the Israeli military. Groups including Amnesty International, the Center for Civilians in Conflict and Refugees International were among 25 organizations that signed a letter sent Tuesday to President Joe Biden; Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee; and their foreign policy advisers.

An Arms Embargo On Israel Is Not A Radical Idea, It’s The Law

August 31, 2024 Yoana Tchoukleva, Mondoweiss. Educate! International Law, Israel, Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Palestine, Weapons Embargo

As Israel launches its largest military assault in the West Bank in twenty years, I cannot stop thinking about the people I met in the occupied territory. I think of the mother in Jenin who was on the phone with her two sons seconds before their house was burned in an Israeli raid. I think of the wife of a man who was being held in an Israeli prison without charge or trial asking me, “Is there anything you can do? My husband is dying.” I think of the farmer who gifted me a melon even though he could barely put food on his own table and I was there only for a short period of time, traveling and volunteering with Faz3a, an international protective presence organization.

Over 3000 Physicians And 16 Medical And Humanitarian Organizations Demand An Arms Embargo On Israel

August 27, 2024 UOSSM Canada, Cision. Resist! Gaza, Genocide, Health Care, Israel, Palestine, Weapons Embargo

On August 26, 2024 medical and humanitarian organizations demand the Prime Minister, Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the NDP to enforce a full and complete arms embargo on Israel in recognition of the ongoing war crimes and crimes against humanity as well as plausible genocide of the people of Gaza. We are alarmed that Canada is engaging in violation of Canadian and International Law by supplying Israel with munitions: The M933A1 120mm High Explosive mortar cartridges with M783 fuzes that are going to be shipped to Israel via the U.S. is illegal under Canadian and International law. This is in violation of Articles 6(3), 7, and 11 of the Arms Trade Treaty, as well as Article 1 of the Geneva Convention." as we cannot disseminate any defamatory content.

Replica Bomb Placed Outside Of British Parliament

July 31, 2024 Elizabeth Short, Morning Star. Resist! Israel, Palestine, Parliament, United Kingdom (UK), Wars and Militarism, Weapons Embargo

As Britain remains complicit in Israel’s war crimes by refusing an arms embargo, a replica of a 2,000-pound bomb was placed outside of Parliament today, serving as a stark reminder of the innocent lives that will be claimed while the government breaks up for summer. The 16-foot replica was placed by Oxfam after it released a new analysis estimating that around 7,000 people in Gaza will be killed or injured over the next 33 days. A carpet of flowers around the bomb symbolised those who are likely to be killed by the Israeli military, as well as the Israeli hostages still in captivity.

UN To Place Israel On Blacklist Alongside ISIS, Al-Qaeda, Boko Haram

June 7, 2024 News Desk, The Cradle. Educate! Genocide, Israel, Palestine, Report, United Nations (UN), Weapons Embargo

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is expected to include the Israeli army in the annual blacklist of countries and organizations harming children in conflict zones, according to reports in Israeli media. Hebrew-language Channel 13 News reported late on 6 June that Guterres has informed Israeli army Defense Attaché in the US, Major General Hidai Zilberman, of his “final decision.” Israel will reportedly appear on the blacklist to be published next week as part of a report distributed to UN Security Council members. A discussion on the report will take place on June 26. According to Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel's “efforts to persuade Guterres to avoid this move have failed.”

Following ICJ And ICC Actions, Sanctions And Arms Embargo Are Crucial Next Steps

June 2, 2024 Marjorie Cohn, Truthout. Resist! Gaza, Genocide, International Court of Justice (ICJ), International Criminal Court (ICC), Israel, Palestine, Rafah, Sanctions, War crimes, Weapons Embargo

Seven months into its genocidal campaign, Israel’s assault on Rafah led the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to issue a preliminary order on May 24. The court called on Israel to “Immediately halt its military offensive, and any other action in the Rafah Governorate, which may inflict on the Palestinian group in Gaza conditions of life that could bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.” It also ordered Israel to keep the Rafah crossing open and permit United Nations investigative commissions to enter Gaza and investigate allegations of genocide. In addition, mounting Israeli atrocities propelled Karim Khan, chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), to seek arrest warrants on May 20 against top Israeli officials.

British Rebellion Grows Against Arming Israel

April 5, 2024 Joe Lauria, Consortium News. Resist! Genocide, Israel, Palestine, United Kingdom (UK), Weapons Embargo

London’s mayor, 50 Labour MPs and Winston Churchill’s grandson have joined widening calls to defy Israel’s impunity by demanding the U.K. stop sending it arms.

‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 142: UN Experts Call For Arms Embargo

February 25, 2024 Mustafa Abu Sneineh, Mondoweiss. Educate! Embargo, Israel, Palestine, United Nations (UN), Weapons Embargo

In the past 24 hours, Israeli forces bombed several Palestinian neighborhoods in Deir Al-Balah, Rafah and north Gaza, killing and injuring tens of people. Israel’s warplanes launched bombs on a vast open area near the Egyptian border with Rafah, in southern Gaza, where thousands of Palestinians are sheltering. A video shows Palestinians fleeing from the bombs close to Egypt’s fortified wall to keep displaced people at bay from entering the Sinai Peninsula. All of the 1.4 million Palestinians who sought refuge in Rafah cannot enter Sinai except those who obtained a travel permit.

The Need To Cease Sending Weapons To Ukraine

October 16, 2023 Garland Nixon, Popular Resistance. Educate! Diplomacy, Peace, Russia, Ukraine, United Nations, Weapons Embargo

Since the February 2022 entrance of the Russian military into the battle, the United States government has injected over 100 billion dollars in arms and other forms of assistance to the conflict. A significant portion of that assistance took the form of small, but powerful armaments. Many of these hand held weapons possess incredible destructive capabilities. There are shoulder fired anti-aircraft weapons known as "man pads" that can easily take down a civilian passenger aircraft and anti-tank rockets that could be used with devastating effect on a convoy of civilian vehicles such as the ones that many diplomats in this room routinely utilize to traverse their respective nations. The injection of these military grade weapons into an environment as unstable as Ukraine is beyond irresponsible.

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