News type: Action Alert

Never Again Is Now: Sanction Israel’s Genocidal and Apartheid Regime

In September, the UN General Assembly passed a historic resolution, calling for states and the UN to sanction Israel. This resolution affirmed that the July 2024 ruling by the ICJ triggers the legal obligation of all states to end complicity in Israel’s illegal occupation and apartheid regime. 124 states across the globe committed to take the first steps to impose sanctions. The time to make this a reality is now!

Morocco must ban docking of Maersk Denver, suspected of carrying weapons for genocidal Israel

The Maersk Denver is part of the Maersk fleet that is implicated in shipping US military supplies to Israel and is therefore reasonably suspected* of carrying illegal military cargo destined to Israel. This is in violation of a UNHRC resolution, a UNGA resolution, and statements by dozens of UN human rights experts, all calling for a military embargo on Israel due to its illegal occupation and its commission of a plausible genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza, as the ICJ determined earlier this year.

Palestinian trade unions & professional syndicates call for escalating BDS pressure to end complicity with Israel’s #GazaGenocide & apartheid

Palestinian trade unions & professional syndicates

More than one year into the livestreamed genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip, Palestinians stand united in resisting Israel’s genocide and decades-old regime of settler-colonialism, occupation and apartheid. We call on trade unions and workers worldwide to escalate BDS pressure to end the complicity of states, corporations and institutions in Israel’s crimes against the entire Palestinian people, as well as the fraternal people of Lebanon, among others.

Ben & Jerry's Sues Parent Company Unilever for Silencing the Ice Cream Maker’s Support for Palestinian Rights

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In a lawsuit filed on November 13, 2024, Ben & Jerry’s says Unilever has silenced the company’s support for Palestinian human rights and threatened to dismantle its board and sue its members over the issue. Since the beginning of Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza, Ben & Jerry's has attempted to publicly voice support for a permanent and immediate ceasefire, the end of U.S. military funding to Israel, and the protection of Palestinian refugee rights. Their attempts to speak out were muzzled by Unilever, according to the lawsuit.