The BDS movement is calling on you to join the Week of Action against F-35s from 13-18 October. Let’s escalate pressure, including peaceful disruptive actions, against states, companies, and institutions complicit in the F-35 program. They have to exclude genocidal Israel from the F-35 sales, maintenance and supply chain.
F-35 fighter jets are crucial for apartheid Israel to carry out its genocide against the 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza. The many countries involved in building and purchasing the US-produced F-35 jets are complicit in Israel’s genocide, apartheid and illegal occupation.
During this week of action, grassroots movements, trade unions and other civil society organizations will escalate pressure through peaceful disruptions, email storms (details below) , and/or mass protests against complicit ministries, members of parliaments and manufacturing companies.
Will you join them?
Parts specifically made for F-35 jets are manufactured in 13 states– US, UK, Australia, Canada, Norway, Netherlands, Italy, Japan, Denmark, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany and Israel. The components they produce are then sent to Lockheed Martin and Pratt and Whitney factories in the US and UK, where they are assembled. From there, the F-35Is, specially made for Israel, are sent to the genocidal state. These components are part of the F-35I jets that enable Israel to murder Palestinian women, men and children on a daily basis, and destroy their homes, hospitals, schools and other vital infrastructure.
At least 19 states are currently using F-35 fighter jets, and several states have recently signed deals to purchase them. These include the US, Belgium, Czechia, Finland, Greece, Germany, South Korea, Singapore, Poland, Romania and Switzerland.
Send an email to your elected officials including (where applicable) Minister of Foreign Affairs or MP now.
Click here for a template letter prepared by the BDS movement.
If your state is not directly involved you can still take action! As a matter of life-or-death urgency, send an email to a complicit state and echo our call for pressure on states to completely end their complicity in Israel’s role in the F-35 program.
Let’s disrupt the global chain of complicity that enables these Israeli crimes against Palestinians.
Click here to find a non exhaustive list of government officials’ email addresses.