Campaign: Military Embargo
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The Military Embargo is Here
Palestinian civil society has called for a military embargo against apartheid Israel since the founding of the BDS movement, and more explicitly since 2011. Ending military ties with Israel is not only a moral obligation. A comprehensive military embargo against a State guilty of illegal military occupation, apartheid and “plausible genocide” is not a matter of discretion but a legal obligation under international law. Failing to impose it puts multilateralism and the rule of international law in danger, at a critical time when the far-right is rising in the West and just with the fanatic US administration coming to power, exacerbating the damage caused to the credibility of international law by the current administration’s full partnership in Israel’s genocide.
Israel’s crimes escalate across the occupied West Bank
Israel is carrying out large scale military aggression in the illegally occupied West Bank. This comes just days after a shaky Gaza ceasefire agreement that Israel’s far-right government was finally forced to accept, according to Israeli media reports, following its failure to achieve its main objectives from its ongoing genocide.
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.
#BlockTheBoat: The Live Blog
The MV Kathrin is a cargo vessel carrying military explosives to Israel, in violation of the Genocide Convention and the UN Human Rights Council call for a comprehensive military embargo on Israel. After Namibian authorities investigated and prevented the vessel from docking, releasing details about its criminal cargo, global mobilization is growing to stop the military supplies for apartheid Israel’s ongoing genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza from reaching their destination.
Send a letter to the UNGA President: Suspend Israel from the UN Now!
Over the course of Israel’s year-long live-streamed genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza, it has attacked the United Nations repeatedly. It has killed 228 UN staff members in Gaza—the highest number of UN personnel killed in any conflict since the creation of the UN.
URGENT ACTION NEEDED
In the midst of its genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip, the Israeli military is intensifying its massacres in northern Gaza to forcibly displace the remaining Palestinian population–some 400,000. Over the past seven days, Israeli forces have advanced into this area, effectively blocking the only three entrances and imposing a siege that has included heavy airstrikes and shelling, particularly targeting what is left of the Jabalia refugee camp.
Support UNGA Res. Calling for Sanctions on Israel to implement ICJ Ruling on Illegality of its Occupation
The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC), the largest coalition in Palestinian society leading the global BDS movement, calls for immediate pressure on all States to support the updated resolution tabled at the UN General Assembly calling for sanctions on Israel. The resolution is aimed at enacting the July 2024 Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) about the illegality of Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory and its violation of the prohibition of apartheid under the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD). A vote is expected in a few days.
Mobilize for UN sanctions on Israel now!!
On September 10, the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) started in New York. Whether or not the world body will finally take action this time depends on every single member state from around the world.