ARMS EMBARGO ON 

ISRAEL NOW

A U.S. arms embargo against Israel is legally and morally mandatory to stop the genocide against the Palestinian people. Here’s why.

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Why is an arms embargo a moral and legal obligation?

  1. The US is the Israeli military’s biggest funder and enabler.

Since October 2023, the federal U.S. government sent Israel at least $30 billion in military funding to mass murder the Palestinian people.

With our tax dollars, Israel has killed over 69,000 Palestinian people in Gaza, and continues to do so, every single day. 

That official death toll is likely a severe undercount, as it does not include indirect killings through deliberate genocidal conditions such as forced starvation and healthcare destruction. Experts estimate that Israel has wiped out as many as hundreds of thousands of Palestinian people in Gaza.¹

  • Under international law, United Nations member states have been under legal obligation to impose an arms embargo on Israel at least since the 1967 Naksa and illegal military occupation of Palestine. For decades, Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank have been denied their human rights enshrined in the global community.

    The international community can no longer ignore their obligation to impose an arms embargo against Israel. Since October 2023, these countries have upheld international law and ceased the sale of weapons to Israel:

    • Germany

    • Slovenia

    • Canada

    • Italy

    • Japan

    • Belgium

    • The Netherlands

    • Spain

    • The United Kingdom

    • Bolivia

    • Colombia

    • Cuba

    • Indonesia

    • Iraq

    • Libya

    • Malaysia

    • Namibia

    • Nicaragua

    • Oman

    • Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

    • South Africa²

    Still, the United States continues to supply the vast majority of weapons to obliterate Gaza and has used its diplomatic power to veto UN ceasefire resolutions under both Biden and Trump, enabling Israel’s countless crimes against humanity.³ It is our moral and legal obligation to cut off the endless supply of U.S. weapons to Israel.

2. Israel is committing genocide, made possible by the U.S.

Palestinian people in Gaza are enduring extermination by high-tech experimental weapons designed to vaporize bodies, sever limbs, combust lungs, and set fire to human beings. Survivors witness the horrors, search for the charred flesh, the decapitated heads of their children among the rubble, and then turn to the camera, to us, begging for help. ⁴

It’s not enough to bear witness to the extermination of a people on our dime. A U.S. arms embargo against Israel is the most effective legal path to end the genocide.

3. The U.S. cuts healthcare for our kids so it can help Israel kill Palestinian kids.

The reason the majority of Americans live paycheck to paycheck, despite working multiple jobs, is because our elected officials are bought by the ruling class. The war, prison, and poverty industries have representation in both political parties through their powerful lobby groups. Americans are tired of funding Israel's endless killing and destruction at the expense of humanity.

Our government should be funding what our communities really need: healthcare, housing, education, climate justice, economic justice, and community-led safety resources. Read more about our collective vision for a liberated future.

Israel’s genocide is the deadliest conflict for children on Earth …and Israel has killed 17,400+ Palestinian children in Gaza during this U.S.-funded genocide.

Israel’s genocide is the deadliest conflict for children on Earth …and Israel has killed 17,400+ Palestinian children in Gaza during this U.S.-funded genocide.

It’s time for the people to take back the power.

We know it doesn’t have to be this way.  This country has more than enough resources to care for all its people. If we collectively rise, we can end the genocide and stop arming systems of violence. “We are not free until all of us are free” is not a metaphor. It’s our reality. Free Palestine. Free us all.

Credit: Photographs by Gaza photojournalist hosny salah on Pixabay

We’re all paying the price of this genocide—with our tax dollars.

Find out how much money people in your city are forced to pay, and what could be funded instead. Use our interactive map to look up your city or state.

Read more about this map on the Not My Tax Dollars website, including the methodology behind it.

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Your donation will help us mobilize toward our North Star goal: End U.S. military funding to Israel, once and for all.

At a minimum every year before 2023, the average individual taxpayer contributed at least $25.25 in weapons to Israel. In 2024, the U.S. sent nearly 5x its typical $3.8 billion in weapons to Israel, totaling at least $17.9 billion.⁶ By that math, the average taxpayer contributed $118.93 to Israel’s genocide on Palestine in 2024.⁷

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