Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) introduced a joint resolution of disapproval today for the proposed export license for $320 million in Spice Family Guided Bomb Assemblies to Israel.
These weapons have already been used in the siege on Gaza, which has taken the lives of over 4,000 children and over 11,000 civilians, making it the deadliest conflict for children this decade. The United Nations and human rights experts around the world have condemned the bombing of hospitals and schools as crimes against humanity and called for the prevention of genocide.
"Benjamin Netanyahu and his far-right ethnonationalist government continue to commit war crimes in their siege of the Gaza Strip," said Rep. Omar. "From requests to minimize civilian casualties, avoid a ground invasion, avoid reoccupation of Gaza, and institute a meaningful humanitarian pause, Netanyahu continues to thumb his nose at U.S. policy and requests. The United States already provides the Israeli government with $3.8 billion of military aid a year, and holds enormous leverage over their actions. It is the responsibility of Congress to exercise oversight over weapons sales. That is why we must not allow weapons sales that will be used to directly violate U.S. and international law, human rights, and our own moral standing in the world."
Cosponsors for the resolution include Reps. Cori Bush, Summer Lee, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Delia Ramirez, and Rashida Tlaib.
The bill is endorsed by About Face: Veterans Against the War, Action Center on Race & the Economy, Action Corps, ActionAid USA, Activist San Diego, Adalah Justice Project, American Friends Service Committee, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), Americans for Justice in Palestine action (ajp action), Amnesty International USA, Arab American Civic Council, Arizona Muslim Alliance, Arizona Muslim Alliance, Arlington United for Justice with Peace, Armenian-American Action Network, Campaign Against Arms Trade, Center for Civilians in Conflict, Center for Constitutional Rights, Center for Jewish Nonviolence, Center for Pluralism, Center on Conscience and War, Committee for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel, Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Defense for Children International - Palestine, Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), DRUM - Desis Rising Up & Moving, Ekō, FCNL, For All, Freedom Forward, Global Ministries of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and United Church of Christ, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, Grassroots International, Highlander Research and Education Center, Human Rights Watch, ICAHD-USA, IfNotNow Movement, Institute for Policy Studies New Internationalism Project, International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN), InterReligious Task Force on Central America, Israel/Palestine Mission Network of the Presbyterian Church (U.S..A.), Jewish Voice for Peace Action, Justice Democrats, MADRE, Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns, MENA Rights Group, Migrant Roots Media, Movement for Black Lives, Movimiento Poder, Movimiento Poder, MPower Change Action Fund, Mujeres Unidas y Activas, Muslims For Progress, National Iranian American Council Action, NM No False Solutions, Our Revolution, Pax Christi USA, Peace Action, Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED), Project South, ReThinking Foreign Policy, Rising Majority, RootsAction.org , Shadow World Investigations, Shalom United Church of Christ, New Haven, CT, Sunrise Movement, The Freedom Initiative, The Mosque Cares | Ministry of Imam W. Deen Mohammed, The Peoples Port Authority, United Church of Christ Palestine Israel Network, US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, US Council of Muslim Organizations, WFP, Women for Weapons Trade Transparency, Women Working Together Usa, World BEYOND War, and the Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation.
You can read the full resolution here
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"Benjamin Netanyahu and his far-right ethnonationalist government continue to commit war crimes in their siege of the Gaza Strip," said Rep. Omar. "From requests to minimize civilian casualties, avoid a ground invasion, avoid reoccupation of Gaza, and institute a meaningful humanitarian pause, Netanyahu continues to thumb his nose at U.S. policy and requests. The United States already provides the Israeli government with $3.8 billion of military aid a year, and holds enormous leverage over their actions. It is the responsibility of Congress to exercise oversight over weapons sales. That is why we must not allow weapons sales that will be used to directly violate U.S. and international law, human rights, and our own moral standing in the world."
Cosponsors for the resolution include Reps. Cori Bush, Summer Lee, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Delia Ramirez, and Rashida Tlaib.
The bill is endorsed by About Face: Veterans Against the War, Action Center on Race & the Economy, Action Corps, ActionAid USA, Activist San Diego, Adalah Justice Project, American Friends Service Committee, American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), Americans for Justice in Palestine action (ajp action), Amnesty International USA, Arab American Civic Council, Arizona Muslim Alliance, Arizona Muslim Alliance, Arlington United for Justice with Peace, Armenian-American Action Network, Campaign Against Arms Trade, Center for Civilians in Conflict, Center for Constitutional Rights, Center for Jewish Nonviolence, Center for Pluralism, Center on Conscience and War, Committee for a Just Peace in Palestine/Israel, Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Defense for Children International - Palestine, Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), DRUM - Desis Rising Up & Moving, Ekō, FCNL, For All, Freedom Forward, Global Ministries of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and United Church of Christ, Grassroots Global Justice Alliance, Grassroots International, Highlander Research and Education Center, Human Rights Watch, ICAHD-USA, IfNotNow Movement, Institute for Policy Studies New Internationalism Project, International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN), InterReligious Task Force on Central America, Israel/Palestine Mission Network of the Presbyterian Church (U.S..A.), Jewish Voice for Peace Action, Justice Democrats, MADRE, Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns, MENA Rights Group, Migrant Roots Media, Movement for Black Lives, Movimiento Poder, Movimiento Poder, MPower Change Action Fund, Mujeres Unidas y Activas, Muslims For Progress, National Iranian American Council Action, NM No False Solutions, Our Revolution, Pax Christi USA, Peace Action, Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED), Project South, ReThinking Foreign Policy, Rising Majority, RootsAction.org , Shadow World Investigations, Shalom United Church of Christ, New Haven, CT, Sunrise Movement, The Freedom Initiative, The Mosque Cares | Ministry of Imam W. Deen Mohammed, The Peoples Port Authority, United Church of Christ Palestine Israel Network, US Campaign for Palestinian Rights, US Council of Muslim Organizations, WFP, Women for Weapons Trade Transparency, Women Working Together Usa, World BEYOND War, and the Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation.
You can read the full resolution here
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