ACTION ALERT: Peace Groups Call on UN
To Impose Arms Embargo on Israel
Institute for Public Accuracy
(September 16, 2024) — On Monday, CODEPINK, World Beyond War, and Catholic Worker kick off a series of events, holding a press conference followed by a peaceful march from the South African Mission to the United Nations to the Israeli UN Mission to call on the UN to impose an arms embargo on Israel. The events take place in conjunction with the new UN General Assembly session.
The groups stated: “The United Nations was founded to end the scourge of war. The Security Council is empowered under the UN Charter to take action to ensure international peace and stability, but it has failed to do so, particularly in its response to Israel’s assault and siege of Gaza, as well as the expansion of settler violence and annexation in the West Bank.
The General Assembly has the power, however, to act on its own under the Uniting for Peace resolution to override US and Israel’s obstruction at the Security Council. The march will feature powerful visuals, including banners and props resembling commandments that read, ‘Thou Shall Not Kill’ and ‘Thou Shall Not Steal.'”
Soldiers and peace activists clash in Israel.
Press Conference at South Africa UN Mission and
March to the Israeli UN Mission
Date: September 16, 2024
Press Conference 1-1:20 p.m.; March until 3:00 p.m.
The organizers are urging the enforcement of the World Court’s Provisional Measures to protect Palestinian civilians and ensure that international law is upheld. They call on members states to “embargo arms, oil and tech on Israel to stop settler terrorism and destruction in the West Bank and Israeli military genocide in Gaza.”
Craig Mokhiber, former director of the New York office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Right said UN member states “can now invoke the authoritative ruling of the World Court to credibly assert that participating in boycotts, divestment, and sanctions against Israeli occupation, colonization, and apartheid is not only a moral imperative and constitutional and human right, but also an international legal obligation.”
Attorney Robert Jereski works with the peace group CODEPINK and has been participating and organizing meetings with various UN missions regarding what they can do about the killing in Gaza. He said today: “Tens of thousands of Palestinians have already been killed or maimed, and the humanitarian aid to Gaza which is urgently needed continues to be obstructed by the Israeli government. We are demanding justice and accountability for these atrocities and call upon the global community to uphold the principles of peace and human rights.”
Jereski appeared on the IPA news release from June 10, the day the UN Security Council passed the US government resolution: “US ‘Ceasefire’ a ‘Ploy to Sabotage the Rule of Law’.”
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ACTION ALERT: When Nothing Else Works…
Urge Governments to Use UN General Assembly
Res. 377 “Uniting For Peace” for Peace in Palestine
World BEYOND Warr
The crime of genocide is happening. The intentional destruction of a people, in whole or in part, is genocide. The law is meant to be used to prevent it, not just review it after the fact.
We sent over half a million emails to key governments urging them to invoke the genocide convention at the International Court of Justice. South Africa did so, charging Israel with genocide. Nicaragua, Mexico, Libya, and Colombia formally filed declarations of intervention in support of the case. Several other nations said they would do so as well.
The court has ordered Israel to cease its genocidal acts, and the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has requested arrest warrants. And still the United Nations Security Council does not act, and in fact allows its members to provide Israel with the weaponry needed to continue the crime.
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 377 (Uniting For Peace) allows the General Assembly to act when the Security Council fails. The General Assembly should NOT escalate the war or deploy armed troops. It should convene an emergency session and use “Uniting For Peace” to impose an arms embargo and targeted sanctions on the Israeli government, suspend the Israeli government from the United Nations, and send to Palestine unarmed peacekeepers (who have repeatedly shown their superiority to armed peacekeepers).
The General Assembly has already voted overwhelmingly for a ceasefire, but not for the actions above.
Emails sent below will go simultaneously to the governments of South Africa, Nicaragua, Brazil, Belgium, Belize, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Egypt, Honduras, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Turkey, Mexico, Pakistan, Spain, Libya, China, Russia, Algeria, Ecuador, Guyana, Japan, France, Malta, Mozambique, Republic of Korea, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, Switzerland, Canada.
