Climate Justice Demands Ceasefire and Arms Embargo on Israel

Israel, with the USʼs financial and military support, is subjecting Palestinians in Gaza to apocalyptic conditions on top of the worst bombardment in their history, with a daily death rate that is higher than any war of the 21st century. Since October, Israel has killed an estimated 186,000 Palestinians in Gaza both directly and via the effects of wholesale destruction of public health, environmental, and social infrastructure. This situation sums to a genocide perpetrated with US taxpayer dollars.

Both the ongoing genocide and the apartheid regime that Israel maintains over Palestinians are fundamentally incompatible with the tenets of climate justice. Resistance to occupation, war, and militarism are core to struggles for a just future where all life can thrive. To avert continued human and planetary harm, the United States must enact an immediate arms embargo on Israel and insist on an immediate, permanent ceasefire and end to the siege on Occupied Palestinian Territory.

• The climate crisis is here, and genocide and militarism more broadly are making it worse. As a result of decades of Israeli blockade, apartheid, and military activity, Gaza was already highly vulnerable to the impacts of the climate crisis.
  The ecological devastation wrought by the invasion makes things worse.
• The occupation of Palestine and the ongoing genocide in Gaza have displaced Palestinian people from their lands and resources and environmental devastation. Israel has attacked agriculture, water systems, and natural resources—
  leaving behind pollution, rendering local ecosystems unlivable, and threatening all forms of life.
• In the US, spending on war and militarism is a massive drain on public dollars that are much better put toward building a safer future for all through massive public investment in climate mitigation and adaptation.