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SvennoJ on 29 August 2024
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Jewish activists say US must stop arming Israel amid West Bank raid

Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), a US-based advocacy group, says Washington has long “facilitated” Israel’s “genocidal violence” against Palestinians and the flow of US weapons to Israel must urgently stop as it launches a major military operation in the occupied West Bank.

“From Gaza to the occupied West Bank, genocidal violence against Palestinians is allowed, permitted, and facilitated not only by the Israeli government, but by the United States,” JVP said in a series of social media posts.

“It’s never been more urgent to demand that the US government stop sending weapons to the Israeli military,” the group said.

“This massive and coordinated invasion is a direct result of our government’s continual enabling and co-signing of the Israeli government’s genocidal actions across all of occupied Palestine.”


US legislator accuses Delta, United and American airlines of ‘effectively boycotting’ Israel

Congressman Ritchie Torres has written to the CEOs of the three airlines to express his concern over their suspension of air travel between the US and Israel.

“Airlines should be prohibited from effectively boycotting or otherwise discriminating against the world’s only Jewish state,” the Democratic lawmaker wrote in the letter published online.

“It is one thing to temporarily suspend air travel to Israel on security grounds as defined” by the Federal Aviation Authority, he wrote, “but to unilaterally suspend air travel indefinitely until mid-2025, as American Airlines has done, has the practical effect of a boycott”.

Torres said all three airlines must restore air travel to Israel “to prevent the appearance and the substance of discrimination against the Jewish state”.

The three carriers stopped flying to Israel following the Hamas attacks of October 7. Delta has since extended the suspension of its flights to Israel through October 31 while American Airlines has done so until March 29 of next year.

Meanwhile, United said it has suspended its service for the foreseeable future.

Since when do airlines have an obligation to serve Israel?