NOW IS THE TIME FOR A
PEOPLE’S EMBARGO
The People’s Embargo for Palestine is an international movement for coordinated pressure on governments, corporations and institutions to stop arming Israel by enforcing embargoes on Israel. PEP seeks to popularize embargo research, targets and campaigns, and centralize calls to action. The successes of the Mask Off Maersk campaign have shown that logistics is an effective site of intervention re the supply chain of genocide, which PEP seeks to build on and advance.
DEMANDING A PEOPLE’S EMBARGO
The movement for Palestinian liberation is at a critical juncture, with a ceasefire moving forward and Israel more internationally isolated than it has ever been in history. As a movement, it is our responsibility to ensure that all genocide enablers are held to account, and to prevent Israel from rehabilitating its image. To prevent Israel from breaking the ceasefire terms and resuming all-out genocidal war, and to further isolate it as it continues to expand settlements, displace and imprison Palestinians, and wage war across the region, it is crucial that the pressure on Israel continues and that arms and energy embargoes are fully enacted.
During the January 2025 ceasefire, we saw Israel replenish its weapon stores, enabling it to break the agreement in March 2025. That is why now, more than ever, a two-way arms embargo is not only a demand, but a necessity– meaning no weapons flowing to Israel, or countries purchasing weapons from Israel. Our research has also uncovered that fuel itself is a weapon of war in the hands of genocidaires: we need an energy embargo against Israel as well.
The Peoples Embargo for Palestine will serve as an initiative to cohere arms and energy embargo organizing. We will offer resources, research reports and campaign materials for organizations, and host information about various arms and energy embargo campaigns on this website.
Our goal is to isolate Zionism, and our demand is simple: cut ties with genocide. We are building a movement that targets the supply line of death by:
Ending the use of public infrastructure to transport weapons and military cargo to Israel
Ending contracts or investments in companies that enable the manufacturing or transportation of arms to Israel
Divesting from war profiteers, and demanding investigation, disclosure, and policy change from complicit institutions
Spain has enforced an arms embargo, Italian dockworkers took it into their own hands to block Israeli weapons shipments, Moroccans in Tangier and Casablanca mobilized mass protests against ships carrying Israeli military cargo, Colombia ended coal shipments to Israel, and Oakland launched a campaign against the use of public infrastructure for the transport of military cargo. We have significantly pressured Maersk since the launch of the #MaskOffMaersk campaign, resulting in the loss of two ports and the end of its trade with settlements-- the first time a logistics company drops settlements in history.
A people’s embargo for Palestine is possible. It is a concrete, enforceable and necessary step to end the flow of weapons and weapons components used in Israel’s genocide on Gaza and continued occupation of Palestine. To effectively organize for a comprehensive, two-way arms embargo, we must bring together supply-chain pressure, union actions, legal and political pressure.
Join us in enacting a people’s embargo.
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