Statements:
Stop Israel now! No war on Iran!
Partido Lakas ng Masa (Party of the Labouring Masses, The Philippines): Israel-US, Hands off Iran!
We condemn in the strongest possible terms Israel’s attack on Iran and residential neighbourhoods in the capital, Tehran, where civilians were killed.
This is a further escalation by this genocidal state of its war offensive in the Middle East — genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Yemen, Syria and Iran.
Israel acts with such impunity because it has the support of the United States and other imperialist powers.
Militarism and wars are an imperative of the imperialist system, historically and today, with imperialism once again on the war path.
We therefore support the right of sovereign nations in the Global South to protect themselves against imperialist coups and other forms of aggression, including through military means, as a deterrence.
While we also support all genuine peoples movements in the Global South struggling against capitalist and authoritarian regimes, ‘regime change’ should be the act of the masses themselves and in their interests, not a result of some imperialist plot.
In the case of Iran, where imperialism has had a long-term objective of regime change, we support Iran’s right to defend itself.
Israel-US, Hands off Iran!
No to imperialist wars!
Free Palestine!
June 13, 2005
Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation: On Israeli military aggression against Iran
The Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Liberation strongly condemns the recent military aggression by the Israeli state against Iran. On June 13, Israel launched large scale attack against Iran’s civil nuclear installations and other infrastructures. This reckless escalation is part of a deliberate strategy by the US-Israel axis to impose regional imperialist dominance, destabilise West Asia, and provoke widespread conflict.
The far-right Netanyahu regime, facing increasing global isolation and domestic discontent amid the ongoing Genocidal war on Gaza, is now attempting to widen the conflict and externalise its crisis by targeting Iran and threatening Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, and beyond.
Israel’s so-called “pre-emptive” strike follows the familiar script of US imperialism, echoing the 2003 invasion of Iraq under the false pretext of weapons of mass destruction.
A key turning point was the Trump administration’s unilateral withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in 2018, which dismantled a widely supported diplomatic framework and reignited tensions. Since then, Iran has faced escalating economic sanctions, acts of sabotage, and targeted assassinations, culminating now in open military threats.
It is increasingly clear that the goal of the US-Israel axis is to burn West Asia to crush sovereign nations, and impose control over the region’s geopolitical and energy landscape.
Israel’s action not only threatens West Asia, but the entire world. Israel has become a rogue state, brazenly violating international law and conventions with the full backing of the United States.
India must break its silence and take all possible steps to stop Israel. Silence and inaction will amount to complicity and India must not be bracketed with the US-Israel axis in its escalating crimes against humanity.
Central Committee, CPI(ML) Liberation
June 13, 2025
Fourth International: Stop Israel now!
Israel's unprecedented attack on Iran is a direct result of the impunity it has enjoyed while carrying out a live-streamed genocide in Palestine over the past 20 months. Under the false pretext of "self-defense," Israel has escalated its long-standing policy of Palestinian erasure into full-scale genocide. Now, it extends that aggression by bombing Iran, claiming to defend itself from a hypothetical nuclear threat—despite not being a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and remaining unaccountable for its own nuclear arsenal.
This impunity is made possible by the United States and other governments that continue to arm Israel—supplying weapons, funding, and political cover as it carries out mass atrocities across the region. The U.S. has emphasized that Israel acted unilaterally in its strike on Iran and has denied any involvement while being the primary supplier of the weapons used in this attack. Alongside other governments that arm and shield Israel, the U.S. is complicit in enabling Israel's expanding aggression across the region. They are all partners in atrocity.
This belligerence has not only claimed civilian lives, but it also threatens the long and courageous struggle of the Iranian people against a repressive regime, of which the latest high point was the movement "Woman, Life, Freedom". History shows clearly: there is no path to democracy under the shadow of war.
We stand firmly with the people of Iran—both in their ongoing resistance to dictatorship and in their right to live free from foreign military aggression. We denounce Israel's attack on Iran and demand international pressure to stop its reckless regional escalation now.
We urgently demand:
Hands off Iran!
An immediate end to regional escalation!
Solidarity with political prisoners and human rights defenders in Iran, and vigilance against further repression by the regime.
As we have done for months, we continue to demand:
Sanctions on Israel now!
An immediate end to all arms trade with Israel!
Global mobilization to stop the genocide in Palestine!
Executive Bureau, Fourth International
June 13, 2025
Awami Workers Party (Pakistan): On the cowardly attack by Israel on Iran
The Awami Workers Party (AWP) strongly condemns Israel’s unprovoked attack on Iran, mourns the deaths of civilians and warns that the US-backed Zionist regime is threatening to spark not only unprecedented military conflict in the Middle East but also potentially the world. The AWP also condemns the role played by Iran’s neighbouring Muslim countries, including Jordan, UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, in facilitating Israel’s bombardment, much like these Muslim rulers have betrayed the Palestinian cause.
AWP secretary general Bakhshal Thalho has said in a statement that the Israeli and US states are the world’s biggest perpetrators of mass terror and have repeatedly demonstrated that they will act unilaterally and in complete contravention of all international covenants to both subdue the oppressed peoples of the Middle East as well as spark wider military conflagrations. Both states deploy the language of ‘counter-terrorism’ to justify imperialist wars in the region, a tactic that has now been adopted by Muslim rulers from Egypt to Pakistan to quell internal dissent and buttress their own militaristic designs.
The present attack on Iran has been justified in the name of neutralising Iran’s nuclear arsenal, exposing a ridiculous double standard on the part of the US, Israel and other so-called ‘civilised’ countries like France and the UK who themselves have built up massive nuclear weapons capacities. The rhetoric around Iran’s nuclear weapons mimics that which preceded the US war on Iraq in 2003 in the name of pre-empting ‘weapons of mass destruction, which in fact the US (and Israel) possess more than any other countries in the world. The AWP believes that Iran retains the right to defend itself and to deter further attacks by the Zionist entity.
The AWP has always opposed US imperialist wars and those waged by its Zionist satrap. The AWP believes that by target killing Iran’s senior-most military personnel, Israel and the US are sending the region and world spiraling towards unending war, hate and militarisation, which will benefit only the military-industrial complexes that rule in both countries, and indeed the world.
The AWP also views the Pakistani state’s toothless positions on imperialist wars in the Middle East with great suspicion. Pakistan’s military establishment has long pandered to the whims of US imperialism, including the 20-year occupation of Afghanistan, as well as its policy of encircling Iran. The Pakistani people firmly oppose the US-Israel nexus in the Middle East, as well as our own region, and the AWP appeals to all progressive forces to forge a mass anti-imperialist politics that can articulate solidarity with Iranians and Palestinians as well as oppressed peoples within Pakistan that continue to bear the brunt of wars, occupation and structural violence.
June 13, 2025
International Marxist-Humanist Organization: Oppose apartheid Israel’s attack on Iran!
Israel’s June 13 attack on Iran, beginning at 3:00 AM local time, was a reckless, barbarous act that threatens to set the entire region aflame. Some 200 Israeli planes, as well as missiles and drones, bombarded the country, destroying military bases and nuclear infrastructure, the avowed aim of the attacks. Israel also assassinated, apparently in their homes, several important military, political, and scientific leaders, among them the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the country’s most important military leader. Its strikes also killed the chief-of-staff of the Army and four nuclear scientists. Reports from Iranian civilians suggest that many of the attacks struck residential areas of Tehran and other cities. To the extent that regime officials were killed in their homes, this constitutes a major violation of the laws of war, apart from the utterly innocent civilians also killed in such actions.
Israel clearly wants to stop any possibility of another US-Iran nuclear deal and may have moved more quickly to attack than even Trump wished. But now that Iran has counterattacked, the US will jump to Israel’s defense. This only underlines the need to cut off all military funding and aid to Israel, as we have been demanding since the genocidal Gaza war of 2023
Israel’s stated aims are to incapacitate or decisively delay Iran’s nuclear weapons capabilities, to destroy its long-range missiles, and to decapitate its military and nuclear research infrastructures. It promises, with strong US support so far, to deal such a decisive blow to Iran as to remove it as a threat to US-Israeli hegemony in the region. This, like its aim of “eliminating” Hamas in Gaza, is in the long run Quixotic. In truth, Israel has incomparably less chance of destroying Iranian military capacities. It will, however, be able to inflict untold suffering on the Iranian people.
How could such a miscalculation be possible? First, Israel and the US seem to believe that with Iran’s allies in Syria and Lebanon having been destroyed or severely weakened, that it will be hard for Iran to stage a serious counterattack against Israel. Thus, now is the time to take advantage of Iran’s weakness. This is a grand illusion if it means that Iran can be eliminated as a factor in the region rather than temporarily weakened.
Second, Israel seems to believe that the Iranian people will support their attack, and perhaps even rise up to overthrow the regime. While the regime’s popular support is weaker than ever since the 2023 mass uprising of women and ethnic minorities, this is an even greater illusion. This is the error of believing one’s own propaganda. The illusory character of such aims is seen in the horror almost all Iranians are feeling at this clearly unwarranted aggression, as seen in this post on social media from inside the country just hours after the attacks began: “The people of Iran must not be sacrificed again. Not for the Islamic Republic. Not for Zionist militarism. And not for those who, from abroad, mistake bloodshed for liberation.”
Finally, Israel is playing both the antisemitism and the Islamophobia cards, claiming that the Iranian regime is some kind of inherent threat to Israel, just because its rhetoric ever since 1979 has referred to the “destruction” of Israel. Also, because at some time in the future it could conceivably attain a nuclear weapons capability, Israel claims that Iran would then move to attack even if that meant suicide vs. Israel’s actual nuclear weapons, not least because its religious fundamentalism extolls martyrdom. Here, Israel is under the illusion that, just as largely spurious charges of antisemitism have been used to justify the repression of the pro-Palestinian movement in the West, and in the US, outright attacks on major universities, it could play that card again to gain support for its military adventurism. Given the relative silence of US liberals, and the support of the Trump administration, this may be the case. But for how long, especially if the US is drawn in or Israel asks it to take a direct part?
At the same time, our opposition to this military aggression in no way constitutes any kind of political support for the Iranian regime. The genuine left has opposed the Islamic Republic from day one. Back in 1979, we supported the feminists, the independent wing of the workers councils, and the leftist tendencies that wanted to turn to the revolution against the shah into something socialist, secular, and democratic. This kind of support for the progressive opposition needs to continue, just as we supported uprisings like the ones in 2023, or earlier, 2009. It can also be pointed out that the regime is weaker and more dysfunctional internally that it seemed, given how easily its leaders were picked off by Israel on June 13.
But these kinds of considerations in no way lessen our opposition to this new wave of Israeli-US aggression.
Written by Kevin B Anderson and approved as a statement by the Steering Committee of the International Marxist-Humanist Organization.
June 14, 2025
Scott Ritter: “We are at war with Iran.”
On Russia’s Sputnik News, Scott Ritter, who has honestly reported on this matter for over 25 years, said on June 13, that the Trump Administration worked with the Netanyahu Administration to plan this strike against Iran and is therefore already at war against Iran, and that almost certainly America will also become militarily engaged in it. He also says that the strike was devastatingly effective and was directed at and achieved three objectives: 1. decapitation; 2. eliminating air-defense; 3. greatly weakening Iran’s retaliatory capability.
The decapitation was like what Israel had earlier achieved also against Hezbollah. Elimination of air-defense knocked out Iran’s Russian S-300 and S-400 air-defense systems, which perhaps had not been placed on high alert. Retaliatory capability was thus enormously weakened by the surprise attack taking-out much of Iran’s above-ground air force.
Trump had participated by feigning to be negotiating with Iran and saying that Iran might experience a devastating Israeli invasion if Iran fails to accept Trump’s terms at the final talks that had been scheduled with Iran on Sunday June 15. Iran had carefully planned for that scheduled meeting. They trusted that Iran didn’t need to go undergound yet (place all critical people and assets underground) until then. All of Iran’s leaders were to go to their bunkers, if needed, only on or after June 15 (if the alleged negotiations were to fail). The Trump-Netanyahu plan was for Iran’s top assets to be sitting ducks for this surprise attack. Iran fell for their con.
Here are the sources:
“Scott Ritter: US Lulled Iran to Sleep Using Nuclear Talks Deception, Allowing Israel to Strike”
13 June 2025
Israel has carried out an unprecedented attack on Iran, targeting its nuclear program, scientists, and senior military leaders. Sputnik asked veteran ex-Marine intelligence officer Scott Ritter what just happened, and what comes next.
The months of Iran-US nuclear talks essentially gave “Israel the opportunity for maximum surprise to achieve maximum damage,” with the strikes effectively amounting to “a joint US-Israeli attack on Iran,” Scott Ritter said. … “This, by any definition of the word, was a joint US-Israeli attack on Iran.” … “We are at war with Iran,.” … “If the Iranians have the capabilities that they claim to have and the resilience they claim to have, we will see an escalation. We will see Iran retaliating in a way that is not sustainable for Israel. But this is part of the Israeli trap to create the perception of existential struggle so that the United States will be confronted with a choice, let the Israeli ally suffer and perhaps be defeated, or to intervene and administer the coup de grâce against Iran. So, you know, we are looking at a long, drawn-out process that ultimately, I believe, will result in the United States entering this conflict on the side of Israel directly.” …
“Scott Ritter: US Used Nuclear Talks to Set Up Israeli Strike on Iran | APT”
13 June 2025
“I believe that Israel and the United States coordinated very closely on this attack. This attack was a surprise attack. The Iranians were lulled into a false sense of complacency by the American insistence on focusing on a 6th round of negotiations that was scheduled to take place on Sunday. Israel was working with the United States on that narrative, saying that if there wasn’t a deal reached Sunday, then Israel would be considering an attack. This was very closely coordinated in order to give Israel the maximum opportunity for surprise to achieve maximum damage. … This was … a joint Israeli-American attack on Iran. … This attack was initiated with a decapitation strike that found many of the Iranian leaders in their homes. Had Iran been on high alert, these leaders would have been in a bunker. …”
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Anyone who continues to think that Trump is ‘the peace candidate’ is just as misinformed or stupid as Iran’s Supreme Leader was to think that the U.S. Government is serious about achieving peace instead of using ‘negotiations’ ONLY as a ploy to fool and thus defeat the countries it has already decided to “regime-change.” The U.S. regime is bipartisanly neoconservative. The only path to peace would be to replace it. Replacing one Party by another can’t even possibly free the American people from this dictatorship (which America became on 25 July 1945).
IRAN HAS THE RIGHT TO DEFEND ITSELF!
By AFP
June 13, 2025
Iran's emergency services respond to an Israeli air strike which reduced much of a Tehran residential building to rubble. - Copyright TASNIM NEWS/AFP MEGHDAD MADADI
Iranians called for revenge on Friday demanding a swift response to a dizzying wave of strikes by Israel, as some took to the streets in protest, while others sheltered inside, unsure what would happen next.
The aerial onslaught killed several of the military’s top brass, targeted an array of leading scientists and struck military and nuclear sites across Iran in an unprecedented attack that left many seething with anger.
“How much longer are we going to live in fear?” asked Ahmad Moadi, a 62-year-old retiree. “As an Iranian, I believe there must be an overwhelming response, a scathing response.”
The raids appeared to push the longtime enemies into full-blown conflict following years of fighting a shadow war mostly conducted through proxies.
Iran regularly arrests individuals it accuses of spying for Israel amid a flurry of targeted assassinations and acts of sabotage targeting its nuclear programme in recent years.
At least six scientists involved in Iran’s nuclear programme were killed in Friday’s strikes.
“They’ve killed so many university professors and researchers, and now they want to negotiate?” Moadi exclaimed, referring to calls for Iran to go ahead with nuclear talks with Israel’s US ally planned for this weekend.
As Iran continued to assess the damage, some residents rallied in the streets of Tehran chanting: “Death to Israel, death to America,” while waving Iranian flags and portraits of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
State television said similar demonstrations were held in cities across the country.
The Israeli strikes followed repeated threats from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who appeared to finally cap a years-long quest to strike Iran’s nuclear programme.
“We can’t let this bastard continue, or we’ll end up like Gaza,” Abbas Ahmadi, a 52-year-old Tehran resident, told AFP from behind the wheel of his car.
“Iran must destroy him, it must do something.”
– ‘If God wills it’ –
Friday’s attacks came after more than a year of soaring tensions as Israel took on Iran’s regional allies Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Huthis in Yemen.
Amid the tensions, Israel and Iran exchanged aerial barrages on two separate occasions last year. while stopping short of a full-scale war.
But following Friday’s attack, all bets were off over what would come next, with Khamenei warning Israel faced a “bitter and painful” fate, while the Iranian military said there would be “no limits” to its response.
Apart from scattered protests, Tehran’s streets were largely deserted, except for queues at petrol stations, a familiar sight in times of crisis.
Air traffic was halted at Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport amid disruption across the region.
In the upscale district of Nobonyad in north Tehran, rescuers continued to comb through the rubble of two apartment blocks targeted in Israeli strikes.
Families with tear-streaked faces gathered nearby.
“They want to deprive us of our nuclear capability — that’s unacceptable,” said Ahmad Razaghi, 56, calmly echoing the official line.
For Farnoush Rezaei, a 45-year-old nurse wearing a colourful hijab, Friday’s attacks represented a final act by Israel — a country “on its last breath”.
Iranian leaders have for decades insisted that Israel will “soon” disappear. “If God wills it, at least a bit of peace will come from this,” said Rezaei.
Israel Strikes Iran
Rogue States and Thought Crimes
Pre-emptive attacks in international law are rarely justified. The threat must evince itself through an obvious intent to inflict injury, evidence preparations that show the threat to be what Michael Walzer calls a “supreme emergency”, and arise in a situation where risk of defeat would be dramatically increased if force is not used.
Reaching an assessment on that matter is almost impossible. Evidence of such a threat by the aggressor state is bound to be speculative, concealing other strategic objectives that make that action amount to illegal, preventive war. Israel’s ongoing attacks on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure are taking place in the absence of nuclear weapons, motivated by the hypothetical scenario that such weapons would be irretrievably developed and used against the Jewish state. Iran, in other words, was being punished for a thought crime.
The Israeli Defense Forces released a statement expressing the rationale: “Weapons of mass destruction in the hands of the Iranian regime are a threat to the State of Israel and a significant threat to the entire world. The State of Israel will not allow a regime whose goal is the destruction of the State of Israel to possess weapons of mass destruction.”
There is even a concession on the part of IDF officials that triumphant success in the operation is not assured; Israelis needed to brace themselves before the inevitable reaction. “I can’t promise absolute success,” declared Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir. Tehran “will attempt to attack us in response, the expected toll will be different to what we are used to.”
The Defence Minister Israel Katz offers some wishful thinking in justifying the attack. “We are now at a critical juncture. If we miss it, we will have no way to stop Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons that will endanger our very own existence.” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu preferred lashings of hyperbole. “If we don’t attack, then it’s 100% that we will die,” he declared in a video statement to the nation.
This is the language of self-denial, both on the issue of preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear option indefinitely – an unsustainable policy in the absence of peaceful dissuasion – and the belief that such operations will result in some form of contained, well-behaved retaliation. With typical perversity, these attacks are taking place in step with demands by US President Donald Trump that Tehran resort to meek diplomacy, an effort that is bound to have been extinguished by these attacks.
And what of the threat posed by Iran? In March this year, the US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard told the Senate Intelligence Committee that the assessment was “that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program he suspended in 2003.” But Netanyahu had already given a directive in November 2024 to thwart alleged efforts by Tehran to build a nuclear device. “The directive,” he confirms, “came shortly after the assassination of [Hezbollah leader Hassan] Nasrallah”.
The broader Israeli logic here is less the coherence of the nuclear threat than one of settling scores and crippling a rival it has long accused of directing operations against its interests, if not directly than through its proxy militias.
As for the logic of non-acquisition, not much can be made of it. The advent of the Colt 45 revolver in the late 1800s arguably calmed the American West by granting those with less power and influence a means of asserting their will against the powerful and landed. It became “the Peacemaker”, sometimes described as “the Great Equalizer.” As part of that same logic, the late international relations theorist Kenneth N. Waltz proposed that nuclear weapons made war less likely, believing that “the gradual spread of nuclear weapons is to be more welcomed than feared.” He even went so far as to argue in 2012 that Iran’s acquisition of nuclear weapons would “most likely […] restore stability to the Middle East.” It was Israel’s durable nuclear monopoly in the Middle East that “long fueled instability” in the region.
The invention of nuclear weaponry was a statement of intent that possessing such a weapon would be akin to acquiring the shielding protection of a patron deity. This is a lesson the Israelis should know better than most, having themselves stealthily acquired an undeclared nuclear inventory. To not have it would weaken you, diminish international standing, making the non-possessor vulnerable to attack.
North Korea learned this salutary lesson, motivated by two supreme examples: the illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003 by the US-led “Coalition of the Willing”, and the collective attack on Libya in 2011, ostensibly under the doctrine of responsibility to protect. The disarmament efforts made by Saddam Hussein’s Iraq and Muammar Gaddafi’s Libya rendered them vulnerable to attack. Lacking a terrifying deterrent, they were contemptuously rolled.
Attempts to control proliferation have been imperfect, largely because the nuclear option has never been entirely demystified. Despite the admirable strides made in international law to stigmatise nuclear weapons, best reflected in the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, not to mention the tireless labours of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, the nuclear weapons club remains a permanent provocation and incitement to non-nuclear weapons states. It is the red rag to the bull.
These attacks will do little to weaken the resolve of the mullahs in Tehran. They are roguish undertakings, murderous in their scope (the killing of scientists and their families stands out), and sneering of international law. Netanyahu’s absurd lecturing to the Iranian populace – we are bombing you to free you – will fall flat. Most consequential will be confirmation on the part of the Islamic State that acquiring a nuclear weapon is more imperative than ever.
Match
Overnight, the Zionist entity of Israel escalated its war of aggression against Iran by launching unprovoked attacks on the Islamic Republic. The notion that a rogue ethnostate that is currently carrying out a genocide believes that it possesses the right to determine which countries can and cannot develop a nuclear weapon is both bizarre and egregious as well as brazenly hypocritical, and further demonstrates that the State of Israel operates firmly within the structures of white “supremacy” ideology, colonialism, and imperialism. Iran, like all sovereign nations, has the right to defend itself from aggression and uphold its security in the face of repeated threats and acts of war. This stands in stark contrast to Israel, which operates a settler colonial occupation of Palestine, as well as portions of Lebanon and Syria.
The idea of Israel, the Zionist occupation, claiming a moral position is absurd. And the fact that the international community continues to give Israel any credibility is a dereliction of duty and forms a vacuum of morality for all of those who do not stand resolutely against its genocide in Palestine and its attacks on Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, and Iran. Israel’s immunity granted by Western colonial nations is a further reflection of the moral gulf between these states and the vast majority of humankind that subscribes to values that uphold People(s)-Centered Human Rights, self-determination, and dignity.
Israel’s unprovoked attack is another example of the lawlessness that is fully supported by the U.S. The Black Alliance for Peace (BAP) rejects the notion that the U.S. was unaware of this attack. The U.S. had the ability to stop this attack if it was serious about containing Israel’s perpetual war crimes and disregard for international law, which is a major threat to any form of true peace. The combination of Israel’s continued genocidal assaults and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian people, and its bombings and occupations of portions of the sovereign nations of Syria and Lebanon prove that Israel and the U.S. are the most dangerous nations in the world. Their power must be dismantled.
To conflate Israel’s actions with Jewish values is the height of antisemitism. Zionism, an ideology of white “supremacy,” must be wholly separated from Judaism’s teachings of justice, human rights, and inclusivity. Israel is no more a “Jewish state” than the U.S. is a “Christian state.” Both are violent constructs of ethnonationalism. BAP firmly rejects the conflation of Judaism with the barbarism of Zionism, just as we denounce the antisemitic trope that equates Zionism with Judaism itself.
Israel’s militarism further threatens global stability by spiking the price of oil by 8 percent in one night. This economic shockwave further demonstrates why we must continue linking the devastation of war with the devastation associated with the climate catastrophe that is fueled by capitalist war profiteering interests of fossil fuel cartels and the military industrial complex who both benefit from the Israeli war machine at the expense of human life and the ecosystems necessary to sustain it. Israel’s aggression is capitalism’s credit card with an unlimited spending limit.
History will remember this moment and Israel’s barbaric acts as an indelible and ignominious stain on international “law” and cooperation, people(s)-centered human rights and the basic tenets of human dignity.
In Response, BAP Demands that :
- The UN Security Council and European Union impose immediate sanctions and consequences for Israel’s illegal acts, and institute an arms embargo.
- The international community must expel Israel from the United Nations. It has no place among fraternal nations.
- The international community categorically reject Israel’s fraudulent claims to jurisdiction over Iran’s lawful nuclear energy program.
- The IAEA investigate Israel’s unregulated nuclear program with the same rigor applied to others.
- U.S. lawmakers enforce laws prohibiting military aid to human rights violators by cutting off all arms transfers to Israel or face prosecution at the ICC and ICJ for complicity in war crimes.
- The ICC indict and prosecute Israeli and U.S. officials for continued war crimes throughout West Asia and the lawlessness of genocide perpetuated against the Palestinian people.
- All anti-imperialist, anti-war, pro-peace movements and organizations support Iran’s right to sovereignty, self-defense, and self-determination against Israel’s murderous aggression.
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