1. United States
2. Utah
3. Letter

Amnesty International has declared Israel’s actions in Palestine a genocide in a nearly 300-page report. I’d like to share portions of their Executive Summary from that document with you, to urge you to withhold funding from Israel while their widespread acts of violence and cruelty continue. “Israel’s military offensive has killed and seriously injured tens of thousands of Palestinians, including thousands of children, many of them in direct or indiscriminate attacks, often wiping out entire multigenerational families. Israel has forcibly displaced 90% of Gaza’s 2.2 million inhabitants, many of them multiple times, into ever-shrinking, ever-changing pockets of land that lacked basic infrastructure, forcing people to live in conditions that exposed them to a slow and calculated death. It has deliberately obstructed or denied the import and delivery of life-saving goods and humanitarian aid. It has restricted power supplies that, together with damage and destruction, led to the collapse of the water, sanitation and healthcare systems. It has subjected hundreds, if not thousands, of Palestinians from Gaza to incommunicado detention and acts of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment that had apparently resulted in at least 53 deaths by August 2024. The unlawful acts inflicted on Palestinians simultaneously, for months without respite, have had a profound, cumulative impact on the mental and physical health of Gaza’s entire population: those who survived were left weakened, hungry or traumatized, with likely permanent effects on their mental and physical health.” We must do more to stop aiding the terrorism that is being conducted on Palestine. It is unconscionable that we continue to fund and arm Israel knowing the effects of our support are harming 2.2 million people, many thousands of which have already died, and all of which will have lifelong trauma. I beg you, please do not approve further arms and financial support to Israel. Please do not accept AIPAC funds. Please do not vote to approve any measures that will continue our complicity in their Holocaust. Encourage a ceasefire. Encourage more aid trucks to be allowed in. Pressure Egypt and Israel to open the Rafah crossing from Gaza into Egypt again. I beg you, do more to make this end! There is blood on our hands. Please, do the things within your control to make this end.