https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/petition-for-the-united-nations-general-assembly-to-suspend-apartheid-israelPetition to remove "israel" from the UN General Assembly, sponsored by the BDS National Committee:To: UN General Assembly President H.E. Dr Khalilur Rahman
From: [Your Name]
Dear President Rahman,
As you begin your presidency of the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), I urge you to take immediate action to suspend apartheid Israel from the United Nations (UN), just as apartheid South Africa was once suspended.
Israel's "total impunity", as the UN Secretary-General has termed it, for its constant and grave violations of international law, including its ongoing genocide against Indigenous Palestinians and its regime of occupation and apartheid, condemned by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in 2024 as illegal, has emboldened it to escalate its wars of aggression against the peoples of the entire region. Israel's plans for a "Greater Israel" that would annex parts of Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Iraq, are now being normalized in the Israeli government and Parliament.
The scale and severity of Israel's attacks on the UN itself are unprecedented in the organization's history. Israel is responsible for, among others: killing and injuring the highest number of UN personnel, including peacekeepers, in history; destroying, severely damaging and/or confiscating UN facilities and property; declaring the UN Secretary General persona non grata and banning him from entry; defaming the UN as a terror-supporting entity; shredding the UN charter from the UNGA podium and making public calls to "defund" and "get rid of the UN;" defying UN resolutions, including those adopted by the UN Security Council and the ICJ; violating its obligations to cooperate with UN officials, UN Commissions of Inquiry, fact-finding missions, and human rights experts.
In short, Israel poses a threat not only to the Palestinian people, but to the UN itself, as a body which emerged to protect human rights and international law, to safeguard peace and justice globally, and whose General Assembly you are currently presiding over.
Apartheid Israel fails the basic conditions of UN membership - it is anything but a peace-lovi
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