With news that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to speak at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on September 29th, thousands from across the country are expected to gather in New York City for a mass march to the United Nations (UN), demanding Netanyahu’s arrest and that all UN member states intervene in the genocide in Gaza by sanctioning Israel, as is their duty under international law. Protestors, like the majority of people in the US, say they want to see an end to the genocide in Gaza and an end to US aid to Israel.

When:  Friday, September 26, 9:00 AM

Where: Times Square, New York City

“How can a war criminal be allowed to speak to the international community while his genocidal army is committing unspeakable crimes against humanity?” said Miriam Osman with the Palestinian Youth Movement, “Palestinians are being murdered en masse in Gaza, yet the international community remains silent. Sanctions against Israel are the bare minimum.”

The UN has announced that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, the conclusion of a two-year commission investigating Israel’s actions in Gaza. The commission calls on all states to fulfil their duty under international law to intervene in genocide. Meanwhile the US continues to back the Israeli genocide in Gaza, going so far as to block visas for the Palestinian delegation, barring them from participating in the UNGA, while Prime Minister Netanyahu, who has an international warrant out for his arrest for war crimes and crimes against humanity, will walk free, given that the US is not a party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

Israel continues to flagrantly ignore every international norm, with the full support of the US, and broad inaction from the international community, with recent air strikes on Qatar in an attempt to assassinate Palestinian negotiators, two drone attacks on the Freedom Flotilla in Tunisia, and the ongoing illegal invasion and bombardment campaign in Gaza City. Israel has killed over 64,000 Palestinians in its genocide in Gaza, with tens of thousands more unaccounted for.