Democrats are looking to unite the party during their National Convention in Chicago and polls show one way for Kamala Harris to do this is to pledge to stop arming Israel.

Delegates Against Genocide, a coalition of delegates to the Democratic National Convention (DNC), calls for delegates to vote ‘No’ on the 2024 Democratic Party platform over its failure to demand a ceasefire in Gaza and a U.S. arms embargo on Israel.  

Hamas slams Israel for “spreading chaos” after an Israeli airstrike killed two local police officers in charge of securing and delivering food to north Gaza. In the West Bank, Israeli forces and settlers kill two Palestinians.

Israel bombs near Egypt’s fortified wall with Rafah as talks resume to reach a captive exchange with Hamas. UN experts call for arms embargo against Israel and say states supplying weapons, ammunition or intelligence risk violating international law.

An appeals court ordered the Dutch government to cease exports of F-35 components to Israel, saying “there is a clear risk that the F-35 parts to be exported will be used in committing serious violations of international humanitarian law.”

A Dutch court will decide this week whether the provision of F-35 spare parts to Israel from Woensdrecht Air Base violates Dutch arms export regulations, as well as Dutch obligations under international law.

A new report from Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East calls on Canadian officials to suspend military sales to Israel, and investigate whether Canadian weapons have been used to kill Palestinian civilians. “It is shocking that Canadian officials have allowed military exports to Israel to accelerate over the past decade, given the undeniable evidence of Israeli human rights abuses,” said CJPME Vice President Michael Bueckert in a statement.

A group of progressive House Democrats have introduced a resolution aimed at stopping a $735 million weapons sale to Israel that the Biden administration approved two weeks ago.

Palestinians in Jerusalem and across Historic Palestine are observing tomorrow a General Strike to protest Israel’s massacres in Gaza and settler-colonial and apartheid repression and ethnic cleansing against Palestinian communities everywhere. Here are 5 actions you can do to show that dismantling Israel’s regime of oppression is also in your hands.

Palestinian civil society calls on supporters throughout the world to take to the streets on Saturday May 15th with a unified demand for sanctions on Israel.