As the largest coalition in Palestinian civil society, we support our counterparts in Saudi Arabia who are calling for sanctions against their brutal regime for its gruesome killing of a dissident journalist, its systematic human rights violations, and its crimes against humanity in Yemen. In the same breath, we call for sanctions on Israel to help end its decades of violence against the people of Palestine, including the crime of apartheid and the killing of thousands of Palestinians, among them many journalists.
States and international institutions should not be selective in championing the dignity of human life. Yemenis and Palestinians are not lesser humans.
We also call for grassroots and civil society mobilizations against weapons manufacturers to hold them accountable for perpetuating wars and bypassing laws that restrict the arms trade. Leading U.S. weapons manufacturers and companies like Thales (France) and Rheinmetall (Germany) lobby their governments to ignore human rights and controls on the arms trade to maximize their profits from war crimes like those committed by Saudi Arabia against the Yemeni people and by Israel against the Palestinian people.
— source bdsmovement.net | Nov 26, 2018