Arkansas for Palestine

To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: Stop Profiting from Genocide – Focus on Arkansas

Dear Governor Sanders, While Arkansas ranks close to last in healthcare, education, teen pregnancy rates, maternal mortality, and voter participation, you took an all-expenses-paid trip to Israel and the UAE — funded by Arkansas taxpayers. In Israel, you met with war criminal Prime Minister Netanyahu, sanctioned finance minister Bezalel Smotrich, and Israeli weapons manufacturers — deepening Arkansas’s complicity in the genocide in Gaza. During your trip, dozens of Palestinian children died of Israeli-enforced starvation. Hundreds of human rights organizations, including UN agencies, have urgently called on Israel to open the crossings and let humanitarian aid in. Instead of addressing Arkansas’s urgent needs, you are running up the bill for luxury foreign trips to partner with war profiteers and governments complicit in atrocities — including the UAE, which is implicated in the genocide in Sudan. I urge you to: - End partnerships with Israeli weapons manufacturers and companies complicit in war crimes. - Stop using public funds for trade missions that entrench Arkansas in the war economy. - Focus on solving Arkansas’s deep challenges here at home. Sincerely, [Your Name] [Your City]

To: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: Stop Funding Israel’s Genocide in Gaza

Dear Rep. French Hill, I am a constituent, and I am outraged that you continue to support unconditional U.S. military aid to Israel during an ongoing, internationally-recognized genocide. Over 100 respected NGOs — including Doctors Without Borders, Oxfam, and Amnesty International — have urgently called on governments to stop enabling these crimes. Their demand is clear: “States must take decisive action: demand an immediate and permanent ceasefire; lift all restrictions; open land crossings; reject military-controlled aid models; restore a UN-led humanitarian response; and halt the transfer of weapons and ammunition. Symbolic gestures like airdrops are smokescreens. The famine in Gaza is not a tragedy — it is engineered.” Since October 2023, Israeli leaders have openly declared their intent to cleanse Gaza — one Deputy Speaker even said: “To wipe out Gaza. Nothing else will satisfy us … Don’t leave a single child there.” And your office has helped fund this. In 2024 alone, $93 million in Arkansas taxpayer money went to Israel. Hundreds of millions more of Arkansans’ taxpayer dollars are being authorized to further deepen genocide complicity. That’s money our schools, hospitals, and communities desperately need — and it’s been used instead to kill over 61,000 Palestinians, including tens of thousands of children. This is not neutrality. This is complicity. Arkansas should not bankroll genocide. We demand: 1. Withdraw all support for further U.S. military aid to Israel 2. Publicly condemn the siege and starvation of Gaza 3. End your alignment with AIPAC and arms contractors profiting from this war 4. Support the recognition of a Palestinian state 5. Enforce full sanctions and trade embargo on Israel until the bombing, occupation, and blockade end You are morally and legally obligated to act. Don’t wait for history to remember your silence and complicity. Stop enabling the slaughter of Palestinians. Stop misusing Arkansas’s money. Sincerely, [Your Name] [Your Full Address or ZIP Code]

To: [email protected]
Subject: Urgent Action to End Starvation in Gaza

Dear Secretary-General Guterres, Gaza is being starved. Over 1 in 4 children under 5 in northern Gaza are acutely malnourished. There is no access to formulas. Hundreds of aid trucks are blocked at the Rafah and Karem Abu Salem crossings. This is not a natural disaster—it is a deliberate famine. We call on the United Nations to: 1. Launch a humanitarian airlift into Gaza 2. Condemn the blockade of food, water, and medical aid 3. Demand full access for humanitarian organizations Time is running out. We urge you to act. With urgency, [Your Name]

Block the Bombs is a coordinated campaign across communities, unions, faith groups, and student movements to demand: ✔️ Stop U.S. weapons shipments to Israel ✔️ Cut ties with weapons manufacturers like Boeing and Lockheed Martin ✔️ Divest public funds from arms companies profiting off genocide ✔️ Hold politicians accountable for enabling war crimes Visit blockthebombs.org to learn more and get involved.

This Action Network campaign invites constituents and supporters to: • Denounce falsehoods and distortion of facts. • Demand that Senator Tom Cotton retract statements and restore honesty. • Support CodePink’s commitment to peace and accountability. Follow the link above to read the full letter, sign on, and share it with your network.