"This pressure should center on the idea of “breaking with Israel,” a comprehensive boycott that matches the horror of the genocide. No state that commits this should be tolerated, and the breaking of relations should be comprehensive. Military, trade, and cultural agreements and links should be canceled. Imports as well as exports, commercial as well as military, from Israel as a whole, not just the illegally occupied territories, should be banned. All Israeli ministers and public figures who have supported the genocide should be barred, not just token extreme-right ministers. Visa-free travel from Israel into other countries should be ended — 170 currently allow it, including many that nominally oppose the Gaza genocide — so that the entry of those who have participated in the genocide can be prevented.
These demands will obviously be particularly difficult for Jewish communities, and especially for Israeli American, Israeli British, and other dual-citizen families, so they will need the support of anti-Zionist Jews. But if we take “never again” after the Holocaust seriously, it applies to Israel too. The recognition of genocide by B’Tselem, Physicians for Human Rights–Israel, and other Israeli Jews is obviously crucial in legitimating the demand for an anti-genocide break with the state within the global Jewish community.
Clearly, these kinds of demands are well in advance of where even the most progressive Western governments are at the present time. But they are the kinds of pressures that match the growing consciousness of the genocide across the world. It is actions, not words, that Israel and even Donald Trump will take notice of. Ending the Gaza genocide must become the new raison d’état in every country that claims to represent human values."
https://jacobin.com/2025/08/genocide-israel-west-us-ties
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