Arms Embargo Now
Our partners at Arm Embargo Now are hosting an urgent movement briefing. You can read their invitation letter below. Please join us in taking action for peace with justice!
“Hello,
For the past two years our movements have rallied behind the demand for a full arms embargo on Israel. Tens of thousands of people have taken unified action across the entire country – we’ve backed the government into a corner time and again, and we’ve had big wins as a result.
We forced the government to concede that Canada shouldn’t arm Israel, to pause approving new arms export permits, and to suspend dozens of existing ones – and we just recently confirmed that these prohibitions remain in place.
But this year, even as Israeli bombs fell on an expanding swath of Gaza, Iran, and Lebanon, our government has refused to materially hold Israel accountable. When we handed them the opportunity to actually cut off the flow of arms to Israel by shutting down the massive loophole through the US, our government voted to side with arms manufacturers instead of human rights. While the government responded to our pressure with halfhearted criticism of Israel’s ever-expanding violence, their own report, released last month, showed that millions of dollars of Canadian weapons were exported to Israel in 2025 alone (and those are just the tip of the iceberg - only the exports that require a permit). At the same time, Carney has moved Canada down a radical new path for the country – quadrupling our military spending, ramping up arms manufacturing, and building brand new institutions designed to expand Canadian war profiteering.
If the Carney government thought that doubling down on a vision of Canada based on war, militarism, and arms exports was going to deter us from our commitment to cutting off the flow of weapons to Israel’s genocide, they couldn’t be more wrong.
This current political context requires a new strategy, and the Arms Embargo Now campaign is ready to meet the moment. We have a bold new plan to take an arms embargo into our own hands. Together, we can directly interrupt the flow of arms to Israel, and materially disrupt Canada’s complicity in genocide.
On Thursday July 16 at 4pm PT / 7pm ET / 8pm AT, join an urgent movement briefing where we will announce the next stage of the Arms Embargo Now campaign. Register now to reserve a spot.
This is a big one - don't miss it.
Arms. Embargo. Now.
In solidarity,
The AEN organizing team”