Israel's extremist National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir is touring the U.S. for a week, raising money for political plans and spreading his violent anti-Palestinian ideology. We call on U.S. authorities to arrest Ben Gvir for war crimes and deport him from the country.
Ben Gvir is set to meet with officials from the U.S. Homeland Security, which is outrageous for an individual convicted of supporting a terrorist organization. Ben Gvir is scheduled to speak at Yale University, as well as in New York and Miami.
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Itamar Ben Gvir lives in the illegal settlement of Kiryat Arba on the outskirts of Hebron where he has partaken in many ideologically extreme actions and events against the local Palestinian community. Ben Gvir has celebrated the Ibrahimi Mosque Massacre of 1994 where an American-born Israeli settler named Baruch Goldstein entered the Mosque and shot dead 29 Palestinian worshippers and wounding more than 100 others, including children. Ben Gvir not only joins the Hebron settlers to pray at Goldstein's grave, he also had this mass murderers portrait hanging in his living room for years. Ben Gvir was convicted of support for the outlawed Israeli terrorist organization Kach.
Ben Gvir has stated his racist and extremist ideology explicitly, calling for numerous measures that treat Palestinians as inferior and undeserving of the basic dignities of life. Ben Gvir was known to distribute weapons to Israeli settlers, a step toward the creation of settler paramilitaries and death squads. Ben Gvir has called for the expulsion of Palestinians with Israeli citizenship, and he has called on Israeli police to shoot Palestinian protesters. He has stated that the right of Jewish Israelis to move around in occupied territories supersedes Palestinian freedom of movement.
When an Israeli soldier unprompted assaulted human rights defender Issa Amro in Hebron in front of Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Lawrence Wright, Ben Gvir supported the soldier and condemned his prosecution. When the Gaza ceasefire was first implemented, Ben Gvir resigned from his position as National Security Minister. While Palestinian children are starving, Ben Gvir called for not "a gram of food or aid" to enter Gaza.
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We the people of the United States and the world call on U.S. authorities to arrest Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir for war crimes and deport him from the country.
Ben Gvir is a dangerous individual convicted of support for a terrorist organization and incitement to racism. His time as Israel's National Security Minister has only confirmed his extremist views and empowered a genocidal Palestinian-hating ideology. His involvement in Israel's expansionist settlement project and support for ethnic cleansing and genocide in Gaza and the West Bank must prompt the U.S. government to act and arrest Ben Gvir for war crimes and deport him from the country.
