***Calls to Action***
Join Interfaith4Palestine on Sunday, April 19th at the Oakland People’s Arms Embargo campaign’s Mass Meeting. Members of Interfaith4Palestine will be there to help anchor a faith breakout and/or connection space where we can identify concrete ways we can mobilize our respective communities and traditions in support of the Oakland People’s Arms Embargo. Sign up for the mass meeting here or at bit.ly/opaemassmeeting.
Previous Oakland People’s Arms Embargo Actions
Interfaith4Palestine Endorses the Oakland People Arms Embargo
Interfaith4Palestine recently endorsed the Oakland People’s Arms Embargo, organized by The Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), Arab Resource and Organizing Center Action (AROC Action), and the US Palestinian Community Network (USPCN).
Our faith traditions all share a reverence for life that calls on us to demand an end to not only the genocide in Palestine, but an end to the US government’s supplying of deadly weaponry to the Israeli military that is causing it. Here in Oakland, we have a clear pathway to stopping that supply by demanding the Oakland City Council, Oakland Mayor, and Oakland Port Authority cease all military cargo shipments to Israel.
Learn more about the Oakland People’s Arms Embargo at https://armsembargonow.com/.
We encourage all people of faith to sign onto the Oakland People’s Arms Embargo petition, and for any communities/organizations to join us and dozens of other orgs/communities as endorsers of this critical, life-affirming, and local campaign.
“Since January 2025, at least 280 military cargo shipments to Israel have been identified departing from OAK, with Nevatim Airbase being the primary final destination. These shipments have occurred multiple times per week for nearly the entirety of the year and have included F-35 fighter jet components used to carry and release munitions, guide weapons, power surveillance and targeting systems, and support critical flight operations — all essential to sustaining the combat readiness of Israel’s Air Force.
The frequency of these shipments, particularly when compared to other U.S. airports, positions OAK as one of the few consistently active logistical nodes in the U.S. military supply chain to Nevatim Airbase. Based on a sample of 500 shipments to Israel routed through FedEx’s Global Superhub between April and June 2025, OAK was the second most frequent transit point nationwide, after Fort Worth, Texas (excluding the Superhub itself). These components were supplied by, or contracted through, Lockheed Martin, and included program logistics overseen by the U.S. Department of Defense’s F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO), and physical distribution handled through the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Distribution Depot in Tracy, California.
Many of the items shipped — such as bomb release units, weapons bay adapters, surveillance sensors, and flight-critical electronics — are the precise mechanisms that enable the F-35 to fly its bombing missions and to identify, target, and strike with lethal accuracy. The capabilities enabled by these components have been used extensively by the Israeli Air Force in bombing campaigns in Gaza, including the airstrike on Al-Mawasi in July 2024, during which Israel dropped three 2,000-pound bombs on a designated humanitarian safe zone—killing at least 90 people.”
From the Palestinian Youth Movement’s “Exposing Oakland Airport’s Military Cargo Shipments to Israel” Report (August 28, 2025)
WATCH: Community members take action at the November 20 Port of Oakland Board Commissioners Hearing
We are deeply grateful for Rev. Kevin Mann, who spoke on behalf of Interfaith4Palestine at this hearing. Listen to his and other community comments below.