June 25, 2025
SEMA Coalition condemns the US attack on Iran
The Southeast Massachusetts Coalition for a Free Palestine condemns the unprovoked U.S. attacks on Iran carried out on June 22, 2025. These criminal bombings plainly violate both the UN Charter and U.S. domestic law.
We reject the blatant lies offered as pretext by the Trump regime. Trump’s own intelligence agencies assessed that Iran was three to eight months away from producing enough weapons-grade uranium for a bomb — and even then, the actual assembly of a nuclear weapon would take months to a year, leaving ample time for diplomacy.
As mainstream media coverage typically fails to mention, under the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Iran agreed to gut its peaceful nuclear program and submit to an intrusive inspections regime in exchange for sanctions relief — relief that was never fully delivered. Trump unilaterally withdrew from the agreement in 2018, and Iran has been punished ever since for complying. Media narratives now focus on how “effective” the strikes were, while ignoring their blatant criminality.
Even if Iran possessed a nuclear weapon, this would not justify military aggression. The U.S. itself holds an arsenal capable of annihilating the planet many times over — yet no foreign power has attacked its nuclear infrastructure.
Israel — “the American protectorate,” in the words of Trump adviser Steve Bannon — holds an estimated 90 nuclear warheads, operates outside the Non-Proliferation Treaty, and has shown utter contempt for international law. Over the past 20 months, Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, leveling hospitals, schools, and entire cities with U.S.-made weapons. Yet the political establishment — both Democratic and Republican — fulminates over Iranian support for terrorism, while Israel carries out the most industrialized and relentless campaign of terror the 21st century has yet seen. It is a grotesque inversion of reality to claim that Iran is the threat to peace.
We denounce U.S. support for Zionist wars of conquest and extermination across the region. We demand:
- A complete and immediate arms embargo on Israel
- International prosecution of Benjamin Netanyahu for war crimes
- Investigations of both Trump and Biden for complicity in war crimes
Free Palestine! End imperialist war!
March 20, 2025
SEMA demands a ceasefire and arms embargo
The Southeast Massachusetts Coalition for a Free Palestine calls for a complete U.S. arms embargo against Israel and demands Israel’s return to the ceasefire in place
The SEMA Coalition for a Free Palestine condemns Israel’s violation of the ceasefire agreement and its resumption of a genocidal assault on the Palestinian people, which has killed 400 people in the past few days.
We stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people, who have been subjected to massacres, ethnic cleansing, full-blown genocide, apartheid conditions and innumerable violations of their human rights for over 75 years, abuses committed by the Israeli state with the essential military and diplomatic support of the United States.
We demand that
the US government immediately stop all military aid to Israel, which is not only morally repugnant but illegal under federal law;
humanitarian aid be permitted to flow unimpeded to where it is needed in Gaza, without Israeli interference, with no further interruption of the supply of electricity, fuel, and other necessities;
there be a complete, permanent ceasefire and continuation of negotiations pursuant to the ceasefire agreement, with a view towards completing the exchange of Israeli captives for Palestinian prisoners and detainees;
Israel, the United States, and European governments which have supplied weapons to Israel assume financial responsibility for the reconstruction of Gaza;
Israel end its campaign of ethnic cleansing and settler violence in the West Bank;
Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant be arrested and tried for war crimes;
Mahmoud Khalil, who has been illegally detained, be immediately released, and that there be no further persecution and harassment of anyone for exercising the democratic right of free speech.
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