{"id":309518,"date":"2026-05-10T22:57:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T22:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/309518\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T22:57:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T22:57:42","slug":"demonstrators-in-oakland-call-for-end-of-u-s-military-aid-to-israel-nbc-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/309518\/","title":{"rendered":"Demonstrators in Oakland call for end of U.S. military aid to Israel \u2013 NBC Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday, hundreds of pro-Palestine demonstrators took to the streets in Oakland, calling for peace in Gaza and an end to U.S. military support of Israel\u2019s war there.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday\u2019s was one of several demonstrations organized by Bay Area faith leaders and the third pilgrimage since 2023 \u2013 those pilgrimages focused on the airport and its largest cargo shipper, FedEx.<\/p>\n<p>After a 12-mile journey through Oakland, hundreds of \u201cpeace in Palestine\u201d marches arrived at the Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport, signing their way into and through the terminals, making sure they\u2019re seen and heard by travelers inside and outside.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo say, do you know what\u2019s happening right under our noses? Do you know that when you get on an airplane, there may be military cargo in the belly of that airplane?\u201d said Reverend Allison Tanner, with the Oakland Lakeshore Baptist Church.<\/p>\n<p>An inter-faith pilgrimage for Palestine in support of the Oakland People\u2019s Arms Embargo, organized and supported by at least four dozen local groups and faith leaders.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe stopped at various sites, where people are profiting from sending weapons to war, and we know that Oakland airport ships the parts for the F-35s,\u201d said Rabi Lynn Gottlieb, Interfaith Pilgrimage for Palestine co-organizer.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.palestinianyouthmovement.com\/our-work\/arms-embargo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Palestinian youth movement study<\/a> estimated as many as 280 Israeli military shipments departed Oaklandlast year, with those F-35 parts and also things like targeting hardware, bomb release systems and other military parts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re here at Oakland airport, because we know FedEx is shipping weapons parts and components to Israel, through this airport,\u201d said Vivek Kembaiyan, Hindus for Human Rights community organizer.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the airport said the port and the airport stand by their statement after a similar demonstration last October.<\/p>\n<p>Back then, they said that the airport is \u201clegally required to accommodate federally authorized air traffic, including air cargo arranged by the U.S. government or cargo providers like FedEx\u201d and others.<\/p>\n<p>But organizers of this demonstration say that\u2019s not good enough.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are committing crimes against humanity. We\u2019re signatories to treaties, through the United Nations, that make these acts illegal,\u201d Gottlieb said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd we\u2019re calling on the Oakland Ports Commission to take action to stop that, to stop the arms shipments from going to Israel,\u201d Kembaiyan said.<\/p>\n<p>Organizers said there will be more pilgrimages like this and other demonstrations until the war in Gaza ends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Saturday, hundreds of pro-Palestine demonstrators took to the streets in Oakland, calling for peace in Gaza and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-309518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}