UUJME is part of the global movement for solidarity with Palestinians, and our mission calls on us to support our allies in broader global justice and anti-oppression movements. As such we condemn the United States-Israel military attacks on Iran, attacks which have generated a war spreading across the region. We mourn the deaths resulting from this illegal attack, lifting up the more than 150 Iranian children and their teachers killed in bombing of a school in the first 24 hours, and support the people of Iran’s right to freedom and self-determination. 

We recall the connection of this attack to a long history of U.S. actions against the people of Iran, including the U.S. (and U.K) - orchestrated wrecking of Iran’s secular democracy in 1953, the imposition of life-destroying economic sanctions beginning in 1979, and trashing of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), commonly known as the Iran nuclear deal, in 2018.

We support a world liberated from militarism, coercive control, state violence, and the abuses of imperialism. This will take an increasingly connected global movement that is clear about forming the necessary broad coalition that spans many philosophical differences and upholds international law as exemplified in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Please join us in the discipline of praying with your body without ceasing. Attend protest rallies. Organize people in your congregation to support the Purge Palantir campaign. Mobilize other UUs to call Congress to stop state and federal tax money from supplying weapons for attacking Palestine and Iran, and also to stop funding ICE and DHS. Ask your congregation to join the growing numbers of UU groups pledging to be Apartheid-Free, because helping to dismantle Israel’s systemic violence is one key to ending expanded neocolonialism and apartheid in the region. 

We hope to see you on the front lines of social change and moral revolution inside and outside of your congregations, partnering broadly as you help to bend the arc of the universe toward justice.

Read and share the UUA and UUSC statements about the attack on Iran.