AMP Demands End to U.S. Vetoes Protecting War Criminals

Yesterday, the United States stood alone, again, as the sole veto on a United Nations Security Council resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. With this vote, the U.S. has once more chosen to shield an apartheid regime rather than uphold international law, human rights, or even the bare minimum of humanitarian decency.

This pattern is nothing new. President Biden’s administration cast at least four vetoes between 2023 and 2024 to block global calls for a ceasefire, isolating the U.S. on the world stage. Now, under the Trump administration, the same policy continues—proving this is not about party lines, but strictly about the U.S.’s commitment to politically and financially backing Israel’s genocide.

Every time the United States vetoes a resolution like this, what it’s doing is voting to continue genocide against the Palestinian people. To prolong and exacerbate Israel’s man-made famine. To enable the torture, starvation, and mass murder of Palestinians using our tax dollars.

But here’s the thing: not only is the U.S. bankrolling genocide and shielding it at the UN—it is an active participant in it. U.S. mercenaries are operating on the ground, running death marches masked as aid distribution sites. The so-called “safe zones” and “humanitarian corridors” have become killing fields—coordinated with U.S. oversight, stamped with U.S. weapons, and soaked in Palestinian blood.

Ambassador Dorothy Shea’s so-called “explanation” for the veto is both dishonest and indefensible. She claimed the resolution would “jeopardize ongoing negotiations” and lacked “necessary condemnation” of Hamas. But let’s be clear: There is no legitimate negotiation that justifies blocking food, medicine, and fuel from 2.3 million Palestinians who are being deliberately starved and bombed. There is no valid reason to veto a call to stop the killing when well over 62,614 Palestinians have already been slaughtered, and famine is being used as a weapon of war.

While most of the world moves toward accountability and justice, even if only symbolically, the U.S. continues to deepen its moral and legal isolation. This veto, and every veto that came before it and will come after it, is a statement that the U.S. government values its strategic alliance with a violent apartheid regime more than it values international law, civilian lives, or its own integrity. That is a stain history will not forget.

We demand an end to U.S. military aid to Israel, an end to U.S. vetoes protecting war criminals, and an immediate, permanent ceasefire.