No matter what, we’ll keep working
to stop the bombing of Gaza
and bring the hostages home
Win Without War

(September 22, 2025) — While the Trump administration and its allies may accept the Israeli government’s recent escalations as a new normal, this community is different.

Over the past few days, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have been forced to flee — some grabbing anything they can hold — amidst relentless Israeli military strikes that destroy hospitals, homes filled with families, heritage sites, and areas sheltering displaced people in Gaza. [1] It’s all happening with U.S. weapons and political support.

We, alongside partners across the movement and people like you, are racing to respond.

As one of the strongest Israeli government allies, the United States has unmatched leverage to spare to secure a peaceful solution. Unfortunately, the Trump administration has proven unfit for the task. But we don’t need Trump: Congress CAN block the bombs.

Right now, we’re pushing a growing number of lawmakers to do just that — and in a major development over the weekend, the Congressional Progressive Caucus formally endorsed the Block the Bombs Act, legislation that partners and activists like you have been advocating for.

We’re making crucial progress, but it’s not enough — yet. Advocacy in this moment means unanticipated risks and challenges, and confronting them requires resources. But we’re as committed as ever to ending U.S. complicity and saving lives. 

The suffering and loss of life we’ve witnessed is incalculable. But our team is surging as momentum to end the war builds.

Senators Chris Van Hollen and Jeff Merkley recently traveled to the region and released a groundbreaking report confirming what many independent observers have previously determined: The Netanyahu government is engaged in a campaign of ethnic cleansing in Gaza — one that U.S. weapons and political support are enabling. [2] Last week, Senator Bernie Sanders went even further, agreeing with the UN Human Rights Council determination that the Israeli government’s actions in Gaza are genocide. [3,4]

Every day, more members of Congress are taking action — including with meaningful votes — to BLOCK U.S.-made weapons bound for the Israeli government.

That’s not all: New polling shows that 60 percent of U.S. voters oppose the United States sending more military aid to the Israeli government to use in Gaza. [5]

Now it’s time to turn this energy into action, and we know we can do this: Win Without War helped build a coalition of activists who demanded change and successfully got bipartisan majorities of a Republican-led Congress to vote against military aid to Saudi Arabia as it waged war in Yemen during the first Trump administration. If we did it once, that means we can do it again.

It’ll be anything but easy. Saving lives at this moment requires building powerful coalitions in the 119th Congress willing to block the Trump administration’s attempts to erase Palestinians’ existence or deepen this horrific war. It’ll mean ramping up our advocacy and employing the kind of creative tactics — ads, banners, billboards, and more — that can ensure no decisionmaker can ignore the costs of such devastating violence. Join us.

Make no mistake, it was diplomacy that got us a six-week, life-saving ceasefire earlier this year. Families were made whole as their loved ones returned home. Hundreds of trucks were able to bring crucially needed aid into Gaza. Violence across the region slowed dramatically.

The only way for us to guarantee that nothing changes is to do nothing. We WILL remake U.S. foreign policy into a tool capable of saving lives, but we must continue to act together.

We’re facing a crucial opportunity for people across the country, along with our movement allies, champions in Congress, and partners in Israel and Palestine, to push toward peace. Together, we will not only reckon with so much pain and suffering — we will build something better from it: A world where we can all live and thrive without the threat of violence.
Thank you for working for peace,f
The Win Without War team

Footnotes
1. BBC, “‘The bombing has been insane’: Palestinians scramble to flee Israeli assault on Gaza City”
2. The Guardian, “Senators say US is complicit in Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Gaza” (full report)
3. Senator Sanders Press Release, “It Is Genocide”
4. UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, “Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, UN Commission finds”
5. Quinnipiac University Poll, “Majority Of Voters Oppose Deploying National Guard To D.C.; Support Drops For U.S. Military Aid To Israel As 50% Think Israel Is Committing Genocide In Gaza”