From: Concerned residents of Jersey City and the people of New Jersey
We, the undersigned, call upon the Jersey City Council and Mayor to immediately prohibit the use of Jersey City’s public infrastructure—our roads, rail lines, port access, airport facilities, warehouses, and taxpayer-funded services—for the storage or transport of explosive, hazardous, or military cargo for foreign militaries, specifically Israel.
Interglobal Forwarding Services (IFS) and related entities in Jersey City have operated as logistics agents for the Israeli Ministry of Defense and Israeli weapons manufacturers. This means our publicly funded infrastructure, built to serve our residents, is being used as a militarized supply chain to ship dangerous and potentially explosive materials that fuel war abroad. This takes place near schools, homes, businesses, and essential services—with no transparency or community consent.
This is not only immoral—it is a direct threat to public safety. Transporting and storing explosive or hazardous military cargo through densely populated neighborhoods violates the spirit of the U.S. Hazardous Materials Transportation Act, DOT safety regulations (49 CFR), EPA Risk Management requirements, the NJ Worker and Community Right-to-Know Act, and basic municipal responsibility to protect residents. If an accident, spill, or explosion occurs, Jersey City residents—not a foreign military—will suffer the consequences, and our first responders will shoulder the risk. We refuse to allow our public infrastructure, built with our tax dollars, to become a weapons pipeline for genocide.
International legal bodies, including the UN Commission of Inquiry, have found that Israel’s actions in Gaza meet the definition of genocide and have called on all governments to halt arms transfers. Jersey City must not violate both state safety law and international human rights law by enabling these transfers. Our city must protect us—not foreign militaries or weapons corporations.
Our Demands:
· Enact an immediate ban on the use of Jersey City public infrastructure (roads, rail, port/airport access, warehouses, utilities, emergency services, and land) for the storage or transport of explosives, munitions, or hazardous military cargo for foreign militaries.
· Contract/Lease
· Initiate a public investigation and safety audit of Interglobal Forwarding Services and all entities moving hazardous or military cargo through Jersey City, and a public City Council hearing
· Enforce full transparency and public notification for any hazardous cargo using city infrastructure.
· Pass a permanent municipal policy (two-way arms embargo) prohibiting Jersey City infrastructure, land, and resources from being used to facilitate foreign military operations, weapons storage, or transport.