Dock Workers In France Take a Stand Against Genocide

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Wonder if this will catch on:

French dock workers in Fos-sur-Mer, near Marseille, are blocking the shipment of military equipment bound for Israel, protesting the Israeli military's ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, France 24 reported on 6 June.

The action, led by members of the CGT trade union, halted the loading of 19 pallets of bullet links—metal components used to enable rapid machine gun fire—onto a cargo vessel on Thursday.

Christophe Claret, a union representative, confirmed that the shipment was identified and set aside after workers were notified of its contents.

"Once dockers refuse to load a shipment, no one else can do it for them," Claret told AFP. The remaining cargo for the vessel was loaded as scheduled.

The CGT issued a statement denouncing the delivery and declaring it would not be complicit in what it called "the ongoing genocide orchestrated by the Israeli government." Eurolinks, a Marseille-based defense supplier, manufactured the metal links. The company declined to comment on the incident, and the Port of Marseille-Fos also issued no statement.

Human rights groups have voiced support for the dock workers. Anne Savinel-Barras, president of Amnesty International France, condemned the deliveries as being carried out "in opacity" and in contradiction with recent remarks by French President Emmanuel Macron, who has expressed horror at the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

"If France continues to authorize the delivery of war material to Israel, it is fueling this genocide," Savinel-Barras said, urging the government to impose a full arms embargo.

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