Mexico Will Not Join Measures Against Gaza Genocide

ByMexico Solidarity

Despite the apperance of Mexican Ambassador to Colombia, Patricia Ruiz Anchondo, at The Hague Group’s Emergency Conference of States to Halt Israel’s Genocide in Gaza in Bogotá, Colombia, and Mexico being a signatory and state party to the Genocide Convention (which confers upon it serious obligations to act to prevent genocide and act against its perpetrator), Mexico will not join other countries in implementing measures against israel.

Instagram post by Mexico’s ambassador to Colombia

The measures are:

  • Prevent the provision or transfer of arms, munitions, military fuel, related military equipment, and dual-use items to Israel…
  • Prevent the transit, docking, and servicing of vessels at any port…. in all cases where there is a clear risk of the vessel being used to carry arms, munitions, military fuel, related military equipment, and dual-use items to Israel
  • Prevent the carriage of arms, munitions, military fuel, related military equipment, and dual-use items to Israel on vessels bearing our flag… and ensure full accountability, including de-flagging, for non-compliance with this prohibition.
  • Commence an urgent review of all public contracts, to prevent public institutions and funds from supporting Israel’s illegal occupation of the Palestinian Territory and entrenching its unlawful presence.
  • Comply with obligations to ensure accountability for the most serious crimes under international law, through robust, impartial and independent investigations and prosecutions at national or international levels, to ensure justice for all victims and the prevention of future crimes.
  • Support universal jurisdiction mandates, as and where applicable in national legal frameworks and judiciaries, to ensure justice for victims of international crimes committed in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

12 states — Bolivia, Colombia, Cuba, Indonesia, Iraq, Libya, Malaysia, Namibia, Nicaragua, Oman, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and South Africa — committed to implementing the six measures immediately through their domestic legal and administrative systems to break the ties of complicity with Israel’s campaign of devastation in Palestine — and set a date of 20th September, to coincide with the 80th UN General Assembly, for additional states to join them. Consultations with capitals across the world are now ongoing, leaving the door open for Mexico and many others to redeem themselves for their inaction against mass murder.

Mossad agents were involved in a plot to blow up the Mexican Senate in 2001.

Yesterday there was discussion that the United States government was actively threatening participants during yesterday’s closed door session dedicated to deliberate the measures, showcasing its long-standing commitment to protecting its treasured, violent colonial outpost.

Despite intervening in the International Court of Justice’s case concerning Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip in 2024, welcoming the ICJ’s provisional measures to prevent and punish genocide, and joining Chile in refering the situation in Palestine to the International Criminal Court during the Presidency of A, President Claudia Sheinbaum has, refusing to refer to it as a genocide. Mexico’s current Secretary of Foreign Affairs Juan Ramón de la Fuente is a known Zionist, awarded the Jerusalem Prize by the World Zionist Congress in 2015, and disliked by the Mexican left for his serious violations of university autonomy during his time as rector of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, when he used federal police to attack and imprison hundreds of striking university students.

Mexico’s Palestinian solidarity movement had expected that President Claudia Sheinbaum, the author of a 2009 letter to Mexican left-wing newspaper La Jornada which declared that “no reason justifies the murder of Palestinian civilians,” and called for an immediate withdrawl of israeli troops from Palestinian territory, would take a proactive approach in opposing the genocide of the Palestinian people, but the movement has been disappointed by her inaction and cold responses to questions during her daily Presidential press conferences.

There is, sadly, a disappointing precedent for President Claudia Sheinbaum’s inaction. In November 10th, 1975 Mexico voted at the United Nations to condemn Zionism as racism, before President Luis Echeverría Alvarez (revealed to be an asset of the Central Intelligence Agency) reversed the decision in December, sent his Foreign Minister to israel, and had Mexico’s United Nations representative abstain from a vote condemning israel’s bombing of Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon.

Mexicans have an overwhelming negative view of israel, with recent polling showing 61% of Mexicans had a very unfavourable to somewhat unfavourable view of the fake country; which produced the Pegasus Spyware used by the Mexican military to spy on journalists and citizens, has given refuge to the torturer and criminal Tomás Zerón who tampered with evidence in the Ayotzinapa disappearance case, and was allegedly involved in an October 2001 attempt to blow up the Mexican Senate and blame it on Pakistani nationals.