The United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE), a labor union of 30,000 members, is moving swiftly — and forcefully — to condemn Israel’s mounting attacks on Lebanon. Last week, the union’s elected officers issued a statement urging President Joe Biden to ​“immediately cut off all military aid to Israel, as the only mechanism available to get Israel to agree to an immediate cease-fire, before the conflict escalates even further.”

This is not the first time the union has made this demand; it has issued this call since well before October 7, 2023, and repeatedly throughout the past eleven months.

But amid signs of a mounting regional war, the plea takes on new urgency. ​“Israel’s recent strikes on Lebanon, which have killed hundreds of people including women, children and paramedics, are exactly the type of regional escalation of hostilities that we predicted would happen without a cease-fire in Gaza,” the union’s leaders warned in their statement.