🛑 How a massive warehouse in New Jersey became THE lifeline for Israel’s genocide machine — and why we must shut it down.

Inside the quiet logistics empire that ships Merkava tank parts, F-16 parts, and rifle ammo straight to Israel.

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What I Thought I Was Moving Into in New Jersey

A few years ago, my family and I packed up our lives in Brooklyn and moved to New Jersey.

If you had asked me then, “Shaun, which state do you think most of the weapons and machinery used for the genocide in Gaza are flowing through?” I don’t think in a million guesses I would’ve said: New Jersey.

This is a state where every major lever of power is held by Democrats. The governor is a Democrat. The attorney general. The state legislature. Both U.S. senators. Most of the members of Congress. The mayors from city to suburb. If you listen to how New Jersey talks about itself, you’d think you’d moved into a safe blue fortress of progressive values.

But I’ve been telling anybody who would listen for years now: in this country, the one thing that is truly bipartisan is support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Republicans do it loudly. Democrats do it with nicer language, but the same weapons, the same funding, the same cover.

And now we have hard proof that this genocide doesn’t just move through Washington, D.C. or Tel Aviv.

It moves through Jersey City. Through one warehouse. Through one logistics operation that has been quietly loading, labeling, and shipping a thousand tons of weapons a week into a slaughter.

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The Warehouse at 1A Colony Road

I am deeply grateful for the brilliant journalists at Drop Site News — Jose Olivares and Alex Colston — and for the organizers and researchers with the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) and Progressive International (PI) who pulled back the curtain on this story.

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Here’s what they uncovered.

At 1A Colony Road in Jersey City, inside a 125,000 square foot warehouse tucked into a rail-ringed industrial park, three New Jersey–based logistics companies work as one operation:

• Interglobal Forwarding Services (IFS) – handling the paperwork, contracts, and coordination.

• G&B Packing Company – receiving the gear, inspecting it, packing it, loading it.

• G&G Services – running the trucks that haul this cargo to ports and airports.

On paper, they look like just another set of shipping and logistics firms. In reality, according to the new report from PYM and PI, they are “the default location for any export of military goods to Israel” that doesn’t run through a U.S. military base.

Between January and late August of 2025, Drop Site reports that this warehouse moved, on average, 878 tons of sea cargo and between 263 and 525 tons of air cargo every single week to Israel. That’s over a thousand tons of military cargo a week, flowing from New Jersey to a state already deep in the blood of Palestinians.

Researchers found that 91% of all Israel-bound sea exports of military gear that did not go through a U.S. military base went through this single operation in New Jersey.

Let that sink in.

Not 9%.
Not “a lot.”

Ninety-one percent.

The equipment they documented moving through this warehouse includes:

• Merkava tank parts

• F-16 aircraft parts and other aircraft components

• Armored and unarmored vehicles, including “David” tactical vehicles used by Israeli forces

• Shipments for Israeli weapons firms like Rafael Advanced Systems and Israeli Military Industries (IMI)

• One shipment that contained 340 tons of rifle ammunition alone

This isn’t abstract. Drop Site visited the warehouse and saw a green “David” tactical vehicle behind the fence, sitting next to Maersk containers ready to be moved to the port. The route they tracked is routine: from the Jersey City warehouse to Port Newark–Elizabeth, then onto Maersk ships, through Tangier, Morocco, and finally to Haifa.

The Israeli Ministry of Defense is so bound up with this place that in at least one government document, it literally tells companies to label cargo with G&B Packing’s address. That’s how central this warehouse is to the flow of weapons into Israel.

Nadya Tannous of PYM said it bluntly:

“This warehouse is not just a logistics company; it’s the lifeline of Israel’s war machine. Israel will use it to restock for its next assault on Gaza.”

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The Family Business of Arming a Genocide

The Drop Site investigation shows that the companies behind this operation — IFS, G&B, and their related entities Interglobal Shipping 3001 and Interglobal Cargo — are essentially a family empire.

IFS and G&B are owned by Lawrence and Stanley Grossman. Their companies trace their roots back to 1947 in the United States. Think about that date. That’s the same pre-state moment when Zionist institutions were preparing for the creation of Israel and the mass displacement of Palestinians. Around that same time, the Israeli Ministry of Defense created its New York–based logistics arm known as “the Mission”, whose job is to coordinate weapons purchases and shipments.

The Mission’s tagline is “protecting our homeland from afar.”

We now know that “afar” includes Jersey City, Port Newark, Maersk shipping lanes, and a warehouse with HAZMAT rooms and 24-hour surveillance — where they quietly prep the tools that turn apartment blocks in Gaza into dust.

The Grossman companies have been deep in this business for decades. Drop Site and earlier investigations show:

• Contracts with the U.S. Department of Defense going back at least to 2003.

• Thousands of shipments for the Israeli Ministry of Defense, including counterinsurgency weapons and “diplomatic” cargo that weighed over 16,000 tons between 2011 and 2014.

• A 2008 scandal in which hundreds of assault rifles routed through IFS were seized in Newark by U.S. Customs because the imports lacked proper licensing.

In State Department cables later released by WikiLeaks, U.S. officials expressed concern that some of what IFS was moving might be linked to cluster munitions — banned or heavily restricted in much of the world because of the way they rip through civilian populations.

If you’re reading this in New Jersey, just know this:

Weapons have been flowing in and out of this state, with red flags and warnings attached, for years. The same companies that got heat in 2008 are now quietly moving a thousand tons a week into an ongoing genocide.

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What the Law Actually Says — and Why This Matters Here

I want to be clear: I am not your lawyer. I am not pretending to be a prosecutor. I am a man watching the bodies pile up in Gaza while a warehouse a short drive from my home packages the weapons.

But there are real laws on the books here — in the United States and internationally — that New Jersey’s leaders can no longer pretend don’t exist.

First, the basics.

The United States has a set of laws that regulate the export of weapons and sensitive military technology. The main ones are:

• The Arms Export Control Act (AECA), which says that “defense articles and services” can only be exported under strict controls and licensing.

• The International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), which implement that law and govern the U.S. Munitions List — things like guns, ammo, armored vehicles, and fighter jet parts.

In plain language, these laws say: if you are moving weapons or crucial military components out of the United States, you need to be registered, licensed, truthful, and transparent about what you’re shipping and to whom. If you lie, mislabel, or move things without proper authorization, you are not just bending the rules — you could be committing a federal crime.

We already know from the 2008 incident that shipments tied to IFS were seized in Newark for missing licenses. We know U.S. officials have questioned whether some of their shipments were tied to the production of cluster munitions. And we now know that, despite those concerns, the U.S. government continued to sign contracts, including one as recent as November 6th, 2025, listing G&B Packing as a point of contact for moving aircraft parts for the Israeli Ministry of Defense.

At the very least, that demands immediate investigation. New Jersey residents have the right to know:

• Are these companies complying with AECA and ITAR today?

• Are they adequately disclosing the nature of the cargo?

• Are they moving components that feed into weapons systems already being used to obliterate neighborhoods in Gaza?

But the legal questions don’t stop with paperwork.

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When “Just Doing Business” Becomes Complicity in Genocide

Under U.S. law, genocide itself is a federal crime. So are certain war crimes. And another statute, aiding and abetting, says that if you knowingly help someone commit a federal crime — even if you never touch the scene of the crime yourself — you can be punished as if you did it.

Think about that in simple terms.

If someone plans a mass killing and you supply the guns, the bullets, and the transportation, knowing exactly what they’re going to do with it, you are not a neutral vendor. You are part of the crime.

Human rights experts and organizations around the world have said for over a year now that what Israel is doing in Gaza is not just “disproportionate.” It is genocidal — the systematic destruction of a people. The United States continues to pour weapons and political cover into that effort. According to the Center for International Policy, the U.S. delivered nearly $4.2 billion worth of military equipment to Israel between October 2023 and May 2025 alone.

Drop Site quotes Ari Tolany, director of Security Assistance, Arms Trade, and Technology at CIP, saying:

“A number of western states—chief among them the United States—are criminally liable for aiding and abetting a genocide. The severity and length of these atrocities has been made possible only through the United States’ supplying of munitions and broader political cover.”

That’s not a slogan. That’s a legal argument.

Internationally, the Genocide Convention requires states not just to avoid committing genocide themselves, but to prevent it once they know there is a serious risk. Many countries along this supply chain are also bound by the Arms Trade Treaty, which says they must not authorize arms transfers if they know the weapons would be used to commit war crimes or genocide.

And yet, from Jersey City, the weapons keep flowing.

David Adler, Co-General Coordinator of Progressive International, described it this way:

“The chain of complicity runs straight from Gaza’s rubble to the heart of the US American logistics industry. By exposing Interglobal’s role, we can begin to sever that chain—and confront the system that turns civilian slaughter into a business opportunity.”

New Jersey is not on the sidelines of this chain. It is a critical link in it.

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The Myth of the “Good Blue State”

Here’s where this cuts especially deep for me as a New Jersey resident.

We love to point at Texas, at Florida, at other red states, and say, “Look at how cruel they are. Look at how extreme they are.” We talk about Trump, and we should. His administration is pushing a so-called “stabilization plan” for Gaza that entrenches all the worst aspects of occupation and dispossession.

But when it comes to arming Israel, Democrats and Republicans link arms.

New Jersey is a textbook example.

Every major leaver of power in this state is blue. The politicians here campaign on gun safety, on equity, on compassion. They issue statements about their concern for civilians. They talk about “humanitarian pauses” and “peace.”

And all the while, a warehouse a few miles away is moving hundreds of tons of tank parts, ammo, and tactical vehicles into a genocide every week — under contracts that the U.S. government signs and that state officials have the power to question, regulate, and challenge.

If New Jersey can pass laws to punish people for boycotting Israel, it can pass laws to investigate and constraincompanies that supply Israel with the literal machinery of mass death.

This is not ancient history. These are current contracts, involving companies that have already set off alarms in the past. And yet, when Drop Site reached out for comment:

• The companies refused to speak.

• The Israeli Ministry of Defense refused to speak.

• The U.S. State Department refused to speak.

Silence is its own confession.

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What We Must Do in New Jersey

I am writing this first to my neighbors in New Jersey, but the lesson applies everywhere the war machine moves: in Alabama, where “David” vehicles are built; in the ports in Morocco; at Maersk headquarters; in every city where warehouses quietly move killing tools as if they were boxes of shoes.

We do not have the luxury of pretending we are uninvolved.

We may not sit in the White House. We may not sit at the Pentagon. But we do live in the state where these weapons are boxed and shipped, where roads and ports and public infrastructure clear the way for genocide supplies. That gives us a responsibility — and leverage.

Here are concrete, non-violent, legal actions people in New Jersey can push for:

• Demand that the Governor and Attorney General open a full investigation into IFS, G&B, G&G, and their partners, including their export practices and compliance with U.S. law.

• Press your state legislators, mayors, and members of Congress to publicly denounce New Jersey’s role in arming Israel and commit to cutting off state cooperation with companies that supply weapons to ongoing atrocities.

• Organize around Port Newark–Elizabeth and other key infrastructure points with peaceful demonstrations, teach-ins, and campaigns that educate workers and communities on what moves through these docks.

• Target Maersk and other shippers with campaigns that connect this Jersey warehouse to their global operations, insisting that they end weapons transport to Israel as long as this genocide continues.

• Build local coalitions — with unions, mosque and church communities, student groups, Black and brown organizations — that refuse to let this be treated as “just business.”

This is not about harassing individual warehouse workers or truckers trying to feed their families. It’s about focusing on the companies, owners, and politicians who signed on to make New Jersey a hub for genocide logistics.

If you live here, you have the right to say: Not in our name. Not on our land. Not on our roads.

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Some of you reading this are already organizing. Some of you feel overwhelmed and powerless. I understand that feeling; I fight it every single day. But I want you to hear me clearly:

We are not spectators.

We are standing on top of the supply lines.

And that means we have a moral duty — and a real opportunity — to sever the chain of complicity that runs from Gaza’s rubble straight to our own backyards.

If you believe, like I do, that the people of Gaza have a right to live, that no child should be crushed under rubble, that no elder should be humiliated in the ruins of their home, then this is our fight too — right here in New Jersey.

And I need you in it with me.

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Love and appreciate each of you.
Your friend and brother,
Shaun

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