In the context of the Israeli genocide in Gaza, in which 680,000 Palestinians have been murdered, Mexico faces a flagrant contradiction by not breaking relations with Israel despite President Sheinbaum’s recent recognition of the Palestinian Holocaust.
The extradition of Tomás Zerón, a former official implicated in torture and tampering with evidence in Ayotzinapa, has been stalled in Israel since 2019. Meanwhile, the extradition of Andrés Roemer, accused of rape by at least five women and a fugitive since 2021, has not moved forward: detained in Israel in 2023, his appeal was rejected by the Supreme Court in April 2025, but the process drags on without a set date. This case illustrates Israel’s selective protection of sexual predators of Jewish origin. The delays in the Zenón and Roemer cases erode Mexican sovereignty.
Just in mid-2025, the Morena government of Oaxaca, under Salomón Jara, purchased 75 ARAD rifles from Israel Weapon Industries for state police, despite the genocide in Gaza. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Sedena) authorized the acquisition, ignoring UN condemnations and embargoes such as that of Spain. This decision finances the Zionist military complex that massacres Palestinians, contradicting Sheinbaum’s recognition of the genocide and revealing Morena’s subservience to Zionist interests.
Accusations of bribery of Peña Nieto for $25 million from Israeli businessmen Uri Ansbacher and Avishai Neriah to implement Pegasus during 2012-2018 reveal systemic corruption: the software enabled mass spying on opponents, journalists, and victims of Ayotzinapa. The Attorney General’s Office (FGR) opened an investigation in July 2025, but impunity persists; this scandal exposes how Israel poisons democracies with tools of repression.
Pegasus still permeates local, state, and federal governments: Sedena (National Security Forces) used it in 2019 to spy on 456 activist and journalist numbers, despite AMLO’s promises to eradicate it; states such as Chihuahua, Campeche, and Guerrero acquired it through Hacking Team, investing €5.8 million in illegal surveillance.
The Israeli arms industry has fueled drug violence in Mexico since 2000, selling more than 23,000 weapons to Sedena (National Security Forces) for 650 million pesos between 2006 and 2018, which ended up in the hands of cartels such as CJNG and Sinaloa. Tavor and Galil rifles, used by Israel in Gaza, were found in 41 illegal seizures between 2010 and 2020. This criminal export, which evades international treaties, has intensified the massacre of civilians in Mexico, replicating the genocidal tactic of occupation in the drug violence crisis.
Evidence points to decades of training for organized crime by former Israeli military personnel. The Zionist mafia, detected in arms laundering and trafficking, trained Los Zetas in Tamaulipas and Veracruz with former Mossad agents. This interference “professionalized” contract killings and organized crime, replicating counterinsurgency doctrines used in Palestine. Mexico, by failing to confront this network, allows Israeli genocidal tactics to deepen the crisis of the more than 100,000 missing persons in Mexico.
Given Sheinbaum’s recognition of the genocide in Gaza, Mexico must sever ties with Israel: cut off arms purchases, push for pending extraditions, and denounce the sale of spyware. This historical complicity—from Zerón to Pegasus—taints Mexican sovereignty, aligning it with a criminal regime. The true pro-Palestinian position requires sanctions, not lukewarm rhetoric, so as not to be hypocritical in the face of the murder of 680,000 Palestinians.