“It should be like Nagasaki and Hiroshima,” Rep. Tim Walberg told a town hall audience in Michigan. “Get it over quick.”
A new Senate spending bill supported by the Biden administration would rush $14 billion in military aid to Israel while blocking funding to UNRWA, the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees.
Biden has nominated former former Obama offical Jack Lew as ambassador to Israel. GOP lawmakers are criticizing the pick over his connections to the Iran deal.
Senator Jim Risch (R-ID) and Representative Michael McCaul (R-TX) are blocking $75 million in food assistance from reaching Palestinian refugees.
The House overwhelmingly passed a resolution declaring that Israel is “not a racist or apartheid state.” The final vote was 412-9.
Ron DeSantis comes sputtering into the Republican presidential primary and has placed his unwavering commitment to Israel at the center of his foreign policy agenda.
When Rep. Alan Lowenthal (D-CA) introduced a nonbinding resolution in support of a two-state solution in 2019, Rep. Mike McCaul (R-TX) called it “a one-sided take on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” and Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL) was even more direct: “I stand against a two-state solution.” Mast doesn’t represent some sort of hardline minority — he was voicing what has now become the GOP consensus.
JVP activists in Philadelphia seek to cut off funding to Israeli settlements and are starting close to home by targeting megadonor Jeffrey Yass.
A GOP lawmaker is claiming that a popular fundraising app used by the BDS movement could be funneling money to terrorists and is calling for the Biden administration to investigate.
Shortly after returning from a trip to Israel, Montana Secretary of State Corey Stapleton shared a strange, meandering post on his website titled “We Were Here First.” In the post, Stapleton compares the Little Shell tribe of Chippewa in Montana to the Palestinians and draws a parallel between Israeli policies and those of Montana’s government.