An unprecedented 19 senators opposed a recent arms sale; we’ll soon find out whether that sentiment is growing. Some other signs times are changing. Three 2024 pre-election polls showed that likely voters, and not just Democrats, favored conditioning or even halting aid to Israel, including arms transfers.
The Biden administration is ignoring evidence of Israel’s widespread civilian harm and atrocities using US-made weapons in order to maintain a policy of virtually unconditional weapons transfers to the Netanyahu government.
The Israel lobby was buying politicians and policy in 2014, and it is still doing so today. (Top of the list of recipients: Joe Biden.)
The number of Americans opposed to sending arms to Israel has grown, month after month, as the brutal war on Gaza grinds on.
Former President Jimmy Carter was a pioneer in calling out Israeli apartheid (and being labeled “antisemitic”)
Supporters of Israel have resurrected McCarthy’s tactics, falsely labeling those who call for peace in Palestine or an end to U.S. military aid to Israel ‘antisemites’ – which does not make Jews safer.
From the very beginning, she was completely adamant that Israel has a right to defend itself, Hamas is a terrorist organization, she’s behind Israel supporting its response, she has a long record of unwavering commitment to Israel’s security, her relationship with Israel goes back 20 years, to her time in San Francisco, to her being part of the Jewish community through her husband Doug….
A review of Tim Walz’s time in Congress from 2007 to 2018 shows he supported multiple Israeli wars on Gaza, rejected the international consensus on the illegality of West Bank settlements, and opposed any unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state.
Almost two-thirds of all campaign donations to St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell — who just beat incumbent Cori Bush in the Democratic primary for Missouri’s 1st Congressional District — reportedly came from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee’s super PAC.
Everything about Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress was grotesque. But it will at least provide a historical document that clearly identifies which American elected officials were enthusiastic backers of genocide.
Also, video of Lt. Col. Daniel Davis interview of Professor John Mearsheimer on Netanyahu speech: “Massive Deception Campaigns in Washington DC”