Poll: OVER 60% say TOO MUCH is given by USA to Israel, over 33% say MUCH TOO MUCH

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Most Americans Say US Gives Too Much Aid to Israel​

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Link: http://www.newsforage.com/2014/10/most-americans-say-us-gives-too-much.html

Most Americans believe the United States is giving too much foreign aid to Israel according to an online survey. The American Public Opinion on U.S. Aid to Israel(PDF) survey was fielded via Google Consumer Surveys between September 26-29, 2014 as a necessary follow-up to the release of the influential Chicago Council on Global Affairs 2014 report. Middle East analysts eagerly await the biennial Chicago Council survey results and its frank reflections of American views about foreign policy toward the region. Many are surprised by Chicago Council’s conclusions that 64 percent of Americans prefer not to take sides in the Israel-Palestine conflict and that 55 percent would oppose sending U.S. troops to protect Israel if it struck Iran.

However, this year the Chicago Council also concludes that the majority of Americans would keep economic and military aid to Israel, Mexico, Taiwan, Afghanistan Iraq, Egypt and Pakistan “about the same.” Only a small percentage would increase aid, while most of the rest would prefer to decrease or stop aid altogether. One problem identified by the Chicago Council is that most Americans believe such aid to most countries is far more than it actually is. A second issue is that “this question was asked before August violence between Israel and Palestinians…” Despite these factors, the Council confidently concludes “Americans tend to support maintaining or increasing military aid to Israel, Taiwan and Mexico. In a pattern similar to preferences for economic aid, the public tends to favor decreasing or stopping military aid to Egypt, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq.”

The Chicago Council survey suffers a fatal third flaw in its approach to the foreign aid question – lack of relevant comparative data given to respondents. The 2014 U.S. foreign aid budget (PDF) for Mexico is $206 million; Afghanistan is $749 million while Pakistan is $881 million with Iraq getting $73 million. Meanwhile Egypt and Israel receive lion’s shares with $1.6 billion to Egypt and a whopping $3.1 billion for Israel. Furthermore, aid to Israel has increased on average 30 percent annually since 1970. Israel now receives 9 percent of the entire U.S. foreign aid budget while benefiting from Egypt’s 5 percent share which is justified as maintaining the 1979 Egypt-Israel peace agreement. In Israel’s case, the figure understates actual aid levels since Congress is regularly tapped by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and its donor network for additional military aid and joint program funding. Official figures also omit the value of intelligence sharing, such as the massive flows of raw intelligence on Americans approved by President Obama in 2009 and revealed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.

How do Americans really feel about aid to Israel when it is put in perspective? To find out, IRmep surveyed the same statistically significant number of American adults as the Chicago Council (around 2,108). Obviously, the IRmep Google Consumer Survey was fielded after the brutal Israeli invasion of Gaza – a significant difference. The survey question, however, included the necessary context that the Chicago Council left out, asking, “The U.S. gives Israel over $3 billion annually (9% of the foreign aid budget and more than any other country). The amount is.” Respondents could choose between “much too much, too much, about right, too little, and much too little.” The order of choices were randomly reversed to avoid bias.

Almost 61 percent of Americans say the U.S. is giving too much aid to Israel. 33.9 percent said the U.S. gives “much too much” while 26.8 percent said it is “too much.” Some 25.9 percent felt aid to Israel was “about right” but only 6.1 percent said it was “too little” and 7.3 percent is “much too little.”
 
America First? Trump Sends More Than a Million Face Masks to Israel​

Make Israel Great Again.

Link: https://kurtnimmo.blog/2020/04/20/a...nds-more-than-a-million-face-masks-to-israel/

On April 9, Israel’s Jerusalem Post reported Trump’s Department of Defense (sic) sent over a million face masks to the Israel Defense (Occupation) Forces, thus again demonstrating his neocon infested administration is busy making Israel Great Again (for Jews—all goyim are second class citizens).

They put Kushner in charge of acquiring masks for the US which is experiencing a shortage.

So he stole them from the US's allies then gave them all to Israel.https://t.co/jqa6kDHRYn

— Syrian Girl (@Partisangirl) April 11, 2020

It didn’t take long for Americans suffering lockdown and a serious shortage of face masks and other PPE items to vent their anger.

From Al Bawaba:

An Israeli press report claiming the US Department of Defense had shipped one million face masks to Israel to help protect Israeli soldiers has angered Americans, causing some to question the Trump administration’s priorities amid the coronavirus pandemic amid reports of shortages of protective equipment for US health workers.

The IDF basically controls the media in Israel, so the mention was deleted from the Post.

The Pentagon’s alleged shipment was initially reported by the Jerusalem Post, however mention of American involvement was later scrubbed, raising suspicions that US public anger may have forced Israeli military censors to act.

Israel’s army is notorious for tightly monitoring media output, having barred or redacted over 2,000 stories just last year, according to the Movement for Freedom of Information.

Meanwhile, due to serious shortages, the Pentagon has ordered the Department of Veteran Affairs to decide which workers get masks and which don’t.

A shortage of face masks has led the Department of Veterans Affairs to tell hospitals to decide which employees get masks and which don’t, according to internal memos https://t.co/EVIlVj8i78

— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) April 12, 2020

And when workers complain, they are fired.

But rest assured, the US taxpayer-financed occupation—worse than apartheid—of Gaza and what’s left of the West Bank will continue and the enforcers of Israel’s ongoing crimes against humanity will be protected from the virus, thanks to Trump, his settler-friendly son-in-law, and the Pentagon.

In the meantime, you should look for an old t-shirt to cut up and fashion into a worthless cloth fear mask that does virtually nothing to protect you.
 
Study: More than one in 10 Americans under 40 thinks Jews caused the Holocaust​

By Ben Sales September 16, 2020 12:01 am

Link: https://www.jta.org/2020/09/16/unit...ans-under-40-thinks-jews-caused-the-holocaust

Buchenwald
A view of the former Buchenwald concentration camp in Weimar, Germany, Jan. 26, 2018. (Jens Schlueter/Getty Images)

(JTA) — More than one in 10 American adults under 40 believes that Jews caused the Holocaust.

That’s one finding from a survey published Wednesday trying to gauge Holocaust knowledge among millennials and Generation Z, a cohort ranging in age from 18 to 39.

The survey found that most respondents had heard of the Holocaust and 37% knew that 6 million Jews died. Slightly more than half could name at least one concentration camp or ghetto.

But 11% of the respondents believed the Jews were responsible for the Holocaust, 15% said they thought the Holocaust was a myth or has been exaggerated, and 20% said people talk about it too much. Nearly half said they had seen Holocaust denial online.

The survey of 1,000 respondents across all 50 states was organized by the Claims Conference, which coordinates restitution and reparations payments for Holocaust survivors and sponsors Holocaust education programs. It was conducted in February and March.

According to the poll, there was little correlation between state Holocaust education requirements and Holocaust knowledge. None of the 10 states with the highest knowledge levels required Holocaust education in high schools, while three states in the bottom 10 — Delaware, New York and Florida — did mandate it.

(The knowledge levels, as defined by the survey, were based on whether respondents had heard of the Holocaust, knew 6 million Jews were killed and could name a concentration camp or ghetto.)

Holocaust knowledge was particularly low in New York, despite the state having the largest population of Jews in the country. Most respondents there could not name a single Nazi camp or ghetto, and 28% said they believed the Holocaust was a myth or has been exaggerated. Wisconsin had the highest knowledge score at 44%, while Arkansas had the lowest at 17%.

“Not only was their overall lack of Holocaust knowledge troubling, but combined with the number of Millennials and Gen Z who have seen Holocaust denial on social media, it is clear that we must fight this distortion of history and do all we can to ensure that the social media giants stop allowing this harmful content on their platforms,” Greg Schneider, the executive vice president of the Claims Conference, said in a statement. “Survivors lost their families, friends, homes and communities; we cannot deny their history.”

The survey had a national margin of error of 3% and approximately 7% for individual states.

It found that more than three-quarters of respondents had definitely heard of the Holocaust and another 10% said they probably had. Among those, more than 70% knew that Adolf Hitler was responsible for the genocide and 86% knew that the Jews were its primary victims.

Lower numbers of respondents were aware of other facts about the Holocaust. Among those who had heard of the Holocaust, more than a third wrongly believed that 2 million Jews or fewer were killed, while nearly half (48%) could not name any concentration camps or ghettos. Asked to describe Auschwitz, the largest Nazi concentration camp, 64% described it correctly.

“The expectation was that at this point in time, a lot of this information would be more familiar,” said Amy Wexler, a Claims Conference spokesperson. “It felt like it was lower than anyone expected.”

The survey also found that approximately half the respondents had seen anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial online. Some 49% had seen seen Holocaust denial or distortion online, with 10% saying they had seen it often. A total of 56% reported seeing Nazi symbols on social media, in their communities or both.

Nearly 60% said they believed something like the Holocaust could happen today.

“The indicators are of concern, and that relates to ongoing concern that we have that history education is in decline, social media use of hate and anti-Semitism is on the rise,” said Gretchen Skidmore, director of education initiatives at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, who is a member of the task force that oversaw the survey. “The work is very important and Holocaust education is very important to counter these trends.”

Respondents agreed that Holocaust education is important, with 64% believing it should be compulsory in school. Currently, 15 states require Holocaust education in high school, according to the Holocaust museum. A bill providing $10 million to the museum to enhance Holocaust education was signed into law this year.

Skidmore said that in addition to mandating Holocaust education, states must ensure that teachers have proper training to teach the subject matter.

“There are some conditions that need to be present for Holocaust education to be successful,” Skidmore said, adding that the survey showed there was “fundamental knowledge missing.”

Skidmore said “Holocaust education can be very effective when these conditions are met, when teachers are trained, when they feel confident to bring this complex history into their classrooms.”
 
Bipartisan bill would give Israel a veto on Middle East arms sales​

The bill “would require the President to consult with the Israeli government to ensure [qualitative military edge] concerns are settled.”

Link: https://www.jpost.com/american-poli...srael-a-veto-on-middle-east-arms-sales-644326

By RON KAMPEAS/JTA
OCTOBER 3, 2020 02:41

U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) (photo credit: REUTERS)

A bipartisan bill introduced in the House of Representatives would enhance protections for Israel’s qualitative military edge to include an effective Israeli veto on US arms sales to the Middle East.

The bill “would require the President to consult with the Israeli government to ensure [qualitative military edge] concerns are settled” when it comes to arms sales to Middle Eastern countries, said the news release Friday announcing its introduction the previous day. The release came from the office of the bill’s lead sponsor, Rep. Brad Schneider, D-Ill.

Existing law already guarantees Israel a qualitative military edge in the Middle East, but Congress — not Israel — is the arbiter of whether an arms sale meets QME standards.

Most of the sponsors are Democrats, including a number of Jewish lawmakers, among them Schneider, Elaine Luria of Virginia, Max Rose of New York, Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey, and Ted Deutch and Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida.

Jewish Democrats expressed alarm after it was revealed that, parallel with the U.S.-brokered normalization deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, the Trump administration was negotiating the sale of state-of-the-art F-35 stealth combat jets to the UAE. Israel opposes the sale.

AIPAC, the prominent Israel lobby, supports the new measure.
 

Fewer than one percent of US Democrats view Israel as top ally, poll finds​

Link: https://www.blabber.buzz/blab/pop/1...ontent=3CBxZ7_XWJVMPwlfPETsrRVMPzicviGg0jM0.A

UK, Canada, Germany, Mexico, France, Japan, South Korea, and China all rated higher among Democratic voters, according to University of Maryland survey
Protesters in Washington rally in support of Palestinian rights on 15 May 2021.
Protesters in Washington rally in support of Palestinian rights on 15 May 2021 (MEE/Umar Farooq)By MEE staff in WashingtonPublished date: 21 April 2022 18:58 UTC | Last update: 2 weeks 4 daysago
Fewer than one percent of Democratic Party voters identify Israel as one of the United States' top two allies, behind eight other countries, according to a new poll published on Wednesday.
The poll, conducted by the University of Maryland (UMD), found that 0.5 percent of Democratic respondents saw Israel as the first-choice US ally, while 0.9 percent found Israel a second-choice.
The UK, Canada, Germany, Mexico, France, Japan, South Korea and China all rated higher among Democratic voters, according to the survey.
The poll showed that more Republicans, 20 percent, see Israel as their top ally, as do four percent of registered Independents.
Shibley Telhami, director of the UMD's Critical Issues Poll, said the results showed evidence of a growing gap between elected Democrats and their constituents.
"The results are significant in two ways: First, they show the vast difference between Republicans and Democrats on Israel, while Republicans place Israel second only to the UK as a most-important ally, well ahead of key Nato allies, Democrats hardly mention Israel either as a first choice or a second choice and place below eight other countries including South Korea and even China," Telhami told Middle East Eye.
"Second, the results highlight the gap between Congressional Democrats who continue to speak of Israel as a key ally and their constituents who obviously don't see it that way."
The gap between Democrats and Republicans on Israel is growing -- but so is the gap between elected Democrats and their constituents. Fewer than 1% of Democrats identify Israel as first or second choice among the two top US allies, behind eight other countries. pic.twitter.com/QxJu1Yd8TC
— Shibley Telhami (@ShibleyTelhami) April 18, 2022
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Democrat lawmakers have often touted Israel as being one of the country's closest allies.
"The United States has no better friend in the world than Israel," former President Barack Obama once told a White House gathering.
Earlier this year, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Washington's support for Israel was "ironclad" and that Israel's creation was the "greatest political achievement of the 20th century".

Growing rift between government and voters​

Over the past several years, polling has helped to reveal a growing rift between the loyal support from Democratic politicians and the views held by the Democratic Party voter base on the Israeli-Palestinian issue.
Last year, Data for Progress reported that 72 percent of Democrats approved of Congresswoman Betty McCollum's legislation to restrict US funding to Israel used to detain Palestinian children or to demolish Palestinian homes in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
Despite a large amount of support, fewer than 15 percent of House Democrats supported the legislation and it has yet to be pushed for a vote after more than a year.
Another poll in 2021 found most Americans, 51 percent of respondents, opposed fully unrestricted aid to Israel if it continued to expand settlements in the occupied West Bank which many global bodies describe as being in contravention of international law.
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A Gallup poll in March 2021 showed a majority of Democrats favoured applying more US pressure on Israel to resolve the conflict.
Jewish Americans have also been more critical of Israel in recent years, with 25 percent of US Jewish voters agreeing to the statement "Israel is an apartheid state", according to a July 2021 poll conducted by the Jewish Electorate Institute.
The UMD poll is based on the responses of more than 1,300 people and has a margin of error of just under three percent. It was conducted between 16-28 March and has been released amid increased tensions, as Israel has stormed al-Aqsa Mosque five times this month.
A growing number of Democrats, particularly in the progressive wing of the party, have also been critical of Israel and the billions of dollars the US provides the country in aid each year.
In April 2021, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, two leading US senators, called for imposing conditions on American military aid to Israel. But aside from a small group of lawmakers in the Democratic Party, few have said they were in favour of restricting aid to Israel.
Last September, members of the House progressive caucus objected to providing $1bn in funding to Israel so it could replenish its Iron Dome aerial defence system, accusing Israel of human rights abuses against Palestinians.
But just days later, the House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly in favour of separate legislation to put forward the funding. Last month, the US Congress included a provision to give Israel $1bn to replace its Iron Dome batteries in a $1.5 trillion spending package. The measure also included the annual $3.8bn aid to Israel.
 
Consolidated Appropriations Bill Includes Nearly $5 Billion for Israel

Shirl McArthur Congress & U.S. Aid to Israel
Posted On June 15, 2022
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Link: https://www.wrmea.org/congress-u.s....ll-includes-nearly-$5-billion-for-israel.html

Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi sits between Rep. Adam Schiff (r) and U.S. ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides, during a meeting at the Knesset (Israeli Parliament) in Jerusalem on Feb. 16, 2022, a month before Congress earmarked $4.805 billion for Israel, with no strings attached. (ABIR SULTAN/POOL/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES)

Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, June/July 2022, pp. 20-21

Congress Watch​

By Shirl McArthur​

ON MARCH 9 AND 10, Congress passed the consolidated “omnibus” appropriations bill funding the government through the end of FY ’22. President Joe Biden signed it March 15 as PL 117-103.
Funds for most Middle East countries were not earmarked in the bill, but Morocco, Tunisia and Lebanon historically have received funds from the economic or military aid accounts.
As usual, the largest earmarked amounts are for Israel, $4.805 billion! This includes $3.3 billion in military aid, which can be disbursed immediately (so Israel can earn interest on it until it’s spent), of which $785,300,000 can be spent in Israel with no strings attached, $500 million for so-called “Israeli Cooperative Programs,” and $5 million for “refugees” resettling in Israel. After many failed legislative attempts to pass H.R. 5323, giving Israel an additional $1 billion, supposedly to replenish the short-range Iron Dome missile defense system used during the May 2021 fighting between Israel and Hamas, congressional Zionists managed to get it included in the omnibus bill.
For Egypt, the bill earmarks the expected $1.3 billion in military aid, but with conditions. The first is to withhold $235 million pending a certification related to democracy and human rights. A second condition withholds $85 million because of Egypt’s treatment of political prisoners.
The bill does not earmark funds for the Palestinians, but the accompanying “Joint Explanatory Statement” includes $219 million for the Palestinians. The bill includes the usual conditions and restrictions, especially that no aid should go to any Palestinian government that includes Hamas.
Significantly, one non-appropriations-related provision in the omnibus incorporated the previously introduced bills, H.R. 2748, sponsored by Rep. Bradley Schneider (D-IL) in April, and S. 1061, sponsored by Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) in March 2021, “to encourage the normalization of relations with Israel.” When the omnibus bill was passed, H.R. 2748 had 332 cosponsors and S. 1061 had 72.

MEMBERS OF CONGRESS UPSET OVER POSSIBILITY OF NEW IRAN NUCLEAR AGREEMENT​

After reports that negotiators for a new Iran nuclear deal made some progress, five congressional letters were sent and five measures were introduced threatening to block any agreement.
On Feb. 7, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), with 32 Republican cosigners, sent a letter to Biden reminding him that the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015 requires the president to submit any Iran agreement to Congress for approval. His letter was followed by four similar letters, with the Feb. 14 letter initiated by Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI), gaining the most support with 163 House Republicans signing. Only one of the five letters, the March 10 letter to Biden initiated by Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), had any Democratic signers, with 12. All the letters, either specifically or implicitly threaten to try to scuttle any agreement, no matter what it says.
Two measures were introduced to block any Iran agreement by codifying then-President Donald Trump’s executive orders imposing sanctions on Iran. H.R. 7063 was introduced March 11 by Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) and four cosponsors. H.R. 7139 was introduced March 17 by Rep. August Pfluger (R-TX) with seven cosponsors.
H.Res. 990 was introduced March 17 by Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) opposing any revival of the Iran deal. It has 65 cosponsors. On March 16, Cruz with 12 cosponsors introduced S. 3857 “to terminate certain waivers of sanctions with respect to Iran issued in connection with the” Iran agreement. The companion House bill, H.R. 7159, was introduced March 18 by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), with no cosponsors.

HOUSE PASSES THE “STOP IRANIAN DRONES” BILL​

On April 27, the House passed, under “suspension of the rules,” H.R. 6089, the “Stop Iranian Drones” bill. Introduced in November by Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), it would expand the list of weapons covered by sanctions on Iran to include combat drones. When passed, the bill had 77 cosponsors. The Senate companion bill, S. 3421, introduced in December by Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), now has five cosponsors.
Bills were introduced in the House and Senate aimed at preventing Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps’ designation as a Foreign Terrorist Organization from being revoked. On March 17, Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) with three cosponsors, introduced S. 3871, and on April 1, Perry, with four cosponsors introduced H.R. 7354.
On March 17, Issa, with no cosponsors, introduced H.R. 7129 “to prohibit the importation of crude oil from Iran.” And on April 5, Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-MI), with no cosponsors, introduced H.R. 7402 to, among other things, “prevent the International Monetary Fund from providing financial assistance to Iran, [and] to codify prohibitions on Export-Import Bank financing for the government of Iran.”

POSITIVE MEASURES MAKE SCANT PROGRESS​

H.Res. 751, introduced in October by Rep. Betty McCollum (D-MN), “Condemning the repressive designation by the Government of Israel of six prominent Palestinian human rights and civil society groups as terrorist organizations,” still has 11 cosponsors.
H.R. 2590, the “Palestinian Children and Families” bill, introduced in April 2021 by McCollum, still has 32 cosponsors.
The new two-state solution bill, H.R. 5344, has gained a cosponsor and now has 45. Introduced in September by Rep. Andy Levin (D-MI), it aims “to preserve conditions for, and improve the likelihood of, a two-state solution that secures Israel’s future as a democratic state and a national home for the Jewish people, a viable, democratic Palestinian state, an end to Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories, and peaceful relations between the two states, and to direct the Department of State and other relevant agencies to take steps to accomplish these ends.”
On May 16, Rep. Rashida Tliab (D-MI) made history by introducing H.Res. 1123, “Recognizing the Nakba and Palestinian refugees’ rights.” The resolution has six cosponsors.
The diluted “anti-Islamophobia” bill, H.R. 5665, introduced in October by Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), “to establish in the Department of State the Office to Monitor and Combat Islamophobia” worldwide, passed by the House in December, is still stuck in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Since her bill was being weakened prior to passage, on Dec. 9, Omar introduced H.R. 6204, a “clean” version of H.R. 5665 that still has 56 cosponsors.

MEASURES OPPOSING A U.S. DIPLOMATIC MISSION IN JERUSALEM GAIN SUPPORT​

The previously described measures objecting to reopening the U.S. Consulate in Jerusalem have gained support. S. 3063, introduced by Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) in October, “to prohibit the use of funds for a U.S. Embassy, Consulate General, Legation, Consular Office or any other diplomatic facility in Jerusalem other than the U.S. Embassy to the State of Israel,” now has 40 cosponsors. The identical H.R. 6004, introduced in November by Rep. David Kustoff (R-TN), now has 124 Republican cosponsors.
A new, poorly drafted measure, S.Con.Res. 34, was introduced March 22 by Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) with 11 cosponsors. It would “express the sense of Congress in opposition to the establishment of a new Palestinian (sic) consulate or diplomatic mission in Jerusalem.” (Note, a new Palestinian mission in Jerusalem has not been proposed or considered.)

NEW ANTI-U.N. BILLS INTRODUCED​

Of the previously described anti-UNRWA bills introduced “to withhold U.S. contributions to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)” only H.R. 6155, introduced in December by Rep. Lance Gooden (R-TX), has gained cosponsors. Modestly titled the “No Tax Dollars for the United Nation’s Immigration Invasion,” the bill now has 20 cosponsors.
A new bill to withhold funds from UNRWA, S. 3467, was introduced on January 10 by Sen. James Risch (R-ID). It has six cosponsors. It not only attacks UNRWA, but also attacks Palestinian refugees.
After the U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) indicated that it would not cancel its investigation of Israel for human rights violations during Israel’s May 2021 conflict with Hamas, Rep. Gregory Steube (R-FL), on March 24, introduced H.R. 7223 and 7224 calling for the abolition of the UNHRC and prohibiting any U.S. contributions to it. H.R. 7223 has three cosponsors and H.R. 7224 has five.
And on April 1, Sens. James Lankford (R-OK), Cruz (R-TX), Tom Cotton (R-AR), and Hagerty (R-TN) signed a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken urging that the U.S. withdraw from the UNHRC.

PRO-ISRAEL BILLS HAVE BEEN RELATIVELY QUIET, BUT A NEW ONE WAS INTRODUCED​

On March 3, Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) again introduced the “Israel Anti-Boycott” bill, H.R. 6940. As with previous versions of the bill, it would attempt to criminalize supporting or calling for boycotts of Israel. Previous versions of the bill have been strongly criticized by the ACLU and other organizations as being blatant violations of free speech rights. It has 55 cosponsors.
Shirl McArthur is a retired foreign service officer. He lives in the Washington, DC metropolitan area.

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