To: Senators who voted NO on S.J.Res.32
It’s time to end Congress’ blank-check approach to PM Netanyahu:
I am incredibly disappointed in your votes against joint resolutions to halt the sale of bombs and armored bulldozers to PM Netanyahu’s government.
I demand you take immediate action to end U.S. complicity in the Israeli government’s violence, and use your leverage to end the suffering in Lebanon, Gaza, and the West Bank.
I demand you take immediate action to end U.S. complicity in the Israeli government’s violence, and use your leverage to end the suffering in Lebanon, Gaza, and the West Bank.
Why is this important?
A dam broke in the Senate when a record 40 senators voted to halt the sale of armored bulldozers to the Israeli government in April.
This vote was a monumental step toward ending U.S. complicity in the Israeli government’s violence. But it wasn’t enough — in part, because Sens. Blumenthal (CT), Coons (DE), Cortez Masto (NV), Fetterman (PA), Gillibrand (NY), Rosen (NV), and Schumer (NY) joined all Republicans in voting to keep the flow of bombs and bulldozers to the Israeli government.
That means seven Democrats voted against 85% of their caucus to keep arming an Israeli government that’s committing a genocide in Gaza, illegally annexing the West Bank, and bombing southern Lebanon.
These votes were morally bankrupt. But they’re votes that the weapons lobby and powerful special interest groups like AIPAC will cheerlead to try and convince lawmakers they made the right choice.
We need to make sure senators hear a demand to end U.S. complicity in heartbreaking violence instead: One that reminds them that their constituents overwhelmingly reject this failed blank-check approach to the Israeli government.