Progressive group pushes Democrats to tie Israel aid to settlement issue.
that he supports Israel, but that “American taxpayers won’t help foot the bill” if its government annexes territory in the West Bank that the U.S. has long argued should be part of a negotiated peace deal with Palestinians.
Most recently, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said at a forum held by liberal “pro-Israel, pro-peace” group J Street that he would not give Israelon aid and that they would have to improve humanitarian conditions in Gaza to receive it. Mayer said that IfNotNow’s platform went further than politicians who “will wait for the Israeli government to build more settlements or to formally extend Israeli control even further West Bank to take any real action” because it would link aid to addressing existing concerns.
A second component of their platform would commit politicians to “fighting against the threat of antisemitism and white nationalism” while “not conflating antisemitism and legitimate criticism of the Israeli government and its policy of military occupation." IfNotNow has been publicly supportive of Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar's criticism of Israel. The Minnesota lawmaker became a repeated flashpoint for debate among Democrats after making comments that many of her Jewish and Democratic colleagues said
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