Sanders Files to Force First-Ever Vote in Congress on Blocking Weapons to Israel

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Sanders Files to Force First-Ever Vote in Congress on Blocking Weapons to Israel
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“There is a mountain of documentary evidence” that Israel uses US weapons to violate the law, Sanders said.

Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Chairman Bernie Sanders arrives for a hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on September 24, 2024, in Washington, D.C.Sen. Bernie Sanders and two other senators have introduced resolutions that will force the Senate to undertake the first-ever vote in Congress on blocking weapons to Israel.

According to Sanders’s office, the Senate will vote on the resolutions in November, when the Senate reconvenes. The resolutions, known as Joint Resolutions of Disapproval, are privileged, meaning that Sanders can essentially bypass Senate leadership to force a vote on the legislation.

“The whole world has witnessed Israel’s restriction of humanitarian aid. The UN and virtually every humanitarian group says that Israel’s restrictive policies are the primary cause of the humanitarian catastrophe now taking place in Gaza. The . “No matter how people here in Washington may try to spin it, the simple fact is that we must end our complicity in Israel’s illegal and indiscriminate military campaign.

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