Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) said he wouldn't go because Netanyahu 'is a bad person.'
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is poised to face a sprawling boycott from congressional progressives should he accept aIt's a sign of how strained relations between some Democrats and Israel have become since the onset of the"I'm not going," said Rep. Jamaal Bowman , telling Axios there is "nothing Netanyahu can tell me that can help my district at all" and that his constituents are "pissed" at the Israeli war effort.Rep.
Several House Republicans suggested the idea on Wednesday as a way to hit back at Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer for his harsh criticism of Netanyahu. Even lawmakers who attended Netanyahu's controversial 2015 address to Congress or Israeli President Isaac Herzog's speech last July — which wasRep. Don Beyer said he would "probably not" attend because "the last one was one of the most painful hours of my life."
Sen. Bernie Sanders declined to entertain the question while pointing to civilian deaths in Gaza, telling Axios: "Is that what your worry is, whether I will attend or not?"
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