Last week, CUFI was proud to welcome Vice President Mike Pence,
Ambassador Nikki Haley, and Governor Ron DeSantis, among many others,
to speak before the capacity crowd of over 1,200 pro-Israel Zionists. In
this week's edition of the Action Update, we'll go over the three
pieces of legislation that make up the 2023 CUFI Washington Summit
legislative agenda. 

**Countering Hate Against Israel (CHAI) in Federal Contracting Act**

After working with our partners across the country in recent years to
advance anti-BDS policies in 36 states, ensuring taxpayers are not
unwittingly complicit in this evil movement, we decided to take these
efforts to our nation's capital. 

In the days leading up to our Washington Summit, CUFI-authored
legislation was introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives that
would require all federal contractors to certify they are not boycotting
and would not boycott Israel so long as they're doing business with
our federal government. 

Since the bill's introduction in the House by Rep.
Claudia Tenney (R-NY), we have seen several other Members of Congress
join the effort to advance the bill, including Reps Kelly Armstrong
(R-ND), Elise Stefanik (R-NY), and Michael Lawler (R-NY). In the
Senate, we are working closely with allies to ensure its introduction in
a timely manner.  

Taking legislation from a blank piece of paper to the law of the land is
no easy hill to climb, but with God's grace and your support, we can
pass this bill and deliver a death blow to the BDS movement in
America. 

**Stop Harboring Iranian Petroleum (SHIP) Act**

One of the primary ways in which Iran funds its support for terror and
nuclear weapons programs is through illicit oil sales. These
sales, totaling around 1.2 billion barrels of oil a day, are largely
facilitated by China. The SHIP Act, which saw 25 cosponsors join the
bill since the CUFI Washington Summit, would sanction any entity -
ports, ships, refineries, and the like - that enables the transport
and/or sale of Iranian oil. 

While targeting shipping companies and the like is not the most
glamorous piece of legislation to have been introduced in this
Congress, it is among the most important. 

As Pastor Hagee recently noted, "China is helping Iran evade sanctions
on the Islamic Republic's oil exports just as Tehran is simultaneously
engaged in developing its nuclear program, backing terrorist
organizations around the world, and aiding Moscow's war crimes in
Ukraine. We must sanction every entity that aids and abets Iran's
malign activities, and the SHIP Act is an important step forward in that
effort."

**Aid to Israel**

Recently, two former U.S. Ambassadors to Israel stated that the U.S.
should no longer provide aid to Israel lest our country "seem like
'enablers' of Israel's occupation." Cutting military aid to
Israel would, of course, imperil the very existence of the Jewish
state. 

While their argument may not be vitriolic or antisemitic - the two
former ambassadors should not be lumped in with the likes of Reps
Rashida Tlaib or Thomas Massie - it is flat wrong. The maintenance
of Israel's qualitative military edge in the region is in America's
national security interests, and Israel need not cede its sovereign
right to make decisions of war and peace simply because the United
States is giving the Jewish state the means to fight our shared enemies
and protect innocent Israeli civilians. 

We support U.S. aid to Israel with no conditions. If the
aforementioned ambassadors - or anyone else for that matter -
would like to trim the fat from the foreign aid budget, they might start
with the funds the U.S. is sending to UNRWA (which aids and abets
Palestinian terrorism), the open-ended and perpetual U.N. Commission of
Inquiry against Israeli "human rights violations" or better yet, the
funds we provide directly to the Palestinians, as the Palestinian
Authority continues its 'pay-to-slay' program, in direct
contravention of U.S. law.

Over the next few weeks, Congress will be taking its August recess.
During this time, your elected officials will be back home, meeting with
constituents and holding town halls. If you're able to join any of
these events and wish to ask the elected official about, for example,
their position on the CHAI Act, you should. Doing so is
both your Constitutional right and your Biblical mandate. 

Sincerely,

The CUFI Action Fund Team

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