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John,
In January 2023 alone, Israeli soldiers killed at least 35 Palestinians, including 7 children, while invading Palestinian cities and refugee camps.1
The United States is not only complicit in these war crimes. The soldiers are using U.S.-made weapons and our government keeps sending billions of our tax dollars to fund Israel’s human rights violations, including ethnic cleansing and apartheid.
U.S. law requires all countries receiving U.S. military aid to meet human rights standards. And our government has enforced this, ending or reducing military aid to countries violating human rights—except for Israel.
In fact, U.S. political leaders have fought for years against the UN’s efforts to hold Israel accountable for its human rights violations. We must hold Israel to the same standards as other countries.
Please sign now to demand that Congress and the Biden administration end unconditional funding of Israel’s military. We can’t keep handing over billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars a year to an apartheid state violating human rights.
As the only Palestinian-American serving in the U.S. Congress, I won’t stand by silently as our country is complicit in Israel’s apartheid. Thank you for being by my side as we fight for Palestinians’ rights.
In solidarity,
Rashida
1 https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/1/26/why-israeli-raids-killed-many-palestinians-this-year-explainer
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