Far-left progressives are threatening to boycott any address to Congress delivered by Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as Democrats continue to soften support for one of America’s greatest allies.
“I’m not going, [because] there is nothing Netanyahu can tell me that can help my district at all,” Rep. Jamaal Bowman, D-N.Y., told Axios.
And Bowman wasn’t the only one.
From NEWSMAX:
Rep. Maxwell Frost, D-Fla., also said he won’t attend, calling the Israeli prime minister a “bad person.” Rep. Chuy Garcia, D-Ill., called Netanyahu’s coalition the “most extreme government in the country’s history.”
Rep. Greg Casar, D-Texas, said it’s “important symbolically” to show up for the speech to express disagreement with Netanyahu, but he also said he is “unlikely to change up my schedule” to attend.
Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., the only Palestinian-American in Congress, said that not only should Netanyahu stay away from Congress, “he should be sent to the Hague,” where war criminals are prosecuted.
“He has no business coming to the United States of America,” Tlaib said
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who has criticized Netanyahu and called for his ouster, says Bibi is “always welcome the opportunity for the Prime Minister of Israel to speak to Congress in a bipartisan way.”
Netanyahu last spoke before a joint session of Congress in 2015.
More over at NEWSMAX:
Several progressive Democrats said they will boycott a speech from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he accepts an expected invitation to address a joint session of Congress, citing their objections to his actions in the Israel-Hamas war. https://t.co/yn7EsVK9o2
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