Slotkin Says She Would Have Voted to Block Arms Sales to Israel

Slotkin says she would have voted to block arms sales to Israel

Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) said Thursday she would have voted to block arms sales to Israel over hunger in Gaza after missing a series of Senate votes Wednesday night to appear on Stephen Colbert’s show. The Michigan senator said she was worried about the lack of food and medicine entering Gaza and that “images of…

Slotkin says she supports resolutions on blocking arms sales to Israel

Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) said Thursday that she supported two resolutions led by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) to cut off shipments of assault rifles and bombs and bomb guidance kits to Israel, in a pivot from her previous stances. Slotkin missed the votes on the resolutions which occurred Wednesday, having spent part of the day taping an episode of “The Late Show with Steven Colbert.” Slotkin’s support brings the total number of Democrats suppor…

24 Senators Vote for Sanders Resolution to Stop Bombs Sale to Israel

Roughly half of the Democratic caucus in the Senate voted for Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vermont) resolutions to block the transfer of tens of thousands of bombs and assault rifles to Israel on Wednesday, signalling a small shift among lawmakers as Israel’s famine campaign in Gaza has reached new, catastrophic lows in recent days. On Wednesday evening, 24 senators voted for Sanders’s resolution… Source

A Turning Point on Gaza — and a Crisis of Credibility for Senate Democrats - Our Revolution

Yesterday, July 30, for the first time, a majority of Senate Democrats supported a resolution by Senator Bernie Sanders to block an $18 billion weapons sale to Israel—amid the Israeli government’s ongoing assault on Gaza and escalating starvation. Though the resolution failed by a vote of 27-72—blocked by every Republican and 17 Democrats—this was a watershed moment in U.S. foreign policy and a powerful sign that the Democratic base is reshaping…

Senate Measure Would Oppose Export of Rifles to Israel

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., introduced a joint resolution July 28 aimed at blocking the sale of thousands of rifles to the police force overseen by Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. Sanders accused Ben-Gvir of fomenting violence against Palestinians. The...