The US isn't merely complicit, it's been driving the genocide / ethnic cleansing
US House Speaker Johnson says West Bank ‘rightful property’ of Jewish people: Republican official
Earlier, we reported that US House Speaker Mike Johnson has travelled to the illegal Israeli settlement of Ariel in the occupied West Bank, a visit organised by a pro-Israeli advocacy group.
Johnson hailed the land’s religious significance during a luncheon with local leaders and said he believes Jewish people have a “right” to it due to his religious beliefs, according to Israel’s Arutz Sheva media.
Johnson has close ties to the evangelical community in the US, segments of which believe Jewish people must be in control of Jerusalem for the second coming of Jesus.
“Every corner of this land is important to us,” Johnson said, in comments carried by Arutz Sheva.
“Being here, in the place where our faith began – this has great significance. The Bible teaches that Judea and Samaria were promised to the Jewish people, and they belong to you by right,” he added, using the Israeli term for the occupied West Bank.
The chairman of Republicans Oversees Israel, Marc Zell, also said he attended the event, posting on X that Johnson said “the mountains of Judea and Samaria are the rightful property of the Jewish People”.
Speaker Mike Johnson, now addressing the conference in Ariel, is the highest ranking U.S. federal official to visit Judea and Samaria. Amazing! pic.twitter.com/qNeu1yFwCI
— Marc Zell (@GOPIsrael) August 4, 2025
The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution establishes a secular framework for government:
Yet US policy is supporting annexation of the West Bank for religious reasons.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/04/world/middleeast/west-bank-annexation-republicans.html
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US links $1.9bn in state disaster funds to Israel boycott stance
States and cities in the US will not receive funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to prepare for natural disasters if they choose to boycott Israeli companies, according to a Department of Homeland Security memo.
States must certify that they will not cut off “commercial relations specifically with Israeli companies” to receive the grants from FEMA, the memo said.
The condition applies to at least $1.9bn that states rely on to pay for search and rescue equipment, emergency manager salaries, backup power systems and other expenses, according to 11 agency grant notices reviewed by the Reuters news agency.
Critics said the move is the latest by the Trump administration to use routine federal funding to advance its political message at the state level.
