I guess this is positive news?
Absolutely historic vote today where 40 US Senators voted to block the sale of Caterpillar D-9 bulldozers to Israel, citing civilian harm Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon.
Though the measure was defeated (as expected), the tide is turning. Just last year, this number was 27. pic.twitter.com/ojPMkNCOEu
— Mai El-Sadany (@maitelsadany) April 15, 2026
El-Sadany said that 40 US senators voting to “block the sale of Caterpillar D-9 bulldozers to Israel, citing civilian harm [in] Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon” was an “absolutely historic vote”.
“Though the measure was defeated (as expected), the tide is turning. Just last year, this number was 27,” added El-Sadany, whose Washington, DC-based organisation had urged senators to support the vote.
She said that while only 36 senators voted “to block the sale of 1,000-pound bombs to Israel”, these were “still ground-breaking numbers and reflect a significant shift among US voters (and their representatives) on these issues”.
59 still vote for genocide and ethnic cleansing.
