“[It] has broad support across the House Democratic Caucus family [and] is certainly a legislative step that should be considered in order to push back aggressively against the out-of-control settler violence in the West Bank,” he said.

The remarks reflect a stark shift in the politics of Capitol Hill, where the defense of Israel, America’s closest ally in the Middle East, was once viewed as sacrosanct for a vast majority of lawmakers in both parties.

That has changed under the tenure of Netanyahu, a conservative who has assembled the most right-wing governing coalition in the nation’s history — one that opposes a Palestinian state and promotes settlements in the occupied territories as a barrier to creating one. The construction has only accelerated since the Hamas terrorist attacks on Israel in October 2023, when the group killed roughly 1,200 people and kidnapped 250 more.

Democrats are quick to advocate for Israel’s right to self-defense. But they’ve also condemned Netanyahu’s aggressive response, which has killed more than 70,000 people in Gaza while accelerating new settlement construction in the West Bank.

The developments have caused even some of Israel’s most vocal Democratic supporters to endorse Nadler’s sanctions bill, including the two most recent signatures: Reps. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) and Lois Frankel (D-Fla.).

“It certainly just tells you where the winds are blowing,” Hannah Morris, vice president of government affairs at J Street, a pro-Israel group that opposes the settlements, said of the latest endorsements.

“We have seen such a rapid growth in outposts during the period of this far-right Netanyahu government,” she added. “And Democrats rightly understand that there has to be a stop to this, and a lot of this has to be reversed.”

The legislation comes in response to the explosive growth of Israeli settlements in the West Bank in recent years, which has been backed by Netanyahu and his far-right governing coalition in defiance of international law.

Several Israeli anti-settlement groups monitor those expansions. By their count, Israeli settlers advanced roughly 28,000 new housing units in the West Bank last year alone, more than doubling the previous annual record. More recently, Israeli officials are moving on another highly controversial settlement project, known as E-1, that would effectively detach much of the West Bank from East Jerusalem.

The new construction has been accompanied by a spike in settler violence against Palestinians. Between January 2025 and June 2026, there were 2,803 recorded instances of settler attacks that led to Palestinian casualties, the destruction of property, or both, according to the United Nations. Over the same span, 295 Palestinians were killed by either Israeli settlers or military forces, the U.N. found, while 18 Israelis were killed by Palestinians.

Most Democrats say the settlements represent a simple theft of real estate, undermining the prospects of a negotiated peace agreement founded on the creation of an autonomous Palestinian state, which they see as the only path to a lasting deal.

“I support Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish and democratic state,” Jeffries said. “And we need to lean into the notion that creating a Palestinian state — so that the Palestinian people can achieve the dignity and self-determination that they long deserve — needs to be a twin priority.

“And I think that’s a view broadly shared within the House Democratic Caucus.”

House Democrats are not alone in pushing back against the settlements. In the Senate this week, four Democrats — Sens. Chris Coons (Del.), Ruben Gallego (Ariz.), Ron Wyden (Ore.) and Elizabeth Warren (Mass.) — introduced legislation to sanction any company involved in the development of the E-1 project.

“As Palestinian civilians face a campaign of devastation and fear from violent extremist settlers, the United States must send a strong message that this behavior is unacceptable and that it remains committed to freedom, security, prosperity and self-determination for all Israelis and Palestinians,” Coons said in a statement.

Israeli officials have defended their aggressive response to the Hamas attacks, arguing that the country’s very existence hinges on the alleviation of the threats posed by regional enemies.

Netanyahu amplified those positions during this past week’s appearance at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, where he lashed out at critics who are questioning his handling of Gaza and the West Bank.

“They accuse Israel, tiny Israel, of colonialism,” he said. “And who’s accusing us? Among them are people in Britain and in France. For God’s sake, they invented the term.”

Still, in a sign that Israel is facing growing isolation globally, many delegates walked out at the start of his speech. And President Trump, who spoke at the event earlier in the week, was not even in New York during Netanyahu’s speech. The two have been close allies, but those relations have become strained amid the ongoing Iran war, which was launched jointly by the United States and Israel but has since dragged on months longer than Trump had promised.

>>1539581
>Confront
>Not nuke the jews
How in the fuck does this benefit me?

More Democrats had closer ties to Epstein than Republicans. Temu Obama is a direct servant to Epstein and Israel.

>>1539589
>>1539587
oh cool the damage controls squad is here

>>1539590
Damage control?
>Party of violence and terrorism vows to stop others
Yeah fucking right, you gay esl cock-gulping fuckwit.

You can always identify the paid shills because they spew the tax the rich and kill the pedophiles, but they change gears as soon as it goes to Israel and jews as the rich pedophiles

>>1539598
where are you seeing that? how does that apply to the OP?

>>1539598
no, they defend the rich and and pedophiles too

>>1539591
with jews you lose, so you lost.

>>1539589
And yet one of his closest associates is the FUCKING PRESIDENT.

>>1539590
Notice how the Vatniks are desperate to derail the thread

After reading the article I still don't believe it. The biggest sniveling Democrats of all Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi were highly paid by APAC and staunch supporters of ZOG.

This is three senators that's all none of the other establishment goons or rich fuck diaper changers will EVER speak against Israel.

They are the same ones that back in the day many people said there was no difference between parties. Establishment Democrats with billionaire connections are no different than Republicans.

>>1539581
>Human rights
Ridiculous.

By that moral standard we should investigate ourselves for what we did to Tokyo on March 10, 1945, when we firebombed the city and killed 100,000 civilians in on single night, or what we did to Germany in general from 1943-45 where we killed ~400,000 Germans.

It war. This is what it looks like. Dems are throwing away a mandate to chase nonsense coming from the fringes of their party.

>>1539665
I'm sorry your favorite terrorist group got obliterated, but this really isn't an American issue.

>>1539670
>By that moral standard we should investigate ourselves for what we did to Tokyo on March 10, 1945, when we firebombed the city and killed 100,000 civilians in on single night, or what we did to Germany in general from 1943-45 where we killed ~400,000 Germans.
>See basically war crimes are fine because we did them too

>>1539665
Anyone who said there is no difference between the parties has been demonstrated to be objectively wrong. Chuck Schumer should have his head sawn off and put on a pike as a warning to other corrupt politicians (Next to the president and his entire cabinet), but you can't tell me the establishment dem we passed over wouldn't have been monumentally better, just for the simple fact that she wouldn't have exposed our military as a paper tiger threatening the petrodollar and shutting down the most important shipping lane in the world. Or have killed hundreds of thousands by killing USAID, destabilizing countries and creating refugees. Or have gamed the stock market to enrich herself and her family by multiple billions. Or fired a bunch of critical personnel and then had to rehire them quickly. Or dozens of other examples, it's literally harder to find examples of things he's done right.
But fuck, at least the one trans middle schooler in my state can't play soccer, it was all sarcastically worth it you fucking dipshits!
>>1539670
>We did bad things in WW2! This is war!
The justification for dropping the atomic bombs on Japan was to make them surrender, because the island hopping required for a ground war was incredibly bloody and brutal. Those civilian casualties were weighted against the estimated casualties of a beach invasion of Japan.
Like, forgetting this very much is not our war and that Bibi is an international war criminal, it's just ironic how flippant and detached your dumb ass is about the atrocities of war, and how your example completely undercuts your point; because right wing retards cannot make an argument that doesn't collapse under its own weight.

>>1539676
>>See basically war crimes are fine because we did them too
They aren't war crimes.

>>1539680
>The justification for dropping the atomic bombs on Japan
I'm not talking about the nukes. I'm talking about the firebombing of Tokyo.
>Those civilian casualties were weighted against the estimated casualties of a beach invasion of Japan.
And civilian casualties in Gaza were weighted against IDF casualties that would have been incurred fighting bloc-to-bloc.

You're creating a moral framework whereby Hamas can strike Israel but because Hamas weaponizes the population of Gaza Israel cannot strike back.

>>1539683
>You're creating a moral framework whereby Hamas can strike Israel but because Hamas weaponizes the population of Gaza Israel cannot strike back.
The bombing of Gaza wasn't targeting Hamas, it was targeting the civilian population including the ones who had little to do with Hamas. You cannot level a city completely and then argue the whole city was a human shield, especially when you already have effective military dominance over the group you're targeting.

>>1539684
You can, actually.

You don't get to do what Hamas did on Oct 8 and then screech about human rights. If you're going to start a war of extermination, where you explicitly target civilians, you better win it because the other side gets to play by the same terms.

>>1539686
>You don't get to do what Hamas did on Oct 8 and then screech about human rights. If you're going to start a war of extermination, where you explicitly target civilians, you better win it because the other side gets to play by the same terms.
So basically any terror group can motivate a extermination of the civilian population nearby by attacking someone. Great logic there bud. I'm sure this really helps with not motivating more people to join terror groups since you've made it clear you'll kill them whether they're part of it or not.

Reminder, Israel literally explicitly refuses to let Hamas leave power. They want the constant excuse to kill Palestinians. They literally knew about Oct 8 and deliberately didn't stop it so they could have casus belli for genocide.

>>1539687
And?

Multiple people have stated that youre a faggot. Does this then make you a faggot?

>>1539688
Yes. In the same way we held the people of Japan and Germany responsible for what their governments had done, the Jews can do the same to the people of Gaza.
>Nooo Hamas is in power cuz the Jews
Bizarre statement.

>>1539687
NTA, who gives a fuck? Mutlipe people have called Trump Hitler, that doesn't make it true.

>>1539688
>So basically any terror group can motivate a extermination of the civilian population nearby by attacking someone.
You're forgetting that Hamas was the government of Gaza, and it wasn't just Hamas that started doing criminal shit in Israel after the attack. Thousands of gazan civilians were walking door to door killing Israelis.
>They want the constant excuse to kill Palestinians.
Yeah, because Israel has been the target of arab muslim terrorist attacks for decades. This was their 9/11 and they weren't going to keep enduring that bullshit.
Also like our 9/11, leftists and liberals that hate white people crawled out from the woodwork to tell us how bad and evil it is to kill your enemies.

>>1539686
>What hamas did on Oct 8
You... you mean get war declared on them by Israel?
>The hamas attacks that I'm so outraged by I am using them to justify leveling an entire city of civilians didn't even happen when I said they did, the 8th is when Israel declared war in response to those attacks, I'm a pathetic fucking keyboard warrior with no actual knowledge of world events.
Yeah, you are kind of a dumb faggot, and you do keep moving the goalposts all over the place.
>>1539683
>You're creating a moral framework whereby Hamas can strike Israel but because Hamas weaponizes the population of Gaza Israel cannot strike back.
You're creating a false-equivalence between attacking hamas and attacking the Palestinian people.
You also don't get to do war crimes because other people are doing war crimes, this isn't a 'if you hit me I'll hit you back situation' you fucking retard, You couldn't manage two toddlers fighting in the back of a subaru, (though that mental image probably make you horny you sick maga fuck), nobody's going to take you seriously on international diplomacy.

>>1539689
>>1539691
Reminder that Israel KEEPS Hamas as the government of Gaza deliberately. They literally actively support keeping them in power because they want excuses to kill civilians.

>>1539692
>You... you mean
I mean the mass rape and slaughter of civilians.
>this isn't a 'if you hit me I'll hit you back situation'
So what should Israel have done? They can't shoot back because Gaza is one of the most dense urban environments on the planet and it would result in civilian casualties. So what's the play? These people just swarmed across the border and raped/murdered about a thousand of your civilans and kidnapped about 50 of your people. What's the response?

>>1539692
>nobody's going to take you seriously on international diplomacy.
Are you a woman? You keep doing this thing we're you argue about like "what other people think". Omg who cares?

>>1539697
If you're fighting a war in an urban environment collateral damage is inevitable, especially when hamas uses the civilian population as a shield.

It's interesting that you're more upset at Israel than you are Hamas.

>>1539699
Again, curious that you have so little anger for Hamas who explicitly targeted civilians and who used rape as a weapon of war.

>>1539699
No, you're supposed to agree with their retarded worldview that forcing minorities into shitty positions so they act out is justification to murder them.
Just admit its okay to set up and murder people.

>>1539699
>netanyahu slaughters innocent people en masse
So what's the alternative? It's October 9 and you're the King Jew. What do you do?

You can't bomb Gaza because that will result in civilian casualties. But you can't do nothing because your people just suffered a holocaust-tier atoricity.

Whats the high road here? What's the alternative?


>>1539701
>Forcing minorities into shitty positions
What?

>>1539702
There were protests against "Isrealy retaliation" on October 9. Israel has not yet retaliated.

And again I ask, why so little anger for Hamas?

>>1539704
>follow the camp david accords
I see. So, Hamas invades Israel and runs a pogrom that results in over a thousand people killed, raped and abducted and the response is "follow the accord Hamas broke"?

You're a shill.

>Guys, we've been systematically creating an apartheid state and genociding a population for decades, but now they're fighting back 'for survival' or something
>Why are libs angry that we're openly genociding these people now? We're being attacked, don't they get that?

>>1539707
>systematically creating an apartheid state
>and genociding a population
>they're fighting back 'for survival'
You're not a serious person.

>>1539710
>stop treating palestinians as second class citizens
They are not citizens.
>The issue goes back to
No. The issue is you're in charge of Israel. It's the night of October 8. What is your response to what has just happened to your people?

>They are not citizens.
>What is your response to what has just happened to your people?
Probably enjoying the feeling of your lips sucking my fat jewish dick

>>1539712
I accept your concession.

>>1539714
I'm pointing out the flaw in your argument and you have literally no response.

You turn a blind eye to what Hamas did, while exercising maximum scrutiny on the Israeli response. You know that Isreal had no choice but to retaliate and that retaliation means civilian casualties.

>>1539691
>Also like our 9/11, leftists and liberals that hate white people crawled out from the woodwork to tell us how bad and evil it is to kill your enemies.
This x 1000. It's amazing how dems cheer for the obvious bad guys in this situation.

>>1539719
You're trying to shift the argument.

The argument is about Isreals conduct of the war. It's the night of October 8. You're the king of the Jews. What is your response?

esl shill is just following their programming.
They can't model complex situations, so it always comes down to one yes/no question and you're not allowed to consider anything actually important to the situation.
They'll just keep pretending to be retarded until they claim victory.

>>1539656
who? bill gates the biggest supporter and confirmed user of his services?

>>1539723
I accept your concession.

>>1539727
>it really is like clockwork
You losing an argument and then throwing your toys out the cot? Yes, very routine.

>>1539729
>us
Why do you refer to yourself using a plural pronoun?

>>1539733
So I see we've reached the point where you've been so defeated you start posting to noboby in particular, with passive aggressive posts about a charactature?

>>1539693
>Reminder that Israel KEEPS Hamas as the government of Gaza deliberately.
Hamas announced they're dissolving and handing over governing authority of Gaza to a new Palestinian committee. This happened last July.

>>1539733
>he
stop misgendering esl shill

>>1539739
Yeah and you know who was opposed to this?
>https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/hamas-dissolves-gaza-government-presses-progress-stalled-peace-plan-2026-07-06/

JIDF doesn't like this thread one bit.

>>1539690
That's because hitler served in the military and wasn't a draft dodger, like trump.
Both had failed coups though.

>>1539682
not if we do them

Still bump-worthy.

>>1539958
Never was worth posting, but at least there's a bright side on the foreign policy side if Dems win.
I wonder how the 34 elected jewish Democrats in congress will actually vote though.

>>1539958
Watch out, ESL-shill is going to spam more NewRussianpost threads to try to slide this.

I dont give a shit about Israel or Palestine. Could we just give whatever money we were going to give them to Americans? Thats what America first is supposed to mean. Let the UK deal with the Israel/Palestine problem, they made the border.
Get the fuck out of that area and put all that money into American infrastructure and society

>>1540177
Aren't we sending way more money to Ukraine? Like 12.5 times more?
We should probably give that money to americans first

>>1540214
That's money well spent if it means stopping Putin's land grab. Eventually he will take his army and go home like he did in Georgia.

>>1540228
>America first! Except Ukraine v Russia!
Bruh

>>1540242
America isn't the only party involved who thinks stopping Putin is worth it. But nice try at an apples to oranges false equivalence to the ethnic cleansing going on in Palestine.

>>1540245
I think the lives of Russians matter as much as Palestinians in Gaza or Iranians
ALL LIVES MATTER

>>1540245
If all the other parties thought committing national suicide with immigration was worth it would you support it?
This is child level logic. "Everyone else supports ukraine" doesn't make it justified

>>1540301
>immigration is national suicide
The history of the United States proves this isn't true.

>>1540319
What about the history of Rome?
Barbarians were Romes strength like immigrants are Americas strength, no?

>>1540362
leave it to a russian shill to have a retarded view of roman history

>>1540242
1) The US (along with Russia, ironically) guaranteed Ukrainian sovereignty in exchange for the nuclear weapons in Ukraine's possession with the Budapest Memorandum. In order to not be in violation of that treaty, the US must provide some sort of aid to Ukraine to prevent Russia from wholly conquering it.
>but what if we just violate the treaty?
Having your word mean nothing is a great way to never get treaties again (see Russia, Iran War) and would be awful for the United States.
2) Russia has repeatedly announced it has plans further west of Ukraine, which would threaten multiple other US treaty signatories (via NATO and other treaties) and trade partners. Halting this idiocy in Ukraine with Ukrainian troops is the best deal for America in the long term.
3) Russia is a belligerent power who threatens to nuke the US every moment it can, weakening it is within the US's best interests. Most of the Soviet stockpiles have been cleared out, with Russia unlikely to ever recover them, so it's been a great deal so far. We're basically trading old gear for destroying most of Russia's armor (the big threat most of these weapons were designed to counter, mind you).
>>1540362
>>1540375
Calling Rome's conquered peoples "immigrants" is just really funny.
>Roman shows up at your land
>says you're part of his country now
>2000 years later some idiot on the internet calls you an immigrant
And yes, non-Romans WERE integrated into Roman society and became part of the very same legions of conquest that took their lands. It's part of how Rome was able to grow so large. It only backfired when they overextended, forcing them to pay non-integrated groups for protection.