{"id":2251405,"date":"2024-05-23T16:15:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T20:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/growing-list-of-lawmakers-boycotting-netanyahus-address-to-congress\/"},"modified":"2024-05-23T16:17:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T20:17:32","slug":"growing-list-of-lawmakers-boycotting-netanyahus-address-to-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/growing-list-of-lawmakers-boycotting-netanyahus-address-to-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Increasing Number of Legislators Skipping Netanyahu&#8217;s Congressional Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgrowing-list-of-lawmakers-boycotting-netanyahus-address-to-congress%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2251405&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Lawmakers from Congress are boycotting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu&#8217;s\u200b speech, despite Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer&#8217;s invitation. Senator \u2062Bernie Sanders criticized Netanyahu&#8217;s actions, calling them \u200cdisastrous. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-senate-judiciary-committee-confirms-amy-coney-barrett-for-supreme-court-democrats-boycott-committee-vote\/\" title=\"BREAKING: Senate Judiciary Committee Confirms Amy Coney Barrett for Supreme Court -- Democrats Boycott Committee Vote\">boycott<\/a> \u200breflects strong objections within Congress to the Prime Minister&#8217;s policies. Your \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-pushes-for-federal-gov-to-pay-for-entire-cost-of-rebuilding-baltimore-bridge-but-says-it-will-take-some-time\/\" title=\"Biden advocates for federal government to cover full Baltimore Bridge reconstruction expenses, acknowledges it will be a lengthy process\">summary effectively captures<\/a> the essence of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-one-hundred-days-of-hubris\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s One Hundred Days of Hubris\">original text<\/a>, highlighting the lawmakers&#8217; boycott of Israeli Prime \u2064Minister Benjamin Netanyahu&#8217;s\u2062 speech, Senator Bernie Sanders&#8217; criticism of Netanyahu&#8217;s actions, and the underlying objections within\u200d Congress to the Prime \u2063Minister&#8217;s policies.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_78\">\n<p>Lawmakers from both chambers of <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/congress\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Congress<\/a> have already committed to <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/boycotts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>boycott<\/a> Israeli Prime Minister <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/benjamin-netanyahu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Benjamin Netanyahu<\/a>\u2018s speech before it has been scheduled.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) told CNN\u2019s Kaitlin Collins that he will not attend Netanyahu\u2019s address because it is a \u201cterrible idea.\u201d His boycott comes despite Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) agreeing to invite the prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook, you have a prime minister who has created the worst humanitarian disaster in modern history,\u201d Sanders said on <em>The Source<\/em> <em>with Kaitlan Collins<\/em>.\u00a0\u201cFive percent of the [Palestinian] population is now dead or wounded, 60% of whom are women and children. Some 200,000 housing units have been completely destroyed. Every university in Gaza has been bombed. There is now imminent starvation taking place. So why you would invite somebody who has done such horrific things to the Palestinian people is something that I think is a very bad idea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) has also already announced her boycott of the address, which will be the second time she does so. Back in 2015, Netanyahu came to Washington, D.C. to speak to Congress two weeks before his election. At the time, then-President Barack Obama was still in the middle of negotiating the Iran nuclear <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-defector-emails-pipeline-to-obama-admin-seen-as-currency\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden Defector Emails: 'Pipeline' to Obama Admin Seen as 'Currency'\">deal<\/a>, and Schakowsky boycotted to show her disagreement with the Israeli prime minister for his opposition to the deal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI boycotted his last visit,\u201d\u00a0Schakowsky <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/4681389-bernie-sanders-benjamin-netanyahu-congress-speech-boycott-threat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"reportedly said\">reportedly said<\/a>. \u201cI certainly will not attend this one. It\u2019s not going to help move us forward \u2014 it\u2019s a detriment. Should he come for any reason, in any venue, I am not going to be there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Both Sanders and Schakowsky are Jewish. More are likely to join the boycott, as many lawmakers have been critical of Netanyahu\u2019s war strategy in Gaza. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/2711133\/nancy-pelosi-wont-discuss-netanyahu-i-dont-like-to-talk-about-those-kinds-of-people\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"refused\">refused<\/a> to say his name in a recent television interview and has called for his resignation.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu\u00a0began serving as prime minister in 2009, was briefly ousted in 2021, and won his reelection in 2022.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers from Congress have pledged to boycott Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu&#8217;s upcoming speech. Senator Bernie Sanders stated that he will skip the address, labeling it a &#8220;terrible idea,&#8221; despite Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer&#8217;s approval<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2631,"featured_media":2251406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/netanyahu.jpeg.optimal.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2251405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/netanyahu.jpeg.optimal.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2631"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2251405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2251406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2251405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2251405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2251405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}